Ladyhawke
Words and music by Julia Ecklar © 1986

   C          D            A
My jesses are fear, and my hood my own lies,
   C               D            A
My wings pinned to ground by my thieving.
     C         D            A
Each evening I swear that tomorrow I'll fly,
         G    D            A
But each dawn breaks not believing.
      D                       A
I'm a mouse among men with no goals, no dreams--
   G         D           A
No reckon of right or of wrong--
      D                    A
But a magical maiden, more real than she seems
         G             D        C  E  E7
Fills my soul with the glory of song!

	Chorus:
	A           C           G           D
	Ladyhawke!  Ladyhawke!  Fly bravely on,
	                A              E  E7
	Wings spread at each morning's light.
	A           C           G            D
	Ladyhawke!  Ladyhawke!  From dusk to dawn,
	             C        E  A
	Teach me the magic of flight!

       C               D           A
I feel strange lending help when I don't even know
            C         D             A
Where she's headed or where she has been,
       C              D               A
But my heart answers "Yes!" before my head can say "No!"
        G    D          A
And too soon I am drawn in.
         D                        A
But it's not just her beauty, for beauty I've seen
            G              D        A
(Though she outshines what beauty I know).
         D                          A
It's the faith she can place in the truth of a dream,
    G          D            C  E  E7
The good she believes I can show!

	Chorus:
	A           C           G           D
	Ladyhawke!  Ladyhawke!  Fly bravely on,
	                A              E  E7
	Wings spread at each morning's light.
	A           C           G            D
	Ladyhawke!  Ladyhawke!  From dusk to dawn,
	             C        E  A
	Teach me the magic of flight!

  C           D         A
I know I will always be weighted to ground,
           C           D         A
Though the path of the birds I admire.
        C          D            A
But she makes me believe in the promise I've found
        G        D           A
Chasing flight's dreams ever higher.
      D                        A
For unheard of means only it's undreamed of yet,
  G        D             A
Impossible means not yet done.
        D                         A
And the magic I've seen here I'll never forget;
    G        D          C  E  E7
The miracles love has begun.

	Chorus:
	A           C           G           D
	Ladyhawke!  Ladyhawke!  Fly bravely on,
	                A              E  E7
	Wings spread at each morning's light.
	A           C           G            D
	Ladyhawke!  Ladyhawke!  From dusk to dawn,
	             C        E  A
	Teach me the magic of flight!

	A           C           G           D
	Ladyhawke!  Ladyhawke!  Fly bravely on,
	                A              E  E7
	Wings spread at each morning's light.
	A           C           G            D
	Ladyhawke!  Ladyhawke!  From dusk to dawn,
	             C        E  A
	Teach me the magic of flight!



From Divine Intervention tape and CD, tape copyright © 1986 by Air Craft Records, CD copyright © 2003 by Prometheus Music
From Station Break tape, copyright © 1988 by Fesarius Publications
From The NESFA Hymnal, Volume 2, pp. 110-111
From Dreamer songbook, pp. 32-33, copyright © 1990 by Wail Songs and Harpy Music
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Tagged: movie, Ladyhawke

Notes from Divine Intervention CD:
I have very little control over what I choose to write music about. I never know what books or movies will inspire me, and I'm sometimes disappointed that I never come up with a song about something I really love (Why haven't I written anything for Buffy the Vampire Slayer?). But I knew walking out of the theater that the movie Ladyhawke had woken up something in me. A few days later, I was just playing through the strong, strumming opening chords I could hear in my head when my roommate leaned through the door of my bedroom and said, "You're writing a song for Ladyhawke, aren't you?"
"How did you know?" I asked, startled.
She shrugged. "It just sounded like Ladyhawke."
I still consider that one of the nicest compliments anyone ever paid one of my songs.