Medic

Written by Mercedes Lackey and Leslie Fish

Vocals and Guitar by Heather Alexander
Bass, Alto Flute by Ernie Mansfield

based on a (self claimed) "rather awful (unpublished!) short story" Misty once wrote.

Another year goes by
Another transfer and I go
To seek another world that
Holds no faces that I know

Another sky, another star
Forgive me that I flee
You tried to breach the barriers
Between yourselves and me

Now leave me to my silences
And let me live apart
I'll heal your battered bodies
Don't try, to touch my heart

I know the things you say of me
You think that I don't hear
You call me Iron Maiden
Well how can you know I fear-

The day that always comes
That means my visit here must end
The day I cease to heal a wound
And start to heal a friend

So please don't offer me your hands
The sooner we must part
I'll heal your battered bodies
Don't try, to touch my heart

There was a time I didn't fail
Myself a homemade knight
When I had friends and lovers
And the days we shared were bright

But our ship fell and foundered
In a stormy alien sky
Amid the shattered wreckage
I could only watch them die

So please don't wake the memory
Of the pain it must impart
I'll heal your battered bodies
Don't try, to touch my heart

[Interlude]

Now I have worn my armor tight
Ever since that day
No love or friendship is worth the pain
Of tearing it away

As long as you are faceless
I can heal the hurts I see
But as soon you have faces
Your wounds cut into me

So let me wall you out
And let no breaching ever start
I'll heal your battered bodies
Just never touch my heart