Golden Eyes - Mercedes Lackey

I made a slideshow of Kei Ishiyama's artwork with the text of this song to share. I do not own either the song or the art, this is just to be freely shared with appreciation to Mercedes Lackey's creative genius, Kei Ishiyama's beautiful art, and Heather Alexander's wonderful singing

A shadow in the bright bazaar
A glimpse of eyes where none should shine
A glimpse of eyes translucent gold
And silted against the sun

This the clue, and this the sign
That sets him on his quarry's line
But she had seen him in a dream
And now she's on the run

Faster than a thought she flees
And seeks the jungle's sheltering trees
But he is steady on her track
And half a breath behind

She tastes his scent upon the breeze
And looking past her shoulder sees
He treads upon her shadow
She fears the hunters mind

So now she summons all her wit
And every trick she knows to hide
To make him loose the twisting track
To throw him off her trail

In woman form in leopard hide
Folding leaping side to side
She doubles back along her track
And sees her efforts fail

He stands before her, dark and grim
Her terror now she can't suppress
He blocks the only pathway out
And will not let her by

Her gold flanks heaving in distress
Half woman and half leopardess
To eye the side, no where to hide
It's time to fight or die

But what is this, to her amaze
The man has thrown his gun away
And quietly draws near her now
A smile upon his face

Before she thinks to run or stay
His body blurs like soften clay
Before her eyes to her surprise
A leopard in his place

[Interlude]

The hunter they have sought in vain
And now the talk of the bazaar-
Is of the canny leopard pair
A sight none will forget

Who once has seen them near or far
In sunlight or where shadows are
And side-by-side they hunt and hide
No one has caught them yet

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• Lackey
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• Eyes
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• Heather
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[oongi]

How old is this song?

[TerraRose21]

@oongi The Album this is from "Magic, Moondust & Melancholy" is from 1989.

[seanearlyaug]

@CubicSymmetry For that matter if you are talking lepords and jungle, then this is not a little white girl.

[CubicSymmetry]

It's "From either side/Nowhere to hide/It's time to fight or die". Not "eye to eye".

[Lukiel666]

If you like this; listen to The witch of the westmorlands by Stan Rogers

[SorchaGhadhra]

You can read the book at the Baen free library. Just Google it.

[SorchaGhadhra]

This is from a book called Werehunter. It is a bunch of short stories by Mercedes Lackey. The story is also called Werehunter and it is set in Andre Norton's universe of Witch World. The short story was originally published in "Friends of the Witch World" anthology.

[mystmage]

verry old

[CubicSymmetry]

Why anime? It doesn't do this song justice at all.

[2bsomerandomperson]

This song has been referenced in several works by S.M. Stirling as well, it was actually that which prompted me to track down this song

[judy21549]

heather once again thank her i wish i could have seen you in person

[goldstar971]

i love this song