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Jordin Kare
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All Debts Are Paid
I was 19 years when I left my world I had killed a fool who called me a liar But I ran to the field and I climbed to space And I drove for the rim on a starships fire When the ship lifts all debts are paid
I signed on board the Angels 10 Her captain heard my tale with a sneer He looked me up and down and said, 'Get aft. You work for the engineer.' When the ship lifts all debts are paid
Now the engineer was a man named Sket He was tall and dark and damned to Hell A dozen worlds had a price on his head But he knew stardrives and he knew them well When the ship lifts all debts are paid
For four long years we cruised the rim I worked for Sket and slowly learned Strange worlds we touched but I seldom saw For I stayed below where the fusion burned When the ship lifts all debts are paid
In time Sket told me of all his life Of stolen ships and wild rides A hundred tricks a stardrive plays All this I learned and more besides When the ship lifts all debts are paid
But fortune scorned the Angels 10 Her captain grew more cold and mean We carried strange and deadly loads And the money we saw was seldom clean When the ship lifts all debts are paid
At last I'd had my fill of such Sket called me son and begged me stay But I left that ship on the next green world And I watched her lift from far away When the ship lifts all debts are paid
The years went by on many ships My skills were sharp and my conscience clear I built on Sket's foundation And I rose to the rank of engineer When the ship lifts all debts are paid
Two years I'd served on the Pride of Space And a finer ship you'll never see When the rumors spread of vanished ships And the whispered word was piracy When the ship lifts all debts are paid
We had no warning when they came Their beam gun fired and fired again They pierced our hull and the steel's deep ring Was the death song of five honest men When the ship lifts all debts are paid
But I was aft and did not die Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com The drives cried out as I pulled away And I vowed as I drove across the sky That a pirate ship would die that day When the ship lifts all debts are paid
I was all alone but it mattered not That I had no gunner, no guns to wield For this was never a duel of guns My weapon was the power of a stardrive field When the ship lifts all debts are paid
Across full half a million miles The power of suns bent to my will To stretch the very shape of space And kill the ship I'd sworn to kill When the ship lifts all debts are paid
But the pirate's own field blocked my thrust And struck and turned once and again And I knew what hand must rule those drives For the pirate ship was the Angels 10 When the ship lifts all debts are paid
We turned and drove for half an hour My drives grew hot and I cursed and swore For I had skill and speed and power But Sket had played this game before When the ship lifts all debts are paid
Then from my screen came Sket's own voice 'I do not wish to see you die But it seems my son that I have no choice.' And my own voice said, 'Then nor have I.' When the ship lifts all debts are paid
Then one last time I drove through night To live or die, the gods decide Our drive fields met. All space glowed white And Sket's was the drive that flared and died When the ship lifts all debts are paid
The Angels 10 hung dead in space And gave no clue if her crew survived But I knew if any man could live That Sket at least was yet alive When the ship lifts all debts are paid
I dared not give them time to work To make her repairs, to fight or run I towed them just ten trillion miles And I dropped them into a blue-white sun When the ship lifts all debts are paid
Then at last I drove for a friendly sun With a crippled ship and this tale to tell Of a pirate ship that was once my own And the man I loved, and sent to Hell For when the ship lifts all debts are paid
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