S.J. Tucker

SJ Tucker, called "Sooj" by her friends, is very grateful to be
nominated for the Pegasus Awards in 2011. She feels very privileged
to be so warmly and thoroughly welcomed into the filking community.

Currently living a gypsy life on the road, Sooj tours the country
full-time as a solo singer/songwriter and is a member of several
bands, including Skinny White Chick, Tricky Pixie, the Traveling
Fates, and a "secret project" in development with Heather Dale and Ben
Deschamps. She is also largely responsible for founding the Lost Girls
Pirate Academy.

She was guest of honor at Arisia and Confusion in 2010, at MuseCon and
ConBust in 2011, scheduled to be guest of honor at PhilCon 2011, and
highly privileged to be a guest of honor with Tricky Pixie at Boskone
2012 and previously WorldCon 2011, WindyCon 2010, MEWCon 2010,
Consonance 2010 and OryCon 2008. She was very happy to find out at
WorldCon 2011 that Dr. Demento likes her music.

And to think that it wasn't that long ago when it all started... when
Heather Alexander asked Sooj: "Do you need a fiddle player?"

All of SJ Tucker's music is available for online listening and download at music.sjtucker.com

Representative Work for the 2011 Pegasus. Note- this is NOT a song nominated for the 2011 Pegasus Awards.

Neptune

Copyright © 2010 by S.J. Tucker, All rights reserved
Used by permission

Love changes us all, makes us broken, makes us brave, makes us deny ourselves and our very breath, makes us refuse to listen when our hearts tell us that the time has come to move on, to break the surface. "Neptune" is the story of what can happen after you've drowned yourself willingly in someone else's hopes and dreams, and you find that saltwater and shadows no longer sustain you. "Neptune" is the story of what can happen when you've lived in sin with a god for long enough that the respective piles of dirty laundry and broken promises have started to really get on your nerves. - S. J. Tucker

Years ago I came to you
down beneath your ripples
submitting to the mystery
of life beneath the waves.
Years I floated near you
swimming in your subterrain
rocking in the opium embrace
of Triton's tomb.

Time I lost just fussing over
every little thing you asked for
let myself keep fading
silver fishes through my skin.
Somewhere I stopped breathing
but I missed the kiss of air
cut the waves and left you there
and ne'er returned again.

Someday in my castle keep
where rumors fly and questions creep
they'll say to me, what of the lord of the deep?
I'll say I knew him once but he was asleep.

There's no light where you are, my Neptune
To the mountains I will fly, away from you
Free from the waves into new love's arms
back to the realm of the sky.

Years ago I came to you
in love and doomed to drowning
beholden to the mystery
of life beneath the waves
Years I floated near you
I will never see again
how I could tarry in the opium embrace
of Triton's tomb

Time I lost, just fussing over
every little thing you asked for
let myself keep fading,
silver fishes through my skin.
Somewhere I stopped breathing
but I missed the kiss of air
I cut the waves and left you there
and ne'er returned again.

Someday in my castle keep
where rumors fly and questions creep,
They'll say to me, what of the lord of the deep?
I'll say I knew him once, but he was asleep.

There's no light where you are, my Neptune.
To the mountains I will fly, out of this gloom,
free from the waves into new love's arms,
back to the realm of the sky.

Years ago I came to you
in love and doomed by what I knew
and though I miss the mystery now
of life beneath the waves
Thin air's as sweet as water
when your body begs to breathe
and so I leave when I must leave
don't weep for love I couldn't save

All of us who dare to love are brave!

There's no light where you are, my Neptune
To the mountains I will fly, away from you!
Free from the waves into new love's arms
back where I belong!
There's no light where you are, my Neptune!
To the mountains I will fly, out of this gloom,
free from the waves into new love's arms,
back where I belong!

Someday they will ask me (going back where I belong)
and I will say
Someday they will ask me
they will say, what of the lord of the deep?
And I will say, I'll say I knew him once
but he was asleep.
I'll say I knew him once.
I'll say I knew him, I knew him,
I knew him once...