Toliman Valkyrie - Bear To Cross - Video

In the universe of The Cygnus War (and related books - the "Wings" series) "Bear to Cross" is one of the first songs that Tessa Eisenherz wrote during her early days as a network-only performer. At that time, she was a one-woman act called Trash Bike Misfit, but as her popularity grew, she began to use this song as a closer at her live performances as Toliman Valkyrie. Long-time fans will recognize that she went back to her roots for the De Las Cruces album's live performance at the Bogotá Nuevo amphitheater on Tau Ceti Echo (Tau Ceti system) in August of the year 2320.

You can check out the books through the link below. I recommend starting with Stealing Wings or Mending Wings, as it's a long series if you include the entirety of The Cygnus War.

https://www.eswynn.com/2020/02/tessas-timeline.html

The sound is from a machine.
The words are 100% human made.

Bear To Cross

Y'know, it still pisses me off that Earthside Gov calls the massacre at Alpha C. a "police action."
Right!? A fucking police action!?
After a hundred years, that's all we get.
Police action! It was a goddamned genocide!
Yeah! You know it!

[VERSE 1]
Well I'm just a starship pilot
And I was born out in rim space
Never meant to get into politics
Never saw myself in this place!

But my genes and the men in suits
They all had other plans
I went from worthless shit to hot topic
And now I fill the stands!

[CHORUS]
But I'll be their cross to bear
And I'll be their bear to cross
Just don't put me on a pedestal
All scarred with grief and loss
Cuz I'll never be a martyr!
And if you see me as something great
You better stop and look within!
I'd rather see what you create!

[VERSE 2]
And I walk the halls of power
When I'm not here on the stage
I sit at dinners with trillionaires
While they act like WE'RE the plague.

And they only give us lip service
And only in the camera lens
And only if their investors
Got checks beneath their pens!

[CHORUS]
But I'll be their cross to bear
And I'll be their bear to cross
Just don't put me on a pedestal
All scarred with grief and loss
Cuz I'll never be a martyr!
And if you see me as something great
You better stop and look within!
I'd rather see what you create!

[CHORUS]
I'll be their cross to bear
And I'll be their bear to cross
Just don't put me on a pedestal
All scarred with grief and loss
Cuz I'll never be a martyr!
And if you see me as something great
You better stop and look within!
I'd rather see what you create!

[CHORUS]
Yeah! I'll be their cross to bear!
And I'll be their bear to cross!
Just don't put me on a pedestal
All scarred with grief and loss!
Cuz I'll never be a martyr!
And if you see me as something great
You better stop and look within!
I'd rather see what you create!

Thank you!
Toliman Valkyrie! Yeah!
Goodnight Bogotá Nuevo!
Goodnight 'Ceti Echo!
Goodnight Tau Ceti!