Some lyrics.

[teylaminh]

I'm still addicted to Katie Melua's new album, so much so I haven't had time to listen to the Green Day one yet.  I've been meaning to post the lyrics to the following song here for ages because the first time I heard it I cried.  Not openly, just a little.  Aside from the obvious (you'll see), there's just something about it.  And then I realised how much it reminded me of John and Aeryn from Farscape, circa season 3 in Infinite Possibilites: Icarus Abides (with TaylnJohn rather than MoyaJohn, or John Black if you prefer...) and also of the end of season 2, Die Me Dichotomy.

Read on, and you shall see.

Just Like Heaven

(Gallup/Smith)

Show me how you do that trick,
The one that makes me scream, he said
The one that makes me laugh, he said,
And threw his arms around my neck.
Show me how you do it,
And I promise you, I promise that
I'll run away with you
I'll run away with you

Spinning on that dizzy edge,
I kissed his face and I kissed his head,
And dreamed of all the different ways
I had, to make him glow.
Why are you so far away? he said
Why won't you ever know that I'm in love with you,
That I'm in love with you.

You, soft and only,
You, lost and lonely.
You, strange as angels,
Dancing in the deepest oceans.
Twisting in the water,
You're just like a dream,
You're just like a dream.

Daylight licked me into shape,
I must have been asleep for days,
And moving lips to breathe his name,
I opened up my eyes,
And found myself alone, alone,
Alone above the raging sea,
That stole the only boy I loved,
And drowned him deep inside of me.

You, soft and only.
You, lost and lonely.
You, just like heaven.

You, soft and only.
You, lost and lonely.
You, just like heaven.

The kind of lyrics that look wonderful on their own without the music as well.  The tune itself is quite bizarrely upbeat.

And then, there's this one, the track following, which I also liked before I realised that it inexplicably reminded me of Erik and Christine in Phantom of the Opera, more from Christine's individual perspective than both of them.  (Just Like Heaven can be read in both directions, John or Aeryn.)  Very definitely post-plot.  If I'd finished my other song fic I could so use this one as well...

I Cried For You (Mary's Song)

(Melua)

You're beautiful, so silently,
It lies beneath a shade of blue.
It struck me so violently
When I looked at you.

But others pass, they never pause,
To feel that magic in your hand.
To me you're like a wild rose
They never understand why

I cried for you,
When the sky cried for you,
And when you went
I became a hopeless drifter.
But this life was not for you,
Though I learned from you
That beauty need only be a whisper.

I'll cross the sea for a different world,
With your treasure, a secret,
For me to hold.

In many years they may forget
This love of ours, or that we met,
They may not know
How much you meant to me.

I cried for you,
When the sky cried for you,
And when you went,
I became a hopeless drifter.
But this life was not for you,
Though I learned from you
That beauty need only be a whisper.

Without you, now I see
How fragile the world can be.
And I know you're gone away,
But in my heart you'll always stay.

I cried for you,
When the sky cried for you,
And when you went,
I became a hopeless drifter.
But this life was not for you,
Though I learned from you
That beauty need only be a whisper;
That beauty need only be a whisper.

Katie's lyrics have come on in leaps and bounds since Belfast (Penguins and Cats), though that one was good in its own surreal, symbolic way.

I am very much loving this album.  *hugs it*