Visions: Bad Boy

This is the most influencial Cascada Song in the Visions of Featherwing Love. I saw the beginning of the story while listening to this song on 17 February 2009.

Likewise, the voice of FWL has produced some new concepts to go with the tune. The second verse, "I thank you for saving my life once again..." is completely new.

Lyrics:

Remember the feelings, remember the day
My stone heart was breaking, my love ran away
This moment I knew I would be someone else
My love turned around and I fell

Be my bad boy
Be my man
Be my weekend lover
But don't be my friend
You can be my bad boy
But understand
That I don't need you in my life again

Won't you be my bad boy
Be my man
Be my weekend lover
But don't be my friend
You can be my bad boy
But understand
That I don't need you again
No I don't need you again

I thank you for saving my life once again
I wanted to be yours for just this weekend
I wanted to move, just get on with my life
But I can't get you out of my mind

Be my bad boy
Be my man
Be my weekend lover
But don't be my friend
You can be my bad boy
But understand
That I don't need you in my life again

Won't you be my bad boy
Be my man
Be my weekend lover
But don't be my friend
You can be my bad boy
But understand
That I don't need you again
No I don't need you again

You once made this promise
to stay by my side
But after some time
You just pushed me aside
You never thought that
a girl could be strong
Now I'll show you how to go on

Be my bad boy
Be my man
Be my weekend lover
But don't be my friend
You can be my bad boy
But understand
That I don't need you in my life again

Won't you be my bad boy
Be my man
Be my weekend lover
But don't be my friend
You can be my bad boy
But understand
That I don't need you again
No I don't need you again
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Unlike my original notes, this post does not have the stains from my tears. The vision that came with the first verse was heartrending for me, especially at that point, used to the "Everytime We Touch" vision. Haifun is being badly abused by a man...her first husband...she has his ring on her third finger. I'm not going to describe the abuses here, but suffice it to say that she will need surgery and three units of blood later. She escapes from his clutches onto the balcony...distraught, betrayed, destroyed. The love for her husband flees from her heart. She takes off her wedding ring and throws it against the balcony planter. She climbs the bench, planter, railing and jumps off the edge...some 40 storeys up. "And I fell."

Juubi, our featherwing being, was model testing the airliner he's designing when he hears screaming. He secures it in his arms and drops out of the sky to ignominously toss it into his car before taking off again. He takes off again, flapping furiously for the sound of this screaming. He rounds the building in time to see Haifun push away from the balcony railing. The moment the chorus begins, he snatches her out of mid-air. (The original version would not be able to share Juubi's perspective, but the Pulsedriver remix could present this entire sequence nicely.)

Almost immediately, Haifun begins thrashing...she wants to die. She later describes, "I wanted to end the pain, the dizziness, the guilt that I had failed as a wife...I was dead before I climbed that railing...dead inside...I wanted to be dead outside...then...he catches me...I couldn't get him to just drop me, just let me die...I couldn't see anything, but it felt...I could feel wind everywhere but my face...a bitter March wind, but he felt like...feathers...like some huge bird...not a man at all really...then we landed...and it all started to feel real again...except how, the first two men...ever...to give half a flying flap about how I felt."

That's the first chorus, ends with their crash at Kisure's apartment.

That is also not the first time Juubi has to save her from her first husband, which is where the second verse comes from. The chorus does not describe Juubi at all; it describes what Haifun has come to expect from men, what she expects from Juubi. What she wants, but not what she needs. The final verse fits the コ ("ko") chapter much later, when she realizes that Juubi is not, and never will be, the Bad Boy she expected him to be. She comes to realize that, far from being what she wants, he is what she really needs, and this plays ideally into the next Cascada track!