Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Visions: How Do You Do

The second track of the Cascada album, Everytime We Touch.

The lyrics have been changed, substituting Juubi's name for "baby" on two lines. The conversational portions have been removed. It is sung by Haifun for Juubi.

I see you comb your hair
and give me that grin
It's making me spin now
spinning within
Before I melt like snow
I say hello
How do you do?(How do you do?)

I love the way you undress now
Juubi begin, do your caress
Honey, my heart's in a mess
I love your blue-eyed voice
Like Tiny Tim shines through
How do you do?(How do you do?)

How do you do (do you do)the things that you do?
No one I know could ever
keep up with you
How do you do?
Did it ever make sense to you
to say bye? bye? bye?

...

How do you do (do you do)
the things that you do?
No one I know could ever
keep up with you
How do you do?
Did it ever make sense to you
to say bye? bye? bye?

...

How do you do? (long echo)

I see you in that chair
Perfect skin
Well how have you been
Juubi, living in sin?
Hey I gotta know
Would you say hello?
How do you do?

How do you do (do you do)
the things that you do?
No one I know could ever
keep up with you
How do you do?
Did it ever make sense to you
to say bye? bye? bye?

How do you do (do you do)
the things that you do?
No one I know could ever
keep up with you
How do you do?
Did it ever make sense to you
to say bye? bye? bye?

...

How do you do (do you do)
the things that you do?
No one I know could ever
keep up with you How do you do?
Did it ever make sense to you
to say bye? bye? bye?
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Haifun admires Juubi's special abilities in the early part of the relationship, but does not fully understand him. She doesn't understand that there is a difference between romantic attraction and physical attraction at this time. Female readers probably won't be surprised, but men might be. For men, it is very easy to separate physical and emotional attraction in our minds. For Haifun, it is in fact very difficult for her to make this distinction.

"Comb your hair" refers to the style of drawing hair in Featherwing Love, and how, in limited ways, it behaves like feather barbules, rather than real hair. "Melt like snow": actually in several places, a featherwing being keeps a human warm in brutally cold weather by surrounding her in his wings (both featherwing genders do this.)

"The way you undress" refers to the opening of clothing during the deployment of Juubi's wings. He has a special ported wardrobe where wing ports are built in, and hidden to various degrees, allow him to deploy his wings through his clothes without damaging them. "Do your caress" is actually very appropriate because of the gestures that can be done with the wings themselves. "Honey, my heart's in a mess"; Haifun experiences a disaster early in the relationship, leaving her with no alternative but Juubi and his mysterious Featherwing Brotherhood. "Tiny Tim" is a stoic little boy from the famous "A Christmas Carol", which is I think better known by it's central character Ebeneezer Scrooge. I actually can't figure out why this line is in the song at all; Tiny time is like, six, and no one's romantic interest.

"I see you in that chair" refers to Juubi's paraglider. Early in the relationship, when Haifun is still unaware of the wings, Juubi takes her paragliding to give her a taste of what is to come.

"Juubi, living in sin": Haifun misunderstands that Juubi is not strongly attracted to anyone else besides her. She initially has no idea that men are even capable of being staunchly faithful to one woman.

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