A little preamble. For this song, Haifun sings the first half, and Juubi sings the second half, starting with the second verse. "boy" has been changed to "girl" in the second verse so it makes sense with Juubi singing it.
Lyrics:
You took a piece of my heart
I never thought that this could fall apart
You said you fell in love
And this was more than I had ever been afraid of
Another life, another happy ending
Cuts like a knife
Another place another time
Another hand to touch another sun to shine
You got me deeper than deep
and I'm constantly blinded
I'm running around
but there's no place to hide
I start to talk in my sleep
our souls are divided
Why can't they forgive me
these demons inside
Deeper than deep
and I'm constantly blinded
My heart starts to shiver
for it was not enough
I start to talk in my sleep
'cus our souls are divided
How can it be that you're ready for love?
Ready for love
...
How can it be that you're ready for love?
...
Time will tell
a single day could help me break this spell
Don't want to be alone
When will I be understood
when is my kingdom to come?
Another girl, another life
Another happy ending
and I'll be alive
Another place, another time
Another hand to touch, another sun to shine
You got me deeper than deep
and I'm constantly blinded
I'm running around
but there's no place to hide
I start to talk in my sleep
our souls are divided
Why can't they forgive me
these demons inside
Deeper than deep
and I'm constantly blinded
My heart starts to shiver
for it was not enough
I start to talk in my sleep
'cus our souls are divided
How can it be that you're ready for love?
...
How can it be that you're ready for love?
...
How can it be that you're ready for love?
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This song didn't attach itself to any visions, but is really a general descriptor of the conditions of our Featherwing Lovers near the beginning of the story. Neither of them are ready for love.
Haifun, "more than I had ever been afraid of...cuts like a knife" ... Haifun's come to expect certain things from men, not only from her experience with her first husband, but with her father, who wasn't exactly the shining example of manlihood either. Initially, she's actually scared of Juubi, scared of what a relationship might bring. It's not like his stand-off-ish behaviour reassures her either...she's expecting him to snap eventually, and start doing nasty things to her, like every other man she's known (likely to include an employer or two, maybe a pastor; given my own experience, it is entirely appropriate that Haifun has never encountered a man who treated her well in her 26 years on Earth prior to meeting Juubi. This is why I had to deepen her relationship with one of the women, otherwise there are things about herself that she'd never say, that I need her to say, not only for the readers, but because she needs to deal with them.) Not only does she expect this from men, but a very strong part of her actually likes this ill treatment.
For the first chorus, she has nowhere to go, "no place to hide"; her childhood home is surrounded by crime scene tape, in the back seat of the police car she flings the clipboard she's filling out so hard that it cracks a window. For the second half of her chorus, she's in her beautiful blue "k-outfit" offering herself to Juubi, who literally runs scared from her ("for it was not enough"). She sits in bed, confused about it. Haifun grabs her dresser mirror by the edges. She's wearing a modest white blouse and beige pants, but her reflection in the mirror is in the k-outfit with ragged hair, she's asking it, "How can it be that you're ready for love?"
Juubi has always wanted to share his wings with a human, and from early on, wonders if Haifun could be the right human. But he finds out he's not ready for her. She stirs things in him that he never thought he'd lose control of, but they could lash out against her, against what could be the love of his life. Most featherwings lack faith in humans; they're too shallow to handle wings properly, several don't think he should stay with Haifun.
The chorus has him crying in his condo's utility room, Haifun standing dumbfounded outside the door in her k-outfit. They're living together because she has nowhere else to go, and he has nowhere within his small condo where he can go to escape from not only her, but the monsters inside himself who want to hurt her.
The second half of the chorus shows that he is flying, but his wings are disintegrating in flight, loose feathers are everywhere. He wakes up and bangs his head on a sink trap, breaking a cleanup plug and making a mess of himself. When he's asking himself in the mirror, his reflection is a stern-looking black eyed creature with ragged black wings, "How can it be that you're ready for love?"
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Visions: Another You
I'll leave all the commentary until after the lyrics this time...
Lyrics:
So many times I was alone and couldn't sleep
You left me drowning in the tears of memory
and ever since you've gone I found it hard to breathe
'Cus there was so much that your heart just couldn't see
A thousand wasted dreams rolling off my eyes
Time's been healing me, and I say good bye
I can breathe again, dream again
I'll be on the road again
Like it used to be the other day
Now I feel free again, so innocent
'cus someone makes me whole again
For sure
I'll find another you.
Could you imagine someone else is by my side?
I've been afraid he couldn't keep myself from falling
My heart was always searching for a place to hide
Could not await the dawn to bring another day
You're not the only one, so hear me when I say
The thoughts of you, they just fade away
'cus I can breathe again, dream again
I'll be on the road again
Like it used to be the other day
Now I feel free again, so innocent
'cus someone makes me whole again
For sure
I'll find another you.
Sometimes I see you when I close my eyes
You're still a part of my life.
But I can breathe again, dream again
I'll be on the road again
Like it used to be the other day
Now I feel free again, so innocent
'cus someone makes me whole again
For sure
I'll find another you.
Oh, I'll find another you.
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I got this idea...I'm pretty sure it was mostly my own, but I'll acredit it to the FWL voice anyway. What if a featherwing virgin was in a plane crash, a really nasty one in cold weather? Say it has some injuries and can't build a shelter to sleep in (it has always been a rule that a featherwing must be awake to have its wings deployed.) Another, uninjured human survivor is available, and the weather is too cold for the human to be able to build a shelter without the wings to protect him from the cold (for various reasons, survivors of plane crashes where the fuselage breaks up are very unlikely to be dressed for the weather.)
The featherwing virgin became the young lady, Lucy, while the human grew into Troy. I wrote the basic script on 17 March with no plan yet to integrate it into the main story. This became the ナ (na) chapter. As soon as I had the last word for the first draft, the FWL voice says to me, "now, Troy has a wife and two kids...deal with it."
Oh...flipping...crap.
As you can probably imagine, adultery is wrong in my faith (actually, I can't think of a religious faith off the top of my head that doesn't see adultery as wrong), so needless to say, I'm wondering whether my God had anything to do with this mysterious little voice from the ether (I ultimately concluded that He did, but it wasn't until 21 April.)
So, face it...we're human, we screw up. I was left to figure out how Troy and Lucy decide to deal with the resulting mess. They decide "we're dead" and evade rescue, leave society and secretly raise their own family, leaving Troy's wife and kids to believe that he died in the crash, leaving no survivors at all. What happens if Mary, his first wife finds out? Well, that's the ヒ (hi) chapter, and let's leave it at that for now...
So, this song is basically Mary dreaming of her second husband.
Lyrics:
So many times I was alone and couldn't sleep
You left me drowning in the tears of memory
and ever since you've gone I found it hard to breathe
'Cus there was so much that your heart just couldn't see
A thousand wasted dreams rolling off my eyes
Time's been healing me, and I say good bye
I can breathe again, dream again
I'll be on the road again
Like it used to be the other day
Now I feel free again, so innocent
'cus someone makes me whole again
For sure
I'll find another you.
Could you imagine someone else is by my side?
I've been afraid he couldn't keep myself from falling
My heart was always searching for a place to hide
Could not await the dawn to bring another day
You're not the only one, so hear me when I say
The thoughts of you, they just fade away
'cus I can breathe again, dream again
I'll be on the road again
Like it used to be the other day
Now I feel free again, so innocent
'cus someone makes me whole again
For sure
I'll find another you.
Sometimes I see you when I close my eyes
You're still a part of my life.
But I can breathe again, dream again
I'll be on the road again
Like it used to be the other day
Now I feel free again, so innocent
'cus someone makes me whole again
For sure
I'll find another you.
Oh, I'll find another you.
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I got this idea...I'm pretty sure it was mostly my own, but I'll acredit it to the FWL voice anyway. What if a featherwing virgin was in a plane crash, a really nasty one in cold weather? Say it has some injuries and can't build a shelter to sleep in (it has always been a rule that a featherwing must be awake to have its wings deployed.) Another, uninjured human survivor is available, and the weather is too cold for the human to be able to build a shelter without the wings to protect him from the cold (for various reasons, survivors of plane crashes where the fuselage breaks up are very unlikely to be dressed for the weather.)
The featherwing virgin became the young lady, Lucy, while the human grew into Troy. I wrote the basic script on 17 March with no plan yet to integrate it into the main story. This became the ナ (na) chapter. As soon as I had the last word for the first draft, the FWL voice says to me, "now, Troy has a wife and two kids...deal with it."
Oh...flipping...crap.
As you can probably imagine, adultery is wrong in my faith (actually, I can't think of a religious faith off the top of my head that doesn't see adultery as wrong), so needless to say, I'm wondering whether my God had anything to do with this mysterious little voice from the ether (I ultimately concluded that He did, but it wasn't until 21 April.)
So, face it...we're human, we screw up. I was left to figure out how Troy and Lucy decide to deal with the resulting mess. They decide "we're dead" and evade rescue, leave society and secretly raise their own family, leaving Troy's wife and kids to believe that he died in the crash, leaving no survivors at all. What happens if Mary, his first wife finds out? Well, that's the ヒ (hi) chapter, and let's leave it at that for now...
So, this song is basically Mary dreaming of her second husband.
Visions: Haifun needs a Miracle
Cascada's Miracle track is one of my favorite songs of all time, but it is rather interesting in that it is most consistent if the verses of the song can be sung by the man of the relationship...which is the case in Featherwing Love. Just think, girls, if you are the one who's always by his side, your love is true, your feelings true, is it really you who needs the miracle??
Now, as a man, and looking at the historical record, I seriously doubt that if a woman left a man, her return would really be seen as a miracle, and would he need it that badly. Possible, yes (as it is in Juubi's case), but not very likely. The other reason why a man is unlikely to sing the chorus to this song is because "I wanna be your girl" sounds pretty queer coming from a boy's voice, and "I wanna be your boy" breaks up the rhyme too much.
Hence, it works best for Feathwing Love if Juubi is offering himself through the verses, and Haifun is responding with the chorus. Here, "(...After Dark version) indicates an instrumental period in the After Dark mix that does not occur in the original.
Lyrics:
Boy meets girl
You were my dream my world
but I was blind
you cheated on me from behind
So on my own
I feel so all alone
Though I know it's true
I'm still in love with you
I need a miracle
I want to be your girl
Give me a chance to see
that you are made for me
I need a miracle
please let me be your girl
One day you'll see
It can happen to me
I need a miracle
I want to be your girl
Give me a chance to see
that you are made for me
I need a miracle
please let me be your girl
One day you'll see
It can happen to me
It can happen to me.
--miracle--
Day and night
I'm always by your side
'cus I know for sure
my love is real my feelings pure
So take a try
no need to ask me why
'cus I know it's true
I'm still in love with you.
(... After Dark version)
I need a miracle
I want to be your girl
Give me a chance to see
that you are made for me
I need a miracle
please let me be your girl
One day you'll see
It can happen to me
I need a miracle
I want to be your girl
Give me a chance to see
that you are made for me
I need a miracle
please let me be your girl
One day you'll see
It can happen to me
It can happen to me.
--miracle--
--miracle--
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All his life Juubi wants to share his wings with a human being. After coming to know Haifun, after bonding with her and getting close to her, he comes to find that he wants to share his wings with Haifun, and reaches a point in the relationship where he can no longer envision sharing them with anyone else. So at the ツ (tsu) chapter, they both need miracles...Haifun because she has no where else to go, no one else she can trust.
Now, as a man, and looking at the historical record, I seriously doubt that if a woman left a man, her return would really be seen as a miracle, and would he need it that badly. Possible, yes (as it is in Juubi's case), but not very likely. The other reason why a man is unlikely to sing the chorus to this song is because "I wanna be your girl" sounds pretty queer coming from a boy's voice, and "I wanna be your boy" breaks up the rhyme too much.
Hence, it works best for Feathwing Love if Juubi is offering himself through the verses, and Haifun is responding with the chorus. Here, "(...After Dark version) indicates an instrumental period in the After Dark mix that does not occur in the original.
Lyrics:
Boy meets girl
You were my dream my world
but I was blind
you cheated on me from behind
So on my own
I feel so all alone
Though I know it's true
I'm still in love with you
I need a miracle
I want to be your girl
Give me a chance to see
that you are made for me
I need a miracle
please let me be your girl
One day you'll see
It can happen to me
I need a miracle
I want to be your girl
Give me a chance to see
that you are made for me
I need a miracle
please let me be your girl
One day you'll see
It can happen to me
It can happen to me.
--miracle--
Day and night
I'm always by your side
'cus I know for sure
my love is real my feelings pure
So take a try
no need to ask me why
'cus I know it's true
I'm still in love with you.
(... After Dark version)
I need a miracle
I want to be your girl
Give me a chance to see
that you are made for me
I need a miracle
please let me be your girl
One day you'll see
It can happen to me
I need a miracle
I want to be your girl
Give me a chance to see
that you are made for me
I need a miracle
please let me be your girl
One day you'll see
It can happen to me
It can happen to me.
--miracle--
--miracle--
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All his life Juubi wants to share his wings with a human being. After coming to know Haifun, after bonding with her and getting close to her, he comes to find that he wants to share his wings with Haifun, and reaches a point in the relationship where he can no longer envision sharing them with anyone else. So at the ツ (tsu) chapter, they both need miracles...Haifun because she has no where else to go, no one else she can trust.
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!
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!
Links Updated
This post simply contains the links to all relevant "featherwinglove" accounts on the web. Some have been made simply to control the name on major social networking sites, but whichever ones I get contacted on will get more material.
This post's permanent link:
http://featherwinglove.blogspot.com/2009/04/links-updated.html
The big ones:
http://featherwinglove.blogspot.com/ (obviously; this is also the biggest as of 30 April 2009)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36560633@N04
http://www.youtube.com/featherwinglove (when I get a camera...)
The stubby ones:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Featherwing-Love/76548557314#/pages/Featherwing-Love/76548557314 (is a relatively simple page right now)
"featherwinglove" Terry Wilson on http://www.myspace.com/ (that's me; not a main contact)
http://www.metacafe.com/f/channels/featherwinglove (not a main contact; go to Youtube channel.)
This post's permanent link:
http://featherwinglove.blogspot.com/2009/04/links-updated.html
The big ones:
http://featherwinglove.blogspot.com/ (obviously; this is also the biggest as of 30 April 2009)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36560633@N04
http://www.youtube.com/featherwinglove (when I get a camera...)
The stubby ones:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Featherwing-Love/76548557314#/pages/Featherwing-Love/76548557314 (is a relatively simple page right now)
"featherwinglove" Terry Wilson on http://www.myspace.com/ (that's me; not a main contact)
http://www.metacafe.com/f/channels/featherwinglove (not a main contact; go to Youtube channel.)
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.
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.
Visions: Everytime we Touch
"Visions" will be a series showing how the music of Cascada (in discographic order, Everytime We Touch first, then Perfect Day; however different mixes will be considered together with the first mix that occurs.)
First the lyrics of the original mix of Everytime We Touch (which vary slightly from the Candlelight mix); instrumental periods are shown by "...". After the lyrics, the commentary on what it says will be given. For some songs, the lyrics are different for the FWL version. I'll explain when I get to one where the lyrics actually are different.
Every Time We Touch:
I still hear your voice when you sleep next to me
I still feel your touch in my dreams
Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive
'Cus everytime we touch, I get this feeling
Everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly
Can't you hear my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side.
'Cus everytime we touch, I feel the static
Everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky
Can't you feel my heart beat so,
I can't let you go
Want you in my life
...
Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky
They wipe away tears that I've cried
The good and the bad times, we've been through them all
You make me rise when I fall
'Cus everytime we touch, I get this feeling
Everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly
Can't you hear my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side.
'Cus everytime we touch, I feel the static
Everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky
Can't you feel my heart beat so,
I can't let you go
Want you in my life
...
'Cus everytime we touch, I get this feeling
Everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly
Can't you hear my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side.
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This song was the original "Flying Romance" song, and the first part of the vision really significant to what is now Featherwing Love was the dramatic deployment of the characters wings when their lips came together. "Everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly." From February 2 to February 17, Honeymoon Dance was the only chapter. I did about six drawings for it before Rescue Glide appeared. I called it "Flying Romance". I changed the name to Featherwing Love near the end of February.
Everytime We Touch is sung by both Juubi and Haifun at parts thoughout the story, but the first time is in the テ (te) chapter near the exact middle of the timeline. In this chapter, Haifun also sings two lines from Maggie Reilly's original version. She is scared of what this new relationship is doing to her, and is about to learn the difference between "monster love" and "real love."
"A strange kind of magic, running through my brain
feel I'm in heaven, or going insane."
(30 April...didn't quite finish on the first round)
The Yanou Candlelight Mix fits a sequence I've designed, which runs from the wedding kiss through an embrace that doesn't end until they fall asleep that evening. Juubi and his twenty foot span wings keep things very modest. Trust me, the reception would be really boring anyway.
Everytime We Touch's original mix is what the Honeymoon Dance (which is when they wake up the next morning) is designed to.
First the lyrics of the original mix of Everytime We Touch (which vary slightly from the Candlelight mix); instrumental periods are shown by "...". After the lyrics, the commentary on what it says will be given. For some songs, the lyrics are different for the FWL version. I'll explain when I get to one where the lyrics actually are different.
Every Time We Touch:
I still hear your voice when you sleep next to me
I still feel your touch in my dreams
Forgive me my weakness, but I don't know why
Without you it's hard to survive
'Cus everytime we touch, I get this feeling
Everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly
Can't you hear my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side.
'Cus everytime we touch, I feel the static
Everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky
Can't you feel my heart beat so,
I can't let you go
Want you in my life
...
Your arms are my castle, your heart is my sky
They wipe away tears that I've cried
The good and the bad times, we've been through them all
You make me rise when I fall
'Cus everytime we touch, I get this feeling
Everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly
Can't you hear my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side.
'Cus everytime we touch, I feel the static
Everytime we kiss, I reach for the sky
Can't you feel my heart beat so,
I can't let you go
Want you in my life
...
'Cus everytime we touch, I get this feeling
Everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly
Can't you hear my heart beat fast
I want this to last
Need you by my side.
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This song was the original "Flying Romance" song, and the first part of the vision really significant to what is now Featherwing Love was the dramatic deployment of the characters wings when their lips came together. "Everytime we kiss, I swear I could fly." From February 2 to February 17, Honeymoon Dance was the only chapter. I did about six drawings for it before Rescue Glide appeared. I called it "Flying Romance". I changed the name to Featherwing Love near the end of February.
Everytime We Touch is sung by both Juubi and Haifun at parts thoughout the story, but the first time is in the テ (te) chapter near the exact middle of the timeline. In this chapter, Haifun also sings two lines from Maggie Reilly's original version. She is scared of what this new relationship is doing to her, and is about to learn the difference between "monster love" and "real love."
"A strange kind of magic, running through my brain
feel I'm in heaven, or going insane."
(30 April...didn't quite finish on the first round)
The Yanou Candlelight Mix fits a sequence I've designed, which runs from the wedding kiss through an embrace that doesn't end until they fall asleep that evening. Juubi and his twenty foot span wings keep things very modest. Trust me, the reception would be really boring anyway.
Everytime We Touch's original mix is what the Honeymoon Dance (which is when they wake up the next morning) is designed to.
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