Yeah, I didn't realize how many parts this song had till I looked it up. Anyway this is from the musical RENT. Okay characters: Mimi- an exotic dancer and Rodger's love interest AIDS victim (due to the use of drugs not sex). Tried to quit her drug addiction but failed to the disappointment of Rodger. Rodger- Musician (guitar), ex-user and AIDS victim (due to drugs/ ex-girlfriend not sleeping around) Benny-Ex- roommate of Rodger, Mark and Maureen, married into wealth. Maureen- Drama queen extraordinairem, Joanne's lover and (I believe she's bi)Mark's ex-girlfriend. Joanne- attorney. Lover of Maureen. Mark- Camera man/artist. Maureen's ex. Collins- Teaches at different colleges, AIDS victim. Angel's Lover. Angel- Musician (Drummer) kind and perky, likeable... had AIDS and died. Person who might be considered the "glue" that helped keep the group together. The following is actually sung... you should listen to it... it's much better than a post...
Mimi:It's true you sold your guitar and bought a car?
Roger:It's true - I'm leaving now for Santa Fe, It's true you're with this yuppie scum?Benny:You said you'd never speak to him again
Mimi:Not now
Maureen:Who said you that you have any say in who she says things to at all?
Roger:Yeah!
Joanne:Who said that you should stick your nose in other people's...
Maureen:Who said I was talking to you?
Joanne:we used to have this fight each night
Mark:Calm down
Joanne:She'd never admit I existed
Mark:Everyone please
Mimi:He was the same way - he was always "run away - hit the road don't commit" you're full of shit
Joanne:She's in denial
Mimi:He's in denial
Joanne:Didn't give an inch when i gave a mile
Mark:Come on
Mimi:I gave a mile
Roger:Gave a mile to who?
Mark & Benny:Come on guys chill!
Mimi & Joanne:I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had someone to live for-unafraid to say i love you
Roger:All your words are nice Mimi but Love's not a three way street you'll never share real love until you love your self-I Should know
Collins:You all said you'd be cool today so please for my sake...I can't believe he's gone I can't believe your going I can't believe this family must die Angel helped us believe in love I can't believe you disagree
All:I can't believe this is good bye( Maureen and Joanne reconcile and go home. Collins returns to the funeral home. Mimi and Benny leave together. Roger and Mark are left alone.)
Mark:I hear there are great restaurants out west
Roger:Some of the best, how could she?
Mark:How could you let her go?
Roger:You just don't know...how could we lose Angel?
Mark:Maybe you'll see why when you stop escaping your pain at least now if you try Angel's death won't be in vain
Roger:His death is in vain
Mark:Are you insane? There's so much to care about there's me there's Mimi-
Roger:Mimi's got her baggage too
Mark:So do you
Roger:Who are you to tell me what I know. What to do
Mark:A friend
Roger:But who, Mark, are you? "Mark has got his work" they say "Mark lives for his work" and "Mark's in love with his work" Mark hides in his work
Mark:From what?
Roger:From facing your failure, facing your loneliness facing the fact you live a lie. yes, you live a lie tell you why you're always preaching not to be numb when that's how you thrive you pretend to create and observe when you really detach from feeling alive
Mark:Perhaps it's because I'm the one of us to survive
Roger:Poor baby
Mark:Mimi still loves you Are you really jealous or afraid that Mimi's weak
Roger:Mimi did look pale
Mark:Mimi's gotten thin Mimi's running out of time And you're running out the door--
Roger: No more! I've gotta go.
Mark:Hey! For someone who's always been let down who's heading out of town?
Roger:For someone who longs for a community of his own, who's with his camera, all alone?I'll call. I hate the fall.
(Mimi enters)You heard?
Mimi:Every word you don't want baggage without lifetime guarantees You don't want to watch me die?I just came to say goodbye love, goodbye love came to say goodbye love, goodbye just came to say
Roger: Glory
Mimi:goodbye love
Roger:One blaze of
Mimi:goodbye love
Roger:glory
Mimi:goodbye love goodbye
Roger: I have to find(Roger leaves Benny enters)
Mimi:please don't touch me understand I'm scared I need to go away
Mark:I know a place, a clinic
Benny:A rehab?
Mimi:Maybe could you?
Benny:I'll pay
Mimi:goodbye love goodbye love came to say goodbye love goodbye just came to say goodbye love goodbye love goodbye love goodbye love hello disease
(Mimi runs away, Collins is booted from the funeral Home when he can't pay the bill. Benny offers to pay; then he and Collins go drinking. Mark stays behind to prepare for his meeting with "Buzzline".)
Astral Romance
by Nightwish
Female Voice:
A nocturnal concerto
Candlelight whispers me where to go
Hymn of gathering stars as my guide
As I wander on this path of the night
Embroidery of the stars
Undress my feelings for this earth
Send me your salva to heal my scars
And let this nakedness me my birth
Macrocosm poured its powers on me
And the hopes of this world I now must leave
The nightwish I sent you centuries ago
Has been heard by those
Who dwelled in a woe
The distance of our bridal bed
Await for me to be dead
Dust of the galaxies take my hand
Lead me to my beloved's land
Male voice:
Departed by the guillotine of death
I received a letter from the depth
The dream of my lover it carried inside
Caressed by the sharpest knife
I asked you to be my wife
Rays of the setting sun
Were my tears wept upon promises undone
Male whispers:
Come to me
Make me believe
to you and your love again
Female voice:
Above the universe
Beneath the Great Eye
I shall desire you forevermore
I like this version... It really... I was going to say rock'n but that's too cheesy... I like it but it's kinda sad too...
I feel somewhat bothered as of late... I hate the fact that I'm pulled in so many directions. It's by my friends, my family, my mother espcially, the people at Tae Kwon Do and Belhaven. Don't misunderstand, I love my life and everything in it. I am madly in love, however, I would love for somethings to back off like, my mother's constand hovering, nagging and clucking over me like a chicken, (now's a time I'd love to have a sibbling or something so they'd bloody leave me alone.) the Tae Kwon Do center is trying to get me to work for them, which isn't a bad thing but it's ill timed... Belhaven tests are starting up (finally you have no idea how bored I've been on campus), and social callings are starting to pill up and I feel extremely obligated (0r wish to) be there for it, however school work is slightly problematic in this case and I actually want to do well this semester...
Once Upon A Troubadour
by Nightwish
A lonely bard wandering across the lands am I
Singing dancing finding answers to every why
The taverns are full and one crosses my path, too
I just might reward myself with a beer or two
This inn the place of many romantic tales
On the loft women offer their sales
But my eyes they catch a girl beat by everyone
A slave she is but for me a rose undone
Hear me sing
Watch me dance
Play that lute of thine
And share with me this dance
As she danced my eyes began to shine
There she was the maiden so divine
How could I approach her with my outlook so poor
Her beauty being much more than I could endure
So I asked if I could sing a chanson
With a language of ancient and of lore
Gathered the men around us me and the girl in rags
Soon were the melodies heard by everyone
Hear us sing
Watch us dance
Sing with us this tale
With a clap of hands
The stories long-forgotten we still know
Performing our skills wherever we go
I end my story as I receive a kiss
From my girl the dearest Beatrice
Hear us sing
Watch us dance
Sing with us the tales
Which the music will keep alive
This is about a bard and his travels... I think the lyrics are mostly self explanitory... and Beatrice might be a nod at Dante's Divine Comedy... which is a pretty good read. I guess I should say more but I don't feel like it, and I think that there is a certain virtue to being silent.
By Nightwish
A grand oasis in the vastness of gloom
Child of dew-spangled cobweb Mother to the moon
Constellations beholders of the 3rd vagrant
Theater for the play of life
Tragedienne of heavens
Watching the eyes of the night
Sailing the virgin oceans
A planetride for the Mother and Child
Floating upon the quiet hydrogen lakes
In this ambrosial merry-go-round they will gaze
Ephemereal life touched by a billion-year show
Separating the poet from the woe
Tragedienne of heavens...
Oracle of the Delphian Domine
Witness of Adam's frailty
Seer of the master prophecy
The stellar world her betrothed
Wanderers in cosmic caravan
Universal bond - The Starborn
A son in the search for the truth
Following the pages of Almagest
Discovering the origin of dreams
Stargazers ride through the ancient realms
Tragedienne of heavens...
This is Bryson favorite song (of Nightwish) but obviously not because of the lyrics... I don't think he's stupid just not well versed in mythology and some of these references I don't even get. Anyway another lyric for you to think on.
Sad Lisa
by Cat Stevens
She hangs her head and cries on my shirt.
She must be hurt very badly.
Tell me what's making you sad, Li?
Open your door, don't hide in the dark.
You're lost in the dark, you can trust me.
'Cause you know that's how it must be.
Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.
Her eyes like windows, trickle in rain
Upon the pain getting deeper.
Though my love wants to relieve her.
She walks alone from wall to wall.
Lost in her hall, she can't hear me.
Though I know she likes to be near me.
Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.
She sits in a corner by the door.
There must be more I can tell her.
If she really wants me to help her.
I'll do what I can to show her the way.
And maybe one day I will free her.
Though I know no one can see her.
Lisa Lisa, sad Lisa Lisa.
