2008-12-05
� 12:03 p.m.
Peter Pan
Lately I�ve been listening incessantly to a band from the UK called Marillion. Though they�ve been around for a long time and I�ve known about them for 20 years, I only really started to listen and get into them recently � about a year and a half ago � thanks to my friend Don. He�s the same guy that turned me onto Porcupine Tree, so you know that he�s got seriously great taste in music. Anyway, Steve Hogarth, the singer from Marillion is a brilliant songwriter and in 2004 he wrote a song called �Neverland� which I have been listening to nearly non-stop of late. As you would divine from the title, it�s a Peter Pan song. This one is a Peter Pan Love song. Don�t let that put you off though just because it�s based on a children�s story. It�s a song that expresses so much longing, yearning, and love it�s just heartbreaking. Seriously, there�s no other word for it other than brilliant. You can actually listen to or download the song here if you�re curious and the lyrics can be found here if you�re even more curious. As one would expect from all of this implied Peter Pan, love, flying, and music going through my head for the last week, I was inspired last night to write my own lyrics - with a slight twist. In my Neverland story, there�s a back story. Peter actually loves the Indian girl, Tigerlily, and though he still went off to London and met Wendy, his love for Tigerlily was what brought him back. Now he has trouble finding his happy thoughts when he is away from her, Tinkerbell is gone, and his desperate love for his Indian girl is all that keeps him from despair. There are, admittedly, many tips of the hat to Steve Hogarth's images in here, but what the heck. I still like it. See what you think: Happy Thoughts When I feel so low, so grounded Dark and chained, trapped and mortal I hear your voice, see your smile And like a distant star, the darkness breaks, Bit by bit They say that you need happy thoughts to fly But lately, without you, those are so hard to come by Come back to me now, it�s not the same So much time, so many lies, until you You found my soul and together we flew Magic, I took for granted until I felt it for real, Knew what it really was to feel They say that you need happy thoughts to fly But lately, without you, those are so hard to come by Come back to me love, it�s not the same Neverland was always where I should have stayed London was fun when I went out and played, But I was just being foolish; silly You were my love, my Tigerlily They say that you need happy thoughts to fly But lately, without you, those are so hard to come by Let me rescue you again, let me be someone I used to think I was special, until you were gone Now it seems that I was just a storybook pawn Flying to and fro, trying to find my place Longing, yearning for the next time I�d see your face I can fly, I can fly! I swear I can fly again I hear your voice, I feel it and can almost then But I can�t free the hooks unless you�re with me Come back to me, my Tigerlily They say that you need happy thoughts to fly But lately those are so hard to come by All I hear is the tick tock of the clock And I wonder where Tink went when I need her the most. 12/4/08
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