Ode to the Gone Vanished Taken Stolen Left
Title: Ode to the Gone Vanished Taken Stolen Left
Fandom: Torchwood
- Characters: they who are... (specific narrator)
Rating: G
Summary: That's all there is. There isn't any more.
Notes: Spans ENTIRE series, in part. Including CoE, especially CoE. So SPOILERS. Conducted with Captain Jack's theme music in mind as audio.
...I just can't sleep.
Can you run fast enough?
Can you run strong enough?
Can you run at all?
We can swagger.
We can shoot.
We can scream.
We can storm.
Run with us.
Run from us.
Run for us.
Take your orphan.
Take your broken.
Take your lost.
Take your beating heart.
Wrap around them all snug and tight.
Run from time.
Run from creed.
Run from nature.
Run from living.
Run from the bullet holes.
Run from the gloves you donned.
Run for her.
Run to him.
What about us?
What about them?
What about...
Watch you die still standing.
The light in your eyes.
Carry you when you can't.
Hold you when you won't.
Wish you weren't haunted.
You're soaked with ghosts.
Can I have seen you like this?
Then and now you never stopped.
Never stop now.
Damaged thing we cry and break a thousand pieces.
Are they the man-eaters?
Are they the child-beaters?
Are we the heroes.
Are we the scattered.
We are the shattered.
Sacrifice come sacrifice.
Fix yourself up.
Break yourself down.
And only nod.
Are you the monster I keep seeing from the corner of my eye?
We tried to make you human.
We never could.
They die and die.
And we die too.
Run Jack run.
See Jack run.
Run toward the stars.
Run towards your bed.
Embrace what you find.
It will all die before you.
One more time.
Run towards your heart in the sky.
And take its cold hand.
We have forever.
And you will find us.
Find us, Jack.
Find what you left in the dark.
We are here.
We are waiting.
And we are so sorry.
Fandom: Torchwood
- Characters: they who are... (specific narrator)
Rating: G
Summary: That's all there is. There isn't any more.
Notes: Spans ENTIRE series, in part. Including CoE, especially CoE. So SPOILERS. Conducted with Captain Jack's theme music in mind as audio.
...I just can't sleep.
Can you run fast enough?
Can you run strong enough?
Can you run at all?
We can swagger.
We can shoot.
We can scream.
We can storm.
Run with us.
Run from us.
Run for us.
Take your orphan.
Take your broken.
Take your lost.
Take your beating heart.
Wrap around them all snug and tight.
Run from time.
Run from creed.
Run from nature.
Run from living.
Run from the bullet holes.
Run from the gloves you donned.
Run for her.
Run to him.
What about us?
What about them?
What about...
Watch you die still standing.
The light in your eyes.
Carry you when you can't.
Hold you when you won't.
Wish you weren't haunted.
You're soaked with ghosts.
Can I have seen you like this?
Then and now you never stopped.
Never stop now.
Damaged thing we cry and break a thousand pieces.
Are they the man-eaters?
Are they the child-beaters?
Are we the heroes.
Are we the scattered.
We are the shattered.
Sacrifice come sacrifice.
Fix yourself up.
Break yourself down.
And only nod.
Are you the monster I keep seeing from the corner of my eye?
We tried to make you human.
We never could.
They die and die.
And we die too.
Run Jack run.
See Jack run.
Run toward the stars.
Run towards your bed.
Embrace what you find.
It will all die before you.
One more time.
Run towards your heart in the sky.
And take its cold hand.
We have forever.
And you will find us.
Find us, Jack.
Find what you left in the dark.
We are here.
We are waiting.
And we are so sorry.