Vid: Unwritten Letter #1 (Stargate: Universe)
Song: Unwritten Letter #1 by Vienna Teng
Fandom/Pairing: Stargate: Universe, Rush/Young
Length: 3:34
Spoilers: to 1.10 "Justice"
Summary: Colonel Young is what Rush needs, but Rush has no intention of taking it.
Links: YouTube, Download (MegaUpload, .m4v because iMovie sucks) Also embedded under the cut.
Lyrics:
Nightfall we're brushing past your town
Destination not you my one
The driver doesn't know way down
How deep these bright-eyed feelings run
I've no intention of confessing today
I need to make distance a while
But miles don't make your image fade
They don't erase this secret smile
Everything reminds me
Wet grey gold-lit streets
Shop displays near-lovers meet
I feel the grasp of your hand still
This your face now in the glass
Breathing whisper what is this
Bent so close we nearly kiss
Although we never will
Strange that there's no hurtful need
Used to be my only sign
On my mind would make me bleed
Why is it that I'm feeling fine
Why is it this warmth within
No candlelight that causes burn
Memories of you begin
Well welcome friends
Glad you've returned
Everything reminds me
Music surging bedroom dance
Crazy spinning sultry glance
I inhale your presence still
These your arms of daring grace
Encircle me, what pact is made
Desire is your masquerade
Want me you never will
You gave me truth
I chose illusion
Now we are used to this confusion
But I know
Yes I know
This story has to end
Never groped for a connection
Never hoped for more affection
For I know
I know I am your friend
Only your friend
Notes: I've been wanting to make this vid for a very long time, which is probably why I got off my fanfic-writing ass and finally did it, even if it did mean inflicting learning to use iMovie on myself. So yes, this is my first vid ever made on iMovie, and it kind of shows, because wow I hate linear editing.
But beyond that.
Rush and Young are absolutely fascinating, to me, and this song just feels like Rush in my mind. The frantic pace, the slightly broken meter, the violin, how the voice is hushed and difficult to make out but you're caught up in the rhythm of it anyway. And the lyrics, how they're pained and snappy but sometimes there's just this need shining through them. And that's what this is about, to me.
I think Rush is a very human character, a very emotional and driven one -- such a good person, in fact, that he is able to shut down and make apparently very heartless greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number decisions. And he's very, very vulnerable, grieving from the death of his wife, and I absolutely do think that he might need someone to shake him out of it. But it doesn't matter; Rush would never let anyone get that close, not now. Even if that distance has some very, very negative consequences.
And that's what this vid is about, for me. I hope you enjoy.
Fandom/Pairing: Stargate: Universe, Rush/Young
Length: 3:34
Spoilers: to 1.10 "Justice"
Summary: Colonel Young is what Rush needs, but Rush has no intention of taking it.
Links: YouTube, Download (MegaUpload, .m4v because iMovie sucks) Also embedded under the cut.
Click to viewLyrics:
Nightfall we're brushing past your town
Destination not you my one
The driver doesn't know way down
How deep these bright-eyed feelings run
I've no intention of confessing today
I need to make distance a while
But miles don't make your image fade
They don't erase this secret smile
Everything reminds me
Wet grey gold-lit streets
Shop displays near-lovers meet
I feel the grasp of your hand still
This your face now in the glass
Breathing whisper what is this
Bent so close we nearly kiss
Although we never will
Strange that there's no hurtful need
Used to be my only sign
On my mind would make me bleed
Why is it that I'm feeling fine
Why is it this warmth within
No candlelight that causes burn
Memories of you begin
Well welcome friends
Glad you've returned
Everything reminds me
Music surging bedroom dance
Crazy spinning sultry glance
I inhale your presence still
These your arms of daring grace
Encircle me, what pact is made
Desire is your masquerade
Want me you never will
You gave me truth
I chose illusion
Now we are used to this confusion
But I know
Yes I know
This story has to end
Never groped for a connection
Never hoped for more affection
For I know
I know I am your friend
Only your friend
Notes: I've been wanting to make this vid for a very long time, which is probably why I got off my fanfic-writing ass and finally did it, even if it did mean inflicting learning to use iMovie on myself. So yes, this is my first vid ever made on iMovie, and it kind of shows, because wow I hate linear editing.
But beyond that.
Rush and Young are absolutely fascinating, to me, and this song just feels like Rush in my mind. The frantic pace, the slightly broken meter, the violin, how the voice is hushed and difficult to make out but you're caught up in the rhythm of it anyway. And the lyrics, how they're pained and snappy but sometimes there's just this need shining through them. And that's what this is about, to me.
I think Rush is a very human character, a very emotional and driven one -- such a good person, in fact, that he is able to shut down and make apparently very heartless greatest-good-for-the-greatest-number decisions. And he's very, very vulnerable, grieving from the death of his wife, and I absolutely do think that he might need someone to shake him out of it. But it doesn't matter; Rush would never let anyone get that close, not now. Even if that distance has some very, very negative consequences.
And that's what this vid is about, for me. I hope you enjoy.