Vid: "The Crow" (Erik, X-Men: First Class)
"The Crow"
"You land badly but you crash standing." Charles is more than Erik's friend, he's the voice of his conscience. And there's always a price for turning away from your conscience...
Song: "The Crow" by Dessa
Spoilers: For the movie.
Length/size: 2:54 (41.5 MB WMV)
V/N: My introduction to Dessa came from sabrina_il's vid for all of the awesome ladies of XMFC, "Dixon's Girl", and I was hooked. I quickly picked up "A Badly Broken Code" and loved Dessa's amazingly smart and literate lyrics. Almost immediately, "The Crow" struck me as being such a song for Erik and, by extension, Charles as well and I've been so eager for XMFC's DVD release so I could finally vid this at last!
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The Crow by Dessa (As edited, full lyrics available here)
That old crow came back today
Sitting in my window like a prophet
Out on the fire escape, to say
Life's no bella telanovela
The tightrope bows with your weight in the center
The slide show don't put all the pictures together
You try to do it right though
Right though, until you let the kite go
Death and romance, the riddles of our lifetimes
Tryna get a slow dance, middle of a knife fight
You get up and you, you give blood
Ah, even on a good night
You send the signal, you listen for an echo
At the first splinters you run to tell Geppetto
And in the worst winters the whole thing feels untenable
Crow took me by the shoulder
And he told me honey, don't let go
Nobody fears the height, you all just fear the fall
Go to the edge sometime
And prove your body wrong
You land badly, but you crash standing
You land badly, but you crash
He took me to the workshop
Showed me where they built the bodies
A blacksmith, a mason, a carpenter
And in the darkroom, where the whole assembly started
All the clothesline where the hearts hung to harden
You come as fragile, soft machines
And you're bound to fast, you're bound to grieve
But you're built to balance on two feet
So why you living this last year from your knees?
Oh please put me down
I know you lost a bet
G'head and catch your breath
But when the worst relents
You learn to live on less
You duck some, you take some square
Your luck runs out, you're there in midair
And when the big one comes
You'll know by the snare roll
You can be too careful
Ignore all the scarecrows
Time flies like the crow does
No regard for the grid
I can't ask you to show love
But would it kill you if you did?
Nobody fears the height, you all just fear the fall
Go to the edge sometime
And prove your body wrong
You land badly, but you crash standing
You land badly, but you crash