Lady Jane is bringing up music. Again!
Nov. 19th, 2009 01:32 am![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
ninedaysaqueen.livejournal.com posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
queensthiefI recently bought one of Dido Armstrong's albums, Life for Rent. I downloaded the songs to my MP3 player (which as of now does not have a Queen's Thief name), and I had squeee! moment when I heard this song.
This Land is Mine might as well as been written for Irene. I believe it aptly describes her feelings towards the end of The Queen of Attolia and into The King of Attolia.
"This Land Is Mine"
From behind these walls I hear your song
Oh, sweet words
The music that you play lights up my world
The sweetest that I’ve heard
Could it be that I’ve been touched and turned
Oh Lord, please finally…finally things are changing
[Chorus:]
This land is mine but I’ll let you rule
I let you navigate and demand
Just as long as you know…this land is mine
So find your home and settle in
Ohhh, I’m ready to let you in
Just as long as we know…this land is mine
After all the battles and the wars
The scars and loss
I’m still the queen of my domain
and feeling stronger now
The walls are down a little more each day
Since you came, finally…finally things are changing
[Chorus]
Follow the days I’ve travelled alone
In this cold and colorless place till now
It’s what I had to pay
[Chorus]
This land is mine and I let you rule
I let you navigate on demand
Just as long as you know…this land is mine
Read the lyrics or give the YouTube link a listen.
Does anyone else have more QT songs to share?
This Land is Mine might as well as been written for Irene. I believe it aptly describes her feelings towards the end of The Queen of Attolia and into The King of Attolia.
"This Land Is Mine"
From behind these walls I hear your song
Oh, sweet words
The music that you play lights up my world
The sweetest that I’ve heard
Could it be that I’ve been touched and turned
Oh Lord, please finally…finally things are changing
[Chorus:]
This land is mine but I’ll let you rule
I let you navigate and demand
Just as long as you know…this land is mine
So find your home and settle in
Ohhh, I’m ready to let you in
Just as long as we know…this land is mine
After all the battles and the wars
The scars and loss
I’m still the queen of my domain
and feeling stronger now
The walls are down a little more each day
Since you came, finally…finally things are changing
[Chorus]
Follow the days I’ve travelled alone
In this cold and colorless place till now
It’s what I had to pay
[Chorus]
This land is mine and I let you rule
I let you navigate on demand
Just as long as you know…this land is mine
Read the lyrics or give the YouTube link a listen.
Does anyone else have more QT songs to share?
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/19/09 03:37 am (UTC)Err... Not that I've seen, but it does make you wonder.
Your welcome!
The song could actually apply to a lot of people. I believe it's abut a woman who has a lot of emotional walls built up around herself. She starting to let someone she loves in, and is saying she trusts this enough person to let him led. But she also says just remember "This Land is Mine", meaning she still wants him to respect her authority and choices.
The mention of battles, queens, and ruling in obviously a metaphor, but it's such a convenient one for QT fans.
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 03:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/19/09 03:28 am (UTC)I first became a fan of Dido, when I heard her song "Here with Me" played as the theme song of "Roswell". I love all her songs. They're so beautiful.
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/19/09 09:34 am (UTC)I love "White Flag" as well. So profound that song is.
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 03:22 am (UTC)I LOVE IT!
It's like meant to be!! Now, all we need is for someone to comeout with like a fan trailer!!!!
Missy
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 03:40 am (UTC)I now know I'm not the only one who wanted to jump up and down screaming "Irene! It's Irene!" when I first heard it.
Ohh... A fan-trailer would be great.
woah again
Date: 11/19/09 03:27 am (UTC)its so her. its like her song. it even has the *queen* part
omg
do you think she knows about the books?!
Re: woah again
Date: 11/19/09 03:42 am (UTC)Who knows.
The melody IS very haunting and so beautiful.
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 03:59 am (UTC)One of her other songs, "Hunter" from the No Angel album, contains the line "If you were a king, a bear on your throne." But it's in a non-Eugenides context about how the singer wishes she could escape a suffocating relationship...still, "bear" + "king" = Gen, no?
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 04:07 am (UTC)YouTube video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1Gyp6Ofzf8
Lyrics...
http://www.metrolyrics.com/hunter-lyrics-dido.html
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 04:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/19/09 06:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/20/09 01:59 am (UTC)Icon Love!
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 04:01 am (UTC)Give it a try. It doesn't fit quite as well, but it's still a good match for QT. It makes me think of the very end of "The Queen of Attolia" when Irene insisted Gen was lying to her about his feelings.
Lyrics...
http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/dido/takemyhand.html
YouTube video...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpVM_az0Zjw
The Thief
Date: 11/19/09 08:23 am (UTC)Lyrics:
Your eyes are full
Full of the future of us
The air changes as you look across
At me in that wondering way
It is as if
I knew you before we spoke
Do our hearts know something we don't?
Conspiring, converging without giving us any say
[CHORUS]
You sing me to sleep
Talk down my walls
Look through my windows as I wait
You could be the thief
I give the key to
You're ruining me
With secrets and gestures and looks
With sonnets from second-hand books
Playing the chords in me nobody knew how to play
[CHORUS]
[Bridge]
It fits in your hand like water in rain
It unlocks our two different selves
And shows we are the same
Rather than wait `til I put me out for the taking
You're breaking
You're breaking
You're breaking into my heart
And I'm letting you.
And listen to it here on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LxVh9WPiJI
And I say go listen to it even if you don't agree that the song fits QT, just 'cause it's so beautiful.
Re: The Thief
Date: 11/19/09 09:36 am (UTC)And so fitting!
Re: The Thief
Date: 11/19/09 10:29 am (UTC)Oh, and your icon totally cracks me up. Fermatas ftw!
Re: The Thief
Date: 11/20/09 08:04 am (UTC)Um. Yeah. TOtally not a rabid fangirl. Moving on...
Fermatas are love :D
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 09:54 am (UTC)Hmm, the only song that's ever reminded me of the QT series is Heart's A Mess by Gotye. It always makes me think of relationship between Gen and Irene during Queen of Attolia from Gen's POV, mostly because it sounds so EPIC (and no one can convince that their dealings with one another aren't EPICSAUCE).
Here are the lyrics (http://www.sing365.com/music/lyric.nsf/Hearts-A-Mess-lyrics-Gotye/D32AD1045107B6564825718E0006006D) and here's the youtube link (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIYAN-7eVm8&feature=related) if you want to take a listen. And I suggest you do! It's definitely a bit out-of-the-box, but oh, it is so good.
no subject
Date: 11/19/09 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/20/09 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/19/09 07:07 pm (UTC)i was born in a forked-tongued story
raised up by merchants and drugstore liars
now i walk on the paths of glory
one foot in ice, one in fire
i see the mountain, the mountain comes to me
i see the mountain and that is all i see
some build temples and some find altars
some come in tall hats and robes spun fine
some in rags, some in gemstone halters
some push the pegs back in line
i see the mountain, the mountain comes to me
i see the mountain and that is all i see
no subject
Date: 11/20/09 08:12 am (UTC)i see the mountain, the mountain comes to me
i see the mountain and that is all i see
*wanders off, words firmly stuck in head*
no subject
Date: 11/20/09 01:13 pm (UTC)Greetings
Date: 11/19/09 07:27 pm (UTC)Here's the YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7c7ZOuUiSY
And here are the lyrics:
Did you know
Hidden by his clothes there are some scars
Some are recent,
Some have been there for years
Did you know
It doesn't even hurt
It never really hurts
But there are tears
Do you want the real story,
Or do you prefer the lie
Do you want to see him smile,
Or maybe to see him cry
Do you want to follow,
Or let him go alone
For then, never to know
Never to know
Have you seen the way he acts sometimes
When you ask
He'll say that he's okay
Have you seen how well he pretends
Laughs out loud
Before he looks away
Do you want the real story,
Or do you prefer the lie
Do you want to see him smile,
Or maybe see him cry
Do you want to follow,
Or let him go alone
For then, never to know
Never to know
Hi, by the way! I'm FreeNarnian, a long-time lurker and first time commenter. I read the books for the first time a couple of years ago... I think because I saw KoA recommended on Amazon and I liked the cover. But I dutifully looked up the other books and read them in the right order. I've read them several times since, and given them to numerous friends.
It's largely due to the Sounis community that I came to understand and like QoA. So many nuances to savor! Megan Whalen Turner is a master of subtlety and her characters are ingenious! I love these books!
And before I go... I can't wait to see how the theme of earrings factors into CoK. (The previous books inspired me to finally go out and get my ears pierced - ha! Just bought my first pair of earrings yesterday... silver leaves... I think Gen would approve. I need to find bee earrings next.)
- FreeNarnian
Re: Greetings
Date: 11/19/09 10:41 pm (UTC)its perfectly Eugenides.
I almost see this as Eddis's song sort of when she sees Gen drifting away after the *choP choP*.
Re: Greetings
Date: 11/20/09 12:13 am (UTC)Re: Greetings
Date: 11/20/09 02:01 am (UTC)Re: Greetings
Date: 11/20/09 08:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 11/20/09 09:30 pm (UTC)-FreeNarnian