A bunch of unrelated songfics, each about a character and the side they wish would not show.
The song My Mirror Speaks by Death Cab For Cutie
Next Chapter : Marlene
With every sun that sets I am feeling more
Like a stranger on a foreign shore
With an eroding beach disappearing from underneath
At night, he would think.
And when my mirror speaks it never minces words
Cause these eyes don't shine half as bright
As they used to do and they haven't for quite a while
The captain would never let his façade drop, a combatant in a foreign land, life depending on the mask he wore. Would he dare say what he felt? Lonely.
Cause I'm a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there's a tangled thread inside my head
With nothing on either end
"Skipper, please...don't go," sobbed the penguin. Her eyes were bloodshot from tears, the droplets coursing down her slender frame, and freezing at her feet.
"I'm sorry, love." He gestured toward the egg she held. "Please, take care. I'll be back soon" His mouth was bitter, with his life, with the lies he was forced to tell. He felt tears creeping up, holding them in.
It was only when he was on the cargo ship to New York that he allowed himself to cry.
I always fall in love with an open door
With a horizon on an endless sea
As I look around the ones who were standing
right in front of me
By then, the others had begun to stir. He carefully, methodically stored a blanket, rations for a week, a picture of himself and the men he had worked with, of everything he had cherished, loved.
And then my mirror speaks with a reverence
Like a soldier I can't command
It sees a child in the body of a full-grown man
Skipper opened the hatch, and walked away.
And he's a man who hides from all that binds
And a mess of fading lines
And there's a tangled thread inside his head
With nothing on either end
There's nothing on either end