Marceline singing
Gathering the sounds
You hear, one by one
Everything had come down to this. My Scream Queens and I had finally made it big and were giving our first performance. If it wasn't for her, we wouldn't have come this far. Wherever she is, I hope she hears this song.
But the sound itself, honestly
Hurts my ears so much
Our music had always been loud and fast paced. Every once in a while, we would throw in a slow paced song, but that was always for her. We wanted to show her that she was appreciated. I wanted to show her that I cared.
The guitar I'd been strumming since yesterday
I really couldn't play it
She was the one that made me want to learn to play an instrument. In the end, I learned to play the bass, guitar, and piano. I just wanted to make her happy. She liked to listen to music as she worked, so I thought that if I wrote songs for her, she would listen to those.
I was just imitating the sound
Of the CD you lent me
That's all my first songs were. Imitations of songs from CDs she would lend me. I heard the sounds and mimicked them as well as I could.
But even then, I really can't just be confined
Pretending I don't know anything
And from the overflowing chord,
Another person's scent escaped
"ah, it's yet another song with the same kind of atmosphere…"
I had no style of my own back then. Eventually, I had imitated the sounds from other artists so much, that I could play my own songs. Still, those songs were just more imitations of another's music. Even if she figured that out, I doubted that she would tell me.
Always worrying about none other than "your eyes", I wrote this song
Therefore, it is very similar to
Your "favorite artist", right?
"There's no ingenuity"
"There's no charm"
Go ahead, I don't mind if you speak ill of it
It's all right, right now I just
Want to make your eyes look here
I wanted her to look at me. I wanted her to understand what I was trying to say. I didn't care if she criticized my songs as long as she was giving me her attention. I thought that one day she would know that this was all for her.
Strangely, this song has started a rather large craze
I started a band and we named ourselves Marceline and the Scream Queens. We became popular very quickly, and I let it all go to my head. I asked her to become our manager and she agreed to it. She was very good at managing us too. I don't think we would have been able to handle all the pressure without her.
It seems that my sense is not that bad…
Many of my songs made it to the top of the charts. We toured all over the place; everyone wanted to hear us perform.
There's a buzz, hearts are overflowing with curiosity
They stare
People would always stare at me before I started singing. It's like they wanted to figure out which emotion went into which song. I felt as if they were trying to stare through the walls I had put up and see what I was hiding in my lyrics.
It kind of feels like I'm a prince or something
I felt like I was Queen of the world. She would watch me fool around and keep me from getting into too much trouble. I must have been quite a handful for her. I'm surprised she didn't leave before that.
But even then, other than that,
It feels like I've become a fake
And that stylish number seems to
No longer be within me
Well, shall I play another
Similar sounding song today?
All the pressure was starting to get to us. I was never good at handling pressure. I felt as if I needed to be a different person in front of the crowds and fans. I wasn't Marceline Abadeer anymore. I was Marceline the Vampire Queen.
Always worrying about "people's eyes"
But no one in particular, I wrote this song
With this theme and device
Just let your favorite chord ring
"it's not that"
"it's not this"
There's too many comparisons
It's unbearable
I cower
I don't even know where you are anymore
When she quit, I didn't know what to do with myself anymore. All of this had been for her and I had driven her away. There was no way I could fix this. She was gone and was never going to come back.
Honestly, I had hoped
There are certain things only I can do, right?
But there isn't a single thing like that
I've been really worried about it, you know?
I thought that music would be something that I could be good at. I was since I became famous, but I didn't plan to become this popular in the beginning. I just wanted her to understand me. I wanted her to see what my songs meant.
This song is sung
To tear away at none other than "myself"
There's no ingenuity
Or charm,
Just the repetition of a bad chord
Earnestly, I
Closed my eyes
And as though shouting, I remembered
"It's so wonderful"
I felt like I heard your voice
This song was written for her. It was the last song of the night and we were heading back to the hotel.
"Marceline!"
I heard my name being called while I was back stage. That voice sounded so familiar, but it couldn't have been the person I've had my mind on all this time.
"Marceline!"
There it was again! The voice was closer this time. I turned around and came face to face with her holding our latest album. Bonnibel Bubblegum. The girl that I had did all of this for; the reason that I had started singing and recording songs. She was the reason I had wrote our last song. She was still as beautiful as the last time I had saw her months ago.
"I understand now. I finally understand," She told me as tears started to build up in her eyes. I hugged her tightly to me. I was never going to let her go again.
The song in this story is Soraru and Jin - Your eyes. I suggest you check it out since it's pretty good. It inspired me to write this because I could connect with it. Review and tell me how I did :)