A/N: This is another song about Zuko's time in exhile and how what he wants most is to regain his father's approval. Strangely, the verses are supposed to take place during season 1 (part of the second verse is about the battle at the North Pole), but the chorus has more to do with season 2, and the bridge is...somewhere in there...lol. Nonetheless, for a long time this was my favorite of the songs I've written about Zuko (especially the second verse). Have you heard of the song Nemo by Nightwish? Well, that song greatly influenced this one. Also, I forgot to mention that the previous song (Mercy and Wrath) was influenced (as I remember) by Evanescence's song Missing, which I think also fits this character very well. (Btw, the '-' marks are simply there for space between the verses, chorus and so on, in case you were wondering.)
Disclaimer: Nope. Still don't own Avatar. I just write poetry about it.
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Half-life
What I'd give to be where you are!--
Fire's mark can't scar devotion:
Open your arms, and gather in
My ashes--soon the wind must change!
Wish upon a falling star,
And pray these embers burn till Morning--
Dream of home and hearth again,
And wake to Oceans strange...
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Hide my true name
In a strange land--
I've become someone I cannot be:
Lord of my flame,
Please understand--
I need you to believe in me!
Gladly I'd die in the effort
To hear you say 'well done"--
It was all I ever wished to serve you!
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If I bleed, if I burn,
Would you care about my screaming?
Denied your love, no other wound
Can kill me, for I must survive:
Numb to pain--fire and ice--
Wane at frozen Moonrise gleaming:
Fight for honour, fight for love,
Fight to stay alive!
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Hide my true name
In a strange land--
I've become someone I cannot be:
Lord of my flame,
Please understand--
I need you to believe in me!
Gladly I'd die in the effort
To hear you say 'well done"--
It was all I ever wished to serve you!
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Yet the home I knew is changed forever--
If I go back, it won't be the same:
That child pleading in the arena
Is lost--I'll battle flame with flame:
I can bend and I won't break
Except inside, for the lonely ache
Seared on my heart, for I can't forsake
The hardest lesson I ever learned--
But to honour you, I've always burned.
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Hide my true name
In a strange land--
I've become someone I cannot be:
Lord of my flame,
Please understand--
I need you to believe in me!
Gladly I'd die in the effort
To hear you say 'well done"--
It was all I ever wished to serve you!
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But you tell me still I don't deserve you.
