Chapter 14 now This song is by an Icelandic band that I like very much called Of Monsters and Men. The time where this song 'takes place' in Collection of Songs is when Percy and Annabeth are just out of Tartarus, and are still trying to get rid of all the memories that they have of that place, and are trying to live "normally" again.
Disclaimer: all characters go to Rick Riordan, song credits go to Of Monsters and Men!
Collection of Songs
Chapter 14: Percy Jackson – Silhouettes
[Verse 1]
It's hard, letting go
I'm finally at peace but it feels wrong
Slow, I'm getting up
My hands and feet are weaker than before
It's so hard letting go of everything that's happened down there. Every time I close my eyes I remember the acidic air, the firewater, the sense of danger. I'm finally at peace here on the Argo II, and I know that I'm safe from everything that happened down at Tartarus. But this new "peace" feels so wrong, so alien. Slow, I'm getting up, my hands and feet weaker than it ever was before.
[Verse 2]
And you are folded on the bed
Where I rest my head
There's nothing I can see
Darkness becomes me
Every night Annabeth and I wake up screaming from nightmares, even worse than the ones in Tartarus, or before this quest. I find myself waking up, my head on Annabeth's bed while she is lying on the bed, drops of sweat glistening on her forehead. A curl of blond hair sticks to the side of her face, damp. There's nothing I can see through the haze of my nightmares, as Gaea pulls me deeper into the Pit, and Darkness envelops me.
[Chorus]
But I'm already there
I'm already there
Wherever there is you
I will be there too
But I'm already there, at the place where we will be every night, Annabeth and I. I'm already there, even in the daylight, even when the sun is shining on our backs gloriously. Wherever Annabeth is, I know that I will find her there, that I will be able to meet her through our dreams, no matter what.
[Verse 3]
There's nothing that I'd take back
But it's hard to say there's nothing I regret
'Cause when I sing you shout,
I breathe out loud
You bleed, we crawl like animals
But when it's over, I'm still away
Ironically, though, there's really nothing that I would take back. My life was hard, probably harder than I, or anybody else, has ever expected. But I'm not going to take back any part of it, including Tartarus, even if I had the chance. However, there are so many things that I regret, so many thigns that I've done wrong over the years. When I wake up from all of my nightmares, when I try to wake up Annabeth from whatever nightmare she is going through, we are breathing heavily, unsure about what is going on and trying to see what is real through the haze of our dreams. But when the dreams are over, we may actually be in a Cabin aboard the Argo II but our minds are still trapped within the dream, within the hellish place of Tartarus, within the embrace of the darkness.
[Verse 4]
A thousand silhouettes
Dancing on my chest
No matter where I sleep
You are haunting me
No matter how much I try to sleep, it doesn't work. My nightmares are too powerful, Gaea is too powerful, my trauma is too powerful. The memories keep haunting me, even as I'm awake. The silhouettes, the events in my nightmares, are dancing around me, whispering thoughts in my mind, suffocating me, killing me…
[Chorus] x4
Did you like it? This song was actually for the Hunger Games, it was in the soundtrack for the movie for Catching Fire, but I thought that it sort of matched the events that Percy and Annabeth are going through, their emotions and their nightmares, and all that other trauma.
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