Fragilis Pondera (Fragile Balance)
Part II: Precious Metals
Copper : Marik & Malik
///You're so real…///
Yes I am, I hope you think you read me.
Hope I start talking crazy, before you understand me.
//Crazy like mind-wild, Pretty Other ? No, you're not ! Not-not-not, I checked, I peeked, shhh, shhh, don't tell, I was only playing a little game, wanted to see, wanted to know, know now ! You're not !//
/I may as well be ! Half the time I don't know who I am, whether I'm you or me or what the hell, I knew there was a difference somewhere but I've forgotten what it is now -- and quit playing with my hair !/
//Silly Pretty Other !//
Are we through ?
You think that I'm beneath you,
But you like the things that I do !
Wrap 'em up and take 'em with you !
//Liked, adored, wanted, wanted more, did Pretty Other !//
/Yeah./
//Knew it, knew it, knew it !//
/Who wouldn't ? Any one of them, I'd challenge any one of those hypocrites to taste the power I --/
//WE !//
/-- The power WE held and then give it up willingly, it's not so easy, it's like trying to drown yourself, it's so much easier to keep going than to turn around./
//Agree ! Was hot like fire, hot like sun, move like blood, flow-flow-flow, power together.//
/And it's all gone, now./
//Want back ?//
/No ! Yes… I don't know./
//If you want, Pretty Other, if you want.//
I'm all right, hope I can sleep for one night,
If not to cool my insides, maybe to calm my bad side.
//Who's bad ?//
/ARGH !/
//Part of you, part of Pretty Other, if Pretty Other's Other is bad than Pretty Other is bad too and Pretty Other's Other knows Pretty Other isn't bad, not bad, soft-meek inside, know-know-know.//
/Stop !/
//Why, Pretty Other ?//
Rain on me, I got a weakness in me.
I think that weakness feeds me,
I don't think you think you need me !
/You need me !/
//You need me !//
/I hate you !/
//No you don't !//
/Stop arguing with me !/
//Silly Pretty Other !//
/I hate you, I drove you out of me in the first place because I hated you !/
//No-no-no, Pretty Other ! You needed me, needed me to be real just for you, only for you, pretty Pretty Other, needed me separate but safe, always there, linger-linger never go away, always be, you needed.//
/You killed him./
//Silly Pretty Other not be so sullen, you wanted it, wanted it, DID want, Pretty Other's Other knows.//
/I didn't !/
//DID.//
/Why ?/
//Why ?//
Sunshine, you're the best time
I ever, ever had.
But I think I made you feel bad.
Time after time.
//Bright like sun, like fire, precious little flame. Bright like copper, shining-bright, copper taste like blood. Turned Pretty Other's Other loose and then cried, salt-tears, didn't know why, tell why, you wanted but you cried, why is that, Pretty Other ?//
/You know./
//Cried because Pretty Other's Other was free.//
/Yeah./
//But Pretty Other cried when Pretty Other's Other was not free.//
/… Yeah./
But when the sun starts sinking on your beautiful soul,
Make you cry, cry baby, make you feel so cold.
Don't you know it's all right, sometimes,
You just got to show how you feel
'Cuz that's you baby, yeah, you're so real.
//Pretty Other makes no sense.//
/Now that's the pot calling the kettle black !/
//Kettle-pot ?//
/… Never mind./
//Pot-kettle ?//
/Yami, drop it./
//Heh, short tempered, silly Pretty Other.//
Run it round in your head
Like you don't know what's on the inside
You don't know me too well,
You ain't seen my bad side !
/What side of you isn't bad ?!/
//… Not nice, Pretty Other.//
/Touch a nerve, did I ?/
//Pretty Other's Other is exactly what Pretty Other needs to be, only for Pretty Other, always. Protect-always, care-always, exist for Pretty Other only.//
/I know./
//Not hate Pretty Other's Other, not-not-not.//
/No./
//Knew it ! Need Pretty Other's Other.//
/I'm not dependant !/
//No ?//
/No !/
//No.//
/No./
//…//
/But don't leave me ever again./
//Won't.//
Shame on me,
Shame on the things that I'd be.
If you could complicate me,
If you could get inside me.
/I hate you for hurting what I care about and I love you for protecting me and I need you to be here or I'll go insane without you./
//Love-hate-need, Pretty Other's Other never leave, never.//
Sometimes, you're the best time,
I've ever, ever known.
When you've got your wicked smile on.
/And I did love it, the power we had, control beyond imagining and I want it back. I sleep and I dream and wish for that power again and I know you'd give it to me in a second and I love you for that and I hate you because you can give it back to me./
//Only need to ask, Pretty Other, only ask.//
/I can't !/
//Can !//
/No… no, no, no, no, no./
//Why not ?//
/Promised ! I promised I wouldn't, it's not something I need !/
//But want.//
/Yes-NO-please no./
//Why confused ? Want or not ?//
But I've cried for the last time,
Something just don't feel right.
/No, keep it, keep it away./
//Pretty Other sure ?//
/Yes… yes, no more, make it go away./
//Done. For Pretty Other, only ask, Pretty Other's Other care for Pretty Other, protect.//
And you always know just who you are,
You never needed someone else,
To realize yourself I'm all right.
//Pretty Other cry ?//
/… Yeah./
//Pretty Other sad ?//
/No./
//Pretty Other's Other make Pretty Other cry ?//
/Yeah, but it's ok./
//Is here, Pretty Other's Other here.//
/I know. Thanks./
//Always, precious Pretty Other.//
Hope I can…
"You're So Real" – Matchbox 20