A/N - just a warning for anyone who hasn't seen Angels in Manhattan. As River would say, "Spoilers!"


Castle on a cloud

There is a castle on a cloud

I like to go there in my sleep

Aren't any floors for me to sweep

Not in my castle on a cloud

Alain Boublil

That night you told them to go with me

And I wonder sometimes if you regret that

Because I never brought them back

Oh but they saved my life

I swear the Tardis lit up

Like it had missed them too

I brought them to see the universe

And they showed me that my hearts

Weren't broken after all

I always needed a hand to hold


New York, the immortal city

A weekend trip, I thought it would be fun

The city was still young when we dropped in

I dug out a book, Amy bought a newspaper

We wore glasses because it was fun

Rory talked to himself

And fetched the coffee

Everything was beautiful

And right about them nothing hurt


We sat, and grinned, and I read to her

I didn't even yowz

And while we weren't looking they took him

Amy ran so fast, you would have been proud

My book was more than a story

It was a history

Our history

This is the story of Amelia Pond

And this is how it ends

In the immortal city


You haven't met my wife

She's beautiful and wonderful and dangerous

Shouldn't like it but I do

One heart stops when I see her

I seem to take it in my stride

I love her and I've seen her die

But right then, right there

We were almost on the same page

At the same place in time

And it was wonderful

She broke her hand and I fixed her

I'm the Doctor, after all!


Things… happened

I lost them, your children

My Ponds

River lost her parents

Did they mention that?

Their daughter

It's all very wibbly-wobbly

Amy wrote me a letter

She told me that she was happy

They got to have a life

Without me


Back on the Tardis together

She seemed okay

I suppose she'll get to see them again

I needed someone right then

But the Doctor and his wife

Do not travel together

One psychopath per Tardis

She said it with a grin

Tried to pretend she couldn't see

That I was broken


I am sorry

I lost them

And this time I can't go back

This time I won't

They'll be happier without me

A normal, human life

They can grow old together


Losing them

It made me wonder

What good I can really do

I can't do it anymore

Everyone dies, don't they?

The universe will just have to take care of itself

I'm building a castle


I know a place where no one's lost

I know a place where no one cries

Crying at all is not allowed

Not in my castle on a cloud.