A flower on his grave

[sovay]

Okay, I fail at content. Have some music instead. My soundtrack for the last several days has been a combination of PJ Harvey and the Pixies; I realized earlier that they are music I listen to both when I'm in a bad mood and a good one; sometimes the same songs. This one I just discovered tonight. It's ghostly.

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to connect it with Saiyūki will be shot.

Who Will Love Me Now? (PJ Harvey)

In the forest is a monster
It has done terrible things
So in the wood it's hiding
And this is the song it sings

Who will love me now?
Who will ever love me?
Who will say to me
You are my desire—I set you free?

Who will forgive and make me live again?
Who will bring me back to the world again?

In the forest is a monster
And it looks so very much like me
Will someone hear me singing?
Please save me, please rescue me

Who will love me now?
Who will ever love me?
Who will say to me
You are my desire—I set you free?

Who will love me now?
Who will ever love me?

Comments

[setsuled.livejournal.com]

That's a good song--I hadn't heard it before. Somehow it failed to be on the four PJ Harvey albums I have.

You're making me curious about Saiyuki. I may need to get volume 1 next time I have money.

Do you like Fushigi Yugi or Inu-Yasha? Saiyuki sounds like it might be in that vein.

[lesser-celery.livejournal.com]

The Pixies and PJ Harvey: a potent binary for the soul.

[schreibergasse.livejournal.com]

Gruonet die Wald allenthalben:
wo ist min geselle also lange?

Der, der ist geritten hinen:
owe, wem sol ich minnen?

Floret silva nobilis / Floribus et foliis
Ubi est antiquus / meus amicus?
Hinc equitavit: / Eheu, quis me amabit?

(I sang the Camina Burana last year, so it came to mind...)

[seajules]

I actually first encountered the song in a fanvid for Yami no Matsuei, which does not make nearly as much sense as Saiyuki, but is very pretty and full of potential, nonetheless.