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matrilTwo more songs for Anakin and Padmé. :)
For Anakin's mother's death I needed something with lots of emotional range, with parts both quiet and raging. So, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables again.
SHMI'S DEATH
(Original)
Anakin: Through the desert, through the sunset
Here at last my journey ends
If my mother still is living
All my hopes on this depend
Shmi: Is it you? My precious Ani
How you’ve grown so tall and strong
Now my joy has found completion
Take my love...
Anakin: And now she’s gone
All my fear and helpless anguish
Feed a raging fire within
And that fire cannot be smothered
Until they learn this pain
The very pain they’ve done to me
The cruel and bleak destruction
Of the hopes that can no longer be
Oh my mother, please forgive me
Here’s a thing I cannot mend
Through the desert, through the sunrise
Still my journey cannot end
All my powers could not save her
And my master is to blame
Padmé: Tell me now - what’s really wrong here?
Anakin: So I’ll speak my secret shame
Born of hatred, born of anger
When I killed so many there
Barely Jedi, barely human
It is more than I can bear
A Little Fall of Rain is for Eponine dying in Marius's arms, so it seemed just the sort of bittersweet tune for Padmé's confession of love on the verge of death. And sure, it goes on for a rather implausible amount of time, but what else are musicals for if not to express two lines of dialogue over the course of a three minute song? :P
WHERE MY HEART WILL LEAD
(Original)
Anakin: Don’t be afraid; we’ll be all right
Padmé: I’m not afraid to die
I’ve died a bit each day
Since you’ve been in my life
Anakin: What’s this? I do not understand
Padmé: I love you, Anakin
I truly, deeply do
And now we’ll face death hand in hand
Anakin: I thought this could not be
It’s not our fate
But now I fear this change has come too late
Padmé: Just hold me now, before we die
Don’t ask why
Don’t say why
Anakin: You would live a thousand years
If I could show you how
I won’t desert you now
Padmé: This death won’t hurt me now
You know. And that is all I need
And if somehow we find
A way we can survive
I’ll follow where my heart will lead
Our hopes aren’t finished yet; we still may live
I’ll take whatever chance our fortune gives
A breath away from where you are
We have a chance; we’ve come this far
Together: Don’t you fear; we’ll be all right
We’ll fight our way from here
We’re not afraid to die
We’re not afraid to live
Padmé: You’re here
And that is all I need
Together: And if that’s all we need
Then if we can survive
We’ll follow
Padmé: I’ll follow
Where my heart...
Together: Will lead.
For Anakin's mother's death I needed something with lots of emotional range, with parts both quiet and raging. So, Empty Chairs at Empty Tables again.
SHMI'S DEATH
(Original)
Anakin: Through the desert, through the sunset
Here at last my journey ends
If my mother still is living
All my hopes on this depend
Shmi: Is it you? My precious Ani
How you’ve grown so tall and strong
Now my joy has found completion
Take my love...
Anakin: And now she’s gone
All my fear and helpless anguish
Feed a raging fire within
And that fire cannot be smothered
Until they learn this pain
The very pain they’ve done to me
The cruel and bleak destruction
Of the hopes that can no longer be
Oh my mother, please forgive me
Here’s a thing I cannot mend
Through the desert, through the sunrise
Still my journey cannot end
All my powers could not save her
And my master is to blame
Padmé: Tell me now - what’s really wrong here?
Anakin: So I’ll speak my secret shame
Born of hatred, born of anger
When I killed so many there
Barely Jedi, barely human
It is more than I can bear
A Little Fall of Rain is for Eponine dying in Marius's arms, so it seemed just the sort of bittersweet tune for Padmé's confession of love on the verge of death. And sure, it goes on for a rather implausible amount of time, but what else are musicals for if not to express two lines of dialogue over the course of a three minute song? :P
WHERE MY HEART WILL LEAD
(Original)
Anakin: Don’t be afraid; we’ll be all right
Padmé: I’m not afraid to die
I’ve died a bit each day
Since you’ve been in my life
Anakin: What’s this? I do not understand
Padmé: I love you, Anakin
I truly, deeply do
And now we’ll face death hand in hand
Anakin: I thought this could not be
It’s not our fate
But now I fear this change has come too late
Padmé: Just hold me now, before we die
Don’t ask why
Don’t say why
Anakin: You would live a thousand years
If I could show you how
I won’t desert you now
Padmé: This death won’t hurt me now
You know. And that is all I need
And if somehow we find
A way we can survive
I’ll follow where my heart will lead
Our hopes aren’t finished yet; we still may live
I’ll take whatever chance our fortune gives
A breath away from where you are
We have a chance; we’ve come this far
Together: Don’t you fear; we’ll be all right
We’ll fight our way from here
We’re not afraid to die
We’re not afraid to live
Padmé: You’re here
And that is all I need
Together: And if that’s all we need
Then if we can survive
We’ll follow
Padmé: I’ll follow
Where my heart...
Together: Will lead.
