For a Sunflower

[perzephone]

I always think of space when I think of you - those velvet unknowable reaches, the vastness, the infinite stretches of emptiness between stars and planets.

When I stop to really think about it, it terrifies me. Our little blue-green ball here is so comfy, so familiar. I can't imagine what it must be like to be thrust from the Mother's embrace, to go spinning into that abyss. To me, a map of the sky's legend only reads, "Here There Be Monsters". To you, though, all that space out there, spinning endlessly above us must feel like home. Gravity must be so confining to you, sunflower. Your sadness echoes to me, bound to a body made of earth when all you want is one made of stars.

1) There's some confusion on the title - YouTube has it Tenth Planet - Ghost, I heard it as Ghost by 10th Planet... I like Ferry Corsten's mix better, but this video is kind of nice for it.
Vincent De Moor remix
It speaks of longing...
When the room is quiet
and the daylight´s almost gone
It seems there´s something I should know

Well I ought to leave,
the rain it never stops
with no particular place to go

Just when I think I´m winning
when I´ve broken every door
the ghosts of my life, they´re wilder - than before

Just when i thought i could not be stopped
when my chance came to be king
the ghosts of my life, they´re wilder - than the wind

But I´m feeling nervous
now I find myself alone
the simple life´s no longer there
Once I was so sure
now the doubt inside my mind
comes and goes but leads nowhere

Just when I think I´m winning
when I´ve broken every door
the ghosts of my life, they´re wilder - than before

Just when i thought i could not be stopped
when my chance came to be king
the ghosts of my life, they´re wilder - than the wind

2) Through Glass by Stone Sour. A song about stars. The video's kind of meh. The song means something different to me. Do you ever feel like you know someone, even if you've never met them? Sometimes, just because it's written in the stars doesn't mean they're telling the truth. We can change everything.

I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home sitting all alone inside your head

How do you feel? That is the question
But I forget.. you don't expect an easy answer
When something like a soul becomes
Initialized and folded up like paper dolls and little notes
You can't expect a bit of hope
So while you're outside looking in
Describing what you see
Remember what you're staring at is me

Cause I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head

How much is real? So much to question
An epidemic of the mannequins
Contaminating everything
When thought came from the heart
It never did right from the start
Just listen to the noises
(Null and void instead of voices)
Before you tell yourself
It's just a different scene
Remember it's just different from what you've seen

I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
And all I know is that it feels like forever
When no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you.. yeah-ah

I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
Oh, god it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head

'Cause I'm looking at you through the glass...
Don't know how much time has passed
All I know is that it feels like forever
But no one ever tells you that forever
Feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head

And it's the stars
The stars
That shine for you.. yeah-ah
And it's the stars
The stars
That lie to you.. yeah-ah


3) And if you thought The Universe & You was creepy... Yes, I feel protective towards you, even though I've never met you. I think about the Mall Girls and how I'd have given them something to think about. I would probably be willing to stand between you & whatever was headed your way. You seem to need someone(s) to watch out for you, someone(s) who can stand up to you enough to make sure you get rest and food and relief from all you go through. When I heard this song for the first time, I felt that resonate through me. That kind of, "Wow, she could use someone like this in her life". I think we all could, honestly.
Hide U by Kosheen
She's incredible, too

4) Out of the Sky - DJ Lange feat. Sarah Howells. It's about a star fallen to earth.
I can't find an actual video for this... just still shots w/music. Ah well. This one has a slide-show at least
Out of the Sky

Possible, that it could all be wonderful

Sweet the sound, as all the stars come crashing down
But I will wait for you,
Meet me in the blue

Afterglow, somethings you just don't need to know.
Came crashing in, battered your heart and bruised your shins
But I will wait for you, if you ask me to

The day is calling you,
Roll out and start anew
Wipe your weary eyes and tumble out of the sky
Out of the sky


5) And even though it's not your name... Dear Prudence by Siouxsie & the Banshees. I think Prudence likes sunflowers.
This is probably the best quality video I could find... Gods, I feel very old.
Dear Prudence, won't you come out to play
Dear Prudence, greet the brand new day
The sun is up, the sky is blue
It's beautiful and so are you
Dear Prudence won't you come out and play

Dear Prudence open up your eyes
Dear Prudence see the sunny skies
The wind is low the birds will sing
that you are part of everything
Dear Prudence won't you open up your eyes?

Look around round
Look around round round
Look around

Dear Prudence let me see you smile
Dear Prudence like a little child
The clouds will be a daisy chain
So let me see you smile again
Dear Prudence won't you let me see you smile?