Cats - This Side of the Blue

WARNING: This is long and may bore you. Watch it in high quality, also, or it spoils it somewhat.

I'm pleased with it, though, which is unusual for me.

Svetlana sucks lemons across from me,
and I am progressing abominably.
And I do not know my own way to the sea
but the saltiest sea knows its own way to me.

The city that turns, turns protracted and slow
and I find myself toeing th'embarcadero
and I find myself knowing the things that I knew
which is all that you can know on this side of the blue.

And Jamie has eyes black and shiny as boots
and they march at you, two-by-two (re - loo - re - loo);
when she looks at you, you know she's nowhere near through:
it's the kindest heart beating this side of the blue.

And the signifieds butt heads with the signifiers,
and we all fall down slack-jawed to marvel at words
While across the sky sheet the impossible birds,
in a steady, illiterate movement homewards.

And Gabriel stands beneath forest and moon.
See them rattle & boo, see them shake, see them loom.
See him fashion a cap from a page of Camus;
see him navigate deftly this side of the blue.

And the rest of our lives will the moments accrue
when the shape of their goneness will flare up anew.
And we do what we have to do (re - loo - re -loo),
which is all you can do on this side of the blue.

It doesn't really need a story and I haven't followed the lyrics much, but I'm addicted to thinking up backstories and so it's just this.

Victoria's family moved away from the junkyard soon after she was born to live by the sea, where there were no other cats. Just before she comes of age they return to the place she was born and she has to adapt to her strange and new life with the Jellicles. Although lost and overwhelmed at first, she soon falls in love with the tribe and all its diverse characters. It's about innocence, growing up, and discovering life's perfections as well as its hardships.

:)

Oh and fear not, there's more funnies coming soon.

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• CATS
• musical
• victoria
• dance
• Joanna
• Newsom
• This
• Side
• of
• the
• Blue

[kknightonty]

May i please make your video into a fan fic?

[RIPdementia]

Yes, of course! That would be cool. Link me to it when it's done so I can read :D

[livingsoul12066]

I absolutely love this. it's so sweet, and simple, and very Victoria. Lovely song too.

[RIPdementia]

Thankyou muchly. :)

[animesonggirl]

kknightonty : Hey i'm done with the fanfic you said i can do on this video.

[MySerpentine]

For some reason I think this song is about Heaven--the blue is the sky.

[kknightonty]

ok i'll do that and thnxs

[RIPdementia]

Well it was on those Orange adverts about the new york blackouts, d'you remember?

[RIPdementia]

Joanna Newsom. You're welcome :)

[electricjellicle]

Weird song, but good matchy schmatchy stuff.

[electricjellicle]

Yay!!!You're good at matching clips to lyrics...I like your backstories too, keep it up for all of our sakes!