Lyra and Will - Two Thousand Years

This is more about the big war in TAS in general, but the title fit so beautifully into the picture the way it is! :) CAUTION: MANY SPOILERS!!!! I quoted a lot from key scenes, so be careful if you haven't finished yet! So, yeah, not much to say in this one...lyrics are below the disclaimer! :D

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the song, pictures, or characters used in this video. The song is the property of Billy Joel, the pictures were retrieved using Google Image Search and the photogram section of His Dark Materials.org, and the characters are from the amazing His Dark Materials series by Phlip Pullman. The lyrics are from the CD jacket.

In the beginning
There was the cold and the night
Prophets and angels gave us the fire and the light
Man was triumphant
Armed with the faith and the will
Even the darkest ages couldn't kill

Too many kingdoms
Too many flags on the field
So many battles, so many wounds to be healed
Time is relentless
Only true love perseveres
It's been a long time and now I'm with you
After two thousand years

This is our moment
Here at the crossroads of time
We hope our children carry our dreams down the line
They are the vintage
What kind of life will they live?
Is this a curse or a blessing that we give?

Sometimes I wonder
Why are we so blind to fate?
Without compassion, there can be no end to hate
No end to sorrow
Caused by the same endless fears
Why can't we learn from all we've been through
After two thousand years?

There will be miracles
After the last war is won
Science and poetry rule in the new world to come
Prophets and angels
Gave us the power to see
What an amazing future there will be

And in the evening
After the fire and the light
One thing is certain: Nothing can hold back the night
Time is relentless
And as the past disappears
We're on the verge of all things new
We are two thousand years! ;D

THE END

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[Roffleicious]

Uhhh... wow. Just to let you know, I'm the artist who made the picture of Pan by the water's edge...Guess you didn't care enough to ask and get permission to use it >->

[leafpool77]

There's no need to say it like that. It has nothing to do with "not caring enough." I'm sorry if you didn't want me to use it, but I just take pictures off google and generally I don't really think about artists. If you read my disclaimer it says I don't own any of it. If you want, I can ask permission now, and if you don't want me to use it I can just re-upload it. So: can I use it?

(It's a good picture, by the way.)

[Roffleicious]

Okay, sorry if I was a bit rude. I'm a little jaded by these sorts of things, I tend to assume the worst about people using uncredited art. I didn't even think about it showing up on Google! I just thought it was blatantly taken off some site I posted on. I don't mind you using it. I'm just protective of my work, even stuff from 5 years ago ^^

I did like the video, it was just a shock seeing that there, lol ^^

[leafpool77]

That's okay...thanks for letting me use it, by the way. :)

[penguinamica]

The Papers of Mary Malone? Is that a book about her? Please tell me,apart from the trilogy I only know about Lyra's Oxford ... great video!

[leafpool77]

The Papers of Mary Malone are kind of extras--some documents written "by her" that they put at the back of the 10th-anniversary edition of The Amber Spyglass. They did something like that for each of those editions--Lord Asriel for The Golden Compass and Dr. Grumman for The Subtle Knife. Unfortunately I don't have them; that's the only one I know. Hope that helped! And glad you liked the video! :D

[lyraandwillforever]

i love the books i can not stop reading them

[leafpool77]

Well, it's supposed to be part of the book cover, but I think of it as Will and Kirjava, yeah. :)