3:04pm May 18, 2015

This one won’t embed, so I’m sending it as a link, and lyrics.

https://youtu.be/xEqXhnfW_hY

@feliscorvus

Not everything Planet P Project does is strictly science fiction.  This one is personal, I’m sure, taken from the singer’s own experience with cancer.  It hits home in all the right places for anyone who’s gone through a long illness where the outcome of life or death is up in the air.  It also reminds me of my relationship with Anne (especially as it plays out in medical crises) – although Tony Carey is clearly making it a romantic relationship, my relationship with Anne is no less intense or loving for being platonic, and everything he says in the song applies to us.  And I imagine something similar went on and is continuing to go on between my parents as they deal with life-threatening illnesses.  (Just because my dad’s dead doesn’t mean he’s lost any connection with my mother but the physical one, and that’s almost the least important part of a relationship like theirs.)

So it won’t embed, so you have to go watch the song on YouTube.  But I’ll post the lyrics here, again from memory:

When I was just lyin’ there
Poison in my blood runnin’ everywhere
I could feel you
I could feel you

I didn’t see the lightning
Didn’t hear the thunder
Three little words
And the rug pulled under me
But I feel you
I stillI feel you

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I could see you
So I’m alive

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I will be with you
Until we die

Now all I’m missing is a little bit of hair
But other than that baby I’m all there
And I’m there for you
I’m there for you

Lookin’ out the window at a hundred rainy days
All I can say is I was never afraid
Cause you were there for me
You were there for me

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I can see you
So I’m alive

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I will be with you
Until we die

And if the same thing happened to one of you
I’d be out of my mind, I’d probably be wasted too
I don’t know if I could be as strong as you
Through the long blue
Till the light shone through
Hallelujah

I will be with you
I will be with you till we die
I will be with you
With you till we die

Hallelujah
Hallelujah
I can see you
Baby I’m alive

Hallelujah
Hey, I can see you
So I’m alive

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