Written Whispers

I found a new song to write too! *runs in circles and dances*

I don’t really enjoy watching videos on YouTube but I do like to use it as a way to listen to whatever music fits my mood- especially when I can’t afford said music half the time.

Even better is all the random music I can find that I’ve never heard before and might not have gotten a chance to listen to else wise. Now and then I get really lucky and find a true gem among the randomness that matches my writing mood perfectly.

A couple of weeks ago I found this really great gem, a song by SuperChick. Now, I’ve never knowingly listened or even heard of her/them until now but I found this awesome song called Hero. I despise the remix in more ways than one and it took me a good long while to find a nice version of the original but since I did I haven’t stopped listening to it.

Not only do I love this song because of the wonderfully inspirational lyrics and the awesome message behind them but it can also relate to my two main characters so well that it just makes me want to grin. Though there is some sadness in parts of the song the whole thing is upbeat and hopeful with a bright outlook lying underneath the serious overtones. This too makes me think of my overall storyline from one end to the other.

Even better, though I’m sure it won’t make sense to anyone but me, this song makes me wonder ‘what if’ certain things didn’t happen in my story. What if so and so didn’t reach out to so and so and stuff like that. What other paths might the characters have taken. There are choices I wouldn’t have personally made but knowing my characters… *shrugs* …who knows.

Warning: Extremely mild spoilers for a future story of mine.

Hero lyrics:

No one sits with him, he doesn’t fit in
But we feel like we do when we make fun of him

[Emily at the beginning] This first part reminds me of my more introverted character, Emily, who at this point in my mind (the very beginning) is hiding in the school library. She’s a quiet creature by nature and likes not to be seen. Today though she is finding that hard to do because of the huge bruise across the side of her face.

Cause you want to belong, do you go along?
Cause his pain is the price paid for you to belong

[Emily] She tries to cover the bruise with makeup but because she’s never had a mother, a sister, or a friend to show her how her attempts seem laughable at best. Those that notice scorn her and no one helps her one way or another.

It’s not like you hate him or want him to die
But maybe he goes home and thinks suicide
Or he comes back to school with a gun at his side

[Hope at the beginning] Hope, who isn’t really known as the schools kindest nor best behaved teen comes walking through and sees Emily. Her father used to hit her too until she had enough of it one day and hit him back. Since then her life hasn’t been that great. She’s rough, tough, loud, and a little scary on a good day.

And a kindness from you might have saved his life
Heroes are made when you make a choice

[Hope] When she sees her she has to pause for a moment and think. Helping others isn’t really her style, she tends to cause more havoc than she diverts, but she’s been there before and a part of her doesn’t want to see it happen to someone else. It’s then that she makes a choice. She steps forward and befriends Emily who’s far from the kind of person she usually hangs out with, helping her to hide the bruise on her cheek so she doesn’t get sent away to a foster home. It’s all she can do but it’s enough.

[The Chorus:]
You could be a hero – heroes do what’s right
You could be a hero – you might save a life
You could be a hero- you could join the fight
For what’s right, for what’s right, for what’s right

Yup, that’s the chorus. I wanted to include all the lyrics because it seems only right but I really don’t have anything specific to say about them.

No one talks to her, she feels so alone
She’s in too much pain to survive on her own

[Emily before personal change] She doesn’t feel she can trust anyone, not even Hope. She’s been betrayed too many times but it’s getting harder. Things are getting worse and she can no longer handle it on her own. She really needs a friend.

The hurt she can’t handle overflows to a knife
She writes on her arm and wants to give up her life

[Hope before personal change] She’s tired of being a part of this world. She wants badly to go to Other World before her magick kills her in this one while she waits for a person who can step across the realms and has equal power to her own. Because she’s trapped in this world unable to use her magick she’s a bit suicidal to the point of putting herself in dangerous situations.

Each day she goes on is a day that she’s brave
Fighting the lie that giving up is the way

[Emily after after personal change] She wants to stop escaping and slowly but surely she starts standing up for herself, and even Hope now and then, in school and eventually at home. She’s tired of running away when she knows she deserves to be happy.

Each moment of courage her own life she saves
When she throws the pills out a hero is made
Heroes are made when you make a choice

[Hope after after personal change] Yeah, she doesn’t really want to be alive, at least not in this world, but now she has to stick around to take care of Emily. She’d be reluctant to admit that she’s saving herself in the process and she’s not much more careful but she isn’t entirely intent on giving up anymore either.

[Chorus]

No one talks to him about how he lives
He thinks that the choices he makes are just his

[Hope in general] This last part reminds me of Hope’s viewpoint throughout much of the story. She’s a rebel. She lives for herself and doesn’t often care who’s affected by her choices. Her only thoughts are doing whatever it takes to get to Other World even if she has to hurt others to get there and if she can’t have that much then she doesn’t want to live only to waste away in this world.

Doesn’t know he’s the leader with the way he behaves
And others will follow the choices he’s made

[Emily in general] She never quite realizes it throughout the story but Emily really has a lot of great qualities as a leader. She looks up to Hope and starts to take after her in many ways, this is what brings this side out in her as she is led into Other World.

He lives on the edge, he’s old enough to decide
His brother who wants to be him is just nine

[Both] Hope is making a lot of bad choices in life and she’s been putting herself in danger for some time now but maybe the next choice she makes will put Emily in danger too especially since the girl has started to take on some of her behaviors.

He can do what he wants because it’s his right
The choices he makes change a nine-year-old’s life

[Both at the climax] Even though she knows it could put Emily in danger Hope goes ahead and makes this one very important choice and uses her anyway. She doesn’t do it to be mean or nasty, but because she honestly believes it’s what she has to do and she’s never been in the practic
e of caring how others are affected by her actions. The choice does change Emily’s life and determines the outcome for book two but will it be for better or worse? I guess you’ll just have to wait and see. Or you can just ask me, I love answering questions. ;)

[Double Chorus]

I know it might not make a lot of sense but I didn’t really want to give too much of my story line away. Call it my normal paranoia if you will. Anyways, just thought I’d share. You know the saying; sharing is caring.

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