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• Member: rose4emily
• Title: Flying Motionless Above The Waves
• Premiered: 2004-03-08
• Categories:
  • Action
  • Drama
  • Character Profile
  • Serious
  • Dance
• Song:
  • Pink Floyd Echoes
• Anime:
  • Cowboy Bebop
  • Princess Tutu
• Comments: Pink Floyd's "Echoes", from the album Meddle, is a 23-minute long song and sound painting that would be the one piece, if I had to select one piece, that best defines the nature of Pink Floyd and their sound. Combined with the beautiful dance and fencing scenes from Princess Tutu and the gunfight and memory-filled fall from the church where Spike confronted Vicious in Cowboy Bebop, "Echoes" develops a story that is sometimes hopeful, sometimes exciting, sometimes calming, sentimental, or forlorn. The whole thing is fairly abstract (though the video does work with the most of the lyrical passages at the points in the song in which they appear), and would probably appeal most to the same people that enjoyed the Wizard of Oz / Dark Side of the Moon sync or going to the ballet. That being said, this is a very beautiful piece, if not a source of side-splitting laughter, and something worth checking out sometime when you have 20-something minutes to spare.
  
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  The lyrics (for those of you - probably most of you - unfamiliar with the song):
  
  Overhead the albatross
  hangs motionless upon the air
  And deep beneath the rolling waves
  in labyrinths of coral caves
  The echo of a distant tide
  Comes willowing across the sand
  And everything is green and submarine.
  
  And no one showed us to the land
  And no one knows the wheres or whys
  But something stares and something tries
  And starts to climb towards the light
  
  Strangers passing in the street
  By chance two separate glances meet
  And I am you and what I see is me
  And do I take you by the hand
  And lead you through the land
  And help me understand the best I can
  
  And no one calls us to move on
  And no one forces down our eyes
  And no one speaks
  And no one tries
  And no one flies around the sun
  
  Cloudless everyday you fall
  Upon my waking eyes
  Inviting and inciting me to rise.
  And through the window in the wall
  Comes streaming in on sunlight wings
  A million bright ambassadors of mourning
  
  And no one sings me lullabies
  And no one makes me close my eyes
  And so I throw the windows wide
  And call to you across the skies.