Today, I was challenged by my older brother to make a character bio based off of this song, but, because I'm so psyched to have my best friend back from college for the holidays, I came up with two sketches. BOOM. ;D Thus, here's my best attempt at song translation and correlating story crafting. Feel free to take either of the below ideas and run with them, mildly cliché and uncut as they are.
For now, you can stay.
Right here, we will play
until, somehow, you can find
a slightly different Frame of Mind.
Right here in my arms,
away from all harm,
you'll be safe from all the flares,
although I know you don't care.
You can lift your head up to the sky,
take a deeper breath, and give it time.
You can walk the path among the lines
with your shattered Frame of Mind.
Instead, you could always stay.
We can wait right here and play
until, somehow, you can find
a slightly better Frame of Mind.
When they say you will fall,
you can reach nothing at all.
Hide your tracks
beneath the rind
of a different Frame of Mind.
Is that what you heard?
Broken words in the dirt,
yelling out into the Sun,
"Here we come!
Here we come!"
You can lift your head up to the sky,
take a deeper breath, and give it time.
You can walk the path among the lines
with your shattered Frame of Mind.
I wish that you could always stay.
We can wait right here and play
until somehow you can find
a slightly better Frame of Mind.
You can lift your head up to the sky,
take a deeper breath, and give it time.
You can walk the path among the lines
with your shattered Frame of Mind.
Instead, you could always stay.
We can wait right here and play
until somehow you can find
a slightly better Frame of Mind
And when daylight comes through,
when the day is anew,
then it will be time
for a new Frame of Mind.
When all eyes are on you,
you will know what to do
since you will have found
your new Frame of Mind.
When you lift your head up to the sky,
take a deeper breath, and give it time.
You can walk the path among the lines,
but always know that you'll be safe.
I'll be here throughout your days.
Come find me and we will play.
~ ~ ~
MODERN DAY AMERICA SETTING
This is the theme of an aged father whose young, ambitious son was enlisted into the Air Force. During the holidays when the son comes back home - now feeble and indecisive - the father realizes that his son has post-traumatic-stress-disorder and can't often sleep for more than a few hours at a time, but the son brushes off each nightmare with a weak smile.
Still concerned, the father takes his son on several outings - from the park where they played football so many years ago to the local burger place where they often shared a milkshake - and tries to instill in his son a reason for fighting: to protect those that he loves, to preserve the memories, to create a better future for progeny.
By the time the son must be deployed again, he has a new Frame of Mind: of courage, patriotism, and overwhelming love for his family.
MEDIEVAL AGES SETTING
This is the theme of a brother pair whose parents were murdered by a villainous force. While the younger brother grieves, the older brother cultivates hatred until, when the mourning is over, he is restlessly preparing to take revenge. Soon, the younger brother finds out about his older brother's plans and attempts to stop him from taking such drastic action with such twisted motives.
"If you think murder will help you heal grief," the younger brother pleads, "you'll end up just like them."
However, the older brother is resolute, and, on the day of his departure, the younger brother sadly reminds his older brother - who he know he will lose just as he lost his parents - that safety will always be at home.
Write on!
Clove
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