Come on, baby, wake up

[serai]

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Digging on World In Motion today, I came across this song I haven't heard in years.

For some reason, it makes me think of princessofg's AF Sean/Elijah.


Chasing You Into The Light
Jackson Browne


Lying next to you in the dark
Listening to your pounding heart
The sheets are tangled around your waist
I watch the dream moving on your face
I feel you shake, hear you cry
Running in the dark, trying to open your eyes
Come on, baby, wake up

I've followed you across the days and years
Been there for the thrills and the tears
Chasing you from state to state
Waking, dreaming, I try to relate
Why should I be somebody you fear
When you're asleep and I'm so near?
Don't even know why I'm in your dreams
I got control over none of these things
Morning comes, hard and bright
And I'm exhausted from running after you all night
Chasing you into the light

Yeah I keep reaching for you baby
As if I could reach you when you dream at night
But I never can quite

I ain't lying here awake by myself
Baby, wake up
There's something I got to talk to you about
Now baby, wake up
I love you yeah, tell the world I do
There's nothing I wouldn't do for you
I want to rescue you like you rescued me
From a life of doubt and uncertainty
That's why I'm chasing you
Chasing you into the light

Go for a walk on the pier with me baby
Now as the dawn comes over the night
Watching the stars in the sky disappear maybe
You'll find a way to let go of your fright
The sea is deep, the world is wide
Ships are leaving for the other side
This whole city will be waking soon
And in the east
Clouds are strung out behind the moon
Chasing her into the light

I ain't lying here awake by myself
Baby, wake up
There's something I got to talk to you about
Now baby, wake up
Wake up, wake up
Wake up, wake up

Wake up

Comments

[serai1.livejournal.com]

*grin* I love that album. Jackson's songs are woven through so many of my teen/tween memories that when I got to see him play in Santa Cruz, just about everything he sang was connected to some moment in my life I could recall with absolute clarity. Just love him.

I'm glad you think it's appropriate. The whole theme of reaching for someone you can never quite catch really seems to sum up Sean's position in your story.

Have I told you how much I love that story, by the way? Okay, I'll tell you now. I. LOVE. THAT. STORY. The only thing about the ending that irked me was that IT ENDED. Like, we didn't get to hang around these two unbearably sexy boys playing ball and fucking and angsting for the next ten years. Because I totally would have been happy to do so. Fuck QF - AF should be a TV series. Sincerely.

Oh, and my icon wants to fuck your icon. Real bad. Right now.

[serai1.livejournal.com]

Well, hon, you should definitely pull together a brief encapsulation of the story to pitch as a TV series. What with the relative looseness we've seen in the last few years on the tube in regards to gayness, etc., I think it would have a solid chance. MTV, HBO, Showtime, are all possible markets. And isn't there a channel starting up specifically for gay-themed TV? It's such a great story, and touches on really interesting topics. It would be awesome to see it on the screen!