Lyrics to Logan's song "Forever"
Thanks to everyone who came to Logan's #BRIDGEparty today on Twitter, or who posted poems here on the blog. I can't express how it's made me feel that you took time out of your busy days and spent it with him/me/us.And thanks in advance if you decide to buy Enthralled: Paranormal Diversions, which is now on sale! (Follow that link for order options.)
Anyway, you came for the song. A VERY big thanks to my friend and fellow novelist Seanan McGuire, whose October Daye urban fantasy series I am always insisting you read. Seanan is also an amazing, award-winning singer/songwriter (go get Wicked Girls immediately after reading this post). She helped turn my lyrics into something that could actually be, you know, sung.
I'd also like to announce the next big Shade-related party, on October 18/19, aka Logan's birthday/deathday. It'll have a musical theme, because...
...if all goes well, "Forever" will be set to music and sung by an actual dude with a guitar. And you'll hear it then. A very special reader is working on that project right now.
So...
If you've read Shade, you know that Logan wrote a song to sing to Aura on the night of his birthday, the night of the big gig, the night they were supposed to consummate their love. The night he died.
Logan started writing "Forever" just the week before, on that afternoon when they...didn't. As you'll see from the first verse, he started writing in his head that very moment.
He never got to play the song for her, but he did sing it for her near the end of the book. It's the scene that, even after thirty-some readings of Shade, is the only one that always makes me cry. It's when Aura realizes what they lost when he died. They lost forever.
So here it is. We hope you like it.
“Forever”
by Logan Keeley
October 18, 20xx
Lying beside me in the failure of flesh,
You wait for the words that will let your mind rest,
But I’ve already left you—I’m inside this song,
I’m chasing the rhythms that split right from wrong,
Forming chords on your shoulder, tracing notes on your hips,
I can’t hear your thoughts as they fall from your lips, and
Every day I give away
A piece of me all torn and frayed—
What I can’t keep, I sell for cheap,
Til nothing’s left for you and me—
Chorus:
How can so much love feel like nothing at all?
How can so much nothing leave me dying to crawl
To the foot of your bed,
I should be with you—instead,
I walk away, stumbling, waiting, always waiting to fall.
When you look in my eyes, can you see I’m not there,
Just skin over bones and this flesh that I bear,
And there’s no room for you, and you know I can never
Get out of myself, get over myself,
For even one moment, much less for forever.
They all take their shares and they all think they see
This stranger inside who pretends to be me.
They’re a roomful of mirrors in this funhouse of fame,
I shrink and I grow, I am wild, I am tame,
But when I stand before you, I can pause, I can heal,
Because you make me matter—you make me real.
Every day they took away
A piece of me all torn and frayed—
What I couldn’t keep, I sold for cheap,
So now what’s left for you and me?
How can so much love feel like nothing at all?
How can so much nothing leave me dying to crawl
To the foot of your bed,
I should be with you—instead,
I walk away, stumbling, waiting, always waiting to fall.
So I close my eyes, fill my hands with your hair,
It’s your skin and your bones and your flesh that I bear,
If I could be part of you, if we could come together
I could find myself, I could lose myself,
Just for one moment, or maybe forever.
They always say that nothing lasts forever
Well, can this nothing last forever
Now?
When you look in my eyes, and this time I’m there,
More than skin over bones and this flesh that we bare,
When I’m getting worse, when you make me better,
We’ll find ourselves, we’ll lose ourselves,
We’ll take this one moment…and make it forever.
Labels: music, SHADE series, YA Crush Tourney
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Diana Julianna at 9/20/2011 12:04 AM
Thank you.
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Renee at 9/20/2011 3:19 AM
I love happy endings and I deeply hope Logan will have his.
Thanks for giving us this beautiful world. We definitely believe in love.
ThamyDuff
xx
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Ginger @ GReads! at 9/20/2011 7:29 AM
XOXO
Britney
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Lindsey at 9/20/2011 10:15 AM
Thank you SO MUCH for this and all the other goodies you give us. They mean so much to us!
<3 Jen
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Fictitious Delicious at 9/20/2011 7:49 PM
Gosh, this is a Logan day; first reading his story Bridge in Enthralled and now this. Wow! Thanks :)
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Selena at 9/22/2011 3:55 PM
That seems monumentally insignificant praise in the face of a such gorgeous lyrics, but alas... you've reduced me to a woman of few words.
Well... maybe I'm still a little wordy. :)
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Brittany Howard at 9/25/2011 1:53 AM
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ngozi at 9/25/2011 9:30 PM
ngozi, welcome to the blog! I'm so thrilled you love the SHADE books. I hope you like the way it all ends. :)
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Jeri at 9/26/2011 2:25 AM
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Amber I @ Awesomesauce at 9/27/2011 12:25 PM
This song needs to be done. Keep it real. Music is the universal language. Let's make a trend.
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Jeri at 2/12/2012 10:50 PM
I love this song, and I love you because you made Logan possible.
Thanks so much Jeri!!!<3
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