stolen colours

Thanks, everyone.

Youtube vid under the cut. Please don’t tell me it screws up the layout, argh.

So Qiong told me to watch this as well as a hundred other videos that she found on youtube because she has obviously completed her homework:

This by Stars, a Canadian indie band. I love this MTV; especially the bits where they’re lying on the ice playing their instruments, and the opening waltz. I’ve always wanted to whirl like a figure-skater, with just one leg in contact with the ice; almost the closest I could ever get to flying.

Lyrics:

“Your Ex-Lover Is Dead” by Stars

God that was strange to see you again
Introduced by a friend of a friend
Smiled and said ‘yes I think we’ve met before’
In that instant it started to pour,
Captured a taxi despite all the rain
We drove in silence across Pont Champlain
And all of the time you thought I was sad
I was trying to remember your name…

This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin
Tried to reach deep but you couldn’t get in
Now you’re outside me
You see all the beauty
Repent all your sin

It’s nothing but time and a face that you lose
I chose to feel it and you couldn’t choose
I’ll write you a postcard
I’ll send you the news
From a house down the road from real love…

Live through this, and you won’t look back…
Live through this, and you won’t look back…
Live through this, and you won’t look back…

There’s one thing I want to say, so I’ll be brave
You were what I wanted
I gave what I gave
I’m not sorry I met you
I’m not sorry it’s over
I’m not sorry there’s nothing to save

I’m not sorry there’s nothing to save…