Spirit

First of all, thank you again to Sue for the 'This is Otakudom' tape--finally got to watch it last night, and it gave Anj and I some good laughs. Very cool. :) But I also really liked the few music videos tacked onto the end--firstly because it was rather neat seeing AMVs done before computer editing really took off. Just a fan and a couple VCRs, still able to turn out some neat stuff. But also there was one, that while I've never seen the anime, was rather...timely, fitting, appropriate, I guess you could call it. The one for Wings of Honneamaise (sp?) to Chris Deburgh's 'Spirit of Man'--it very much hit me, and was really meaningful for much of what has been going on of late, especially this weekend. *hugs Sue extra-tight* Thanks, hon.


The Spirit of Man
Into the Light
(Chris DeBurgh)

I'm chasing a shadow, I can't see a thing,
It's dipping and diving like a bird on the wing,
And every time I get near it just seems to slip away;

There's a fighter inside who will never give up,
We are what we are and it's never enough,
Write the words in the sand that this man will come again;

You may run from the sea, and the words disappear,
Oh you may fall to your knees,
But the power is here, to survive;

It's shining again,
It's shining again--the spirit of man,
It's shining again--the spirit of man;

Ah remember the first day of man on the moon,
The whole world was watching, a whole world in tune,
It was hard to believe he was the same as me and you;

Oh, look back to the future and look down the years,
It wasn't all battles and bad news and tears,
We have brought to this place a desire to have a dream;

We may reach for the stars, and fall from the sky,
Oh, in the darkest hour the spirit of man comes to life;

It's shining again--the spirit of man,
It's shining again--the spirit of man,
It's shining again--the spirit of man;

And we work--aha--for the good things that we can have,
Yeah we work--aha--for the family and home,
Yeah we work--aha--for the D-Mark and the dollar,
Yeah we work--aha--for the woman on the phone,
Yeah we work--aha--for that moment of elation,
Yeah we work--aha--for a chance to get away,
And we work--aha--just to let imagination,
Come inside and take me away;

We may reach for the stars, and fall from the sky,
Ooh, in the darkest hour the spirit of man comes to life;

It's shining again--the spirit of man,
It's shining again--the spirit of man,
It's shining again--the spirit of man.


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