Thanks for clearing up some of lines, Ulquiorra.
You have several other mistakes like that in your lyrics, please listen more carefully, I'll post the lyrics of the second half I came up with earlier,
I didn't say they were accurate. My last line before the song, where I asked for input explains that. This was an exercise in fun and love done for a friend. I know it is hard to 'read' tone in simple words on a screen, so I may have caught yours wrong, but I think 5+ hours with my head shoved into a pair of studio phones listening very intently was long enough. Thanks though. And since they are simply the words that "I came up with" and yours are simply the words that "You came up with" neither is engraved in stone, but together...we might even have a song.
Until the band releases a libretto, we is stuck.
I used 'stream of memories' both because sometimes Toshi eats his vowels and because it makes as much, if not more sense than 'scheme'. Hell, in one version it sounds like he's saying 'sea', in another 'seam' of memories, so I went with what made sense to me. Hell, at first I thought he was saying 'Your SKIES are beautiful'. And for all I know, he IS. I didn't write it, and for all the love I hold for Toshi, his English accent is abysmal.
I stayed with 'stream' in keeping with the water theme Yoshiki has followed through the lyrics in the song, and I also used 'star' instead of 'glow' because I heard it
distinctly albeit in only one of the 12 or so recordings I listened to, and it is in keeping with the theme of 'faith' and the 'heavens'. I also hear 'your
glow was beautiful on occasion, as well as 'star. It depends on the night he performed it I did mention that in my post.
Toshi seems to have been learning the lyrics on the fly and changed them slightly one night to the next
If I had had friends over I would have been saying: "WHAT did he say there? Here, you listen." And I would have plopped the phones on their head. My ears got tired.
I have not yet heard 'thirst, but you're right, it does make more sense than face and could well be the word. I also very much like 'cold like the stars in the sky, blood in the ocean and they make sense since some of hide's ashes were cast at sea of the Santa Monica pier. Uhm, but what does "Cause away you'll bleed" mean though? (of course a good debater would jump in here and say: But if his ashes were cast at sea, maybe it is 'lost' in the ocean. LOL. Bites anyone?)
Believe me, I am not interested in being the 'one true authority' on the matter. I simply wanted to actually figure out what he was saying for me and my friends because the lyrics posted on the interweb? Were outright ridiculous in some places. English being my mother tongue, (and coughoneIspeakexceedinglywellcough lalalala), none of the versions I'd read made a lick of sense. Yoshiki's English isn't Engrish; that of the 'decipherers' seemed to be, so I set out on a simple journey. For all I know not a single word of my version is correct, but I had fun.