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Um...

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BIG TL;DR
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I CAUGHT FIRE
Or: Axel and Roxas by The Used

0. prelude: wake the dead
[Nobodies: “you don’t feel a thing—you can’t have feelings. Do you want meaning?”]
This is not possible
An empty hole in your chest where your heart used to beat
Does this mean what I think it means?
Just how could both you and me be about as dead as we could be
Yeah with no heartbeat

1. intro: on my own
[Roxas]
The top of the world
Sitting here wishing
The things I've become
That something is missing
Maybe I...
But what do I know

2. i caught fire
[Axel and Roxas: ‘Do you know why the sunset is red?’]
And I'm melting in your eyes
Like my first time that I caught fire
Just stay with me, lay with me now

3. blood on my hands
[Axel: ‘“What about Marluxia and the others?” Roxas asked, turning around, and Axel frowned, lowering his eyes slightly. “Didn’t they come back with you?”’]
There’s blood on my hands like the blood in you
Some things can’t be treated, so
Don’t let me, don’t let me be myself around you

4. lunacy fringe
[Axel and Roxas]
And will your love keep burning baby
Burn a hole right through my eyes
All these short times feel like no time
I thought you ought to know

5. with me tonight
[Axel: ‘”lease just trust me, Roxas.” “No. I can’t trust you anymore.”’]
Just let me make some time to take it back a little
The way you smile shines the heavens above me
Never going to let you go, I want you all the time
I gotta prove you can trust me

6. the taste of ink
[Roxas: ‘I... I want to know about myself. There's no reason for me to be here anymore.’]
Couldn't take this town much longer
Being half dead wasn't what I planned to be
Now I'm ready to be free

7. watered down
[Roxas: ‘No one would miss me.’]
In my eyes, close and jaded,
It's no surprise the lights have faded
I'll always walk away
You'll always hear me say I don't need this

Nothing that I can hold on to with my broken hands
I'm not thinking I should anyway
So I leave all in nothing
Don't care what you say
'Cause it makes no difference if I throw it away

8. all that i've got
[Axel: ‘Axel stood on the castle balcony looking up at the moon, frowning slightly.’]
I'll be just fine, pretending I'm not
I'm far from lonely and it's all that I've got

9. paralyzed
[Axel: ‘I’m so FLATTERED!’]
Before I could ever let you go, gonna beg until I drive you mad
Say something you could understand
I'm a statue baby, knock me out

10. light with a sharpened edge
[Roxas: ‘Looks like my summer holiday is… over…’]
It’s not me
Buried wreckage my soul
It’s not me, so who am I now?

11. maybe memories
[Axel: ‘I was told I'd be destroyed if I disobeyed this command, and I failed it.’]
You showed me how
You seemed to find a hole
But I just laughed and smiled
Begged and rolled my eyes
Even cried and denied the truth to you
Just like the truth to me
Mostly lied

12. sold my soul
[Axel: ‘We both miss someone we care about.’]
I think of the worm that I’ve become
Left blind from the brightness of your halo
No one shines like you do
My filthy mouth and broken words
This small disease that leaves me crawling
Crawling to you
13. let it bleed
[Axel: ‘Nah… I can handle these punks. Watch this!’]
Let it bleed
Take the red for what it's worth woah
Watch the fire
Fill your lungs with smoke for the last time
If you feel like dying you might wanna sing!
14. outro: sun comes up
[Axel: ‘I wanted to see Roxas. He...was the only one I liked... He made me feel... like I had a heart. It's kind of...funny... You make me feel...the same...’]
Maybe I have said too much
Or really haven't said enough
All these words they come undone
I'm getting lost in the meaning

EXTRA NOTES:
[0] this is just for fun X3 Our boys (and girl) are all quite dead, after all. Or is the point that they’re not… and lines like ‘across the sky, they can hear you on the other side’ are symbolic…
[1] Roxas, sitting on the clock tower, looking down at the normal people. Newly nobody, head full of nothing.
[2] Axel. Seemed to stop my breath//my head on your chest waiting to cave in//from the bottom of my//hear your voice again//could we dim the sun and wonder where we've been//maybe you and me//so kiss me like you did/my heart stopped beating//such a softer sin. Roxas. Never caught my breath//every second I'm without you I'm a mess//ever know each other//trust these words are stones//why cuts aren't healing//learning how to love.
But it could go any way ♥
[3] Axxxel XD
You felt the coldness in my eyes, and something I'm not revealing. Though you got used to my disguise, you can't shed this awful feeling.//It's the me that I let you know, 'cause I never show - I have my reasons. I hate to say that I told you so, but I told you so, yeah!//There's blood on my hands like the blood in you. Some things can't be treated so don't make me, don't make me be myself around you.//Straight from your eyes, it's burying me, beautifully. So disfigured, this other side that you can't see. Just praying you won't remember.//Feel the pain that I never show, and I hope you know it's never healing. I hate to say that I told you so, but I told you so, yeah!
[4] This was my first akuroku song ever. Listening to it on repeat while translating Axel—Seven Days cemented its associations in my mind XD
[5] I love this song, musically as well and lyrically. I love songs that mix brass and electric, I love bass.
[6] The taste of ink = darkness…
[7] Nothing that I can hold on to with my broken hands, I'm not thinking that I should anyway. So I leave holding nothing, don't care what you say, cause it makes no difference if I throw it away. Yeah, it makes no difference if I throw it away//Now, my days, are feeling numbered, the sad cliché. I'm hiding under this spider web of dreams, I'm stuck here as it seems to be breaking//Shining brighter than you burn. Something that I would never learn…
[8] This song is Axel in Axel—Seven Days. Kind of dazed, can’t figure out what he’s faking and what he’s feeling.
[9] I’m a statue baby, knock me out: frozen Axel outside the usual spot XD Not to mention, this song starts with a BUUUURN!!! ♥ How can a fistfight be romantic? ♥♥
[10] Everyone has a definitive Roxas track…
Over and over again//Light with a sharpened edge//Cut through the black empty space we call sky//Beginning the cycle that stays//And I know in my heart we all die//Like the day and the night//Like the sun in the sky//All this I'm giving up//It's not me//Buried wreckage my soul//It's not me, so who am I now?//Is there another side?//Beyond the black and the white//Place I could meet you by//A place on the other side//I'll let you know when I go//When I'm gone
And Roxas is gone.
[11] Axel leaves the Organisation.
[12] Running from Saïx, kidnapping Kairi, missing Roxas…
[13] Burning… (angry, a little crazy)
[14] …Fading.
Even in a place where sunlight cannot penetrate, and it's unknown whether time even flows, there is morning.
Waking up in bed, Axel stared blankly at the ceiling.
Today I have a mission to bring Roxas back.
Failure won't be forgiven.
If I was asked whether I'm confident I’ll succeed... I wouldn't really know.
That day, exactly seven days ago, Roxas went to seriously pull out of the organisation, and I couldn't stop him, or even fight. Why, I wonder.
I couldn't stop Roxas.
I couldn't stop Roxas as he went to betray the organisation.
"I'm... lonely, aren't I...” muttered Axel, in a small voice.

And it all falls down at once
And I try to get some sleep
And the comforts of this bed
Have all been shattered to pieces
Axel: Get goin'!
Sora: Why?
Axel: Don't ask. Just do it!
The sun comes up
And now you have a chance again
The world falls down
We all forget where to begin
The world collapses
You hold it in…
Sora: You're...fading away...
Axel: Well, that's what happens when you put your whole being into an attack.
You know what I mean? Not that Nobodies actually HAVE beings...right? Anyway, I digress. Go, find Kairi. Oh, almost forgot... Sorry for what I did to her.
Sora: When we find her, you can tell her that yourself.
Axel: Think I'll pass. My heart just wouldn't be in it, you know? Haven't got one.


Maybe I have said too much
Or really haven't said enough
All these words they come undone
I'm getting lost in the meaning
Sora: Axel, what were you trying to do?
Axel: I wanted to see Roxas. He...was the only one I liked... He made me feel...like I had a heart. It's kind of...funny... You make me feel...the same... Kairi's in the castle dungeon. Now go.

All you've lost...
Leave yourself you drift away in your eyes
Open up as you catch me
Caught before I hit the ground
I'm dying for you only