Based On Coldplays Viva La Vida,srngdrgnandartemis100wrote Lyrics Based On Lucys Point Of View. All Vocals

Based on Coldplay’s Viva La Vida, srngdrgn and artemis100 wrote lyrics based on Lucy’s point of view. All vocals and backing track was done by me on Logic Pro X.

I had a lot of fun doing this. And I like how it turned out. I hope you like it!

Honestly I wish I could add this to Nalu week as a late contrubution but I dunno if this is Nalu enough hahaha..ha

Lyrics:

I used to save the world Spirits arrive when I gave the word Now in the morning I weep alone Cry myself to sleep ‘till dawn

[Short interlude]

 I still do love the world See the joy in my comrade’s eyes Listen as the crowd would sing “Now the mages are here!” “Praise to the guild!”

One minute I held my keys Next one hand was all I see And I discovered that my guild mates clash Upon rivers of blood and pillars of ash

I hear the fierce dragon crys a’ ringin’ dragon slayer roars will keep comin’ Be my partner, my friend and savior And all of our friends will never waver

For some reason I can’t explain  Once you lost it was faded My hope faded away And that was when I lost my world

[Interlude]

It was the zodiac spirit kin Opened the doors to let me in Shattered timelines and a strand of hope That they would believe where I came from

All my fallen guild mates wait For me, across the golden plains To go through troubles with them again Oh, why did Rogue destroy everything?

I hear the fierce dragon crys a’ ringin’ dragon-slayer roars will keep comin’ Be my partner, my friend and savior our guild mates they will never waver

For some reason I can’t explain  I knew Natsu would call my name Never to worry again And that was when I left that world

[Interlude]

Oooh oh ooooh oh oooooooh oh. Oooh oh ooooh oh oooooooh oh. Oooh oh ooooh oh oooooooh oh. Oooh oh ooooh oh oooooooh oh.

Oooh oh ooooh oh Hear Celestial voices singin’ Fairy Tail mages have been beaten Be their savior, their sword and shield To save them, I will never yield

For some reason I can’t explain I know my friends would call my name Even if odds are thin For their sakes I won’t give in

i told you i’d do art for it…anyway Natsu’s major flaw in this AU is that he thinks he has to shoulder everything himself, refusing to rely on others due to his father abandoning him. Lucy is trying to break this false-belief but he doesn’t seem to get it (yet)

dragon Natsu (basically Igneel) referenced from this because dragons are hard to draw

decades, huh

doesnt feel like that long

Yes. YESS.

THIS WILL BE SUCH A LONG MARATHON AND I AM SO READY

No, Mustang. No it does not. Come on, I know you’re beyond angry right now but you’re still in control enough to think out a coherent sentence. And also make an otherwise true (but obvious) point. Namely that ‘Envy’ refers to - shock! - enviousness! 

[He says this in the English dub version too by the way.]

Here’s a breakdown. This is the definition of jealousy.

We can clearly see jealousy is a state of post-enviousness. You’re not deprived of anything, there’s nothing that you lack per se, but you have a steadily consuming fear that you might be soon. Unfortunately, even the official definition confuses by throwing ‘envy’ into the explanation. Jealousy is suspiciousness, it’s fear, but you don’t desire anything. You’re afraid of losing something.

Here’s where things get even uglier. Jealousy can descend into a state of envy, or envy can be immediate, depending on the situation. Envy is the all-consuming rage and hatred of another for having something you lack. It is the desire to either take back by any means necessary what one believes to have been deprived of or taken from them, or make sure the other person/people do not have it.

That is what envy is. Mustang clearly did not do his research when he first heard the names of these creatures named after the infamous seven deadly sins that he certainly would have heard of before, and that he would get to know very well by the time he’d be finished with them. 

And then he spouts this gem. Honestly, the statement isn’t even needed at all. “Envy really is ugly" or something similar would suffice. But oh well, it’s fine as it is - except the glaring error that I can never reconcile with. 

Envy was never afraid of losing anything (aside from in this scene - its life, of course) to anybody. Even in this scene the word makes no sense because here Envy is merely afraid. Mustang is referring to its very nature, explaining the essence of its being, and botching it. Envy was never afraid of losing anything to anyone because it never had anything in the first place. The only thing that it ever had was its life, but its life only brought it pain and misery, and eventually it became such that even that meant nothing anymore, and Envy took that last thing away from itself. 

Envy refers to enviousness - the rage and the loathing of everything, everyone and itself for lacking what it desired but could not gain. The word might not roll off the tongue as easily as jealousy (perhaps one reason why it’s used in place of the correct term), but at least it’s bloody accurate. 

At least he was right about both being damn ugly.

/Mun out.

PS: Gah I’d love for somebody to do a parody dub and at the moment Mustang snarls “Envy means jealousy - that’s what your name means, right?” [Dub version], have Envy go “No it doesn’t you fucking idiot, what shit-ass college spat you out of [shoe crush] — FUCK!”