Inspiration of Melpomene...

"Ghost" - by the Indigo Girls
(This is special for me as it first lead me to the theory of Juri's love for Shiori I present in this page.)

There's a letter on the desktop
That I dug out of a drawer
The last truce we ever came to
In our adolescent war

And I start to feel a fever
From the warm air through the screen
You come regular like seasons
Shadowing my dreams

Well the Mississippi's mighty
But it starts in Minnesota
At a place where you can walk across
With five steps down
And I guess that's how you started
Like a pinprick to my heart
But at this point you rush right through me
And I start to drown

And there's not enough room in this world for my pain
Signals cross
And love gets lost
And time passed makes it plain
Of all my demon spirits
I need you the most

I'm in love with your ghost
I'm in love with your ghost

Dark and dangerous like a secret (Don't tell a soul)
That's whispered in a hush
When I wake the things I dreamt about you (Don't tell a soul)
Last night make me blush
When you kiss me like a lover
Then you sting me like a viper
I go follow to the river
Play your memory like the piper

And I feel it like a sickness
How this love is killing me
But I'd walk into the fingers of your fire willingly
And dance the edge of sanity
I've never been this close
In love with your ghost
In love with your ghost

Unknowing captor
You'll never know how much you
Pierce my spirit
But I can't touch you
Can you hear it -
A cry to be free
Or I'm forever under lock and key
As you pass through me

Now I see your face before me
I would launch a thousand ships
To bring your heart back to my island
As the sand beneath me slips

As I burn up in your presence
I know now how it feels
To be weakened like Achilles
With you always at my heels

And my bitter pill to swallow
Is the silence that I keep
It poisons me, I can't swim free
The river is too deep
Though I'm baptized by your touch
I am no worse than most
In love with your ghost
You are....shadowing my dreams
(in love with your ghost)

(Submitted by: utterly kaoru miki  and the offical lyrics corrected by Ayu  He feels this is perfect for Ruka and Juri)

And you don't seem to understand
A shame you seemed an honest man
And all the fears you hold so dear
Will turn to whisper in your ear
And you know what they say might hurt you
And you know that it means so much
And you don't even feel a thing

I am falling, I am fading,
I have lost it all

And you don't seem the lying kind
A shame that I can read your mind
And all the things that I read there
Candle-lit smile that we both share
And you know I don't mean to hurt you
But you know that it means so much
And you don't even feel a thing

I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning,
Help me to breathe
I am hurting, I have lost it all
I am losing
Help me to breathe

I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning,
Help me to breathe
I am hurting, I have lost it all
I am losing,
Help me to breathe... ho

I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning,
Help me to breathe
I am hurting, I have lost it all
I am losing,
Help me to breathe

"Reverie" - by Lacuna Coil
(Submitted by Ayu:  Juri's thoughs on Shiori)

I have you here in my dreams at night
you were holding my hands
then I awake and you're not mine
now it's time to rise

I want you to turn cold ice in my soul
got to freeze this yearning inside

When you're inflicted by
the passion of love
desire and yearning the
deeper they burn
you were...
now it's too late
you were...

Now you're gone
it's too late
I was wrong
it's my fate

I have you here in my dreams at night
you were holding my hands
then I awake and you're not mine
now it's time to rise

I want you to turn cold ice in my soul
got to freeze this yearning inside

When you're inflicted by
the passion of love
desire and yearning the
deeper they burn
you were...
now it's too late
you were...

Now you're gone
it's too late
I was wrong
it's my fate

"I think of you and I see me
  I'm the one I thought I'd never be
  I feel dirty - no purity
  desire and yearning in your heart
  no mercy for you
  no mercy for me."

When you're inflicted by
the passion of love
desire and yearning the
deeper they burn
you were...
now it's too late
you were...

Now you're gone
it's too late
I was wrong
it's my fate......

 Veins of Glass -  by Lacuna Coil
(Submitted by: Ayu It reminds her of Ruka, something he might say to Juri)

 These ghosts I keep inside
 shards of glass in my veins
 release me from myself, release
 from my duality

 I face these as a soldier would
 but useless is my war
 the innocence that smiles today
 tomorrow will be lying

 Who is that really dies when all the people look at me ?
 And I’m twisting my fingers in my hair
 while a mirror reflects me

 Now I’m digging to the bone
 all the painting
 scratching at flesh, drives me mad
 to be alive and free

 And the ghosts I keep inside myself
 how do they see me ?
 while again I’m drawing
 with my soul
 will you save me ?
 

 "Mess" by Ben Folds Five
(Submitted by: Steph She just feels that this song is perfect for Juri; she can picture the scenes that go with the words.)

There was a time
when I had nothing to explain
oh this mess I have made
but then things got complicated
my innocence has all but faded
oh, this mess I have made

And I don't believe in god
so I can't be saved
all alone as I've learned to be
in this mess I have made.

all the untested virtue
the things i said i'd never do
least of all to you
i know he's kind and true
i know that he is good to you
he'll never care for you more than i do

but i don't believe in love
and i can't be changed
all alone as i've learned to be
in this mess
i have made the same mistakes
over and over again

there are rooms in this house that i don't open anymore
dusty books of pictures on the floor
that she will never see
she'll never see that part of me
i want to be for her
what i could never be for you

but i don't believe in god
so i can't be saved
all alone as i've learned to be
in this mess i have made

"She Loves A Girl" by Ellis Paul
(Submitted by: Amoraq She feels this is a great Juri/Ruka song.)

You grew up thinking you knew her
Nothing could keep you apart
You remember nothing peculiar
She always spoke from the heart

You took your parents' religion
And you drank it down like a coke
It helped to quench your confusion
Now look whose heart that it broke

/chorus/
She loves a girl
She loves a girl
She loves a girl
What are you gonna do
If you love her too?

A gold and white invitation
Your parents will not attend
They put a knife to the blood line
When the couple became more than friends

The preacher sang "Hallelujah"
But it rang more like a curse
One love at the cost of another
Man, that's when love really hurts

/chorus/

So take a seat
In the world of the opened minded
And when you speak, tell them
Even love can be blinded

You think more of the future
When change brings your past to an end
Use your love like a suture
That's a good place to begin

/chorus/

"Shadow Boxer" by Fiona Apple
(Submitted by: Kara She feels this song could have been written for Shiori and Juri.)

Once my lover, now my friend
What a cruel thing to pretend
What a cunning way to condescend
Once my lover, now my friend
Oh, you creep up like the clouds
And you set my soul at ease
Then you let your love abound
And you bring me to my knees

Oh it's evil, babe, the way you let your
grace enrapture me
When well you know, I'd be insane-
to ever let that dirty game recapture me

You made me a shadowboxer, baby
I wanna be ready for what you do
And I've been swinging around me
Cause I don't know when you're gonna make your move

Oh your gaze is dangerous
And you fill your space so sweet
If I let you get too close
You'll set your spell on me
So darlin' I just wanna say
Just in case I don't come through
I was onto every play
I just wanted you

But oh, it's so evil my love, the way you've
no reverence for my concern
So I'll be sure to stay wary of you, love,
To save the pain of
Once my flame and twice my burn

You made me a shadowboxer baby
I wanna be ready for what you do
I been swinging around me
Cause I don't know when you're
gonna make your move

To Muse
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