The lyrics are from Missing by 'Everything But The Girl'.
Well, let me know what you think...if anything...
Little Windlily
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I step off the train,
(We see Ukyou in her mid-twenties, hair short and in a man's cut,
dressed in an expensive and well tailored men's suit. She stands for a
moment before the stairs that lead up to the street, frowning, as the
swirl of people part and flow around her. She turns to go back to the
train, takes a few steps then sighs and turns once more and slowly
climbs the stairway and walks out into the bright afternoon.)
I'm walking down your street again,
(We see her walking through Nerima. Many of the buildings are in ruins
but an equal number have been rebuilt. She stops in front of her old
shop which is now a bookstore and stares at her refection in the window,
sees an image of her much younger self standing and smiling and cooking
at the now non-existent grill. A little boy comes to the inner side of
the window and looks up at her, then presses his face against it,
squashing it all out of shape. She smiles, reaches out and thunks the
widow over the little boys forehead with a flick of her finger and makes
him jump back. He sticks out his tongue at her and runs back into the
depths of the store as she shakes her head and turns to walk up the
street once more.)
And past your door,
(She pauses in front of the big old-fashioned gates of the Tendo dojo.
One survives untouched but the other is kept just barely upright by a
bottom hinge and hangs slightly ajar, one heavy corner resting on the
cement. She turns and wiggles through the narrow space.)
But you don't live there anymore.
(The grounds are neglected and overgrown. She brushes abstentmindedly at
the dirty streak on the front of her suit as she looks at the burned out
ruin of the house. The dojo beyond it is cracked in half like an egg and
sagging towards the ground in the middle. She can see the bold
calligraphy of the dojo motto hanging askew through the jagged gap in
the wall.)
It's years since you've been there.
(She has a memory of standing next to Ranma, both of them covered with
soot, dirt and blood and watching the house burn)
And now you've disappeared somewhere
(the memory changes to her standing beside Ranma, the open grave
separating them from the surviving members of the Tendo family. Kasumi
steps forwards and drops a single white chrysanthemum onto the lowered
casket. Tendo-san starts a tearless sob and she feels Ranma tense beside
her. She looks over at him, reaches out to take his hand but he whirls
and runs. She bows to the grieving family and hurries after him, but
he's gone.)
Like outer space,
(We see Ukyou back at her shop, frowning at the repair men as she talks
on the phone. There is a list of restaurants on the counter in front of
her and she has been checking off each one. We hear her say "Well, if
you see him, would you give me a call?")
You've found some better place.
(The restaurant is repaired and Ukyou is sitting at one of the tables
late in the evening reading a letter. Tears are flowing down her cheeks
as she turns the envelope but there is no return address. The postmark
says San Francisco, CA, Oct. 21, 2000.)
And I miss you...
Like the deserts miss the rain.
(She walks to the reflecting pool, looks down and see's Ranma looking
back up at her)
And I miss you!
oh,
Like the deserts miss the rain.
(She kneels, reaches out to touch the reflection but before her fingers
met the still surface, a stray breeze blows some cherry petals off the
tree above her and they float down to mar the mirror of the water. The
image blurs and disappears in the concentric rings.)
Could you be dead?
(We see Ukyou looking at the postmark of a well read letter. It says New
York, NY, Dec. 31, 2001. She looks up at her calendar in the kitchen of
a very stylish apartment It's turned to May 16, 2006.)
You always were two steps ahead
Of everyone. We'd walk behind while you would run.
((She sits back on her heels, remembers all the times Ranma sent his
rivals (including herself) packing with a fond smile))
I look up at your house,
(She shakes her head, rises and brushes the earth off the knee's of her
slacks, turns and looks at the house one last time)
And I can almost hear you shout
Down to me
Where I always used to be.
(She sees the back of the house as it used to be, with Soun and Genma
playing Go, Kasumi hanging out clothes, Akane standing next to her with
her hands on her hips glaring up at Ranma who is crouching on the roof
and yelling back down at them with a devil may care grin. She sighs as
that memory fades back into the ruin of reality, turns and heads back
for the front gates)
And I miss you
Like the deserts miss the rain.
(We see her walking back the way she came, hands in pockets and focused
on the ground.)
And I miss you!
Like the deserts miss the rain.
Back on the train,
I ask why did I come again?
(She is looking out the window as the city passes. She looks angry, even
though a tear leaks out of the corner of her eye)
Can I confess
I've been hanging round your old address?
(We see a well dressed woman waiting on a train platform, chewing at her
lower lip and scowling. The scowl vanishes as she sees Ukyou. She waves
and calls her name)
And the years have proved
To offer nothing since you moved.
(Ukyou heads for the woman wearing a forced smile)
You're long gone
But I can't move on.
(The woman puts her hands on Ukyou's arm as she falls into step beside
her. She's chattering about nothing in particular and Ukyou tunes her
out. She narrows her eyes as she sees a familiar male shape walking
ahead of her with a long black braid. She speeds up, the woman hurrying
to stay with her, draws even with the man, looks over then stops dead in
her tracks. It isn't him. The woman with her looks after the man, then
narrows her eyes and frowns, lets go of Ukyou's arm and huffs away.
Ukyou turns as if to follow the woman, then shrugs and turns back for
the exit.)
And I miss you,
oh,
Like the deserts miss the rain
Yes I miss you, yeah,
Like the deserts miss the rain
And I miss you...