Why Would You Be Loved is the anti-No Plan. They're in conversation with each other.
One asks "why would you love and care and create and try to help others when there is always going to be suffering and pain and the death of everything?"
And the other asks "why would you wallow in the suffering and pain and death when you could love? everything is going to end anyway."
Bloodymary x Hozier because they make me crazy (ft. @luci-notactuallyshortforlucifer)
Project Hail Mary/Ryland Grace's song:
Iron Lung/Simon's song:
lyrics&ramblings under the cut
All Things End(aka Ryland Grace and Second Chances)
A two-tonne weight around my chest feels like
It just dropped a twenty-storey height
okay am i crazy to compare it to the gravity shenanigans on the hail mary especially when escaping Adrian's orbit orrrrrr
The last time I felt your weight on my chest, you said
"We didn't get it right, but, love, we did our best"
And we will again
hourghhhhhhh Grace making a ton of mistakes on the way to figuring out a solution to the astrophage problem(="not getting it (perfectly) right") but still succeeding in the end(="did our best")
Movin' on in time and takin' more from
Everything that ends
Okay this is a huge ass stretch but "movin on in time" lowkey fits Grace explaining relativity and "takin more from everything that ends" is just Earth using astrophage to power the ship that will end the problem of astrophage
I have never known a silence like the one fallen here
Never watched my future darken in a single tear
THIS IS LITERALLY STRATT'S "YOU ARE MY SOLUTION" SCENE OKAY. DO YOU SEE THE VISION. OURGHHHHH
I know we want this to go easy by bein' somebody's fault
But we've gone long enough to know this isn't what we want
And that isn't always bad
I wholeheartedly believe that, in the end, Grace understands Stratt's decision to betray him for humanity, and, instead of going with the easy option of pretending it's somebody's(Stratt's) fault and holding grudges, he accepts the things that happened. After all, without her betrayal he wouldnt have met Rocky
And all things end
All that we intend is (scrawled in/built on) sand
And slips right through our hands
And just knowin' that everything will end
Should not change our plans when we begin again
That scene on Erid where sand literally slips through Grace's hands,,,,,,,, knowin that he will never see Earth if he saves Rocky but finds a better life on Erid and is doing the thing he loves again,,,,,,,,,,,,, just jettisson me outta the airlock atp
No Plan(aka Simon and pushing through the deepest darkness with literally no prepared plan)
disclaimer i get very #bloodymary here
For starts
What a waste to say the heart could feel apart
Or feel complete, baby
Why would you make out of words a cage for your own bird?
When it sings so sweet
The screaming, heaving fuckery of the world?
Why would you offer a name to the same old tired pain?
When all things come from nothing and, honey, if nothing's gained?
So due to this verse partially talking about how pointless it is to find words to describe deep feelings, im just gonna *screaming crying throwing up* my way outta here and say only "ITS SO THEMMMMMMMMM"(i have. no coherent analysis on this specific part okay)
There's no plan, there's no race to be run
The harder the (rain/pain), honey, the sweeter the sun
There's no plan, there's no kingdom to come
I'll be your man if you got love to get done
Sit in and watch the sunlight fade
Honey, enjoy, it's gettin' late
There's no plan, there's no hand on the reign
As Mack explained, there will be darkness again
the last line refers to Dr. Katherine J. Mack, an astrophysicist (oh my fucking god i am about to explode) and the heat death of the universe expected to eventually happen in the far far future.
Hozier's quote:
One of the most likely being heat death, where basically all energy will leave the stars. They will burn themselves out and the universe will go dark, essentially. Whatever about the end of the world, No Plan is just saying that that’s the least of your worries.
The End of the Universe being the least of one's worries... living the life to its fullest despite knowing that All Things End........ okay you see the correlation now right
But your secret is safe with me 'cause if secrets were like seeds
Keep my body from the fire, hire a gardener for my grave
Your secret is safe with me and if secrets were like seeds
When I'm lying under marble, marvel at flowers you'll have made
JUST. AURGHHHHHHHH. The Seeds? Keep My Body From The Fire(the fire inside the submarine)?? Your secret is safe with me(The Butcher telling Grace about his crimes and his Saving Grace accepting him)???
My heart is thrilled by the still of your hand
That's how I know now that you understand
How big the hourglass, how deep the sand?
I shouldn't hope to know, but here I stand
HURRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHH. AURGHHHHH. BWEGH. GAH. okay i ran out of words to say gbye
