Holding on to this sinking ship, When nothing else remains.

[bronzetigress.livejournal.com]

Title: Am I Asking Too Much?
Topic: song lyrics
Word Count: 295 +lyrics
Rating: PG
Pairing: Usopp/Luffy; Usopp/Merry
Disclaimer: Song? Not mine. Characters and Setting? Not mine either. Probably just as well. Here, have them back...
Summary: How do you decide, when your decision means everything? Set between chapters 331 and 332.

Excuse: Actually, I wanted to write something to a different song on this album, but this one jumped out from the shrubberies with 8000 plot bunnies and a sure-death tobasco star, and I was done for, because the song is just... so... Usopp. Oh, look, it's a squirrel with a caltrop...

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One way or the other, it's over.

It's my own fault. I'm the one who set it up that way. One last fight. One first fight. To settle everything.

She's not just a ship to me. She's mine; my ship, my gift, my life's work any more. My hope for the future, the road to my dreams.

Not just a ship. I thought you understood that.

She's everything to me. Almost as much as you are.

It doesn't make sense, does it?

I... I can't accept what I know must be true. I've put too much of myself, too much of my own blood and sweat into her to just give her up, though. I've told myself she'll be fine so many times I have to believe it, or else what does that make me?

Even though I know, maybe better than those stupid carpenters even, just how broken she is.

But so what? You've never given up on a nakama before. It's why I'm still with you.

Why I was still with you.

But now, you're giving up on her.

Well, I'm not.

I just wish I didn't have to give up on you, in order to not give up on her. I wish we could sit down together and talk about it, but we've both said too much already.

I wish I could take it back. I wish you would take it back. But I know how stubborn you are, and I wish... While I'm wishing useless wishes, I just want Merry to be better, to be herself again, to be the proud ship of the Grand Line I know she can be.

All I want is...

All I want is everything.

But I guess that's too much to ask for, isn't it?

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"All I Want Is Everything"; Def Leppard, Slang, 1996

I don't know how to leave you
And I don't know how to stay
I've got things that I must tell you
That I don't know how to say
The man behind these empty words
Is crying out in shame
Holding on to this sinking ship
When nothing else remains

All I want is everything
Am I asking too much?
All I want is everything
Like the feel of your touch
All I have are yesterdays
Tomorrow never comes

It's hard to hold your head up
When you're kneeling down to pray
And the talking don't come easy now
When the words get in the way
And if you could see what's going on
Behind these private eyes
The truth would look so easy now
But I'm running out of lies

All I want is everything
Am I asking too much?
All I want is everything
Like the feel of your touch
All I have are yesterdays
Tomorrow never comes

(bridge)

You think the shadow of doubt
Is hangin' over my head
It's just an angel whose wings hide the sun
And it's myself I betray
I can not wish this away
Took my chance now the damage is done

All I want is everything
Am I asking too much?
All I want is everything
Like the feel, the feel of your touch
All I have are yesterdays
Tomorrow never comes

Comments

[yuki-kokoro.livejournal.com]

"I've told myself she'll be fine so many times I have to believe it, or else what does that make me?" I love this line, and how Usopp doesn't want to be a liar. Not about this.

[bronzetigress.livejournal.com]

:) Thanks!

[bronzetigress.livejournal.com]

That song is very fitting!
*nodnod* Yup. :)

[ptps.livejournal.com]

The 'wishing useless wishes' hurts. ;___; b

[bronzetigress.livejournal.com]

*wistful smile* Thanks.

[dethorats]

Nice use of first person! It stabbed in just the right places and the song is a great choice.

[bronzetigress.livejournal.com]

Thank you! The song did insist... :)