VID: Rain King

[promethia_tenk]

Title: Rain King
Fandom: Doctor Who, Twelfth Doctor
Music: 'Rain King' by Counting Crows
Length: 4:11
Download: coming soon!

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A/N: For Owls, who taught me how to love series nine. And for Elisi, who taught me how to love vids and reached through the internet to make this happen.

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I'm the Doctor. I've lived for over two thousand years, and not all of them were good. I've made many mistakes, and it's about time that I did something about that.

-- Twelfth Doctor, 'Deep Breath'



Just as the one-eyed merchant, seller of currants, melts into the Phoenician Sailor, and the latter is not wholly distinct from Ferdinand Prince of Naples, so all the women are one woman, and the two sexes meet in Tiresias. What Tiresias sees, in fact, is the substance of the poem.

-- T.S. Eliot, Notes to 'The Waste Land'



Water always wins.

-- Tenth Doctor, 'Waters of Mars'

"Doctor Who: Rain King" (Watch on YouTube)

When I think of Heaven, deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of flying down in your sea of pens and feathers
And all other instruments of faith and sex and God
In the belly of a black-winged bird

Don't try to feed me
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of a queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been crying, and I've been thinking
And I am the rain king

And I said, "Mama, mama, mama, why am I so alone"
'Cause I can't go outside, I'm scared I might not make it home
Well I'm alive, I'm alive, but I'm sinking in
If there's anyone at home at your place, darling
Why don't you invite me in?

Don't try to bleed me
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of a queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been lying, and I've been sinking
And I am the rain king

Hey, I only want the same as anyone
Henderson is waiting for the sun
Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends
After all the dreaming, I come home again

When I think of Heaven, deliver me in a black-winged bird
I think of dying, lay me down in a field of flame and heather
Render up my body into the burning heart of God
In the belly of a black-winged bird

Don't try to bleed me
'Cause I've been here before
And I deserve a little more

I belong in the service of a queen
I belong anywhere but in between
She's been dying, and I've been drinking
And I am the rain king
Well I said that "I am the rain king"
Well I said, "I, I, I, I, I, well I am the rain king", yeah

Comments

[elisi]

[juniperphoenix]

...Am I right in thinking this is your second vid EVER? This is amazing. I need to watch it a hundred more times.

[owlboy]

You did it! And it's wonderful! <3

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, this is gorgeous!

[maia]

THIS IS AMAZING AND AWESOME AND BRILLIANT!!!

[ravenskyewalker]

I just saw lost_spook rec this, and it is beautiful. As one who often feels like the only one who loved Capaldi's Doctor, I thank you.

[kaffy_r]

This is absolutely magnificent, promethia_tenk. I can't think of a better adjective. This is Twelve, with the ones who loved him more than he deserved, probably. Guest starring One and War and Ten and Eleven ... I suspect I'm only going to gibber at this point.

tl;dr: Thank you so much for all the effort and everything you put into this.