The song of the week this week is a new song by Andrew Lloyd Weber for his Phantom “sequel” Love Never Dies.

While I love the song (and I also like the “Coney Island Waltz” that can also be heard in the youtube  video I’ll link to), I’m still unsure how I feel about a continuance of the Phantom story. Everyone who knows me knows that I’m a huge Phantom Phan (to the point of obsession at times), I can recite most of the lyrics to Phantom of the Opera (even to the harder songs like Prima Dona and Masquerade). To me, one of the charms of Phantom is the mystery that the audience is left with at the end when he sits down upon his chair, covers himself with his cloak and disappears, leaving only his mask behind. It’s left up to the audience to decide what this disappearance means for them, whether it symbolizes his death or if it means he’s still alive.

Continuing the story seems to throw that mystery out the window.

Anywho, like I said, I really enjoy this song. I don’t know if it’s Ramin’s voice singing it or if it’s just because it’s an Andrew Lloyd Weber song (many of his songs send tingles up my spine, Music of the Night, Point of No Return, Close Every Door, Memory, and so on). The lyrics are courtesy of IAngelofMusicI on YouTube.

The soundtrack to Love Never Dies is set to be released next March when the show premiers in London.

(“Till I Hear You Sing” starts at time index 11:40)

“Till I Hear You Sing (Once More)“

The day starts, the day ends
Time crawls by
Night steals in, pacing the floor
The moments creep,
Yet I cant bear to sleep
Till I hear you sing

And weeks pass, and months pass
Seasons fly
Still you dont walk through the door
And in a haze
I count the silent days
Till I hear you sing once more.

And sometimes at night time
I dream that you are there
But wake holding nothing but the empty air

And years come, and years go
Time runs dry
Still I ache down to the core
My broken soul
Cant be alive and whole
Till I hear you sing once more

And music, your music
It teases at my ear
I turn and it fades away and youre not here

Let hopes pass, let dreams pass
Let them die
Without you, what are they for?
Ill always feel
No more than halfway real
Till I hear you sing once more

…I just didn’t want to create a new category for “video of the week” at this point (though maybe I will at some point in the future).

Anywho, there are some days where listening to songs just doesn’t cut it and I need something else to keep my mind going throughout the day. That’s when I start “listening” to some of the video’s that I have on my iPod. One of my favorites is a video called “Dancing on Dangerous Ground” it features the amazing Irish dancers Colin Dunne and Jean Butler (both of Riverdance fame – Colin took over for Michael Flatley after he left the show, and in my opinion the show was the better for it). DODG is a dance drama telling the tragic story of Diarmuid and Grania.

With Irish dancing, the sound of the taps (for me) is a great way to keep my mind awake and engaged.

In the show, my favorite part of it has to be what I’ve come to call “An Irish Tango” (in reality, the DVD chapter is called “Fate brings Diarmuid and Grania together”). So for the “Song (or video in this case) of the Week” this week, I give you the video of this particular piece from the show.

(as for actual content, I do have some wallpapers planned, I just need to find some time to work on them and get them up)