Pyre

Pyre is a song from hit musical Legshark In Miami. It is the closing number, and depicts protagonist Diego Daldiva pondering the musical's events, as well as his morals and memory. 
Composer Blanche Langston named it her 'favourite piece' from the musical's soundtrack, due to the emotions that Diego's character experiences, and the iconic ending - Diego strikes a match, illuminating the Legshark's shadow on the wall in place of his own, before asking if it is better to remember or forget, and snuffing the flame.
== Lyrics ==
And now it is the midnight before a whole new sun,
But is my whole world over, or has it barely just begun?
With all of my life, how - 
Have I not known myself until now - 
Not truly loved nor truly lived, has my being amounted to none?
The horrors of my past are little more than memories,
Drifting leaves on lilting winds from winter-weakened trees,
Am I no more than a ghost,
A deathly spectre no-one knows,
A fractured mind and broken heart, just waiting for a summer start,
A bleeding body blown apart, is all that's left of me -
But as you cut with broken glass, a broken heart can love,
And who do I have more to thank than the beast that helped me see?
Is this an endless heaven I am undeserving of,
Or does my beastly, brutish guide,
Know now my heart and head collide,
My wounds are pleading deep inside,
This turbulence is like a dagger in me!
I feel a fire inside my soul, I feel an icy chill,
I feel desire I've never known, I feel the world stand still,
A past of death and desolation
Has brought me to my destination;
Can this be my reincarnation, can new beginnings kill?
Is this the night where endless gods and wrathless titans fall?
Is it best that you remember the storm's nightmarish call?
Can any one man live forever,
If he splits his chest and loves another,
Am I a dead man, was I ever anything at all?
Am I anything at all?
[DIEGO STRIKES THE MATCH]
Is this the night where endless gods and wrathless titans fall,
Is it best that you remember the storm's nightmarish call?
Or is it even better,
To forget it alltogether,
And not remember anything at all?
And not remember anything...
[DIEGO EXTINGUISHES THE MATCH]
At all?
Category:Songs
Category:In universe