Ed's a bit surprised by the hug from Lorne, but he returns it, and adds, "If... you want to read me while I sing, I'm okay with that too."
Then clears his throat again and takes a few deep breaths, wavering a bit on what he's going to sing before he decides to go for the most... telling choice of song.
"How can I repay you, Brother-mine? How can I expect you to forgive? Clinging to the past, I shed our blood And shattered your chance to live
Though I knew the Laws, I paid no heed How can I return your wasted breath? What I did not know has cost you dear For there is no cure for death
Beautiful Mother, soft and sweet! Once you were gone, we were not complete Back through the years, we reached for you Alas, 'twas not meant to be!
And how can I make amends For all that I took from you? I led you with hopeless dreams My Brother, I was a fool
Don't cry for the past, now, Brother-mine Neither you nor I are free from blame Nothing can erase the things we did For the path we took was the same
How could I expect to call you wrong? How could you be blamed for what we've done? Both of us were fools in our desires As we flew too close to the Sun
Beautiful Mother, soft and sweet! Once you were gone, we were not complete Back through the years, we reached for you Alas, 'twas not meant to be!
My dreams made me blind and mute I longed to return to that time I followed without a word My Brother, the fault is mine!
So where do we go from here? And how to forget and forgive? What's gone is forever lost Now all we can do is live..."
Ed's got a decent singing voice on the high end of the tenor range, and this song... it's one of the few he can sing with genuine passion and emotion. It's his and Al's song, after all; and while he doesn't feel quite right singing Al's half of it, he does so anyway, because the song just isn't complete without both of their parts.
((The video I linked is missing the verse that begins with 'How could I expect to call you wrong?', but that verse has the same melody as the one before it. Also, the singer in the video is Ed's voice actor Vic Mignogna, so that's what Ed's singing voice actually sounds like :).))
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Then clears his throat again and takes a few deep breaths, wavering a bit on what he's going to sing before he decides to go for the most... telling choice of song.
A few more deep breaths, and he starts to sing his and Al's leitmotif:
"How can I repay you, Brother-mine?
How can I expect you to forgive?
Clinging to the past, I shed our blood
And shattered your chance to live
Though I knew the Laws, I paid no heed
How can I return your wasted breath?
What I did not know has cost you dear
For there is no cure for death
Beautiful Mother, soft and sweet!
Once you were gone, we were not complete
Back through the years, we reached for you
Alas, 'twas not meant to be!
And how can I make amends
For all that I took from you?
I led you with hopeless dreams
My Brother, I was a fool
Don't cry for the past, now, Brother-mine
Neither you nor I are free from blame
Nothing can erase the things we did
For the path we took was the same
How could I expect to call you wrong?
How could you be blamed for what we've done?
Both of us were fools in our desires
As we flew too close to the Sun
Beautiful Mother, soft and sweet!
Once you were gone, we were not complete
Back through the years, we reached for you
Alas, 'twas not meant to be!
My dreams made me blind and mute
I longed to return to that time
I followed without a word
My Brother, the fault is mine!
So where do we go from here?
And how to forget and forgive?
What's gone is forever lost
Now all we can do is live..."
Ed's got a decent singing voice on the high end of the tenor range, and this song... it's one of the few he can sing with genuine passion and emotion. It's his and Al's song, after all; and while he doesn't feel quite right singing Al's half of it, he does so anyway, because the song just isn't complete without both of their parts.
((The video I linked is missing the verse that begins with 'How could I expect to call you wrong?', but that verse has the same melody as the one before it. Also, the singer in the video is Ed's voice actor Vic Mignogna, so that's what Ed's singing voice actually sounds like :).))