Everything is connected

I used to see connections everywhere when watching my favourite show, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Connections within the series or connections with literature, Mythologies, operas...Sometimes I wondered if those connections would have existed without me...probably no. But I have read Jorge Luis Borges and Umberto Eco so I know it doesn't matter. Works talk to works because of us, whether the authors meant it or not, and the echoes caught (or should I say provided) by our ears are not less real.

But one may wonder! Could Tom McRae whom I adore (you noticed this, perhaps)be a Buffy fan too, a Spike fan even? In his last album, All Maps Welcome, there's this song whose lyrics call a certain bleached boy to my mind...

My Vampire heart

by Tom McRae

Darling I'm lost 
Adrift in the dark 
I'm clutching your words 
To my vampire heart once more 
So let in the light 
Turn me to dust 
If it don't end in Bloodshed dear 
It's probably not love 

Here we are 
In the darkest place 
My reflection 
Shows only your face 

Something is found 
Something is lost 
Went looking for clues 
On the streets of old New York 
And I spilled someone's blood 
I broke someone's heart again 
Someone you know 
You're looking at him my friend 

And the people in our lives 
We all leave behind 
Leave behind 

Here we are 
In the darkest place 
To keep from forgetting 
I picture your face 
And I wonder 
While we count the cost 
Which is sweeter 
Love or it's loss 

So I curse you 
My vampire heart 
For letting me you love you 
Love you 
For letting me love you 
From the start 

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