In the Rose Garden / Music of Utena, what music would you want to hear?

G&Ysnumber1fan · Back to Top

Before some of you start coming after me with swords, let me just say that I love the music of Utena, even the musical OKKK?!

Now with that being said, I was thinking to myself while listening to some of my own music, that would be a great piece to play in Utena. So here it is, well I can't give the mp3 due to erm no CD-RW drive. But I can give the song and lyrics and if anyone has any songs with lyrics and if you want to suggest when said music would be appropriate that would be cool as well. Well here are two of mines, the first one would be good for Utena/Anthy combo, and the second is obviously Akio, I mean come on now:

Teena Marie-Just Us Two:

Hey, baby
What you feel like doin'
Just me, just you
Just us two

(Just us two) Oh, baby
(Just us) Ooh-wee-, ooh-wee, ooh-wee, ooh, ooh baby
(Just us two) Ey...hey...
(Just us)

I saw your face and love struck me just like a lightning bolt
Just like 20,000 volts
You seemed so shy I guess I'll shoot a rocket to the moon
Can't afford to lose this groove

I got to let you know
On my knees I prayed for you to love me
Tender love warm my heart
'Cause you got to court me to spark

(Just us two) Always and forever
(Just us) 'Cause no one else could love you better
(Just us) Just me, just you
(Just us) Just us two

I haven't kissed you yet, I don't think I can handle it
Just a hopeless romantic
I hear your body talkin', ooh, sweet words of love sublime
Tell me, can you read my mind

There's not a spoken word I can say
'Cause I prayed for you night and day
Tender love warm my heart
'Cause you got to court me to spark

(Just us two) Until the 6 becomes 9
(Just us) Even if it takes 100 lifetimes
(Just us) Could never wear us down, can't tear us down
(Just us) Just us two

(Just us two) Always forever
(Just us) 'Cause no one else could love you better
(Just us) Just me, just you
(Just us) Just us, just us, just us two

Just us two always, oh...oh...
Always, always
Well, I'd kiss the ground you walk on
No one else could love you
Not like I do

Ooh, baby, ooh, I hear you talkin' too
Soft and sexy, so sublime
No one could have told me that your love would come
So hot like the summertime

Please, baby, please, you got me on my knees
Tender lover warm my heart
Just like 20,000 volts
Your love struck like a lightening bolt
You got to court me to spark

(Just us two) Always forever
(Just us) 'Cause no one else could love you better
(Just us) Just me, just you
(Just us) Just us two

(Just us two) Until the 6 becomes 9
(Just us) Even if it takes 100 lifetimes
(Just us) Could never wear us down, can't tear us down
(Just us) Just us, just us, just us two

Just us two
Kiss the ground you walk on
Ooh, whoa
Just us

Every time you touch me when you mix the wind with rain
It gets my rhythm goin' and my fire turns to flame, ooh
Every time you touch me I go insane

(Just us two) Always forever
(Just us) 'Cause no one else could love you better
(Just us) Just me, just you
(Just us) Just us, just us, just us two

(Just us two) Until the 6 becomes 9
(Just us) Even if it takes 100 lifetimes
(Just us) Could never wear us down, can't tear us down
(Just us) Just us, just us, just us two

There's a fine line between sensuality and the spirit
And you and I will find a way
To bring those two things together
Magically
Harmonizing, everlasting love
Until the 6 becomes 9, I'll be loving you.
_____________________________________________________________________________
Prince-Kiss
U don't have 2 be beautiful
2 turn me on
I just need your body baby
From dusk till dawn
U don't need experience
2 turn me out
U just leave it all up 2 me
I'm gonna show u what it's all about

U don't have 2 be rich
2 be my girl
U don't have 2 be cool
2 rule my world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your

Kiss

U got to not talk dirty, baby
If u wanna impress me
U can't be 2 flirty, mama
I know how 2 undress me (Yeah)
I want 2 be your fantasy
Maybe u could be mine
U just leave it all up to me
We could have a good time

U don't have 2 be rich
2 be my girl
U don't have 2 be cool
2 rule my world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your

Kiss

Yes
I think I wanna dance
Gotta, Gotta
Little girl Wendy's parade
Gotta, gotta, gotta

Women not girls rule my world
I said they rule my world
Act your age, mama (Not your shoe size)
Not your shoe size
Maybe we could do the twirl
U don't have 2 watch Dynasty
2 have an attitude
U just leave it all up 2 me
My love will be your food
Yeah

U don't have 2 be rich
2 be my girl
U don't have 2 be cool
2 rule my world
Ain't no particular sign I'm more compatible with
I just want your extra time and your

Kiss

Xu Yuan · Back to Top

One of my favorite songs that I felt firt perfectly in with Utena was "Hotel California"
If you replace "Hotel California" for "Ohtori Academy" it would still make perfect sense.. sort of.

In the movie this would be Utena following the clues to Ohtori academy to search for her prince.
On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in my hair
Warm smell of colitas
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a shimmering light
My head grew heavy, and my sight grew dim
I had to stop for the night

Anthy is "she" and the voices of the prisoner's of Ohtori. Many of the key player's in the drama.
There she stood in the doorway
I heard the mission bell
And I was thinking to myself
This could be Heaven or this could be Hell
Then she lit up a candle
And she showed me the way
There were voices down the corridor
I thought I heard them say

Another reference to Anthy, or the school itself of "What a lovely face" and there's never room lacking in Ohtori as well.

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely place (background)
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year
Any time of year (background)
You can find it here
You can find it here

Ahem... ignore the first two lines... unless you can figure out the meaning behind "Tiffany Twisted" Though the "pretty, pretty boys" She's got could be a reference to Saionji and Miki. Dance in the courtyard can be taken to mean "event's portrayed through motions not actions" Saionji looked to her as a means to escape the looming shadow of Touga or "Dance to forget" While Miki tries to capture her spirit as "His shining thing" Or in other words. "Dance to remember."
Her mind is Tiffany twisted
She's got the Mercedes bends
She's got a lot of pretty, pretty boys
That she calls friends
How they dance in the courtyard
Sweet summer sweat
Some dance to remember
Some dance to forget

I know there is deep signifigance about the captain and the wine, but nothing comes to mind at the moment. Though she now realizes the ghosts of the duelists, (Juri, Touga, Saionji, and Miki, to an extent now Mikage as well) Or those that Akio has entrapped would work as an analogy of the "voices".
So I called up the Captain
Please bring me my wine
He said
We haven't had that spirit here since 1969
And still those voices are calling from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them say

Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely Place
Such a lovely Place (background)
Such a lovely face
They're livin' it up at the Hotel California
What a nice surprise
What a nice surprise (background)
Bring your alibies

We wind towards the end of the show, mainly the "Pink champagne on ice" part. Can't think of the meaning of "Mirror's on the ceiling" right now. Here is where this girl seems like Anthy and shye speaks for all of the ghosts as well. "We are all just prisoner's here Of our own device."
Mirrors on the ceiling
Pink champagne on ice
And she said
We are all just prisoners here
Of our own device

The Master's Chamber's obviously refer's to Akio's room, "They" are the million swords of hate that pierce Anthy as portrayed through "They stab it with their steely knives But they just can't kill the beast" Now Utena run's for the "door" which the Rose Gate" To find "The passsage back to the place she was before" Or the true reason she wanted to become a prince. The "nightman" could be taken as the swords of hate as well. Since Akio even does say "She has become another sad leftover in this world." Though that's only if you believe that Utena was killed and Anthy didn't find her, well this was fun. Off to play PSU.

And in the master's chambers
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives
But they just can't kill the beast
Last thing I remember
I was running for the door
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
Relax said the nightman
We are programed to recieve
You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave

#1 | Back to Top11-04-2006 06:13:13 PM

Music of Utena, what music would you want to hear?

#2 | Back to Top11-07-2006 07:58:08 PM

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