Honor – A Song About Lexa by Jack Jupiter Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Stay here in this candlelight
Stay here for a little while, please
I know I can't ask for all the time you have
But won't you stay another night with me?
[Verse 2]
Take me back to war paint eyes
And color my skies, they're gray from smoke
I have so much fire left to burn
And this time it'll burn alone
[Chorus]
You deserved more time
And so did I
But I will take the memories of your life
And honor you
Honor you
[Verse 3]
What I'd give to rewrite
The way it all played out
We were loved for a moment
And it was gone within the hour
Oh but I try to take from your strength
Let it show who I can be
Someone who is loyal to the ones they love the most
And someone who can live honestly
[Chorus]
You deserved more time
And so did I
But I will take the memories from your life
And honor you
And honor
(you…)
(And honor…)
(Oh…)
(Honor you…)
[Spoken]
I'm hearing stories, feeling lost
These tropes are out there setting rules for how to love
Because a woman loves a woman and then dies for the cause
Or 'cause they wanna write some drama and "who's expendable? we know"
Listen, think back to Tara
Think back to Lexa, Delphine, and Maya
Go rewatch the L Word and see it's problems
Go count how many queer women survive the writer's room logic of
Let them go, move on, move this along
And even if they didn't know they played a trope and broke our hearts
I'm just so tired of the senseless deaths in these stories
Where are the scripts showing us that happy endings are possible
Tell a different story, or give us something honorable
Instead of stray bullets and car crashes and hospitals
Equality isn't killing any character without questioning
What it's gonna do to viewers who finally saw their stories told
Stay here in this candlelight
Stay here for a little while, please
I know I can't ask for all the time you have
But won't you stay another night with me?
[Verse 2]
Take me back to war paint eyes
And color my skies, they're gray from smoke
I have so much fire left to burn
And this time it'll burn alone
[Chorus]
You deserved more time
And so did I
But I will take the memories of your life
And honor you
Honor you
[Verse 3]
What I'd give to rewrite
The way it all played out
We were loved for a moment
And it was gone within the hour
Oh but I try to take from your strength
Let it show who I can be
Someone who is loyal to the ones they love the most
And someone who can live honestly
[Chorus]
You deserved more time
And so did I
But I will take the memories from your life
And honor you
And honor
(you…)
(And honor…)
(Oh…)
(Honor you…)
[Spoken]
I'm hearing stories, feeling lost
These tropes are out there setting rules for how to love
Because a woman loves a woman and then dies for the cause
Or 'cause they wanna write some drama and "who's expendable? we know"
Listen, think back to Tara
Think back to Lexa, Delphine, and Maya
Go rewatch the L Word and see it's problems
Go count how many queer women survive the writer's room logic of
Let them go, move on, move this along
And even if they didn't know they played a trope and broke our hearts
I'm just so tired of the senseless deaths in these stories
Where are the scripts showing us that happy endings are possible
Tell a different story, or give us something honorable
Instead of stray bullets and car crashes and hospitals
Equality isn't killing any character without questioning
What it's gonna do to viewers who finally saw their stories told