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Wow, you covered everything so perfectly.

My favourite stanza is this one:

And I hate the sight of that empty air
Like stepping for a missing stair
And falling forth forever blindly:
Cannot grab hold of anything!
No, not I, most blessed among Colleens

It's amazing how well she captures the sense of literally being a fish out of water. 'Empty air / Like stepping for a missing stair' - the dry air is isolating in its emptiness and unsettling in its lack of support, and her movement through it is too rapid and uncontrolled, like 'falling forth'. It really builds a sense that there is something missing - the 'empty air', 'missing stair', there being nothing to grab hold of - something to be found and enveloped by.

This song is basically the sixth Ys song. All the unifying themes are here - transformation, decadence, death, an excess of water, and a sense of fable and legend. I guess the style (and the instrumentation it perhaps requires) is maybe too different for it to have been put on the album initially, but it definitely seems like a song she wrote in the spirit of the record. As for alternate readings, you could definitely do a very convincing feminist reading of the song, but I prefer the idea that it's less an outright rejection of femininity and more a general rejection of social repression

Also every time she yelps a fairy is born.