Sometimes being lost
Is not knowing how to get from where we are
To where we want to be
Where we need to be
...Wait for me to come home...
These ideas just loop in my mind a lot, okay? Because the show has repeatedly made references to the Wizard of Oz.
And remember what Oz is?
It's actually a dreamland Dorothy is lost in.
The movie ends with Dorothy waking up, having fought off the fever dream. Realising, there's no place like home. Yes, she finds her way home.
Realises she always was there, home, and the journey back home... was just a dream she was lost in, a confusing dreamland she wasn't yet grown up enough to leave.
But she got there in the end because... There's no place like home.
So buddie, the way Ed Sheeran's photograph is their song... The way the words:
Wait for me to come home
play right before Eddie and Chris drop off for a visit, and Buck thinks about being lost, and Eddie leaves again?
And Eddie says "Thank you, for not giving up." The first time he leaves...
And yes, even now they are still lost in Oz. Eddie is on his way to woo her dead wife now. Like in the Sleeping Beauty. I know you, I met with you once upon a dream...
But it's alright. They'll wake up and get home in the end. Because they're firefighters and they never give up.
Dorothy trying to find her way home from Oz.
"Follow the yellow brick road... Follow the yellow brick road."
(...arrives at a crossroads...)
"Now which way do we go?" She wonders, asking for directions of Toto, a dog, and Scarecrow, who is no help either.
But the Scarecrow is really quite similar to her because in the movie it's hinted that Dorothy's head is also full of straw, without a brain, and she doesn't know which path to take.
Scarecrow: Pardon me, that way is a very nice way!
Scarecrow: It's pleasant down that way, too!
...
Dorothy: That's funny, wasn't he pointing the other way?
Scarecrow: Of course, people do go both ways!
Yes, they are still lost in the land of Oz, but it's alright. They'll find their way home.
After all, sometimes you just aren't ready, sometimes you are lost in a confusing dream land and cannot even spot the scarecrow in a cornfield.
Some answers you need to find on your own, instead of just asking others...
What's the secret to happiness? Or...
Will you help me find the corn?
https://youtu.be/kLFyNRuEkCM?feature=shared
That's how you stop being the lost, helpless Dorothy in front of a corn field, and became the wise little Hen who figures it out, and knows where the corn is.
You don't find it, you make it 😁 even if it takes some work, time, tools and patience!
...
So now Eddie has dropped off Chris at Buck's once again. They're still lost.
...
After Eddie was panicking:
Buck: Hey are you sleeping, or just pretending...
Eddie: You never give up, do you?
...
Also Eddie, leaving Chris at Buck's the first time:
Oh and thank you. For not giving up.
...
So is it too late for them? I think not. Because Eddie ends up thanking Buck for not giving up.
This is my buddie theme song. Because it's not too late. It's a long wait... but there's a treasure at the end of the rainbow.
Kwan - Late
It's really also about asking for someone to wait for you to come home. Like Dorothy did, in the end, find her way home, after spending so much time lost inside that fever dream. Bur she got to that treasure at the end of the rainbow: her home. Family.
Like buddie, this song is a love story about falling for someone who hides their real self, lies to themselves and others, who wears a mask. And even then the important things that matter shine through, and you can't help but fall. I recommend watching the video, I think it's really cool.
https://youtu.be/aaAICwjARuY?feature=shared
I know as a fact that the sun don't always shine
Gotta be optimistic, tomorrow it'll be fine
And it hurts, like the mother who is giving birth
To the child full of innocence for life he has thirst
But in vain, he's only gaining pain
Minute after minute and day after day
So who the fuck should he blame
One for the trouble and he struggles to release the pain
Now I can see that I've been blinded see through your heart
And all the little things that matter
Now I can see it all, and I'm asking you to wait
Maybe it's too late...
I know you´re talking shit behind my back incognito
And when I see you face to face you're lying like pinocchio
I don't care what you say 'cause I'm on top of the world see
People like you near me and I feel the conspiracy
Identify yourself to yourself and be honest
I suggest, take a look in the mirror it is a test
Best way to cope it is to cope it on your own
Take this advice and you won´t die alone
Maybe it's too late but now I can see it all
And I'm asking you to wait
asking you to wait of your life in this world
There's a treasure at the end of the rainbow
