ok so i'd never heard of our word or 36 questions but i looked up the song after reading the tags on that post and OMG YOU TWO ARE SO RIGHT ABOUT THAT SONG AND ADAMS I HAVE CHILLSSSSSSSSSSS
OUR WORD IS SO GOOD. AND IT WORKS WITH SOOOO MANY BLORBOS!!! God Our Word + Adams drives me insane. The rest of the musical is pretty different from Our Word (but still enjoyable!! and really good!!) but oh my god. Our Word. Our Word. It's on my Thirteen playlist and Bird's Adams playlist for many reasons and it destrooooyssss me. I'm glad you liked the song!!! :D
I don't want to say a ton about Adams + Our Word right this second only because I know Bird can say it better and with more detail if she wants to share :3 @x-birdsong-x (she's SO, SO good at analyzing Adams, it blows me away). But since I'm a Thirteen analyst and because Bird and I usually analyze Thirteen and Adams in tandem/parallel to each other and it's a song we match to them both, I will say that the last chorus especially is not only SO Adams and her parents ("Our daughter Judith? You must be mistaken. You mean the girl we raised as if our own? We loved her so much, she felt like our child. But eventually we had to send her home." I am killing Adams' parents with hammers), but it's has some of the most Thirteen lyrics ever to me. It so perfectly describes her relationship with John (her dad), based both on what we get in canon (Let Them Eat Cake, Lockdown) and on my headcanons.
"I saw my parents hearing the news: your only daughter drowned today. I thought about what they might say: 'Our daughter Judith? No, she moved to Austin. She's very happy there, or so we hear. She's always been so goddamn independent; the years go by and now we barely see her.'"
a few word swaps and you end up with:
"I saw my father hearing the news: your only daughter drowned today. I thought about what he might say. 'My daughter, Remy? No, she moved to Princeton. She's very happy there, or so I hear. She's always been so goddamn independent- the years go by, and now I barely see her.'"(<- fits perfectly with her 'it's better if I stay elsewhere' from Lockdown)
Thirteen and her dad's relationship genuinely makes me insane and Our Word makes me insane and. Thank you for the ask Em (<3) and I'm so glad you listened to the song and can see it with Adams!!
