Wonderland through the lens of Merthur
Flashing lights and we Took a wrong turn and we Fell down a rabbit hole
Light is usually associated with goodness but when it’s flashing it can be blinding. Merlin became so caught up in his love for Arthur that he forgot about bringing magic back to Camelot. He made the wrong decisions in an attempt save Arthur and things got worse from there
You held on tight to me 'Cause nothing's as it seems And spinning out of control
Merlin was Arthur’s rock when Morgana betrayed him Merlin was there. When Gwen cheated on him Merlin was there. When making decisions Arthur turns to and holds tight to Merlin. When he doesn’t know who to trust and everything is falling apart he still has Merlin.
Didn't they tell us don't rush into things? Didn't you flash your green eyes at me? Haven't you heard what becomes of curious minds?
Ok so neither of them have green eyes but consider green eyes not literally but green as in go like a stoplight. While anyone around them would tell them that a relationship between the two of them would be a bad idea they both go ahead with it anyways. But the saying is curiosity killed the cat. Uther would be furious if he found out and Merlin could be dead if Arthur found out about his magic.
Didn't it all seem new and exciting? I felt your arms twisting around me I should have slept with one eye open at night
So the the word twisting is interesting because it invokes the imagery of being trapped so while the love is wonderful and exciting in some ways it’s also constricting. It keeps Merlin trapped in a kingdom that hates all he is, saving a king who would have him killed for it just because Uther’s death would cause him pain. Merlin needs to be on guard because of what he is.
We found wonderland You and I got lost in it And we pretended it could last forever We found wonderland You and I got lost in it And life was never worse but never better
Wonderland symbolizes how magical and exciting the relationship feels. But it can’t last forever. Merlin was a wonderful experience for Arthur, someone who saw him as a person not caring about his title. But Arthur was everything to Merlin, he was his purpose and made him happy but he also brought him so much pain, Merlin had to kill for him he had to risk his life for him, he watched the people he loved die after he met Arthur.
So we went on our way Too in love to think straight All alone or so it seemed But there were strangers watching And whispers turned to talking And talking turned to screams
People noticed how much Arthur and Merlin cared for eachother and they used it against them. Like Morgana and Agravaine targeting Merlin to use against Arthur even though they didn’t know about his magic.
I reached for you but you were gone. I knew I had to go back home
The first line is Merlin and the second line is Arthur when it comes to the finale. Merlin tried to save Arthur and he tried to hold him close but Arthur was already doomed. Arthur knew he wasn’t going to make it though that’s why he just asked for Merlin to hold him. He wanted their last moments to be love rather than anguish. He knew he had to go.
You searched the world for something else to make you feel like what we had And in the end in wonderland we both went mad
Merlin is left alone in the world just waiting for Arthur to come back, or at the very least something to give him purpose, someone to make him alive like Arthur did. In the end they both lost everything they were looking for. In the end their entire worldviews were shattered, Merlin wasn’t exactly who Arthur thought he was, Magic couldn’t be evil like he thought because Merlin was magic and Merlin lost his world.
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I feel like wonderland is one of Taylor’s most underrated songs from 1989. It perfectly describes how it feels like when you first start falling in love with someone and you feel a fire burning in your heart so full of passion that your attention is only toward the other person, both forgetting about the reality and the outside world because they’re so into each other that it feels like they went in “wonderland”, living an utopian life. Of course, at a certain point, reality comes back and they both realise that they went too fast and eventually everything shattered so soon because they lived everything so intensely that it felt like they already spent years together, only to realise you didn’t know the other person as good as you thought you did
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Wonderland has never been gayer… “too in love to think straight” (literally).
Also “you held on tight to me, cause nothings as it seems”, is very much Zablack because it relates to the Pure Blood’s society, and how it’s this place full of people who will take you down on the first opportunity they see, you can’t really trust anyone, but they trusted each other and it ruined them.
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I REACHED FOR YOU BUT YOU WERE GONE. I KNEW I HAD TO GO BACK HOME. YOU SEARCHED THE WORLD FOR SOMETHING ELSE TO MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE WHAT WE HAD AND IN THE END IN WONDERLAND WE BOTH. WENT. MAD.
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