“I would swim across oceans
Just to talk with you
I would climb a tall mountain
Just to look at you
I’d give my soul to the devil
If you asked me to
I would walk out of heaven
Just to be with you
Just to talk with you
I would climb a tall mountain
Just to look at you
I’d give my soul to the devil
If you asked me to
I would walk out of heaven
Just to be with you
This is absolute
This is absolution”
This is absolution”
–Gary Numan, Absolution
When I pulled the lyrics up on this song, my first thought reading them was from a mother’s perspective. I would do anything for my daughter. That there’s nothing on this Earth that would keep me from her. And, in all truthfulness, nothing supernatural either. I would, with my last breath, fight for her. I would kill to protect her, commit crimes to save her. What parent wouldn’t do that for their child?
And that’s how the complete series was born. Would I stop being a mother because of a little inconvenience like my death? No. Would I stop fighting for her just because my heart stopped beating? No. Becoming a mother changes a woman down to her DNA. It changed mine at least.
Also, when I hear the word ‘absolution’, I think of God, forgiveness, confessions. As a cradle Catholic, even though I don’t practice anymore, I am still, and forever will be, a Catholic. I see the candles lit near the Confessional. I see myself lighting one for my Mom. I see myself kneeling in the pew saying the Rosary.
The series follows my MC as she struggles with the lost of soul (so she believes), the realization that she is a killer, the seeking of peace and ultimately, Absolution.
Useless Ramblings 
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