Falling Slowly

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I know this song from the new Celtic Thunder CD, sung by Damian McGinty (he's currently an actor on Glee). It's an Irish indie rock song. It appeared in their 2007 film Once, from which it won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 80th Academy Awards.


I don't know you but I want you all the more for that
Words fall through me and always fool me and I can't react
And games that never amount to more than they're meant
Will play themselves out

They're haunting words. I picture Callen in this song. Always playing a cover, being a chameleon, Always changing and never really knowing who he is. And I see Nell, trying desperately to know him even though there isn't enough of him to truly know him.

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you have a choice
You've made it now

In the story I picture, he's sinking in trying to find himself, find his dad, find the truth. And in the end, it comes down to trusting the family he has at NCIS or falling into an unknown.


Falling slowly eyes that know me and I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me and I'm painted black
You have suffered enough and warred with yourself
It's time that you won

I see Nell saving him. For as little as he knows about himself, Nell knows him, and Sam knows him, and Hetty, and everyone else. They are his family, and they want him to survive and win the war that he's had in himself his whole life.

Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had the choice
You've made it now
Falling slowly sing your melody
I'll sing along

I don't know how it ends, I don't know what he learns about himself, or if in the end he decides that he doesn't need to know. Does he get the choice to find out and turns away from it in favor of his team, or does he find out about his past.



I haven't started writing this story at all. It's something more in depth than most of the stories that I pull from songs. Right now it's a little plot idea, and it's not something that I'll sit down to write until I know exactly what I want to do. But the song just brings so many emotions to mind, and I think it sums up Callen very well.