How original are Stevie's lyrics?

[vivfox]

We know how Stevie gets some lyrics from outside sources, but I was totally surprised how much she gets from Oscar Wilde! Some of "Rooms on Fire" "Tragedy of One's Own Soul" "Paper Doll" "Freedom" "Fire Burning" "Have No Heart" "Kick It" and "Lily Girl" get lyrics from his writing.


Fire Burning

Wilde: "A huge fire was blazing."
Stevie (Fire Burning): "A huge fire was burning"
Wilde: "His eyes grew strangely bright."
Stevie (Fire Burning): "And her eyes grew strangely bright"



Rooms on Fire

Wilde: "Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes the real life that we had known."
Stevie (Rooms On Fire): "Somewhere out of the back of your mind comes your real life and the life that you know."
Wilde: "He hated to be separated from the picture that was such a part of his life,"
Stevie (Rooms On Fire): "he hated to be separated... from that picture"
Wilde: "He would laugh at anyone who tried to taunt him"
Stevie (Rooms On Fire): "she laughed and she cried and she tried to taunt him"



Tragedy of One's Own Soul

Wilde: "Yet, after some time, he wearied of them, and would sit in his box at the Opera, either alone or with Lord Henry, listening in rapt pleasure to Tannhauser, and seeing in the prelude to that great work of art a presentation of the tragedy of his own soul." (Tragedy of One's Soul) "presentation of the tragedy of his own soul" "For some reason or other, the house was crowded that night..."
Stevie (Tragedy of One's Own Soul): "House is full tonight"

Paper Doll

Wilde: "'I like men who have a future, and women who have a past,' he answered."
Stevie (Paper Doll): "you like a man with a future... you like a woman with a past"

Freedom

Wilde: "When that high spirit, that morning star of evil, it was as a rebel that he fell."
Stevie (Freedom): "Beautiful as you are, with that high spirit... morning star of evil hit me" .
Wilde: "Dim and wavering as was the wind-blown light, yet it served to show him the hideous error, into which he had fallen,"
Stevie (Freedom): "Dim and wavering on a wind-blown night" & "As was the wind-blown night into which she'd fallen"

Have No Heart

Stevie's song Have No Heart parallels the story of The Birthday of the Infanta.
Wilde: "'But why will he not dance again?' asked the Infanta, laughing."
Stevie (Have No Heart): "why will he not dance again?"
Stevie (Have No Heart): "If he had lived, well, he might have made the king smile"
Wilde: "'For the future let those who come to play with me have no hearts,' she cried, and she ran into the garden"
Stevie (Have No Heart): "well, in the future send no one to me who has a heart"

Kick It

Wilde: "'I am waited for in Egypt,' said the Swallow."
Stevie (Kick It): "Well I'm waited for in Egypt"
Wilde: "'I will stay with you one night longer' said the Swallow."
Stevie (Kick It): "I'll stay with you one more night"

Lily Girl

Wilde: "A LILY-GIRL, not made for this world's pain/ With brown, soft hair close braided by her ears/ And longing eyes half veiled by slumberous tears/ Like bluest water seen through mists of rain"
Stevie (Lily Girl): "She was a Lily Girl, not made for this world/ Veiled eyes covering nights of tears, nights of tears/ Like the blue, blue water and the crystal fountains"