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Originally posted by Necroscape:
I have a question. I was positive that in the Ballad of Serenity, the line went: "There's no place I can be, since I found Serenity." But in two fan songs I heard they said: "Have no place I can be." So which is it?

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Originally posted by asarian:
The first is correct. Plus, "Have no place I can be since I found Serenity" means the complete opposite. :)

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Originally posted by DonCoat:

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Originally posted by asarian:

The first is correct. Plus, "Have no place I can be since I found Serenity" means the complete opposite. :)

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As others have pointed out, either version is acceptable.

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I disagree that the meaning is different. The "have" version implies an "I" at the start of the line: "(I) have no place I can be since I found Serenity". That's the same meaning as "There's no place I can be..."

The odd thing is that it's easy to misinterpret this line. If you think of Serenity, the ship, it seems to say (roughly) "I have no place I feel at home since I got my ship, Serenity". That's a bit odd, since the characters (and we) all think of Serenity as home.

But a better interpretation (in my opinion) is that the line refers to Serenity Valley, the place where Mal "lost his way". Now the line means something like "Since the battle of Serenity I've had no sense of purpose".

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