mix: (if only) What Could Have Been
title: (if only) What Could Have Been
fandom: none; mix meme
notes: for blueheronz, who prompted me with the phrase "what could have been if only." Aaaaaand, it became about an unknown, non-fandom couple who are in the midst of breaking up - long and messy and lingering- and then the apocolypse happens. And maybe, though it's all over, they aren't.
(if only) What Could Have Been
1. Needing/Getting
Ok Go
And I, yeah I still need you, but what good's that gonna do?
Needing is one thing, and getting, getting’s another
2. Holland
Sufjan Stevens
All the time we spent in bed
Counting miles before we set
Fall in love and fall apart
Things will end before they start
3. It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Eca Cassidy
Now you go your way, baby, and I'll go mine
Now and forever till the end of time
And I'll find somebody new and baby, we'll say we're through
And you won’t matter anymore
4. Junebug
Robert Francis
Junebug, I’d burn down a picture of a house
Say it was ours, when we didn’t need it anymore
And that was when I loved you best
We were kids then
We shouldn’t think about the rest
5. The Flowers
Regina Spektor
Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep
I'll never know if I go to sleep
6. Empty
Metric
Here no one sleeps, one lays up while the other lies down
Where no one sleeps, one lays up while the other lies down
Ask the line on your face what the line on your hand meant
We, we couldn't see what was coming
7. Above and Below
The Bravery
The city moans, it lunges up right from the ground
The seething earth, it opens up and spits us out
It's a vicious child, nature never wanted us
This vicious child, a cancer burning black into its heart
If this is it, all we have and ever will
If this is it, time is running out and standing still
I'll leave today, 'cause there's nothing left to keep me here
I'll fade away, I'll turn my back and disappear
8. 99 Red Balloons
Goldfinger (Blondie)
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, something's out there
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by
9. The Day That Saved Us
Automatic Loveletter
But it’s a different town, a different. place, a different name
My blood flows faster with every thought of everything that happened here
It takes the pain away
Hope is low
Will you show?
Is it so far fetched that we could be who we really are?
And I remember, that day that saved us
10. A Dustland Fairytale
The Killers
Change came in disguise of revelation, set his soul on fire
She said she always knew he'd come around
And the decades disappear
Like sinking ships but we persevere
God gives us hope but we still fear, we don't know
11. Bedshaped
Keane
You'll knock on my door
And up we'll go
In white light
12. Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)
Muse
Love is forever
And we'll die, we'll die together
And lie, I say never
'Cause our love could be forever
13. Glitter in the Air
Pink
It's only half past the point of oblivion
The hourglass on the table, the walk before the run
The breath before the kiss and the fear before the flames
Have you ever felt this way?
14. Suddenly Everything Has Changed
The Postal Service (The Flaming Lips)
And it goes fast
You think of the past
Suddenly everything has changed
Cover/Tracklisting:
4 shared folder
fandom: none; mix meme
notes: for blueheronz, who prompted me with the phrase "what could have been if only." Aaaaaand, it became about an unknown, non-fandom couple who are in the midst of breaking up - long and messy and lingering- and then the apocolypse happens. And maybe, though it's all over, they aren't.
(if only) What Could Have Been
1. Needing/Getting
Ok Go
And I, yeah I still need you, but what good's that gonna do?
Needing is one thing, and getting, getting’s another
2. Holland
Sufjan Stevens
All the time we spent in bed
Counting miles before we set
Fall in love and fall apart
Things will end before they start
3. It Doesn't Matter Anymore
Eca Cassidy
Now you go your way, baby, and I'll go mine
Now and forever till the end of time
And I'll find somebody new and baby, we'll say we're through
And you won’t matter anymore
4. Junebug
Robert Francis
Junebug, I’d burn down a picture of a house
Say it was ours, when we didn’t need it anymore
And that was when I loved you best
We were kids then
We shouldn’t think about the rest
5. The Flowers
Regina Spektor
Things I have loved I'm allowed to keep
I'll never know if I go to sleep
6. Empty
Metric
Here no one sleeps, one lays up while the other lies down
Where no one sleeps, one lays up while the other lies down
Ask the line on your face what the line on your hand meant
We, we couldn't see what was coming
7. Above and Below
The Bravery
The city moans, it lunges up right from the ground
The seething earth, it opens up and spits us out
It's a vicious child, nature never wanted us
This vicious child, a cancer burning black into its heart
If this is it, all we have and ever will
If this is it, time is running out and standing still
I'll leave today, 'cause there's nothing left to keep me here
I'll fade away, I'll turn my back and disappear
8. 99 Red Balloons
Goldfinger (Blondie)
You and I in a little toy shop
Buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, something's out there
Floating in the summer sky
Ninety-nine red balloons go by
9. The Day That Saved Us
Automatic Loveletter
But it’s a different town, a different. place, a different name
My blood flows faster with every thought of everything that happened here
It takes the pain away
Hope is low
Will you show?
Is it so far fetched that we could be who we really are?
And I remember, that day that saved us
10. A Dustland Fairytale
The Killers
Change came in disguise of revelation, set his soul on fire
She said she always knew he'd come around
And the decades disappear
Like sinking ships but we persevere
God gives us hope but we still fear, we don't know
11. Bedshaped
Keane
You'll knock on my door
And up we'll go
In white light
12. Neutron Star Collision (Love is Forever)
Muse
Love is forever
And we'll die, we'll die together
And lie, I say never
'Cause our love could be forever
13. Glitter in the Air
Pink
It's only half past the point of oblivion
The hourglass on the table, the walk before the run
The breath before the kiss and the fear before the flames
Have you ever felt this way?
14. Suddenly Everything Has Changed
The Postal Service (The Flaming Lips)
And it goes fast
You think of the past
Suddenly everything has changed
Cover/Tracklisting:
4 shared folder