a work in progress...
after dafnap spammed me with huge amounts of awesome music today, my current Iron Man writing playlist has undergone a substantial change. like, half of these are from her. Daf, you rock. THIS WAS TODAY'S MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT.
1. Optimistic - Radiohead
You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
2. Suture Up Your Future - Queens of the Stone Age
I won’t waste it, turned to face it
I’d sharpened a knife, then used it
Until bone made it dull
3. White Waves - Shearwater
And a voice, low in my ear
Says, "The things that we did here will never die"
4. Gone - U2
You're holding on to every little thing so tightly
'Til there's nothing left for you anyway
5. Good Times are Gonna Come - Aqualung
See me then
Investing so much
In you
6. Red Sea, Black Sea - Shearwater
And the walls came down, it was
a fucking disaster
The whole thing's changed in
unthinkable ways
And now you have come to inherit it
7. In the Fade - Queens of the Stone Age
There's nothing to save I know
You live till you die
8. Banged and Blown Through - Saul Williams
We are broken... instruments
Burst wide open... smashed and bent
9. One Line - PJ Harvey
I'm watching from the wall
As in the streets we fight
This world all gone to war
All I need is you tonight
10. All I Need - Radiohead
I wanna stick with you, because there are no others
11. Ocean of Noise - Arcade Fire
Now who here among us
Still believes in choice?
12. Metal Heart - Cat Power
Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
You're losing the calling that you've been faking
13. No One Ever Does - Saul Williams
Suddenly, who I thought was me was not me at all and I feel so small
Sitting way beneath who I want to be
I don't want to be who I've grown to be
14. Dagger - Emily Jane White
It's like I walked into a dagger, took a step back,
You turned around and didn't look back
15. Dragonfly - M. Craft
When the morning starts to glow out in the corners of the sky
All the people come and go, and the time just passes by
Then I'm oinly gonna see it from the corner of my eye
When the planet spins, it sings like the wings of a dragonfly
16. Pink Light - Laura Veirs
Oh, how the night drags on, oh
But in the fading of the constellations, I am growing strong
17. Fake Empire - The National
Turn the light out say goodnight
no thinking for a little while
lets not try to figure out everything at once
It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky
The extended mix (for when I'm feeling like ending on a less optimistic note):
18. Melodies & Desires - Lykke Li
You'll be the rhythm and I'll be the beat
Then I'll be the rhythm and you'll be the beat
And love, the shoreline, where you and I meet
19. Hallelujah - (cover) Bono
Now maybe there's a God above
But all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
And it's no complaint you hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who's seen the light
It's a cold and broken Hallelujah
20. Revelator - Gillian Welch
Darling remember from when you come to me
that I’m the pretender,
I’m not what I’m supposed to be
but who could know, lf I’m a traitor?
21. I Got Nobody Waiting For Me - M. Craft
And all those wages we make for our sins
Become the cages we lock ourselves in
Become the age that is marked on our skin
1. Optimistic - Radiohead
You can try the best you can
If you try the best you can
The best you can is good enough
2. Suture Up Your Future - Queens of the Stone Age
I won’t waste it, turned to face it
I’d sharpened a knife, then used it
Until bone made it dull
3. White Waves - Shearwater
And a voice, low in my ear
Says, "The things that we did here will never die"
4. Gone - U2
You're holding on to every little thing so tightly
'Til there's nothing left for you anyway
5. Good Times are Gonna Come - Aqualung
See me then
Investing so much
In you
6. Red Sea, Black Sea - Shearwater
And the walls came down, it was
a fucking disaster
The whole thing's changed in
unthinkable ways
And now you have come to inherit it
7. In the Fade - Queens of the Stone Age
There's nothing to save I know
You live till you die
8. Banged and Blown Through - Saul Williams
We are broken... instruments
Burst wide open... smashed and bent
9. One Line - PJ Harvey
I'm watching from the wall
As in the streets we fight
This world all gone to war
All I need is you tonight
10. All I Need - Radiohead
I wanna stick with you, because there are no others
11. Ocean of Noise - Arcade Fire
Now who here among us
Still believes in choice?
12. Metal Heart - Cat Power
Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
You're losing the calling that you've been faking
13. No One Ever Does - Saul Williams
Suddenly, who I thought was me was not me at all and I feel so small
Sitting way beneath who I want to be
I don't want to be who I've grown to be
14. Dagger - Emily Jane White
It's like I walked into a dagger, took a step back,
You turned around and didn't look back
15. Dragonfly - M. Craft
When the morning starts to glow out in the corners of the sky
All the people come and go, and the time just passes by
Then I'm oinly gonna see it from the corner of my eye
When the planet spins, it sings like the wings of a dragonfly
16. Pink Light - Laura Veirs
Oh, how the night drags on, oh
But in the fading of the constellations, I am growing strong
17. Fake Empire - The National
Turn the light out say goodnight
no thinking for a little while
lets not try to figure out everything at once
It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky
The extended mix (for when I'm feeling like ending on a less optimistic note):
18. Melodies & Desires - Lykke Li
You'll be the rhythm and I'll be the beat
Then I'll be the rhythm and you'll be the beat
And love, the shoreline, where you and I meet
19. Hallelujah - (cover) Bono
Now maybe there's a God above
But all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
And it's no complaint you hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who's seen the light
It's a cold and broken Hallelujah
20. Revelator - Gillian Welch
Darling remember from when you come to me
that I’m the pretender,
I’m not what I’m supposed to be
but who could know, lf I’m a traitor?
21. I Got Nobody Waiting For Me - M. Craft
And all those wages we make for our sins
Become the cages we lock ourselves in
Become the age that is marked on our skin