Alma/Kanda Fanmix
Combinations: A Kanda/Alma Fanmix
Contains spoilers for chapters 190-193.
Including: Cat Power, Neko Case, Sia, The Dresden Dolls, The Arcade Fire, Eisley, Portishead, Azure Ray, etc
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1. Bullet With Butterfly Wings - The Smashing Pumpkins
2. The Gardener - Dresden Dolls
3. Breathe Me - Sia
4. Angel - 8mm
5. Deep Water - Portishead
6. Innervoice - Hooverphonic
7. Combinations - Eisley
8. We Are Mice - Azure Ray
9. My Body is A Cage - The Arcade Fire
10. The Greatest - Cat Power
11. Dirty Knife - Neko Case
12. Metal Heart - Cat Power
13. Running Up That Hill - Placebo
14. Saving Josh - Trevor Morris
15. Mad World - Gary Jules
16. The Way Out is Through - Nine Inch Nails
Not gonna lie, I totally fell for Alma and Kanda's adorkable childhood together. I thought their relationship was really touching and it was a good fleshing out of Kanda's character. And holy crap I never expected Kanda's past to be that f'd up. But the friendship was baww-inducing and I'm interested in seeing how it plays out. I also can't help but view it as that innocent first crush you have in kindergarten. slkdgh But that's just me. This mix is celebrating those crazy flashbacks and the friendship between these two characters.
1. "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" by The Smashing Pumpkins
Kanda
Secret destroyers, hold you up to the flames
And what do I get, for my pain?
Betrayed desires, and a piece of the game
Even though I know -- I suppose I'll show
All my cool and cold-like old Job
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage
2. "Gardener" by The Dresden Dolls
Both
At last my little flower
Is getting put to use
You've always been a failure
But now you're bearing strange new fruit...
The insides are all useless
But the rest is fertile, so
I will take the belt from off the hook
And watch the garden grow
We'll make a man out of you yet
You won't know what will hit you next
The gardener's coming to collect
You wanted love?
That's what you get
3. "Breathe Me" by Sia
Alma
Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
And needy
Warm me up
And breathe me
4. "Angel" by 8mm
Both
So you can't and you won't
Give up the ghost now
Leave it alone
You know you don't need those lessons
Someone else learned
It's your life
It's your right to burn
Hush little angel close your eyes
think pleasant dreams and truer lies
...
Think pleasant dreams and blues skies
5. "Deep Water" by Portishead
Alma
I'm drifting in deep waters
Alone with my self doubting again
I try not to struggle this time
For I will weather the storm
I Gotta remember
Don't fight it
Even if I
Don't like it
Somehow turn me around
No matter how far I drift
Deep waters won't scare me tonight
6. "Innervoice" by Hooverphonic
Kanda
Fear is talking
in my head consulting
But my innvervoice it says
that I'm falling
Could you be the pillow
that solves this problem
Sometimes I want to
close my eyes and trust you
But my innervoice it says
that I'm falling
Could you be the rock
that solves this problem
7. "Combinations" by Eisley
Both
I, I saw you there, wanted you there
I, I knew that it was best for me
You brought me back to that place in my heart
I thought was gone, oh so long
I was unhappy now it's gone
And I'm moving on, moving on
I'm moving on
I went for so long
And I was so wrong
And then I met you
And now I can't live without you
And I don't want to
I've done that all my life up till now
8. "We Are Mice" by Azure Ray
Both
It's all in the eyes
The reckless way we dream to die
Our past is our future
The present lies
Somewhere between our hearts and minds
For those with no future
We'll touch hands on the street
Smile and keep moving towards the heat
So keep this a secret, our lot in life
They are elephants we are mice
We'll walk this earth somnambulant kin
With broken hearts that cannot mend
Losers first and second men
We'll do our best to blend in
9. "My Body is A Cage" by The Arcade Fire
Kanda
I'm living in an age
That calls darkness light
Though my language is dead
Still the shapes fill my head
I'm living in an age
Whose name I don't know
Though the fear keeps me moving
Still my heart beats so slow
My body is a cage
That keeps me from dancing with the one I love
But my mind holds the key
10. "The Greatest" by Cat Power
Alma
Once I wanted to be the greatest
Two fists of solid rock
With brains that could explain
Any feeling
Once I wanted to be the greatest
No wind or waterfall could stall me
And then came the rush of the flood
Stars of night turned deep to dust
11. "Dirty Knife" by Neko Case
Alma
So suddenly the madness came
With its whiskered, wolven, ether pangs
He locked the door
And shut the blinds
He laid down on the floor and he slept like iron
While the dirty knife worked deep
Into his spine
The blood runs crazy
The blood runs crazy
He sang nursery rhymes to paralyze
The wolves that eddy out the corner of his eyes
But they squared him frozen where he stood
In the glow of the furniture piled high for firewood
And the blood runs crazy
12. "Metal Heart" by Cat Power
Both.
I don't like to reuse songs on fanmixes, but this song fits them so perfectly.
Losing the star without a sky
Losing the reasons why
You're losing the calling that you've been faking
And I'm not kidding
It's damned if you don't and it's damned if you do
Be true 'cause they'll lock you up in a sad sad zoo
Oh hidy hidy hidy what cha tryin to prove
By hidy hidy hidy you're not worth a thing
Sew your fortunes on a string
And hold them up to light
Blue smoke will take
A very violent flight
And you will be changed
13. "Running Up That Hill" by Placebo
Both.
You don't want to hurt me,
But see how deep the bullet lies.
Unaware that I'm tearing you asunder.
There is thunder in our hearts, baby.
So much hate for the ones we love
Tell me, we both matter, don't we?
14. "Saving Josh" by Trevor Morris
Instrumental. Blame randomtology for this one ;;
15. "Mad World" by Gary Jules
Kanda
I find it kinda funny
I find it kinda sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
16. "The Way Out is Through" by Nine Inch Nails
Kanda
underneath it all
we feel so small
the heavens fall
but still we crawl
all I've undergone
I will keep on
