001 // MIX - Gossip Girl - Dan/Blair - Don't Lift Me Up I'm a Wreck I Know
Don't Lift Me Up I'm a Wreck I Know
Notes: Speculative post season 5 mix. Dan goes to Rome alone. I think they would have split (for a time) over the fact they were just at different places in their relationship and needed time to work through things. Dan and Blair have a lot of issues with regard to trust, equality, and honesty. And I do think they could work through them and the conflict would grow and be dealt with organically and naturally. The final episode will (probably) be filed in my brain under NOT REAL and in it's place this mix will fill as canon. Dan POV from about 5x20 onward.
001. Bricks // Hurray for the Riff Raff
My love hair
Is the color of brick,
It's the color of brick.
And she holds me,
Right down on the ground
So I don't fly too far.
Away, away, away
Well we stand tall,
Together like towers.
Well together like towers,
We fall, we fall, we fall
002. I'll Believe in Anything // Wolf Parade
So give me your eyes
I need sunshine
Give me your eyes
I need sunshine
We've both been very brave
Walk around with both legs
Wait for the scary day
We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves
I'd take you where nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
I said nobody knows you
And nobody gives a damn
003. True Affection // The Blow
I was out of your league
And you were 20,000 underneath the sea
Waiving affections
You were out of my league
At a distance that I didn't wanna see
Wanted you nearer
Your depths made a pressure that punctured my works and all your fluids couldn't tolerate the force of my thirst
I love the place where we shared our tiny grace
But just because it's real don't mean it's gonna work
004. Our Hell // Emily Haines & the Soft Skeleton
When we stop my hands will shake,
My eyes will burn, my throat will ache,
Watching you turn from me towards your friends.
What I thought it was it isn’t now
What I thought it was it isn't
Punishment to stall what is done.
What I thought was in this is missing out.
What I thought it was it isn’t now005. Engine Driver // The Decemberists
And if you don't love me let me go
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
006. Archipelago // Mirah
I'm in the Archipelago and I'm waiting to arrive.
I'm in the Archipelago and I know I'm still alive.
You finally told me where you had been thinking for so long.
And it breaks my heart wide open but I know that I'll be stronger next time.
So goodbye my love,
I'll miss it when it's gone.
Goodbye my love,
the ship is shipping on.
Goodbye my love,
I'll give it up into the fog.
Goodbye my love,
I think I knew it all along
007. Midnight Train // Peter and the Wolf
And all this time
I'm wandering sea to sea
Nothing in the world
Except for me
All this time
Running away from you
Nothing much else to do
But wonder if you're running, too
008. Olive Hearts // Bowerbirds
With my toes dangling into the sea,
Into a fog, into a lonely drink.
Don't lift me up,
I'm a wreck, I know.
Still, I've got miles to walk from the cape along the
coast.
And we'll play helicopter in the sand
And bite our thumbs at the acquaintances,
And make it known we're on par for the evening,
And take the butcher's knife through my words again
009. Paper Aeroplane // Angus & Julia Stone
I spilled the ink across the land
Trying to spell your name
Up and down there it goes
Paper aeroplane
It hasnt flown the seven seas to you
But its on its way
It goes through the hands
Then to someone else
To find you girl
010. Postcards From Italy // Beirut
The shattered soul
Following close but nearly twice as slow
In my good times
There were always golden rocks to throw
At those who admit defeat too late
Those were our times, those were our times
And I will love to see that day
That day was mine
000. Postcards From Italy // Florence + The Machine