Fanmix - What Became of the Likely Lads
Title: What Became of the Likely Lads
Subject: General
Fandom: The Brothers Bloom
Warnings: Language, mature themes, allusions to child abuse.
Notes: A fanmix for a film I fell in love with, The Brothers Bloom. The mix deals more with the brothers than with Penelope, because I don't tend to see the film as being particularly romantic, or about being about Penelope and Bloom's relationship especially, but more as a film about the relationship between two brothers who want very different things out of life. As such, my focus tends to lie on Bloom and Stephen rather than Penelope.
A note that some of the quotes may be slightly off, as I was using the script as reference, and the script is not the same as the finished film, sooo... it happens.
For nakitamanomiko, because life sucks sometimes and I wanna make it better. ♥
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NOBODY KNOWS ME AT ALL | the weepies
I know how you feel, no secrets to reveal
nobody knows me at all
very late at night and in the morning light
nobody knows me at all
"I can't wake up next to another stranger who thinks they know me."
BED OF LIES | matchbox 20
don't think that I can take another empty moment
don't think that I can fake another hollow smile
it's not enough just to be lonely
don't think that I could take another talk about it
"...I don't know who - I'm thirty-five years old and I, I'm useless, I'm crippled, I don't... I've only ever lived life through these roles that aren't me, that are written for me, by you."
SWAN SONG | a fine frenzy
when I wrote the words to the swan song
the author of the wrong
and I said what I said, and I meant it
but now I regret it
how could the world have turned so ugly?
I am dying
could you touch me again?
touch me again..
He writes the stories. They're cons, but for him it's like writing a novel, and he writes his brother as the hero because he wants him to have what that's supposed to give him. The hero always wins, he's never defeated, he always gets everything he wants. He means well. It goes wrong. It's all he can hope that someday, Bloom will forgive him for writing all the wrong endings. For writing endings at all.
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING | the libertines
another secret for ya:
I've been told that if you want to make it in this game
you got to have the luck
you got to have the look
to make what I quite like to make it through the night
my heart beats slow fast, I don't feel right
with a sleight of hand I might die
what about you over there?
don't you think I care?
well, I know you know I know you know I know...
"You don't want out. You think you do, but you don't."
LIAR, LIAR | a fine frenzy
liar, liar, you're such a great big liar
with the tallest tales that I have ever heard
fire, fire, you set my soul on fire
laughing in the corner as it burns
right between the ribs is sinking in...
oh, the sirens sing so sweet and watch the sailors go down
oh, oh, you talk to me in siren song
yeah, anyone would drown
anyone would drown
"I don't want her to end up like me."
THE GARDENER | the dresden dolls
at last my pretty flower is being put to use
you've always been a failure
but now you're bearing strange new fruit...
the inside is all wilted, 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
"It's been a funny thing, watching you boys take what I taught you and eclipse me. I'm so proud to be a footnote in the lives of the brothers Bloom. And yet, you... you hate me."
ALL GOOD THINGS | mandy moore
I could think of a million ways to prove you weren't the one for me
to live inside of your shades of grey and never mind the sunshine that I'll find
I got so much space now, I got a whole house, with the wind blowin' through
I don't need someone to hide
I got this whole world inside I was accustomed to showing you
all good things
I wish you
all good things
come to an end
It was doomed from the start. There's nothing noble or heroic about the way he tells her to get out of there. He tricks her into leaving because he doesn't want her to come back. He begs Stephen to keep her away. Every story has an ending, and he knows his won't be happy.
CAN'T STAND ME NOW | the libertines
an ending fitting for the start
you twist and tore our love apart
your light fingers through the dark
that shattered the lamp and into darkness cast us
It's okay, he thinks, if Bloom hates him for everything he's done and everything he's doing. If it means he's alright in the end, that he gets what he wants. It's okay.
LADIES CHOICE | mandy moore
I'll miss the version of you
who loved me
and all that they don't see
you said you could be good
somehow you're guilty
and you're not even sorry
Penelope never saw this coming, but she never sees anything coming. "I'm not a planner." It didn't mean she couldn't want it back, what she'd left behind, even if he'd lied. Even if it meant tracking him down in an island off of Montenegro.
WISH I COULD FORGET | the weepies
standing in the sun, smoking quiet cigarettes
just before I let you down
funny how a heart shatters all at once
seems like it should make a sound
"I did it so she'd never want to see me again. To get her away from all of this for good."
WHAT BECAME OF THE LIKELY LADS | the libertines
the blood runs thicker, oh
we're thick as thieves, you know
if that's important to you, it's important to me
I tried to make you see
but you don't want to know
you don't want to know
oh, what became of the likely lads?
what became of the dreams we had?
oh, what became of forever?
we'll never know
It would be too easy if it ended like that. If she didn't come back and it didn't start all over again, because that's what it did, some freak circular logic that fate had and was holding against them. They could have done anything they wanted. They could have had anything they wanted. But times had changed.
SAVE ME | poets of the fall
save me, I'm my own worst enemy
running headlong to the wall cos I want my freebie
save me, you're the only out I see
and I need your love the most when I least deserve it
He pretends it's a con because it's easier that way, because it won't hurt as much when Bloom realizes it's not. Because in the end none of it was a con, and all was real, and he meant what he had said: "The day I con you is the day I die, Bloom."
SLUMMIN' IN PARADISE | mandy moore
with some brand new plans and a fancy car
try to place your superstar
cos you can tell the story of your life
without slummin' in paradise
"Here's what. Take Penelope back to Helsinki, take that flight to Rio. Lay low like we said. Play out the on-the-run-from-vengeful-Russians thing, that'll be fun for her. Play it like I'm dead, actually - that'll add some gravity to everything, that'll be nice. And I'll see you when I see you."
HAPPIER | a fine frenzy
it's not the words that make it final
you've said such things before to rival them
but it's how you say 'em now that's changed
cold but sympathetic all the same
lie to convince me that I'll be better off
oh, you go on and I'll be happier, I'll be happier
you go on, you go on
you'll be gone and I'll be happier
"You're the only audience I've ever needed."
Subject: General
Fandom: The Brothers Bloom
Warnings: Language, mature themes, allusions to child abuse.
Notes: A fanmix for a film I fell in love with, The Brothers Bloom. The mix deals more with the brothers than with Penelope, because I don't tend to see the film as being particularly romantic, or about being about Penelope and Bloom's relationship especially, but more as a film about the relationship between two brothers who want very different things out of life. As such, my focus tends to lie on Bloom and Stephen rather than Penelope.
A note that some of the quotes may be slightly off, as I was using the script as reference, and the script is not the same as the finished film, sooo... it happens.
For nakitamanomiko, because life sucks sometimes and I wanna make it better. ♥
[[ DOWNLOAD THE .ZIP!! ]]
NOBODY KNOWS ME AT ALL | the weepies
I know how you feel, no secrets to reveal
nobody knows me at all
very late at night and in the morning light
nobody knows me at all
"I can't wake up next to another stranger who thinks they know me."
BED OF LIES | matchbox 20
don't think that I can take another empty moment
don't think that I can fake another hollow smile
it's not enough just to be lonely
don't think that I could take another talk about it
"...I don't know who - I'm thirty-five years old and I, I'm useless, I'm crippled, I don't... I've only ever lived life through these roles that aren't me, that are written for me, by you."
SWAN SONG | a fine frenzy
when I wrote the words to the swan song
the author of the wrong
and I said what I said, and I meant it
but now I regret it
how could the world have turned so ugly?
I am dying
could you touch me again?
touch me again..
He writes the stories. They're cons, but for him it's like writing a novel, and he writes his brother as the hero because he wants him to have what that's supposed to give him. The hero always wins, he's never defeated, he always gets everything he wants. He means well. It goes wrong. It's all he can hope that someday, Bloom will forgive him for writing all the wrong endings. For writing endings at all.
THE MAN WHO WOULD BE KING | the libertines
another secret for ya:
I've been told that if you want to make it in this game
you got to have the luck
you got to have the look
to make what I quite like to make it through the night
my heart beats slow fast, I don't feel right
with a sleight of hand I might die
what about you over there?
don't you think I care?
well, I know you know I know you know I know...
"You don't want out. You think you do, but you don't."
LIAR, LIAR | a fine frenzy
liar, liar, you're such a great big liar
with the tallest tales that I have ever heard
fire, fire, you set my soul on fire
laughing in the corner as it burns
right between the ribs is sinking in...
oh, the sirens sing so sweet and watch the sailors go down
oh, oh, you talk to me in siren song
yeah, anyone would drown
anyone would drown
"I don't want her to end up like me."
THE GARDENER | the dresden dolls
at last my pretty flower is being put to use
you've always been a failure
but now you're bearing strange new fruit...
the inside is all wilted, 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
"It's been a funny thing, watching you boys take what I taught you and eclipse me. I'm so proud to be a footnote in the lives of the brothers Bloom. And yet, you... you hate me."
ALL GOOD THINGS | mandy moore
I could think of a million ways to prove you weren't the one for me
to live inside of your shades of grey and never mind the sunshine that I'll find
I got so much space now, I got a whole house, with the wind blowin' through
I don't need someone to hide
I got this whole world inside I was accustomed to showing you
all good things
I wish you
all good things
come to an end
It was doomed from the start. There's nothing noble or heroic about the way he tells her to get out of there. He tricks her into leaving because he doesn't want her to come back. He begs Stephen to keep her away. Every story has an ending, and he knows his won't be happy.
CAN'T STAND ME NOW | the libertines
an ending fitting for the start
you twist and tore our love apart
your light fingers through the dark
that shattered the lamp and into darkness cast us
It's okay, he thinks, if Bloom hates him for everything he's done and everything he's doing. If it means he's alright in the end, that he gets what he wants. It's okay.
LADIES CHOICE | mandy moore
I'll miss the version of you
who loved me
and all that they don't see
you said you could be good
somehow you're guilty
and you're not even sorry
Penelope never saw this coming, but she never sees anything coming. "I'm not a planner." It didn't mean she couldn't want it back, what she'd left behind, even if he'd lied. Even if it meant tracking him down in an island off of Montenegro.
WISH I COULD FORGET | the weepies
standing in the sun, smoking quiet cigarettes
just before I let you down
funny how a heart shatters all at once
seems like it should make a sound
"I did it so she'd never want to see me again. To get her away from all of this for good."
WHAT BECAME OF THE LIKELY LADS | the libertines
the blood runs thicker, oh
we're thick as thieves, you know
if that's important to you, it's important to me
I tried to make you see
but you don't want to know
you don't want to know
oh, what became of the likely lads?
what became of the dreams we had?
oh, what became of forever?
we'll never know
It would be too easy if it ended like that. If she didn't come back and it didn't start all over again, because that's what it did, some freak circular logic that fate had and was holding against them. They could have done anything they wanted. They could have had anything they wanted. But times had changed.
SAVE ME | poets of the fall
save me, I'm my own worst enemy
running headlong to the wall cos I want my freebie
save me, you're the only out I see
and I need your love the most when I least deserve it
He pretends it's a con because it's easier that way, because it won't hurt as much when Bloom realizes it's not. Because in the end none of it was a con, and all was real, and he meant what he had said: "The day I con you is the day I die, Bloom."
SLUMMIN' IN PARADISE | mandy moore
with some brand new plans and a fancy car
try to place your superstar
cos you can tell the story of your life
without slummin' in paradise
"Here's what. Take Penelope back to Helsinki, take that flight to Rio. Lay low like we said. Play out the on-the-run-from-vengeful-Russians thing, that'll be fun for her. Play it like I'm dead, actually - that'll add some gravity to everything, that'll be nice. And I'll see you when I see you."
HAPPIER | a fine frenzy
it's not the words that make it final
you've said such things before to rival them
but it's how you say 'em now that's changed
cold but sympathetic all the same
lie to convince me that I'll be better off
oh, you go on and I'll be happier, I'll be happier
you go on, you go on
you'll be gone and I'll be happier
"You're the only audience I've ever needed."