Some Robin Songs for Vespa331!
vespa331 wanted some songs for Dick Grayson, preferably happy flying songs. These aren't the happiest, but they're (mostly) positive songs:
Cyndi Lauper, "Above the Clouds"
There's a place where the sun breaks through
And the wind bites cold and hard
Stings my ears and
Tears my eyes
When the day starts to shout out loud
Stand tall
And glide
When you're all alone in the crowd
Don't fall
Don't hide
When you walk above the clouds
When you walk above the clouds
When the light is against your face
And your smile is soft and sound
That's when you tell me all your fears
and all your dreams
So proud
Stand tall
And glide
When you're all alone in the crowd
Don't fall
Don't hide
When you walk above the clouds
When you walk above the clouds
I try and tell you
to keep your head upright
Don't swing your sword and shield against the night
Don't block your blessings, boy
You don't have to fight
You don't have to fight
Stand tall
And glide
When you're all alone in the crowd
Don't fall
Don't hide
When you walk above the clouds
When you walk above the clouds
Foo Fighters, "Learn to Fly"
Run and tell all of the angels
This could take all night
Think I need a devil to help me
Get things right
Hook me up a new revolution
Cos this one is a lie
We sat around laughing
And watch the last one die
Chorus
Im looking to the sky to save me
Looking for a sign of life
Looking for something help me burn out bright
Im looking for complications
Looking cos Im tired of lying (trying in 2nd chorus)
Make my way back home
When I learn to fly (high)
Verse 2
Think Im done nursing the patience
I can wait one night
Id give it all away
If you give me one last try
We live happily ever trapped
If you just save my life
Run and tell the angels
That everything is all right
Chorus
Bridge
Fly along with me
I cant quite make it alone
Try to make this life my own
Other songs that remind me of Dick--not happy exactly (he doesn't seem to inspire happy mixes, does he?), but some are nicely...resolute:
A Girl Called Eddy, "Little Bird"
(This song's lyrics are almost eerily perfect to me)
Just like a little bird
Inside a little cage
Trying to find the strength
To learn to turn the page
Just like a mermaid
I am trapped under the sea
Trying to understand
What life wants me to be
Heroes and villains
And old lovers walk by
They tip their hats but
They never answer why
Why does it always seem
To bring me back to this
Searching for home
In someone else's gentle kiss
Searching for home in places
Home just don't exist
Heroes and villains
And old lovers walk by
They tip their hats but
They never answer why
So just like the mermaid
I will swim up to the light
Just like that little bird
It's time for me to fly
Blue Man Group, "Up to the Roof"
(This is DaMo's preferred Robin->Nightwing song)
All I see is not for me.
What I want you have not got.
Tried to use things you sold me, no matter what the cost
Tried to go the way you told me, but each time, I got lost
The stairs didn’t lead me anywhere!
I’m taking the fire escape up to the roof.
Don’t care if it’s not the way you find the truth.
Time to make this right: to rise above.
This room and all of you
Who say I should do like you would
Tried to live the life you sold me, no matter what the cost.
Tried to walk the way you told me, but each time I got lost
The stairs didn’t lead me anywhere!
I’m taking the fire escape up to the roof.
Don’t care if it’s not the way you find the truth
And when I get up that high, I don’t know what I’ll find
But I’d rather look at the sky than wonder why I let you take my time
Time to make this right: to rise above.
I’m taking the fire escape up to the roof.
Don’t care if it’s not the way you find the truth
And when I get up that high, I don’t know what I’ll find
But I’d rather look at the sky than wonder why I let you take my time.
Time to make this right: to rise above.
Time to make this right: to rise above
Innocence Mission, "I Was in the Air"
(DaMo pointed this out to me and it gave me ice-cold chills when I listened to it and read the lyrics. Brrrr.)
Birds of every wing shall dwell within.
Birds of every wing shall dwell within.
Who raised high the lowest tree?
Who raised high the lowest tree?
Birds of every wing shall dwell within.
This far will you come but no more.
This far will you come but no more.
Who holds back the raging sea?
Who keeps trouble far from me?
This far will you come but no more.
I was in the air and you were there.
I was in the air and you were there.
Like my mother at the fair.
Like my father at the fair.
I was in the air and you were there.