i race against the rain.
Me and Ten have a strange relationship. 80% of time he’s onscreen… I kind of hate him - mostly down to the way that he’s written by most of the writing team (yeah, okay, Rusty? I’m looking at you here.) This saddens because when he’s written right (perfect, shining example would be Forest Of The Dead) I love him dearly. But, like I said, for the majority of the time, he’s mostly an utter twat.
Let me introduce you to the version of the Tenth Doctor that lives inside my head. Less of the Lonley God that seems to keep being depicted, more of the masochistic, self-indulgent, twisted, manipulative, slut-boi, vengeful bastard of an oncoming storm. My Ten is a pretty fucked up individual and he’s so very, very alien.
Enjoy.
graphic by
j_p_fan
The Hero Always Falls
Without You I’m Nothing - Placebo
Tick - tock / tick - tock / tick - tock / tick - tick - tick - tick - tick - tock. / I'm unclean, a libertine / And every time you vent your spleen / I seem to lose the power of speech / Your slipping slowly from my reach / You grow me like an evergreen / You never see the lonely me at all / I... / Take the plan, spin it sideways / I... fall.
The Show Must Go On - Queen
Empty spaces - what are we living for? / Abandoned places - I guess we know the score.. / On and on! / Does anybody know what we are looking for? / Another hero - another mindless crime / Behind the curtain, in the pantomime / Hold the line / Does anybody want to take it anymore? / The Show must go on! / The Show must go on! / Inside my heart is breaking / My make-up may be flaking / But my smile, still, stays on / … / My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies / Fairy tales of yesterday, will grow but never die / I can fly, my friends!
42 - Coldplay
Those who are dead are not dead / They're just living in my head / And since I fell for that spell / I am living there as well / Time is short and I'm sure / There must be something more / You thought you might be a ghost / You didn't get to heaven, but you made it close.
In The Hospital - Friendly Fires
Nothing lasts, only a memory.
Millstone - Brand New
I used to be such a burning example / I used to be so original / I used to care, I was being cared for / Made sure I showed it to those that I love / … / This ship of fools I'm on will sink / A millstone around my neck / (If you'd) be my breath, there's nothing I wouldn't give.
Anya - Burning Down Rome
And as the dance the goes on, the hero always falls.
Destrokk - MGMT
You say, "Hey, I never fall," / as you're falling down / Your blood is all around you now / but you see nothing at all.
Dreamboat 730 - Ringside
I think I need my head checked and painted black / I want to forget where I'm at / Under the table - spinning in my cradle / … / I think I need my spine cracked - break my back / C'mon baby take me back - pinch me, lynch me / Hang me from Ol' Hickory / Sing your songs of peace and love / C'mon baby beat me up - oh now don't worry / I like it when you hurt me.
Laugh, I Nearly Died - The Rolling Stones
I've been travelling but I don't know where / I've been missing you but you just don't care / And I've been wandering, I've seen Greece and Rome / Lost in the wilderness, so far from home / I've been to Africa, looking for my soul / And I feel like an actor looking for a role / I've been in Arabia, I've seen a million stars / … / I'm so sick and tired / Trying to turn the tide, yeah / So I'll say my goodbye / Laugh, laugh / I nearly died.
The Same Deep Water As Me - I Am A Kloot
Swim out to the ocean / Drown your thought out at sea / And dip your hands in the water / The same deep water as me / You've been watching for cloudbursts / You've been praying for rain / Drench your soul in the water / Cleanse your heart of the stain.
Pace Is The Trick - Interpol
Yeah pace is the trick / And to all the destruction in man / … / And now I select you / Slow, now I let you / See how I stun, see how I stun / Now I select you, slow now I bet you / See how I stun, see how I stun / And to all the destruction in man / And to all the corruption in my hand.
The Freest Man - Tilly And The Wall
This boy I know, he has a heart of glass / It is gold inside but it has crystallized / It is beautiful but in it's tragedy / It is hard to hold without shattering / He calls himself at night, in soft overchords / This boy I know lives in a bell jar / It is balancing up on it's pedestal / He tries not to upset the weight of conscience / Afraid it's so far to fall if no one catches him.
Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm you with a smile / And cut you like you want me to / Cut that little child / Inside of me and such a part of you / Oh, the years burn / I used to be a little boy / So old in my shoes / And what I choose is my choice / What's a boy supposed to do? / The killer in me is the killer in you.
Landlocked Blues - Bright Eyes
And the world's got me dizzy again / You'd think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin / And it only feels worse when I stay in one place / So I'm always pacing around or walking away / I keep drinking the ink from my pen / And I'm balancing history books up on my head / But it all boils down to one quotable phrase / "If you love something give it away" / A good woman will pick you apart / A box full of suggestions for your possible heart / But you may be offended, and you may be afraid / But don't walk away, don't walk away.
Forever After Days - The National
On my feet I stand tonight, stand and step up to the light / an extraordinary man unbroken in the breaking light / forever after days, stand and make myself a crown / to the table I step alone, hold my own above the ground / take my shot under the light, heroes come a common way / pull myself into the sky, wrap me in the banner I made / on my feet I stand tonight, stand alone inside the edge / an extraordinary man, everything starts and holds me there.
Laser Beams - Winterlseep (and for the record? This is my definitive Tenth Doctor song.)
How did I ever get so God damned dumb? / A forigen lick from a familiar tongue / Its not one you love, but its familiar enough / Mouth full of teeth chewed up and spit on the ground / When I speak I'm not words, just white naked sound / Carelessly rendered, scattered around. / Random / Animal / Clumsily stitched together / Forever alien and forever altered / Floating in absolute time, and space and time / and space and time and space / And nothin’ really matters anymore.
Starman - David Bowie (Song for The Doctor in general. I wasn’t going to include it at first because it doesn’t really “fit in” with the rest of the mix but… screw it, Bowie is beyond awesome.)
There's a starman waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us / But he thinks he'd blow our minds / There's a starman waiting in the sky / He's told us not to blow it / Cause he knows it's all worthwhile.
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Let me introduce you to the version of the Tenth Doctor that lives inside my head. Less of the Lonley God that seems to keep being depicted, more of the masochistic, self-indulgent, twisted, manipulative, slut-boi, vengeful bastard of an oncoming storm. My Ten is a pretty fucked up individual and he’s so very, very alien.
Enjoy.
graphic by
j_p_fan
The Hero Always Falls
Without You I’m Nothing - Placebo
Tick - tock / tick - tock / tick - tock / tick - tick - tick - tick - tick - tock. / I'm unclean, a libertine / And every time you vent your spleen / I seem to lose the power of speech / Your slipping slowly from my reach / You grow me like an evergreen / You never see the lonely me at all / I... / Take the plan, spin it sideways / I... fall.
The Show Must Go On - Queen
Empty spaces - what are we living for? / Abandoned places - I guess we know the score.. / On and on! / Does anybody know what we are looking for? / Another hero - another mindless crime / Behind the curtain, in the pantomime / Hold the line / Does anybody want to take it anymore? / The Show must go on! / The Show must go on! / Inside my heart is breaking / My make-up may be flaking / But my smile, still, stays on / … / My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies / Fairy tales of yesterday, will grow but never die / I can fly, my friends!
42 - Coldplay
Those who are dead are not dead / They're just living in my head / And since I fell for that spell / I am living there as well / Time is short and I'm sure / There must be something more / You thought you might be a ghost / You didn't get to heaven, but you made it close.
In The Hospital - Friendly Fires
Nothing lasts, only a memory.
Millstone - Brand New
I used to be such a burning example / I used to be so original / I used to care, I was being cared for / Made sure I showed it to those that I love / … / This ship of fools I'm on will sink / A millstone around my neck / (If you'd) be my breath, there's nothing I wouldn't give.
Anya - Burning Down Rome
And as the dance the goes on, the hero always falls.
Destrokk - MGMT
You say, "Hey, I never fall," / as you're falling down / Your blood is all around you now / but you see nothing at all.
Dreamboat 730 - Ringside
I think I need my head checked and painted black / I want to forget where I'm at / Under the table - spinning in my cradle / … / I think I need my spine cracked - break my back / C'mon baby take me back - pinch me, lynch me / Hang me from Ol' Hickory / Sing your songs of peace and love / C'mon baby beat me up - oh now don't worry / I like it when you hurt me.
Laugh, I Nearly Died - The Rolling Stones
I've been travelling but I don't know where / I've been missing you but you just don't care / And I've been wandering, I've seen Greece and Rome / Lost in the wilderness, so far from home / I've been to Africa, looking for my soul / And I feel like an actor looking for a role / I've been in Arabia, I've seen a million stars / … / I'm so sick and tired / Trying to turn the tide, yeah / So I'll say my goodbye / Laugh, laugh / I nearly died.
The Same Deep Water As Me - I Am A Kloot
Swim out to the ocean / Drown your thought out at sea / And dip your hands in the water / The same deep water as me / You've been watching for cloudbursts / You've been praying for rain / Drench your soul in the water / Cleanse your heart of the stain.
Pace Is The Trick - Interpol
Yeah pace is the trick / And to all the destruction in man / … / And now I select you / Slow, now I let you / See how I stun, see how I stun / Now I select you, slow now I bet you / See how I stun, see how I stun / And to all the destruction in man / And to all the corruption in my hand.
The Freest Man - Tilly And The Wall
This boy I know, he has a heart of glass / It is gold inside but it has crystallized / It is beautiful but in it's tragedy / It is hard to hold without shattering / He calls himself at night, in soft overchords / This boy I know lives in a bell jar / It is balancing up on it's pedestal / He tries not to upset the weight of conscience / Afraid it's so far to fall if no one catches him.
Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins
Disarm you with a smile / And cut you like you want me to / Cut that little child / Inside of me and such a part of you / Oh, the years burn / I used to be a little boy / So old in my shoes / And what I choose is my choice / What's a boy supposed to do? / The killer in me is the killer in you.
Landlocked Blues - Bright Eyes
And the world's got me dizzy again / You'd think after 22 years I'd be used to the spin / And it only feels worse when I stay in one place / So I'm always pacing around or walking away / I keep drinking the ink from my pen / And I'm balancing history books up on my head / But it all boils down to one quotable phrase / "If you love something give it away" / A good woman will pick you apart / A box full of suggestions for your possible heart / But you may be offended, and you may be afraid / But don't walk away, don't walk away.
Forever After Days - The National
On my feet I stand tonight, stand and step up to the light / an extraordinary man unbroken in the breaking light / forever after days, stand and make myself a crown / to the table I step alone, hold my own above the ground / take my shot under the light, heroes come a common way / pull myself into the sky, wrap me in the banner I made / on my feet I stand tonight, stand alone inside the edge / an extraordinary man, everything starts and holds me there.
Laser Beams - Winterlseep (and for the record? This is my definitive Tenth Doctor song.)
How did I ever get so God damned dumb? / A forigen lick from a familiar tongue / Its not one you love, but its familiar enough / Mouth full of teeth chewed up and spit on the ground / When I speak I'm not words, just white naked sound / Carelessly rendered, scattered around. / Random / Animal / Clumsily stitched together / Forever alien and forever altered / Floating in absolute time, and space and time / and space and time and space / And nothin’ really matters anymore.
Starman - David Bowie (Song for The Doctor in general. I wasn’t going to include it at first because it doesn’t really “fit in” with the rest of the mix but… screw it, Bowie is beyond awesome.)
There's a starman waiting in the sky / He'd like to come and meet us / But he thinks he'd blow our minds / There's a starman waiting in the sky / He's told us not to blow it / Cause he knows it's all worthwhile.
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