Shakespeare fanmix: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Title: Nothing Gold Can Stay
Subject: Hamlet/Ophelia
Length: 11 songs
Summary: So Eden sank to grief
Notes: A mix for the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia, chronicling Ophelia's descent into madness. Inspired by Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" - the art is intended to reflect the poem's imagery, because I'm a nerd like that :/
Credit: Painting by John Everett Millais
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf’s a flower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay
-Robert Frost
01. Brightly Wound - Eisley
I hold sunlight and swallow fireflies
and it makes me want to cry, “I love you”
I shall never grow up, make believe is much too fun
can we go far away to the humming meadow?
we were walking there
I had tangles in my hair but you make me feel so pretty
you have shining eyes yes like those forest lights
and it makes me want to cry, “I love you”
I shall never grow up, make believe is much too fun
this place is so lovely it kind of makes me very happy
lets go far away to the humming meadow
to the humming meadow
02. Pretty Down To Your Bones - The Hush Sound
I never wanted anyone else, don't want anyone else but you
you are the neck of the bottle I'm living in
I never wanted anyone else, don't want anyone else but you
I do adore the way you are
do you adore me?
oh, don't say that you don't
03. Half Moon - Iron & Wine
halfway home in the hilltop trees
and all our footprints in the snow
and the evening glow leaving
low night noise in the wintertime
I wake beside you on the floor
counting your breathing
‘cause I can't see nothing in this half moon
lay me down if I should lose you
04. Cataract - White Hinterland
On our bed the curtain's falling
against the din of a descending hush
and though the night bent to kiss my bare shoulders
I could not keep out the dark
is there no good news I can tell you?
is there nothing that'll shake you from your blackest moods
and your spells of mercury?
05. Under The Sheets - Ellie Goulding
in here the world won’t bring us down
our plan is gold dust
out there a lonely girl could drown
we’re under the sheets and you’re killing me
in our house made of paper, your words all over me
we’re under the sheets and you’re killing me
06. Mad Girl’s Love Song - Fisher
the stars go waltzing out in blue and red
and arbitrary blackness gallops in
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
and sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I should have loved a thunderbird instead
at least when spring comes they roar back again
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead
I think I made you up inside my head
07. Sullen Girl - Fiona Apple
there's too much going on
but it's calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion
under the waves in the blue of my oblivion
is that why they call me a sullen girl, sullen girl
they don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea
but he washed me ashore and he took my pearl
and left an empty shell of me
08. The Flowers - Regina Spektor
the flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away
some of the bulbs never opened quite fully
they might so I'm waiting and staying awake
things I have loved I'm allowed to keep
I'll never know if I go to sleep
09. Fare Thee Well - Indigo Girls
fare thee well my bright star
it was a brief brilliant miracle dive
that which I looked up to and I clung to for dear life
had to burn itself up just to make itself alive
but you were long gone before I ever got to you before you blazed past this address
and now I think of having loved and having lost you never know what it's like to never love
who can say what's better, oh, my heart's become the cost
10. The Cold, The Dark & The Silence - Sea Wolf
please don't lie, don't lie to me that you're not afraid, my love
I know you well enough to know you can't be alone
but when the cold, the dark, and the silence come
it's like a sudden rush of water through your heart and lungs
when the cold, the dark, and the silence come
it's like a sudden rush of water, it's like a sudden rush of water
it's like a sudden rush of water through your heart and lungs
11. Opheliac - Emilie Autumn
doubt thou the stars are fire?
doubt thou the sun doth move?
doubt truth to be a liar?
but never doubt
whether I swim or sink
that's no concern of yours now
Feedback is love!
Subject: Hamlet/Ophelia
Length: 11 songs
Summary: So Eden sank to grief
Notes: A mix for the relationship between Hamlet and Ophelia, chronicling Ophelia's descent into madness. Inspired by Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" - the art is intended to reflect the poem's imagery, because I'm a nerd like that :/
Credit: Painting by John Everett Millais
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Nature’s first green is gold
Her hardest hue to hold
Her early leaf’s a flower
But only so an hour
Then leaf subsides to leaf
So Eden sank to grief
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay
-Robert Frost
01. Brightly Wound - Eisley
I hold sunlight and swallow fireflies
and it makes me want to cry, “I love you”
I shall never grow up, make believe is much too fun
can we go far away to the humming meadow?
we were walking there
I had tangles in my hair but you make me feel so pretty
you have shining eyes yes like those forest lights
and it makes me want to cry, “I love you”
I shall never grow up, make believe is much too fun
this place is so lovely it kind of makes me very happy
lets go far away to the humming meadow
to the humming meadow
02. Pretty Down To Your Bones - The Hush Sound
I never wanted anyone else, don't want anyone else but you
you are the neck of the bottle I'm living in
I never wanted anyone else, don't want anyone else but you
I do adore the way you are
do you adore me?
oh, don't say that you don't
03. Half Moon - Iron & Wine
halfway home in the hilltop trees
and all our footprints in the snow
and the evening glow leaving
low night noise in the wintertime
I wake beside you on the floor
counting your breathing
‘cause I can't see nothing in this half moon
lay me down if I should lose you
04. Cataract - White Hinterland
On our bed the curtain's falling
against the din of a descending hush
and though the night bent to kiss my bare shoulders
I could not keep out the dark
is there no good news I can tell you?
is there nothing that'll shake you from your blackest moods
and your spells of mercury?
05. Under The Sheets - Ellie Goulding
in here the world won’t bring us down
our plan is gold dust
out there a lonely girl could drown
we’re under the sheets and you’re killing me
in our house made of paper, your words all over me
we’re under the sheets and you’re killing me
06. Mad Girl’s Love Song - Fisher
the stars go waltzing out in blue and red
and arbitrary blackness gallops in
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead
I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
and sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane
I think I made you up inside my head
I should have loved a thunderbird instead
at least when spring comes they roar back again
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead
I think I made you up inside my head
07. Sullen Girl - Fiona Apple
there's too much going on
but it's calm under the waves, in the blue of my oblivion
under the waves in the blue of my oblivion
is that why they call me a sullen girl, sullen girl
they don't know I used to sail the deep and tranquil sea
but he washed me ashore and he took my pearl
and left an empty shell of me
08. The Flowers - Regina Spektor
the flowers you gave me are rotting and still I refuse to throw them away
some of the bulbs never opened quite fully
they might so I'm waiting and staying awake
things I have loved I'm allowed to keep
I'll never know if I go to sleep
09. Fare Thee Well - Indigo Girls
fare thee well my bright star
it was a brief brilliant miracle dive
that which I looked up to and I clung to for dear life
had to burn itself up just to make itself alive
but you were long gone before I ever got to you before you blazed past this address
and now I think of having loved and having lost you never know what it's like to never love
who can say what's better, oh, my heart's become the cost
10. The Cold, The Dark & The Silence - Sea Wolf
please don't lie, don't lie to me that you're not afraid, my love
I know you well enough to know you can't be alone
but when the cold, the dark, and the silence come
it's like a sudden rush of water through your heart and lungs
when the cold, the dark, and the silence come
it's like a sudden rush of water, it's like a sudden rush of water
it's like a sudden rush of water through your heart and lungs
11. Opheliac - Emilie Autumn
doubt thou the stars are fire?
doubt thou the sun doth move?
doubt truth to be a liar?
but never doubt
whether I swim or sink
that's no concern of yours now
Feedback is love!