listen to the sounds, they're ringing out around you.
So yeah. Music! I tend to make iTunes playlists for characters I write, in fic or RP, so over time I've assembled one for bassist!Light. Figured I might as well share it as a kind of FST/whatever. Now, since I only have most of these songs in .m4p format (which is a special iTunes format - .m4p files are protected against sharing and so forth) I'm not including them as a zip. This, combined with the fact that I'd kill myself trying to figure out the most fitting snippet of lyrics to include if I was going to just include part of them (I am always so frickin' indecisive with that), means I've provided the full lyrics for all of the songs (well, almost the full lyrics. I've edited out some of the repeated choruses and so forth).
Which means the following post is quite long. ... and I realize that not actually including the music kind of defeats the point of an "FST" but this is more about the lyrics than anything anyway, okay? :< I, uh... I think they're all pertinent and... READ THEM, IF SO INCLINED? Yeah. And/or get your hands on these songs if you can. Think of it as a rec list? XD
With all that said... onwards!
i wanna stay right here, forever and ever; here where the light's just right.
let's just call this a collection of words for reprism.
I. fast asleep - voxtrot
everybody wants a piece of some easy enterprise
can't this world cut your face and carry the news that you've got a gift to be giving?
cut it out, cut your loss, we don't dream we fantasize
and this is how we measure the cost, the joy and the pain of 21 years of good living
when you look at me do you see someone with a future
music to my ears, it makes me happy when you tell me
this place is like a womb, you live so well from doing nothing
one day you will learn there is some beauty in the thing that makes you sweat
gotta take something great just to get me out of bed
and i woke up with a song 'cause i had a dream, yes i had a vision of people
lying in the sun
sleeping on the rocks and stones
waiting just to die
they were just fast asleep like lions
they were just fast asleep like lions in summer
when you look at me do you see someone with a future?
music to my ears, it makes me happy when you tell me
this place is like a womb, you live so well from doing nothing
one day you will learn there is some beauty in the thing that makes you
swear all the years of wasted time
half divine
half of what you could be
oh, all this time they let this city
get sad and empty
'cause they're only half awake
oh, all this time they let this city
get sad and empty
'cause they're only half awake
when you look at me do you see someone with a future?
one day you will learn there is some beauty in the thing that makes you sweat
II. everybody wants to rule the world - tears for fears
welcome to your life
there's no turning back
even while we sleep
we will find you
acting on your best behaviour
turn your back on mother nature
everybody wants to rule the world
it's my own design
it's my own remorse
help me to decide
help me make the most
of freedom and of pleasure
nothing ever lasts forever
everybody wants to rule the world
there's a room where the light won't find you
holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
when they do i'll be right behind you
so glad we've almost made it
so sad they had to fade it
everybody wants to rule the world
i can't stand this indecision
married with a lack of vision
everybody wants to rule the world
say that you'll never never never need it
one headline, why believe it?
everybody wants to rule the world
all for freedom and for pleasure
nothing ever lasts forever
everybody wants to rule the world
III. another brick in the wall, pt. 3 - pink floyd
i don't need no arms around me
and i don't need no drugs to calm me
i have seen the writing on the wall
don't think i need anything at all
no, don't think i'll need anything at all
all in all it was all just bricks in the wall
all in all you were just bricks in the wall
IV. kid gloves - voxtrot
listen to the sounds, they're ringing out around you
these are the cries of the dying breed
politics of hate you'd never get around to
blood over brains that we never need
i saw you in the back, studied and relaxed
fixed in the pose like a silent stone
serenity intact, it's the feeling that i lack
life in the floors of a stable home
i can trace you on paper like a sketch of a smell
you're a breath to the runner in contest
in close to the nerve, but you rest so far away
and i have to give it up someday
every time i close my eyes, i see you in front of me
pretending in a love like this
i have no choice but to put you in back of me
don't cover my footsteps
dead weight all right, i know you're no good for me
dead weight all right, i know you're no righteous leader
dead weight all right, that's fine
but get your hands off me
you have to touch me with kid gloves
you have to touch me with kid gloves
body to the wind, you taught me how to stand still
i never felt so alive at once
finger to the quick, yes i can feel your hand still
pressed to the drain of the common months
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm a miserable fuck
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm a tireless bore
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm invisibly stuck all in myself
yes i'm a vanity whore
because it's race and it's power at the center of life
we are blind to the people who need us
but you're the kind of person who could understand my fault
and i hope to measure you someday
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm a miserable fuck
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm a tireless bore
when you compromise yourself like that
it's a dedication
so real and unflinching
dead weight all right, i know you're no good for me
dead weight all right, i know you're no righteous leader
dead weight all right, that's fine
but get your hands off me
you have to touch me with kid gloves
you have to touch me with kid gloves
V. sat in your lap - kate bush
i see the people working
and see it working for them
and so i want to join them
but then i am unhappy
some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
some say that knowledge is something that you never have
i see the people happy
so can it happen for me?
'cause when i am unhappy
there's nothing that can move me
some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
some say that knowledge is something that you never have
some say that heaven is hell
some say that hell is heaven
i must admit, just when i think i'm king
(i just begin)
just when i think i'm king, i must admit
(i just begin)
just when i think i'm king
(i just begin)
i've been doing it for years
my goal is moving nearer
it says look, i'm over here
then it up and disappears
some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
some say that knowledge is ho-ho-ho-ho
i must admit, just when i think i'm king,
(i just begin.)
just when i think i'm king, i must admit,
(i just begin.)
just when i think everything's going great,
(i just begin,)
hey, i get the break,
hey, i'm gonna take it all--
(i just begin.)
when i'm king--
(-- just begin.)
in my dome of ivory,
a home of activity,
i want the answers quickly,
but i don't have no energy.
i hold a cup of wisdom,
but there is nothing within.
my cup, she never overfloweth,
and 'tis i that moan and groaneth.
some grey and white matter,
(give me the karma, mama!)
i'm coming up the ladder
(a jet to mecca)
i'm coming up the ladder
(tibet or jeddah)
up the ladder...
(to salisbury
a monastery
the longest journey
across the desert
across the weather
across the elements
across the water!)
VI. all i really want - alanis morissette
do i stress you out?
my sweater is on backwards and inside out
and you say how appropriate
i don't want to dissect everything today
i don't mean to pick you apart, you see
but i can't help it
and there i go jumping before the gunshot has gone off
slap me with a splintered ruler
and it would knock me to the floor if i wasn't there already
if only i could hunt the hunter
and all i really want is some patience
a way to calm the angry voice
and all i really want is deliverance
do i wear you out?
you must wonder why i'm relentless and all strung out
i'm consumed by the chill of solitary
i'm like estella
i like to reel it in and then spit it out
i'm frustrated by your apathy
and i am frightened by the corrupted ways of this land
if only i could meet the maker
and i am fascinated by the spiritual man
i am humbled by his humble nature
and what i wouldn't give to find a soulmate
someone else to catch this drift
and what i wouldn't give to meet a kindred
enough about me, let's talk about you for a minute
enough about you, let's talk about life for a while
the conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses
falling all around... all around
why are you so petrified of silence?
here, can you handle this?
did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines
or when you think you're gonna die
or did you long for the next distraction
and all i need now is intellectual intercourse
a soul to dig the hole much deeper
and i have no concept of time other than it is flying
if only i could kill the killer
all i really want is some peace, man
a place to find a common ground
and all i really want is a wavelength
all i really want is some comfort
a way to get my hands untied
and all i really want is some justice
VII. mad world - tears for fears
all around me are familiar faces
worn out places, worn out faces
bright and early for their daily races
going nowhere, going nowhere
their tears are filling up their glasses
no expression, no expression
hide my head, i want to drown my sorrow
no tomorrow, no tomorrow
and i find it kind of funny
i find it kind of sad
the dreams in which i'm dying
are the best i've ever had
i find it hard to tell you
'cause i find it hard to take
when people run in circles
it's a very, very
mad world
mad world
children waiting for the day they feel good
happy birthday, happy birthday
made to feel the way that every child should
sit and listen, sit and listen
went to school and i was very nervous
no one knew me, no one knew me
hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson
look right through me, look right through me
and i find it kind of funny
i find it kind of sad
the dreams in which i'm dying
are the best i've ever had
i find it hard to tell you
'cause i find it hard to take
when people run in circles
it's a very, very
mad world
mad world
VIII. i won't share you - the smiths
i won't share you
i won't share you
with the drive and ambition
the zeal i feel
this is my time
the note i wrote as she read, she said
"has the perrier gone straight to my head
or is life sick and cruel instead?"
yes
no, no, no, no, no, no
no, no, no, no, no no
oh
i won't share you, no
i won't share you
with the drive and the dreams inside
this is my time
life tends to come and go
that's okay, as long as you know
life tends to come and go
as long as you know, know, know, know, know, know
know, know, know, know
oh
i won't share you, no
i won't share you
with the drive and the dreams inside
this is my time
i want the freedom and i want the guile
i want the freedom and the guile
oh, life tends to come and go
as long as you know, know, know, know, know
know, know, know, know
oh
i won't share you, no
i won't share you
i'll see you somewhere
i'll see you sometime
darling
IX. madman - charlotte martin
i woke up this morning and my head, it started roaming
no nothing's right, nothing's right
don't remember being born, don't know why we're being torn
no nothing's right, nothing's right
i open up my mouth just to let the demon shout
'bout my dirty little schemes, that the wettest of my dreams are you
nothing's right, nothing's right
over and over i'm feeling
the same old loneliness
and under me under me feeding
the madman
i'm breaking off a piece of what's left of what was me
but it feels all right, feels all right
i'm laying on your road 'cause i thought that it might hold
and it feels all right, feels all right
do i wanna take a bet, is this as good as it will get?
and i cannot get away from the comfortable, familiar chains
nothing's right, nothing's right
over and over i'm feeling
the same old loneliness
and under me under me feeding the madman
over and over it's chilling
the things i let you miss
and if you're a miracle, i am a madman
well i'm sorry i didn't build your walls and
and i'm sorry i had to go and fall and
and i'm sorry i had the whole thing wrong and
well i guess i'm the sorriest of all
and i'm sorry that you were feeling small and
and i'm sorry that i'm not used to crawling
and i'm sorry the writing's on the wall and
well i guess i'm the sorriest, guess i'm the sorriest of all
i woke up this morning and my head, it started roaming
no nothing's right, nothing's right
don't remember being born, don't know why we're being torn
no nothing's right, nothing's right
you said you don't identify
with my sort of petrified outlook
on the pride that i've managed to ignore so long
nothing's right, nothing's right
nothing's right, nothing's right
but it seems all right, seems all right
X. i saved the world today - eurythmics
monday finds you like a bomb
that's been left ticking there too long
you're bleeding
some days there's nothing left to learn
from the point of no return
you're leaving
hey, hey, i saved the world today
everybody's happy now
the bad thing's gone away
and everybody's happy now
the good thing's here to stay
please let it stay
well there's a million mouths to feed
and i've got everything i need
i'm breathing
and there's a hurting thing inside
and i've got everything to hide
i'm grieving
hey, hey, i saved the world today
everybody's happy now
the bad thing's gone away
and everybody's happy now
the good thing's here to stay
please let it stay
XI. blazing away - marianne faithfull
so searching down and out looking for a place to stay
a place of no commitment, a place with no involvement
i got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
strange-looking exile with a passion for the dangerous,
an eye for the wicked, a tongue for the nasty
i got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
what is the reason that things change
what is the reason they can never stay the same
what can i do, what can i do
feel it, release it, things change
feel it, release it, things change
so searching, down and out looking for a place to stay,
a place of no commitment, a place with no involvement
i got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
XII. mission street - vienna teng
mission street is a striking dark-eyed stranger
who speaks a language i don't know but long to learn
its cadences fall endlessly beyond the windowpane
as i sit as though awaiting some return
and my hands are cold tonight
i'm sleepless in this dark
forgetting what it was i came to find
and it seems that i've been wrong
more than i've been right
more than i've been right
mission street calls out to me by name
then hurries on before i've hardly turned my head
promises of answers muttered underneath her breath
like an offering of contraband misread
and my hands are cold tonight
on the strings of this guitar
looking for the chords of what i've left behind
and it seems that i've been wrong
more than i've been right
more than i've been right
mission street is alive at every hour
like i've never been and feared i may not ever be
a light so steady on the mountains in the distance
a solitude so deep it might awaken me
well my hands are cold tonight
but the sky is bright with stars
and i'm tearing through the veil that keeps me blind
and it seems the more i'm wrong
the more that i am right
the more that i am right
XIII. blood red blood - voxtrot
lonely boy, where do we go
i'm stuck believing on the other side
stuck on my own
run fast, retreating
for a place to hide
safety in things, i'm dumb for thinking
'cause a piece of plastic
is nothing more than a piece of plastic
empty streets under my feet
how did we get so far
from the gentle beat
of hearts that cling
held fast together in the dying day
oh you are swimming inside the magic hour
and when you wet your skin
you can suck up all you need to know
you can suck up all you need to know, oh oh
picture me, how will you picture me when i am dead?
all fast and free, building a fantasy, blocks in my head
a legacy, do these things dissipate in the years unread?
i felt pain just like a knife, and then the time it left me
oh i'm just trying to do my best
i'm not afraid of life, i'm afraid of death
build my love in the things i say
you've gotta lift your face to the breaking day
so i ran and i jumped and i flew till i came to the center of an earth so cold
and the wind picked me up and took me straight to the belly of the fears i hold
and i ran and i ran and i ran and i ran
and then then i came right back
threw my arms around you
you were dressed in black
i'm so glad i found you
for you burned my stuff
objects all around you
do we outlast things
memories and sound
or do we fade like this
with the body down into the ground
the flesh and the soil that we love so much
i always wanted to return
return to the body where i was born
i always wanted to return
and i ran and i ran and i ran
oh i'm just trying to do my best
i'm not afraid of life, i'm afraid of death
build my love in the things i say
you've gotta lift your face to the breaking day
because in time it leaves you,
it leaves you like blood, red blood
it leaves you like blood, red blood
it leaves you like blood, red blood
it leaves you like blood, red blood
Which means the following post is quite long. ... and I realize that not actually including the music kind of defeats the point of an "FST" but this is more about the lyrics than anything anyway, okay? :< I, uh... I think they're all pertinent and... READ THEM, IF SO INCLINED? Yeah. And/or get your hands on these songs if you can. Think of it as a rec list? XD
With all that said... onwards!
i wanna stay right here, forever and ever; here where the light's just right.
let's just call this a collection of words for reprism.
I. fast asleep - voxtrot
everybody wants a piece of some easy enterprise
can't this world cut your face and carry the news that you've got a gift to be giving?
cut it out, cut your loss, we don't dream we fantasize
and this is how we measure the cost, the joy and the pain of 21 years of good living
when you look at me do you see someone with a future
music to my ears, it makes me happy when you tell me
this place is like a womb, you live so well from doing nothing
one day you will learn there is some beauty in the thing that makes you sweat
gotta take something great just to get me out of bed
and i woke up with a song 'cause i had a dream, yes i had a vision of people
lying in the sun
sleeping on the rocks and stones
waiting just to die
they were just fast asleep like lions
they were just fast asleep like lions in summer
when you look at me do you see someone with a future?
music to my ears, it makes me happy when you tell me
this place is like a womb, you live so well from doing nothing
one day you will learn there is some beauty in the thing that makes you
swear all the years of wasted time
half divine
half of what you could be
oh, all this time they let this city
get sad and empty
'cause they're only half awake
oh, all this time they let this city
get sad and empty
'cause they're only half awake
when you look at me do you see someone with a future?
one day you will learn there is some beauty in the thing that makes you sweat
II. everybody wants to rule the world - tears for fears
welcome to your life
there's no turning back
even while we sleep
we will find you
acting on your best behaviour
turn your back on mother nature
everybody wants to rule the world
it's my own design
it's my own remorse
help me to decide
help me make the most
of freedom and of pleasure
nothing ever lasts forever
everybody wants to rule the world
there's a room where the light won't find you
holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
when they do i'll be right behind you
so glad we've almost made it
so sad they had to fade it
everybody wants to rule the world
i can't stand this indecision
married with a lack of vision
everybody wants to rule the world
say that you'll never never never need it
one headline, why believe it?
everybody wants to rule the world
all for freedom and for pleasure
nothing ever lasts forever
everybody wants to rule the world
III. another brick in the wall, pt. 3 - pink floyd
i don't need no arms around me
and i don't need no drugs to calm me
i have seen the writing on the wall
don't think i need anything at all
no, don't think i'll need anything at all
all in all it was all just bricks in the wall
all in all you were just bricks in the wall
IV. kid gloves - voxtrot
listen to the sounds, they're ringing out around you
these are the cries of the dying breed
politics of hate you'd never get around to
blood over brains that we never need
i saw you in the back, studied and relaxed
fixed in the pose like a silent stone
serenity intact, it's the feeling that i lack
life in the floors of a stable home
i can trace you on paper like a sketch of a smell
you're a breath to the runner in contest
in close to the nerve, but you rest so far away
and i have to give it up someday
every time i close my eyes, i see you in front of me
pretending in a love like this
i have no choice but to put you in back of me
don't cover my footsteps
dead weight all right, i know you're no good for me
dead weight all right, i know you're no righteous leader
dead weight all right, that's fine
but get your hands off me
you have to touch me with kid gloves
you have to touch me with kid gloves
body to the wind, you taught me how to stand still
i never felt so alive at once
finger to the quick, yes i can feel your hand still
pressed to the drain of the common months
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm a miserable fuck
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm a tireless bore
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm invisibly stuck all in myself
yes i'm a vanity whore
because it's race and it's power at the center of life
we are blind to the people who need us
but you're the kind of person who could understand my fault
and i hope to measure you someday
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm a miserable fuck
cheer me up, cheer me up, i'm a tireless bore
when you compromise yourself like that
it's a dedication
so real and unflinching
dead weight all right, i know you're no good for me
dead weight all right, i know you're no righteous leader
dead weight all right, that's fine
but get your hands off me
you have to touch me with kid gloves
you have to touch me with kid gloves
V. sat in your lap - kate bush
i see the people working
and see it working for them
and so i want to join them
but then i am unhappy
some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
some say that knowledge is something that you never have
i see the people happy
so can it happen for me?
'cause when i am unhappy
there's nothing that can move me
some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
some say that knowledge is something that you never have
some say that heaven is hell
some say that hell is heaven
i must admit, just when i think i'm king
(i just begin)
just when i think i'm king, i must admit
(i just begin)
just when i think i'm king
(i just begin)
i've been doing it for years
my goal is moving nearer
it says look, i'm over here
then it up and disappears
some say that knowledge is something sat in your lap
some say that knowledge is ho-ho-ho-ho
i must admit, just when i think i'm king,
(i just begin.)
just when i think i'm king, i must admit,
(i just begin.)
just when i think everything's going great,
(i just begin,)
hey, i get the break,
hey, i'm gonna take it all--
(i just begin.)
when i'm king--
(-- just begin.)
in my dome of ivory,
a home of activity,
i want the answers quickly,
but i don't have no energy.
i hold a cup of wisdom,
but there is nothing within.
my cup, she never overfloweth,
and 'tis i that moan and groaneth.
some grey and white matter,
(give me the karma, mama!)
i'm coming up the ladder
(a jet to mecca)
i'm coming up the ladder
(tibet or jeddah)
up the ladder...
(to salisbury
a monastery
the longest journey
across the desert
across the weather
across the elements
across the water!)
VI. all i really want - alanis morissette
do i stress you out?
my sweater is on backwards and inside out
and you say how appropriate
i don't want to dissect everything today
i don't mean to pick you apart, you see
but i can't help it
and there i go jumping before the gunshot has gone off
slap me with a splintered ruler
and it would knock me to the floor if i wasn't there already
if only i could hunt the hunter
and all i really want is some patience
a way to calm the angry voice
and all i really want is deliverance
do i wear you out?
you must wonder why i'm relentless and all strung out
i'm consumed by the chill of solitary
i'm like estella
i like to reel it in and then spit it out
i'm frustrated by your apathy
and i am frightened by the corrupted ways of this land
if only i could meet the maker
and i am fascinated by the spiritual man
i am humbled by his humble nature
and what i wouldn't give to find a soulmate
someone else to catch this drift
and what i wouldn't give to meet a kindred
enough about me, let's talk about you for a minute
enough about you, let's talk about life for a while
the conflicts, the craziness and the sound of pretenses
falling all around... all around
why are you so petrified of silence?
here, can you handle this?
did you think about your bills, your ex, your deadlines
or when you think you're gonna die
or did you long for the next distraction
and all i need now is intellectual intercourse
a soul to dig the hole much deeper
and i have no concept of time other than it is flying
if only i could kill the killer
all i really want is some peace, man
a place to find a common ground
and all i really want is a wavelength
all i really want is some comfort
a way to get my hands untied
and all i really want is some justice
VII. mad world - tears for fears
all around me are familiar faces
worn out places, worn out faces
bright and early for their daily races
going nowhere, going nowhere
their tears are filling up their glasses
no expression, no expression
hide my head, i want to drown my sorrow
no tomorrow, no tomorrow
and i find it kind of funny
i find it kind of sad
the dreams in which i'm dying
are the best i've ever had
i find it hard to tell you
'cause i find it hard to take
when people run in circles
it's a very, very
mad world
mad world
children waiting for the day they feel good
happy birthday, happy birthday
made to feel the way that every child should
sit and listen, sit and listen
went to school and i was very nervous
no one knew me, no one knew me
hello teacher, tell me what's my lesson
look right through me, look right through me
and i find it kind of funny
i find it kind of sad
the dreams in which i'm dying
are the best i've ever had
i find it hard to tell you
'cause i find it hard to take
when people run in circles
it's a very, very
mad world
mad world
VIII. i won't share you - the smiths
i won't share you
i won't share you
with the drive and ambition
the zeal i feel
this is my time
the note i wrote as she read, she said
"has the perrier gone straight to my head
or is life sick and cruel instead?"
yes
no, no, no, no, no, no
no, no, no, no, no no
oh
i won't share you, no
i won't share you
with the drive and the dreams inside
this is my time
life tends to come and go
that's okay, as long as you know
life tends to come and go
as long as you know, know, know, know, know, know
know, know, know, know
oh
i won't share you, no
i won't share you
with the drive and the dreams inside
this is my time
i want the freedom and i want the guile
i want the freedom and the guile
oh, life tends to come and go
as long as you know, know, know, know, know
know, know, know, know
oh
i won't share you, no
i won't share you
i'll see you somewhere
i'll see you sometime
darling
IX. madman - charlotte martin
i woke up this morning and my head, it started roaming
no nothing's right, nothing's right
don't remember being born, don't know why we're being torn
no nothing's right, nothing's right
i open up my mouth just to let the demon shout
'bout my dirty little schemes, that the wettest of my dreams are you
nothing's right, nothing's right
over and over i'm feeling
the same old loneliness
and under me under me feeding
the madman
i'm breaking off a piece of what's left of what was me
but it feels all right, feels all right
i'm laying on your road 'cause i thought that it might hold
and it feels all right, feels all right
do i wanna take a bet, is this as good as it will get?
and i cannot get away from the comfortable, familiar chains
nothing's right, nothing's right
over and over i'm feeling
the same old loneliness
and under me under me feeding the madman
over and over it's chilling
the things i let you miss
and if you're a miracle, i am a madman
well i'm sorry i didn't build your walls and
and i'm sorry i had to go and fall and
and i'm sorry i had the whole thing wrong and
well i guess i'm the sorriest of all
and i'm sorry that you were feeling small and
and i'm sorry that i'm not used to crawling
and i'm sorry the writing's on the wall and
well i guess i'm the sorriest, guess i'm the sorriest of all
i woke up this morning and my head, it started roaming
no nothing's right, nothing's right
don't remember being born, don't know why we're being torn
no nothing's right, nothing's right
you said you don't identify
with my sort of petrified outlook
on the pride that i've managed to ignore so long
nothing's right, nothing's right
nothing's right, nothing's right
but it seems all right, seems all right
X. i saved the world today - eurythmics
monday finds you like a bomb
that's been left ticking there too long
you're bleeding
some days there's nothing left to learn
from the point of no return
you're leaving
hey, hey, i saved the world today
everybody's happy now
the bad thing's gone away
and everybody's happy now
the good thing's here to stay
please let it stay
well there's a million mouths to feed
and i've got everything i need
i'm breathing
and there's a hurting thing inside
and i've got everything to hide
i'm grieving
hey, hey, i saved the world today
everybody's happy now
the bad thing's gone away
and everybody's happy now
the good thing's here to stay
please let it stay
XI. blazing away - marianne faithfull
so searching down and out looking for a place to stay
a place of no commitment, a place with no involvement
i got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
strange-looking exile with a passion for the dangerous,
an eye for the wicked, a tongue for the nasty
i got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
what is the reason that things change
what is the reason they can never stay the same
what can i do, what can i do
feel it, release it, things change
feel it, release it, things change
so searching, down and out looking for a place to stay,
a place of no commitment, a place with no involvement
i got one eye on insanity, the other on the wheel,
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
one's turning, one's burning, blazing away
XII. mission street - vienna teng
mission street is a striking dark-eyed stranger
who speaks a language i don't know but long to learn
its cadences fall endlessly beyond the windowpane
as i sit as though awaiting some return
and my hands are cold tonight
i'm sleepless in this dark
forgetting what it was i came to find
and it seems that i've been wrong
more than i've been right
more than i've been right
mission street calls out to me by name
then hurries on before i've hardly turned my head
promises of answers muttered underneath her breath
like an offering of contraband misread
and my hands are cold tonight
on the strings of this guitar
looking for the chords of what i've left behind
and it seems that i've been wrong
more than i've been right
more than i've been right
mission street is alive at every hour
like i've never been and feared i may not ever be
a light so steady on the mountains in the distance
a solitude so deep it might awaken me
well my hands are cold tonight
but the sky is bright with stars
and i'm tearing through the veil that keeps me blind
and it seems the more i'm wrong
the more that i am right
the more that i am right
XIII. blood red blood - voxtrot
lonely boy, where do we go
i'm stuck believing on the other side
stuck on my own
run fast, retreating
for a place to hide
safety in things, i'm dumb for thinking
'cause a piece of plastic
is nothing more than a piece of plastic
empty streets under my feet
how did we get so far
from the gentle beat
of hearts that cling
held fast together in the dying day
oh you are swimming inside the magic hour
and when you wet your skin
you can suck up all you need to know
you can suck up all you need to know, oh oh
picture me, how will you picture me when i am dead?
all fast and free, building a fantasy, blocks in my head
a legacy, do these things dissipate in the years unread?
i felt pain just like a knife, and then the time it left me
oh i'm just trying to do my best
i'm not afraid of life, i'm afraid of death
build my love in the things i say
you've gotta lift your face to the breaking day
so i ran and i jumped and i flew till i came to the center of an earth so cold
and the wind picked me up and took me straight to the belly of the fears i hold
and i ran and i ran and i ran and i ran
and then then i came right back
threw my arms around you
you were dressed in black
i'm so glad i found you
for you burned my stuff
objects all around you
do we outlast things
memories and sound
or do we fade like this
with the body down into the ground
the flesh and the soil that we love so much
i always wanted to return
return to the body where i was born
i always wanted to return
and i ran and i ran and i ran
oh i'm just trying to do my best
i'm not afraid of life, i'm afraid of death
build my love in the things i say
you've gotta lift your face to the breaking day
because in time it leaves you,
it leaves you like blood, red blood
it leaves you like blood, red blood
it leaves you like blood, red blood
it leaves you like blood, red blood