Love Is Our Resistance
I was working on this for a while now--music is an intrinsic part of my life,. and my writing process. These are the songs that I reached for when playing Mass Effect and romancing Kaidan Alenko. As I am an old f...excuse me, not a spring chicken any more, a lot of these are not quite recent.
The tracks cover Mass Effect 1 events from 1 through 17, then ME 2 from 18 through 21, and 22 is the bonus for the start of ME3.
Anyhow, enjoy.
Love Is Our Resistance
--A FShep/Kaidan Fanmix--
And it was dark
So dark at night
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd write
And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together
There's no disguise upon your face
You're not like anyone I know
They give so freely and they come when I come out
But you're the one, the one I want to understand
But then you opened up a door
You opened up a door
Now I start to believe in something else
But how do I know if I'll make it through?
How do I know? Where's the proof in you?
Neon heart, day-glow eyes
The city lit by fireflies
They're advertising in the skies
And people like us
And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground
Oh you look so beautiful tonight...
You ask me why I'm weary
why I can't speak to you
You blame me for my silence
say it's time I changed and grew
But the war's still going on dear
and there's no end that I know
And I can't say if we're ever
I can't say if we're
ever gonna to be free
She carries the act so convincingly
The fact is sometimes she believes it
She can be happy with the way things are
Be happy with the things she's done
Inside your mind is a relay station
A mission probe into the unknowing
We send a seed to a distant future
Then we can watch the galaxies growing
This ain't no time for doubting your power
This ain't no time for hiding your care
You're climbing down from an ivory tower
You've got a stake in the world we ought to share
Every moment marked
with apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
trying to escape this desire
the yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
You will be shown
How I've become
Indestructible
Determination that is incorruptible
From the other side a terror to behold
Annihilation will be unavoidable
Every broken enemy will know
That their opponent had to be invincible
Take a last look around while you’re alive
I'm an indestructible
Master of war
When I'm around I want you near
Handsome fellow, will you hold me dear?
I've seen blue eyes and straight white teeth
Golden minds and sturdy feet
But every path has lead me back to you
Every path has lead me back to you
The places I've been
The people I've seen
Plans that I made
Start to fade
The sun's setting gold
Thought I would grow old,
It wasn't to be
Speeches won't be made today, clocks will carry on
Flowers won't be left in parks, work will still be done
People won't be dressed in black, babies will be born
No flags will fly, the sun will rise,
But we know that you are gone
We will praise
The love and the grace
That gave us our existence
So lowly beneath the sun
As it poured out its light
On alien stars.
Love is our resistance
They'll keep us apart and they wont to stop breaking us down
Hold me
our lips must always be sealed
If we live a life in fear
I'll wait a thousand years
just to see you smile again
Heaven holds a sense of wonder, and I wanted to believe
That I'd get caught up when the rage in me subsides
In this white wave I am sinking, in this silence
In this white wave, in this silence, I believe
17. U2, Love and Peace Or Else
Lay down
Lay down
Lay your sweet lovely on the ground
Lay your love on the track
We're gonna break the monster's back
Yes we are...
18.
30 Second to Mars, Search and Destroy-
Sold my soul to heaven and to hell
Sick as my secrets but I’m never gonna to tell
I’m to blame
Burden of my dreams
A curse of faith and a blessing
I believe
I believe
Oh I believe
I believe
19. Porcelain And the Tramps, Gasoline
Don't get in my face
Don't invade my space
I'll put you in your place
I'll only tell you once
I'll never tell you twice
And this is me being nice
20. Trading Yesterday, Shattered
Yesterday I died, tomorrow's bleeding
Fall into your sunlight
The future's open wide beyond believing
To know why hope dies
Losing what was found, a world so hollow
Suspended in a compromise
The silence of this sound is soon to follow
Somehow sundown
21. Jeff Buckley, Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you?
And it's not a cry, that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
22. OK Go, Invincible
When they finally come to destroy the earth
They’ll have to deal with you first and now
My money says they won’t know about
The thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes
The tracks cover Mass Effect 1 events from 1 through 17, then ME 2 from 18 through 21, and 22 is the bonus for the start of ME3.
Anyhow, enjoy.
Love Is Our Resistance
--A FShep/Kaidan Fanmix--
And it was dark
So dark at night
And we held on to each other
Like brother to brother
We promised our mothers we'd write
And we would all go down together
We said we'd all go down together
Yes we would all go down together
There's no disguise upon your face
You're not like anyone I know
They give so freely and they come when I come out
But you're the one, the one I want to understand
But then you opened up a door
You opened up a door
Now I start to believe in something else
But how do I know if I'll make it through?
How do I know? Where's the proof in you?
Neon heart, day-glow eyes
The city lit by fireflies
They're advertising in the skies
And people like us
And I miss you when you're not around
I'm getting ready to leave the ground
Oh you look so beautiful tonight...
You ask me why I'm weary
why I can't speak to you
You blame me for my silence
say it's time I changed and grew
But the war's still going on dear
and there's no end that I know
And I can't say if we're ever
I can't say if we're
ever gonna to be free
She carries the act so convincingly
The fact is sometimes she believes it
She can be happy with the way things are
Be happy with the things she's done
Inside your mind is a relay station
A mission probe into the unknowing
We send a seed to a distant future
Then we can watch the galaxies growing
This ain't no time for doubting your power
This ain't no time for hiding your care
You're climbing down from an ivory tower
You've got a stake in the world we ought to share
Every moment marked
with apparitions of your soul
I'm ever swiftly moving
trying to escape this desire
the yearning to be near you
I do what I have to do
You will be shown
How I've become
Indestructible
Determination that is incorruptible
From the other side a terror to behold
Annihilation will be unavoidable
Every broken enemy will know
That their opponent had to be invincible
Take a last look around while you’re alive
I'm an indestructible
Master of war
When I'm around I want you near
Handsome fellow, will you hold me dear?
I've seen blue eyes and straight white teeth
Golden minds and sturdy feet
But every path has lead me back to you
Every path has lead me back to you
- (instrumental) Tomayasu Hotei, Battle Without Honor or Humanity
- --Jem, 24-
The places I've been
The people I've seen
Plans that I made
Start to fade
The sun's setting gold
Thought I would grow old,
It wasn't to be
- Dido, The Day Before The Day
Speeches won't be made today, clocks will carry on
Flowers won't be left in parks, work will still be done
People won't be dressed in black, babies will be born
No flags will fly, the sun will rise,
But we know that you are gone
We will praise
The love and the grace
That gave us our existence
So lowly beneath the sun
As it poured out its light
On alien stars.
Love is our resistance
They'll keep us apart and they wont to stop breaking us down
Hold me
our lips must always be sealed
If we live a life in fear
I'll wait a thousand years
just to see you smile again
Heaven holds a sense of wonder, and I wanted to believe
That I'd get caught up when the rage in me subsides
In this white wave I am sinking, in this silence
In this white wave, in this silence, I believe
17. U2, Love and Peace Or Else
Lay down
Lay down
Lay your sweet lovely on the ground
Lay your love on the track
We're gonna break the monster's back
Yes we are...
18.
30 Second to Mars, Search and Destroy-
Sold my soul to heaven and to hell
Sick as my secrets but I’m never gonna to tell
I’m to blame
Burden of my dreams
A curse of faith and a blessing
I believe
I believe
Oh I believe
I believe
19. Porcelain And the Tramps, Gasoline
Don't get in my face
Don't invade my space
I'll put you in your place
I'll only tell you once
I'll never tell you twice
And this is me being nice
20. Trading Yesterday, Shattered
Yesterday I died, tomorrow's bleeding
Fall into your sunlight
The future's open wide beyond believing
To know why hope dies
Losing what was found, a world so hollow
Suspended in a compromise
The silence of this sound is soon to follow
Somehow sundown
21. Jeff Buckley, Hallelujah
Maybe there's a God above
But all I've ever learned from love
Was how to shoot somebody who outdrew you?
And it's not a cry, that you hear at night
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah
22. OK Go, Invincible
When they finally come to destroy the earth
They’ll have to deal with you first and now
My money says they won’t know about
The thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes