bbang: soundtrack and song notes
If you're here after reading, then you've realized that music plays a huge role in this story.
And if you're here before reading, then you should know: music plays a huge role in this story.
The following soundtrack is filled with songs that influenced and motivated my writing, songs that I've loved for a while and songs that I've recently fallen for. It was amazing to discover that so many songs that inspired me were filled with lyrics and lines about the sun, the sky, trees, windows, sunrise and sunset. It all fell into place, really.
But the one song (or, songs really) that seemed to be the musical epidimy of this story is in its namesake: Love Like a Sunset, parts two and one, turned out to be the perfect instrumental/lyrical personification of the entire plot line. I highly recommend listening to them back to back (as they're meant to be, really).
Please feel free to download the album and the artwork! They're all amazing and wonderful and worth it.
All art and graphics and general awesomeness credit to: folkloric_feel &hearts &hearts &hearts
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1.
you were a child
crawlin' on your knees toward it
makin' mama so proud
but your voice was too loud
control yourself
Take only what you need from it
A family of trees wantin'
To be haunted
*
2.
I was on your porch
the smoke sank into my skin
so I came inside to be with you
we talked all night
about everything you could imagine
*
3.
because I don't want to dream if it won't come true
I don't want to dream if it don't come true
if there's something in me well I guess it's in you
if there's somewhere in me then I know it's in you
*
4.
In pastures blue and green
I'll follow you and you'll follow me
my fabrics mystery
I'll wave your loyalty in the freezing breeze
so desperately
I think I see my life
he bows all sly and gentle-like
he's never had the right
but I've never lived without
his sad and jealous eyes
*
5.
will it be alright if I see you tonight
well, I feel like a bird in a cage
for you to notice me, Well I’d take out a knife
suicide right on the stage
I’m like a fish on a hook
water splash into the brook
well, teacher says she’s twice my age
hey teacher could you ease my pain
*
6.
was it love, or just something that reminded me of
something that felt a lot like, but wasn't, love
just friends, friends then, until the end
you know I still pretend, just friends.
take a step and come out of the shade
I can tell you're no longer afraid
I'm helpless without your warming smile
take a step and come out in the sun
I can tell it's already begun
I'm helpless without your warming smile
*
7.
if I was a boy at sea
I would be swinging from a broken tree
I would be down on my back looking up at stars at night
and if I could get back to reach to reach the saltiest of evergreens
you know that I would turn back just to fight the whites of iron eyes
*
8.
now for all the steps you'll take and all you'll overcome
I wanna be the one to put in a song
take every single tear for all the world to hear
I wanna be the one to put it in a song
cigarettes are raining hard on the Upper East Side
she brings me a cake we celebrate I have arrived
and I know that it's been sang before but you're my human holiday
I put my hands to the table and dare say the love of my life
*
9.
instrumental
*
10.
don't get offended
if I seem absent minded
just keep telling me facts
and keep making me smile
don't get offended
if I seem absent minded
I get tongue-tied
baby you've got to be more discerning
I've never known what's good for me
baby you've got to be more demanding
I will be yours
*
11.
I'm talking to what's left of you
and watching what I say
counting all the freckles on your perfect face
you open your window
and sit on your bed
just waiting for right words to come
so what happened to bullet proof weeks in your arms
what happened to feelin' cheap radio songs
what happened to thinking the world was flat
*
12.
stop me oh stop me
stop me if you think that you've
heard this one before
stop me oh stop me
stop me if you think that you've heard this one before
nothings changed
I still love you oh I still love you
*
13.
you were so clever
you kept it together today
by the way I'll no longer ignore you
I wanted to show you again I'm your friend
sometimes we just pretend
and all I can say is you save me
changed all the things that have made me
entertaining
thoughts are raining
down we fall
it's all ok
when I say
you and I
take your time I can't wait,
to see you fly
*
14.
this years love had better last
heaven knows it's high time
and I've been waiting on my own too long
but when you hold me like you do
it feels so right
I start to forget
how my heart gets torn
when that hurt gets thrown
feeling like you can't go on
turning circles when time again
it cuts like a knife oh yeah
if you love me got to know for sure
cause it takes something more this time
than sweet sweet lies
before I open up my arms and fall
losing all control
every dream inside my soul
and when you kiss me
on that midnight street
sweep me off my feet
singing ain't this life so sweet
*
15.
little darling
I feel that ice is slowly melting
little darling
it seems like years since it's been clear
here comes the sun
here comes the sun
and I say it's all right
it's all right
*
16.
I had a coat of many colors
sold it off in time
now I'm just a laymen pagan
in a young man's grind
well I did what I thought I was supposed to do
all I sang so close to true
now I wanna be the one that means the most to you
means the most to you
sunlight sunlight baby
we just let go of the night now slowly
we won't dance we won't sing we won't talk
we just gonna watch how it bends
*
17.
you'll be damned to pining through the windowpanes
you know you'd trade your life for any ordinary Joe’s
well do it now or grow old
your nightmares only need a year or two to unfold
dare to be one of us
facing the android's conundrum
I felt like I should just cry
but nothing happens every time I take one on the chin
you himmler and your coat
you don't know how long I've been
watching the lantern dim
starved of oxygen
so give me your hand
and let's jump out the window
*
18.
it comes
a visible horizon
right where it starts and ends
oh, and then we start the end
it comes
a visible illusion
oh where it starts and ends
love like a sunset