Song Story Meme
1. Opening Theme: Set the fire to the third bar - Snow Patrol
I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from here to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger increases of distant dark places
I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science
Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms
After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in
I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms
And miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold ground
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms
A nice slow melody with an acoustic guitar and a piano. The protagonist is on his way to the love of his life, which he hasn’t seen in a long time.
2. Setting: Satin Chic - Goldfrapp
You're so satin chic
Look rich, talking cheap
On your telephone
Won't be coming home
He's my man
Yeah he's my man
You don't understand
Ne Na Na Na Na Na Na
Dressed up lizard green
Celluloid seventeen
Lip gloss bold as blood
You got em linin' up
Racing through the stars
You killed me awhile
My smile synchronized
For every one tonight
We are in an underground cabaret club. It’s where the socially odd hang out to watch cross dressers and cabaret performers. It’s located in London and present day but has a 30s cabaret feel. This is where the protagonist’s love works.
3. Protagonist: Not ready to love - Rufus Wainwright
I'm not ready to love, I'm not ready for peace
I'm givin' up the dove to the beast
I'm not ready to surrender to another glove murderer
I'm not ready to love, I'm not ready to to fly
I'm givin' up ?? in the sky
So you can take my sin in up above on high, say goodbye
I'm not ready to love, I'm not ready to love
I'm not ready to love until I'm ready to love you the way you should be loved
Until I'm ready to hold you the way you should be held
You should be held, but I'm not ready to
James doesn’t think he’s ready to commit again to his past love Nick. He thinks that he’s very fucked up and won’t treat Nick the way he should be treated.
4. Antagonist: Mr Brightside - The Killers
Coming out of my cage
And I've been doing just fine
Gotta gotta be down
Because I want it all
It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss
It was only a kiss
Now I'm falling asleep
And she's calling a cab
While he's having a smoke
And she's taking the drag
Now they're going to bed
And my stomach is sick
And it's all in my head
But she's touching his chest now
He takes off her dress now
Let me go
And I just can't look
It's killing me
And taking control
Jealousy
Turning saints into the sea
Turning through sick lullaby
Joking on your alibi
But it's just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
I'm Mr. Brightside
Peter is a very paranoid person after his girlfriend cheated on him with another guy. He has always held a grudge even though good things came out of it. Strangely he stayed with her.
5. Protagonist’s sidekick: Hermit the Frog - Marina & the Diamonds
Yeah I feel I'm bordered down
Whenever he's around
I put on the crown of clowns
And melt slowly to the ground
Yeah I feel it coming on
When I've been static for too long
And an explosion comes in time
Before I go and cross the line
They say you used to be so kind
I never knew you had such a dirty mind
Well, I went to the doctors believing
The devil had control over me
I was finding it hard to breath and
Finding it hard to fight the feeling
That my heart just burst like a glass balloon
And that it fly too high and shattered too soon
I was the wrong damn girl in the wrong damn room
I broke my glass balloon
I let go of my glass balloon
Oh oh oh
They call him Hermit the Frog
He's looking for a dog
Did you find a bitch in me
Oh you're a abominable socially
You're just a little bit too much like me
She says you used to be so kind
Well baby I give you your dirty mind
I wanna tell you a secret
You can take your double standard love and keep it
I can't help the devil likes to make my heart a double bed
I can't help he sometimes like to come and rest his little head
Well my heart just burst like a glass balloon
We let them fly too high and they shattered too soon
They'll be the wrong damn people in the wrong damn room
We broke our glass balloons
We let go of their glass balloons
We broke our glass balloons
Let go of my glass balloon
Clara is helplessly is love with someone who keeps breaking her heart. She stays with them because they are such a great lover in bed.
6. Antagonist’s sidekick: Girls and Boys -Blur
Street's like a jungle
So call the police
Following the herd
Down to Greece - on holiday
Love in the nineties
Is paranoid
On sunny beaches
Take your chances - looking for
Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys
Always should be someone you really love
Avoiding all work
Cos there's none available
Like battery thinkers
Count your thoughts - on one two three four five fingers
Nothing is wasted
Only reproduced
You get nasty blisters
Du bist sehr schen
But we haven't been introduced.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah
Looking for...
Peter’s mate John likes the cabaret scene and will sleep with anyone, male or female. So not very picky and isn’t looking for love.
7. Conflict: Heard It All Before - Emiliana Torrini
Night time no one hits the shore
It's me and you time
All those times we had affairs
The waves they never tell
Maybe you have found me out
Where I've been lately
Now your heart is broken with the one you trust
There's nothing I can say
You've heard it all before
My keys won't fit that door
You've heard it all before
You want me here no more
And you can run away
Oh no, I can't, oh no, I can't
'Cause the faith that he has given is unturned
And you can run away
Oh no, I can't, oh no, I can't
'Cause the darkness hits the railway on that bridge
You've heard it all before
My keys won't fit that door
You've heard it all before
You want me here no more
Heard it all before
I'm losing you once more
You've heard it, yes, you've heard it
Oh, maybe you can let me know
Where this will take me
All the nights I longed to be like this
Where all is lost in bliss
Somewhere parked along the streets
I had my run, yeah
All the money never had me bought
He had me, had me then once more
And you can run away
Oh no, I can't, oh no, I can't
'Cause the darkness hits the railway on that bridge
Hmm, and sunshine hits the shore
And cools her rays once more
You've heard it all before
You want me here no more
A momentary lapse
A passion that would pass
You've heard it all before
Be it you outside my door
James spends some time with a new fling and Nick gets jealous. Peter hears that his girlfriend seeing someone and thinks it is James but decides to follow Mia.
8. Love Theme: My phone is on vibrate for you - Rufus Wainwright
My phone's on vibrate for you
Electroclash is karaoke too
I try to dance Britney Spears
I guess I'm getting on in years
My phone's on vibrate for you
God knows what all these new drugs do
I guess to have no more fears
But still I always end up in tears
My phone's on vibrate for you
But still I never ever feel from you
Pinocchio's now a boy
Who wants to turn back into a toy
So call me
Call me in the morning
Call me in the night
So call me
Call me anytime you like
My phone's on vibrate for you
For you
James aches for Nick and wishes he would call him so gets bored and tries to dance to crappy pop music.
9. Plot Twist: Blackout - Muse
Don't kid yourself
And don't fool yourself
This love's too good, to last
And I'm too old to dream, yeah...
Don't grow up too fast
And don't embrace the past
This life's too good to last
And I'm too young to care, yeah...
Don't kid yourself
And don't fool yourself
This life could be the last
And we're too young to see
Peter finds out about Mia and Clara and decides to walk away.
10. Resolution: Alive - Goldfrapp
I woke up with the rising sun
I was blinded by the light
Jump up and pull on my jeans
It feels good, they're a little tight
Step out in a crazy world
But then the sun resets your mind
Feel the weight of it all just drift
Off on a cloud to another time
Ooh hello hello!
Ooh hello hello!
I'm feeling alive again
Alive again
I'm feeling alive again
Alive again
Like the way that you drive your car
I like the way that you turn the key
Can't stop thinking about you baby
You don't know we are the real deal
Here we are on a perfect night
The sky is clear and the moon is full
Looking out at the universe
I thank the stars and the heavens for you
Ooh hello hello!
Ooh hello hello!
I'm feeling alive again
Alive again
I'm feeling alive again
Alive again
I wanna get you tonight
I wanna get you tonight
I wanna get you tonight and I
Ooh we're all alone
Ooh we're all alone
I wanna get you tonight
I wanna get you tonight
I wanna get you tonight and I
Feeling alive again
Alive again
Feeling alive again
Alive again
I'm feeling alive again
Alive again
I'm feeling alive again
Alive again
I'm feeling alive again
Alive again
James and Nick finally get back together. Mia and Clara go on a real first date.
11. Closing Theme: You could have it so Much better - Franz Ferdinand
The last message you sent
Said I looked truly down
That I oughtta come over
And talk about it
Well I wasn't down
I just wasn't smiling at you
As I look at us now it seems
That your slapping my back
As if it's all alright
But it's not
I tried to get up
But you're pushing me down
Yeah you're pushing me down
So I'll get up on my own
Now there's some grinning goon
On my TV screen
Telling us all that
It's alright because
She wears this
And he wears that
If you get some of these
It'll all be alright
Yeah if you get some of these
It'll all be alright'
Well I refuse
To be a cynical goon
Passing the masses
An easy answer
Because it won't be alright
Oh no it won't be alright
It won't be alright
Unless you get up
Come on and get up
Well, I'm just a voice in your earpiece
Telling you no
Its not alright
You know you could have it so much better
You could have it so much better
If you tried
Things are not as good as it seems. Nothing will ever be right because the 21st century is a hard place to live in. Everyone will still be socially odd and love is hard.
12. Sequel: Genius Next Door - Regina Spektor
Some said the local lake had been enchanted
Others said it must have been the weather
The neighbors were trying to keep it quiet
But I swear that I could hear the laughter
So they joke, and they nicknamed it "the porridge"
Cause over night that lake had turned as thick as butter
But the local kids would still go swimming, drinking
Saying that to them it doesn't matter
If you just hold in your breath
'Til you come back up in full
Hold in your breath
'Til you've thought it through
You fool
The genius next door was bussing tables
Wiping clean the ketchup bottle labels
Getting high and mumbling German fables
Didn't care as long as he was able
To strip his clothes off by the dumpsters
At night while every one was sleeping
And wade midway into that porridge
Just him and the secret he was keeping
If you just hold in your breath
'Til you come back up in full
Hold in your breath
'Til you thought it through
You foolish child
In the morning the film crews start arriving
With donuts, coffee and reporters
The kids were waking up, hung over
The neighbors were starting up their cars
The garbageman were emptying the dumpsters
Atheists were praying full of sarcasm
And the genius next door was sleeping
Dreaming that the antidote is orgasm
If you just hold in your breath
'Til you come back up in full
Hold in your breath
'Til you thought it through
You foolish child
There is tragedy when someone commits suicide, destroying relationships and lives they lead.