Fic Soundtracks
This, then, are a collection of soundtracks for the three pivotal characters of Perfume (and frequent guest stars in ranty_rie's Loss and Kinship.)
The Princess
She smiled again, sweet as ant poison. “I had long hair. I cut it when I made a vow, to make it important. Because of the Merovingian and their hair.”
1. Angels on the Moon, Thriving Ivory
Do you believe in the day that you were born? Tell me, do you believe? Do you know that every day's the first of the rest of your life? [...] This is to one last day in the shadows and to know a brother's love... this is to all of us.
2. All the Same, Sick Puppies
I have the skill and I have the will to breathe you in while I can. However long you stay is all that I am.
3. The Ashoken Farewell/The Contradiction, Celtic Woman
[instrumental]
4. Herr Drosselmeyr's Doll, Abney Park
Here is Gaia, here is Eve, here is Lillith! And I stand before you as her father, sprung fully-formed from my brow, dream sweet... she can be yours and yours again...
5. Thanks for the Memories, Fall Out Boy
I'm looking forward to the future, but my eyesight is going bad and this crystal ball is always cloudy except for when I look into the past....
6. Carry On Dancing, Savage Garden
You're never safe 'til you see the dawn... and if the clock strikes past midnight the hope is gone
7. Center of the Sun, Conjure One featuring Poe
Young boy in the market sees the girl alone and asks her 'Have you lost your way home?' She sings 'You say the most beautiful things...'
8. Chasm, Flyleaf
Christ, give me something... I'm so thirsty, I'm so thirsty. Oh please, let me warn them--don't you come here, don't bring anyone here.
9. Cabaret Fortune Teller, Audra
If you say everyone was meant to be together, then we can laugh. A revolution against the kings, against yourself, I remember.
10. life after god, Ike Yoshihiro
[instrumental]
11. Adagio for Tron, Daft Punk
[instrumental]
12. Knock Three Times (Skinny Kinda Mix), Black Tape For A Blue Girl
She put up with all the taunts, all the nasty things they'd say. She'd smile and pretend to ignore them but she stored it all away
13. In The Dark, Flyleaf
I used to be afraid of cluttered noises, now I'm afraid of silence. [...] Now I am mute despite myself [...] Jesus, kill me inside this.
14. Jack Sparrow, Hans Zimmer
[instrumental]
15. Siulil A Run, Celtic Woman (for David Coté)
Translation: Walk, walk my love, quickly come to me, move softly. Come to the door and away we'll flee--safe forever will my darling be.
16. Cat and Mouse, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Am I supposed to be happy when all I ever wanted comes with a price?
17. Again, Flyleaf
Here you are, down on your knees again--trying to find air to breathe again, right where I want you to be again.
18. Pavlov's Bell, Aimee Mann
No, we can't talk about it because nobody knows. That's how I nearly fell: trading clothes and ringing Pavlov's bell.
19. Beauty Through Broken Glass, Eyes Set to Kill
I want to give you everything. Ill give you my all because you gave me the medicine to kill my pain
20. Victoria, Abney Park
Victoria, come back to me
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Laurel Brady
“I'm not like other people, you know. Not even like David, and he's close 'cause he can see too. I don't come from where you come from.”
1. Prologue, Loreena McKennitt
[instrumental]
1. The Shape I Found You In, Girlyman
You were spoken for--I spent twenty lifetimes at your door. [...] I was calling to you, it was the one thing I knew how to do.
2. Swallow Tail Jig/Kesh Jig/Irish Washerwoman, Skweez The Weezle
[instrumental]
3. A Chance to Sing for the Queen, Minstrels Of Mayhem
And no one would know I'm just ten and a half...
4. Glass of Beer/Jenny Dang the Weaver, Skweez The Weezle
[instrumental]
5. Worker's Song, Dropkick Murphys (for David Brady and Anna Stott)
Yeh, this one's for the workers who toil night and day by hand and by brain to earn your pay. Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread have bled for your countries and counted your dead.
6. Strange Ways, Ace of Base
I've got strange ways [...] God bless you for being by my side when I fell through. You could hear me: you've got Internet gateways through my world.
7. Combinations, Eisley
I went for so long [...] then I met you... and now I can't live without you.
8. Australian Kiss, Eoin Dillon
[instrumental]
9. Zaina, Petrol Bomb Samosa
[instrumental]
10. Enta Omri (Remix), Elie Attieh
[instrumental]
11. Caterpillar, Beats Antique
[instrumental]
12. Pirate Bones, Natasha Bedingfield
I could carry on telling what you wanna hear 'til my voice is gone, but if I finally get to the place that I think is home and I don't belong what's the point in it?
13. Paper Gangsta, Lady Gaga
Won't sign away my life to someone who's got the flavor but don't have no follow through: don't want no paper gangsta. I don't do funny business, not interested in fakers.
14. Don't Stop the Music, Rihanna
Let's escape into the music, DJ let it play--I just can't refuse it
15. Gaelic Reel/Allan's Old Wife/Clan MacLaine of Lochbule, Skweez the Weezle
[instrumental]
16. Bell Arabi, Saad
[instrumental]
17. Roustabout, Beats Antique
[instrumental]
18. Awakening, Mae
When I close my eyes to this paradox place, I'll fly away, far away from here [...] I'll disappear, take flight on the wind of wishing you were here. [...] And I'll leave it all behind if you'd be here, here with me tonight. I'll be fine.
19. Looking For Angels, Skillet
What will you do to help someone along the way? Just a touch, a smile as you turn the other cheek, pray for your enemies, humble yourself. Love's staring back at me in the midst of the most painful faces: Angels show up in the strangest of places.
20. Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry, Ace of Base
I'm happy even if you don't want To invite me out for a dance tonight. I'm not normal, I know it, I don't care. [...] Like a ghost I follow your steps so true [...] Give me a minute to shine with you.
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The Serpent
"but the Serpent... she's not a real thing the way another human being is."
2. Assassin's Tango, John Powell
[instrumental]
3. Prelude 12/21, AFI
I promise you a heart you'd promise to keep
4. Oblivion, Macy Gray
Here with the broken-hearted, let's get this party started! [...] Make this magic place your own, but nobody else can go: you'll be forever all alone.
5. Like it Or Not, Madonna
I'll be the Garden, you'll be the snake... all of my fruit is yours to take. Better the devil that you know--your love for me will grow
6. Hey Pretty, Poe
You know me now, but to do better than that you've got to follow me... hey pretty, don't you want to take a ride with me?
7. Rev 22-20 "4-20 Mix", Puscifer
Satyrs and saints, devils and heathens and lies--she'll eat you alive.
8. Undertaker "Renholder Mix", Puscifer
Not dead but soon to be, and I'm gonna be the one to say "I told you so."
9. Whispers in the Dark, Skillet
I will be the one that's gonna find you. I will be the one that's gonna guide you. My love is a burning, consuming fire--No, you'll never be alone. When darkness comes you know I'm never far.
10. The Last Night, Skillet
I'm everywhere you want me to be. The last night you'll spend alone, I'll wrap you in my arms and I won't let go. I'm everything you need me to be.
11. Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here, 65DaysofStatic
[instrumental]
12. I Will Follow You Into The Dark, Death Cab For Cutie
Love of mine some day you will die. But I'll be close behind. I'll follow you into the dark
13. Vedergälligen (Vengeance), Garmarna
Under this curse I was to suffer - Far are the paths that I follow - Till I drank the blood of my own brother.
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Tree, (For how they're both the same)
And the Serpent smiled, and leaned in close, and whispered into his ear. “Because I'm in love with my cage.”
1. Star of Munster, Skweez the Weezle
[instrumental]
2. Experience Pearls, Ace of Base
I've made up my mind: I'm gonna be yours this time. I'm gonna give what I've got and get your love in return. I've made up my mind [...] I'm gonna teach you to trust and learn how to burn.
3. Tonight and the Rest of My Life, Nina Gordon
The universe is resting in my arms. I feel so light... This is all I want to feel tonight.
4. Night Ride Across The Caucasus, Loreena McKennitt
In the velvet of the darkness, by the silhouette of silent trees they are watching, waiting: they are witnessing life's mysteries. [...] Find the answers, ask the questions--find the roots of an ancient tree.
5. Kryptonite, 3 Doors Down
I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon--after all, I knew it had to be something to do with you. I really don't mind what happens now and then as long as you'll be my friend at the end.
6. Touched, Vast
I looked into your eyes and saw a world that does not exist. [...] I'll never find someone quite as touched as you. I'll never love someone quite the way that I loved you.
7. Silver and Cold, AFI
But I left here in darkness and found you, found you on the way. [...] You, in somber resplendence I hold... your sins into me, as you seep into me, oh my beautiful one.
8. Break Me, Beats Antique
[instrumental]
9. Perfect World, Ace of Base
Day after day I keep searching... Why, tell me why is it all so hard to find? I pray each day for a perfect world.
10. Ravine, Ace of Base
Why do you ask why I'm not blaming my God? I'll tell you. I'll tell you what: He was the only one there.
11. Rebirthing, Skillet
Screaming for you till my throat is numb: I wanna break out, I need a way out, I don't believe that it's gotta be this way. The worst is the waiting.
12. Shiro no Jumon, DOA
So that's why now you jump into a new world unseen. Wake up! Wake up! Don't be afraid
13. Northern Cross, Cry Cry Cry
They say a simple life's the best, but you would never know the way we complicate this world.
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Bonus tracks: Loss, Perfume-style
The Princess
She smiled again, sweet as ant poison. “I had long hair. I cut it when I made a vow, to make it important. Because of the Merovingian and their hair.”
1. Angels on the Moon, Thriving Ivory
Do you believe in the day that you were born? Tell me, do you believe? Do you know that every day's the first of the rest of your life? [...] This is to one last day in the shadows and to know a brother's love... this is to all of us.
2. All the Same, Sick Puppies
I have the skill and I have the will to breathe you in while I can. However long you stay is all that I am.
3. The Ashoken Farewell/The Contradiction, Celtic Woman
[instrumental]
4. Herr Drosselmeyr's Doll, Abney Park
Here is Gaia, here is Eve, here is Lillith! And I stand before you as her father, sprung fully-formed from my brow, dream sweet... she can be yours and yours again...
5. Thanks for the Memories, Fall Out Boy
I'm looking forward to the future, but my eyesight is going bad and this crystal ball is always cloudy except for when I look into the past....
6. Carry On Dancing, Savage Garden
You're never safe 'til you see the dawn... and if the clock strikes past midnight the hope is gone
7. Center of the Sun, Conjure One featuring Poe
Young boy in the market sees the girl alone and asks her 'Have you lost your way home?' She sings 'You say the most beautiful things...'
8. Chasm, Flyleaf
Christ, give me something... I'm so thirsty, I'm so thirsty. Oh please, let me warn them--don't you come here, don't bring anyone here.
9. Cabaret Fortune Teller, Audra
If you say everyone was meant to be together, then we can laugh. A revolution against the kings, against yourself, I remember.
10. life after god, Ike Yoshihiro
[instrumental]
11. Adagio for Tron, Daft Punk
[instrumental]
12. Knock Three Times (Skinny Kinda Mix), Black Tape For A Blue Girl
She put up with all the taunts, all the nasty things they'd say. She'd smile and pretend to ignore them but she stored it all away
13. In The Dark, Flyleaf
I used to be afraid of cluttered noises, now I'm afraid of silence. [...] Now I am mute despite myself [...] Jesus, kill me inside this.
14. Jack Sparrow, Hans Zimmer
[instrumental]
15. Siulil A Run, Celtic Woman (for David Coté)
Translation: Walk, walk my love, quickly come to me, move softly. Come to the door and away we'll flee--safe forever will my darling be.
16. Cat and Mouse, Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
Am I supposed to be happy when all I ever wanted comes with a price?
17. Again, Flyleaf
Here you are, down on your knees again--trying to find air to breathe again, right where I want you to be again.
18. Pavlov's Bell, Aimee Mann
No, we can't talk about it because nobody knows. That's how I nearly fell: trading clothes and ringing Pavlov's bell.
19. Beauty Through Broken Glass, Eyes Set to Kill
I want to give you everything. Ill give you my all because you gave me the medicine to kill my pain
20. Victoria, Abney Park
Victoria, come back to me
Download
Laurel Brady
“I'm not like other people, you know. Not even like David, and he's close 'cause he can see too. I don't come from where you come from.”
1. Prologue, Loreena McKennitt
[instrumental]
1. The Shape I Found You In, Girlyman
You were spoken for--I spent twenty lifetimes at your door. [...] I was calling to you, it was the one thing I knew how to do.
2. Swallow Tail Jig/Kesh Jig/Irish Washerwoman, Skweez The Weezle
[instrumental]
3. A Chance to Sing for the Queen, Minstrels Of Mayhem
And no one would know I'm just ten and a half...
4. Glass of Beer/Jenny Dang the Weaver, Skweez The Weezle
[instrumental]
5. Worker's Song, Dropkick Murphys (for David Brady and Anna Stott)
Yeh, this one's for the workers who toil night and day by hand and by brain to earn your pay. Who for centuries long past for no more than your bread have bled for your countries and counted your dead.
6. Strange Ways, Ace of Base
I've got strange ways [...] God bless you for being by my side when I fell through. You could hear me: you've got Internet gateways through my world.
7. Combinations, Eisley
I went for so long [...] then I met you... and now I can't live without you.
8. Australian Kiss, Eoin Dillon
[instrumental]
9. Zaina, Petrol Bomb Samosa
[instrumental]
10. Enta Omri (Remix), Elie Attieh
[instrumental]
11. Caterpillar, Beats Antique
[instrumental]
12. Pirate Bones, Natasha Bedingfield
I could carry on telling what you wanna hear 'til my voice is gone, but if I finally get to the place that I think is home and I don't belong what's the point in it?
13. Paper Gangsta, Lady Gaga
Won't sign away my life to someone who's got the flavor but don't have no follow through: don't want no paper gangsta. I don't do funny business, not interested in fakers.
14. Don't Stop the Music, Rihanna
Let's escape into the music, DJ let it play--I just can't refuse it
15. Gaelic Reel/Allan's Old Wife/Clan MacLaine of Lochbule, Skweez the Weezle
[instrumental]
16. Bell Arabi, Saad
[instrumental]
17. Roustabout, Beats Antique
[instrumental]
18. Awakening, Mae
When I close my eyes to this paradox place, I'll fly away, far away from here [...] I'll disappear, take flight on the wind of wishing you were here. [...] And I'll leave it all behind if you'd be here, here with me tonight. I'll be fine.
19. Looking For Angels, Skillet
What will you do to help someone along the way? Just a touch, a smile as you turn the other cheek, pray for your enemies, humble yourself. Love's staring back at me in the midst of the most painful faces: Angels show up in the strangest of places.
20. Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry, Ace of Base
I'm happy even if you don't want To invite me out for a dance tonight. I'm not normal, I know it, I don't care. [...] Like a ghost I follow your steps so true [...] Give me a minute to shine with you.
Download
The Serpent
"but the Serpent... she's not a real thing the way another human being is."
2. Assassin's Tango, John Powell
[instrumental]
3. Prelude 12/21, AFI
I promise you a heart you'd promise to keep
4. Oblivion, Macy Gray
Here with the broken-hearted, let's get this party started! [...] Make this magic place your own, but nobody else can go: you'll be forever all alone.
5. Like it Or Not, Madonna
I'll be the Garden, you'll be the snake... all of my fruit is yours to take. Better the devil that you know--your love for me will grow
6. Hey Pretty, Poe
You know me now, but to do better than that you've got to follow me... hey pretty, don't you want to take a ride with me?
7. Rev 22-20 "4-20 Mix", Puscifer
Satyrs and saints, devils and heathens and lies--she'll eat you alive.
8. Undertaker "Renholder Mix", Puscifer
Not dead but soon to be, and I'm gonna be the one to say "I told you so."
9. Whispers in the Dark, Skillet
I will be the one that's gonna find you. I will be the one that's gonna guide you. My love is a burning, consuming fire--No, you'll never be alone. When darkness comes you know I'm never far.
10. The Last Night, Skillet
I'm everywhere you want me to be. The last night you'll spend alone, I'll wrap you in my arms and I won't let go. I'm everything you need me to be.
11. Drove Through Ghosts To Get Here, 65DaysofStatic
[instrumental]
12. I Will Follow You Into The Dark, Death Cab For Cutie
Love of mine some day you will die. But I'll be close behind. I'll follow you into the dark
13. Vedergälligen (Vengeance), Garmarna
Under this curse I was to suffer - Far are the paths that I follow - Till I drank the blood of my own brother.
Download
Tree, (For how they're both the same)
And the Serpent smiled, and leaned in close, and whispered into his ear. “Because I'm in love with my cage.”
1. Star of Munster, Skweez the Weezle
[instrumental]
2. Experience Pearls, Ace of Base
I've made up my mind: I'm gonna be yours this time. I'm gonna give what I've got and get your love in return. I've made up my mind [...] I'm gonna teach you to trust and learn how to burn.
3. Tonight and the Rest of My Life, Nina Gordon
The universe is resting in my arms. I feel so light... This is all I want to feel tonight.
4. Night Ride Across The Caucasus, Loreena McKennitt
In the velvet of the darkness, by the silhouette of silent trees they are watching, waiting: they are witnessing life's mysteries. [...] Find the answers, ask the questions--find the roots of an ancient tree.
5. Kryptonite, 3 Doors Down
I watched the world float to the dark side of the moon--after all, I knew it had to be something to do with you. I really don't mind what happens now and then as long as you'll be my friend at the end.
6. Touched, Vast
I looked into your eyes and saw a world that does not exist. [...] I'll never find someone quite as touched as you. I'll never love someone quite the way that I loved you.
7. Silver and Cold, AFI
But I left here in darkness and found you, found you on the way. [...] You, in somber resplendence I hold... your sins into me, as you seep into me, oh my beautiful one.
8. Break Me, Beats Antique
[instrumental]
9. Perfect World, Ace of Base
Day after day I keep searching... Why, tell me why is it all so hard to find? I pray each day for a perfect world.
10. Ravine, Ace of Base
Why do you ask why I'm not blaming my God? I'll tell you. I'll tell you what: He was the only one there.
11. Rebirthing, Skillet
Screaming for you till my throat is numb: I wanna break out, I need a way out, I don't believe that it's gotta be this way. The worst is the waiting.
12. Shiro no Jumon, DOA
So that's why now you jump into a new world unseen. Wake up! Wake up! Don't be afraid
13. Northern Cross, Cry Cry Cry
They say a simple life's the best, but you would never know the way we complicate this world.
Download
Bonus tracks: Loss, Perfume-style