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Bones In Your Closet - A Frost/Nixon Fanmix
1. hometown glory - adele
i've been walking in the same way I did,
"is there anything I can do for you, sir?"
round my hometown, memories are fresh
I like it in the city;
When two world collide, you get the people
and the government,
everybody taking sides
Shows that (they) ain't gonna stand shit
Shows that (they) are united
"Come on, David. Surely the only thing anyone will want to hear out of
Richard Nixon will be a confession. A full, no-holds-barred confession."
2. jawbreaker - the dead weather
you're a real jawbreaker,
a real crook - obscene
I'd call you a heartbreaker,
but i reserve that for nicer things
"You wouldn't understand, you were never part of the show in New York.
But it's indescribable. Success in America is unlike success anywhere
else."
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"Right now, I submit that it's impossible to feel anything close to sympathy
for Richard Nixon. He devalued the Presidency, and he left the country
that elected him in trauma. The American people needed conviction, pure
and simple. The integrity of our political system, of democracy as an idea
entirely depends on it."
3. it's getting boring by the sea - blood red shoes
Let's consider a change of scenery,
it's getting boring by the sea.
Pictures, pictures, pictures!
Oh, no, I can't escape anything in this town...
Knock yourself out!
Such a harsh town,
I can't escape anything in this town
"You have got to make it more uncomfortable for him. Sit forward, attack
more. If he tails off, bang, jump in with another question. Don't trade
generalizations with him. Be specific. Above all, don't let him give these
self-serving, 23-minute homilies."
4. sympathy for the devil - the rolling stones
Please allow me to introduce myself,
I'm a man of wealth and taste,
So if you meet me, have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, have some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse,
Or I'll lay your soul to waste
Nixon: "I sure hope that's not coming out of your own pocket."
Frost: "Believe me, sir, I wish my pockets were that deep."
5. black swan - thom yorke
You have tried your best to please everyone,
But it just isn't happening,
And it's fucked up
You fucked up
"These men, Aldeman, Erlichman, I know their families, known
them since they were just kids. Oh, but you know the pressure
on me to let them go? That became overwhelming. So, I did it.
I cut off one arm, then I cut off the other, and I'm not a good butcher!"
6. my body is a cage - sara lov
I'm standing on a stage of fear and self-doubt,
It's a hollow play, but they'll clap anyway.
My body is a cage!
We take what we're given.
Just because you've forgotten,
that don't mean you're forgiven
"I can't stand it, Jack. Reducing the Presidency to a series of banal
anecdotes. . . I feel like a circus animal doing tricks! And I thought I
made it clear, I didn't want to take any questions on Watergate! As
soon as it came to question time, all those sons of bitches ever want
to heart about is Watergate! It's as if all my other achievements have
ceased to exist!"
7. 24 - jem
Been given 24 hours to tie up loose ends,
to make amends.
His eyes said it all, he started to fall
And the silence deafened
No time to sit down,
Just wanted to run and run and run...
"Are you nuts? Let me tell you how bad things were today. After
the taping finished, I overheard two members of the crew say they
never voted for him when they had the chance. But if he ran for office
again today, he'd get their support. You're making him look Presidential
for Chrissakes!"
8. imaginary - evanescence
Don't say I'm out of touch with this rampant chaos - your reality
I know well what lies beyond my sleeping refuge,
This nightmare I built - my own world to escape
"You know exactly [what I'm talking about.] No matter how many awards
or how many column inches are written about you, or how high the elected
office is for me, it still isn't enough, am I right? We still feel like the little
man. They loser they told us we were a hundred times. . .and isn't that
why we work so hard now? Why we fight for every inch?"
9. heaven help us - my chemical romance
I'm at this old hotel,
But I can't tell if I've been breathing or sleeping or screaming,
or waiting for the man to call
And maybe all of the above.
And would you pray for me, or make a saint of me?
(You don't know a thing about my sins.)
Nixon: "We're going to make those motherfuckers choke. Am I right?"
Frost: "You are, except only one of us can win."
Nixon: "And I shall be your fiercest adversary. I shall come at you with
everything I've got, because the limelight can only shine on one of
us, and for the other, it'll be the wilderness."
10. hurricane - 30 seconds to mars
Tell me, would you kill to save a life?
Tell me, would you kill to prove you're right?
You say, "You're wrong, I'm right, I'm right, you're wrong."
We fight, no matter how hard we try; it's too much history
Too many bad notes playing in our symphony,
So let it breathe, let it fall, let is crash, burn slow
... "No matter how many lives that are lived, I will never regret."
Frost: "Are you really saying that in certain situations, the
President can decide whether it's in the best interests of
the nation and then do something illegal?
Nixon: "I'm saying that when the President does it, that
means it's not illegal."
Frost: "I'm sorry?"
11. bones - little big town
You made that bed you're laying on,
Deeds that you have done now you can't undo
Be sure your sins will find you out, your past will hunt you down
And return to tell on you
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There ain't no doubt, yeah, they're gonna come out -
they're waiting for the sun to go down
You can't hide from your demons, feel them all lurking around,
You're running scared, 'cause you know they're out there,
they're waiting for the sun to go down
"I let them down. I let down my friends. I let down my country.
Worst of all, I let down our system of government and the dreams
of all those young people that ought to get into government but
now think it's too corrupt."
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