I could use your saving now~ [FST]
Each Coming Night.
An America-Lithuania FST
This is only to stop LJ from raping my text.
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The two Something Corporate tracks may not work. It seems like they will, but please tell me if they don't.
This is such an underrated pairing! I didn't see nearly any fanwork for this, much less an FST. So, as you can see, I had to change that.
Ah, America/Lithuania... how to explain this pairing through my eyes? I tend to focus mainly on outsourcing... I see it as a mix of platonic and romantic, hurt/comfort with a small bit of angst. They both had others, in their own ways, but they relied on each other more than either of them realized. Lithuania, trying to distance himself from his hardships, and America, finally finding a real friend. I used a variety of song tones in this, from the hopeful and loving (Look Up, For Me This Is Heaven, All Fall Down) to the more somber, when Lithuania realizes he has to leave (Pink Bullets, Each Coming Night, Miss America). This is the shortest FST I've created to date (It might just be me, but pairings like this are hard to find songs for. I think it's just me.)
Cover art is by the lovely m_dono.
So, enjoy!
Track List & ; - -
1. Mister Jones - Counting Crows
[Lithuania]
We all want something beautiful
I wish I was beautiful
Pass me a bottle, Mr. Jones
Believe in me
Help me believe in anything
I want to be someone who believes
2. Meet Me At My Window - Jack’s Mannequin
[Lithuania]
I could use a hero right now
You could use someone to save
Someone like me
Someone who's not brave
Someone who's not free
3. Marching Bands of Manhattan - Death Cab For Cutie
[America]
If I could open my mouth
Wide enough for a marching band to march out
They would make your name sing
And bend through alleys and bounce off all the buildings
Sorrow drips into your heart through a pinhole
Just like a faucet that leaks and there is comfort in the sound
4. Headlock - Imogen Heap
[America]
I've been walking, you've been hiding,
And you look half dead half the time.
Monitoring you, like machines do,
You've still got it, I'm just keeping an eye
You know you're better than this
5. She Paints Me Blue - Something Corporate
[ Lithuania ]
Tonight I watch the lights go out in your house
Wondering how I could get so deep
And you could still get to sleep
But no young girl was claiming me
And naming me
And destiny gets nervous
6. Near To You - A Fine Frenzy
[Lithuania]
You and I have something different
And I'm enjoying it cautiously
I'm battle scarred, I am working oh so hard
To get back to who I used to be
7. Look Up - Stars
[America]
You're cold, maybe you just missed the sun
You fall, feeling like its just begun
So far, keeping it together's been enough
Look up, rain is falling, looks like love
8. Miss America - Something Corporate
[Lithuania]
And I miss my Miss America from Park Hotel
But I'm too stoned to call it a day
When everything you wanted
Is hard to hide behind your lies
And I'm locked in my hotel room
Turning over our goodbyes
9. For Me This Is Heaven - Jimmy Eat World
[America]
The mindless comfort grows when I'm alone with my 'great' plans.
This is what she says gets her through it:
"If I don't let myself by happy now then when?"
If not now when?
10. All Fall Down - One Republic
[America]
Yeah God love your soul and your aching bones
Take a breath, take a step, meet me down below
Everyone's the same
our fingers to our toes
Whenever your will starts crashing down
That's when you find me.
11. Pink Bullets - The Shins
[Lithuania]
Cool of a temperate breeze from dark skies to wet grass
We fell in a field it seems now a thousand summers passed
When our kite lines first crossed
We tied them into knots
And to finally fly apart
We had to cut them off
12. Each Coming Night - Iron & Wine
[America]
Will you say to them when I'm gone
"I loved your son for his sturdy arms
We both learned to cradle then live without"
Will you say to me when I'm gone
"Your face has faded but lingers on
Because light strikes a deal with each coming night"
13. My Girl’s Ex-Boyfriend - Relient K
[America]
He's a guy that you should feel sorry for
He had the world but he thought that he wanted more
I owe it all to the mistake he made back then
I owe it all to my girl's ex-boyfriend
(This is… sort of a joke?)