FANMIX: Brainpocolypse or Don't Pick Up the Phone
I was trying to fill in some holes between the two Epitaphs in my head and started thinking of songs that could fit the end of his particular universe. As a result my two Brainpocolypse mixes were born. Here is the first one, being posted very early this morning because of callianshipper's birthday.
EDITOR'S NOTES: I usually post pictures indicating the scenes that inspired me to pick each song. I didn't do that this time because everything in this mix basically took place between "The Hollow Men" and "Epitaph Two". The mix started with picking "Forsaken" for the day of the robocall and then exploring some of the surviving actuals perspectives. Then adding in a few songs here and there about the people that worked for Rossum with "Better Days" being about the life in the Dollhouse we saw in Epitaph One and "Handlebars" being for those responsible for letting the tech go out of control, and maybe even a bit about Topher.
FORSAKEN//Within Temptation
Now the day has come
We are forsaken this time
We lived our lives in our paradise
As gods we shaped the world around
No borderlines we'd stay behind
Though balance is something fragile
While we thought we were gaining
We would turn back to the tide, it still slips away
Our time has run out, our future has died
There's no more escape
Now the day has come
We are forsaken
There's no time anymore
Life will pass us by
We are forsaken
We're the last of our kind
THIS IS YOUR LIFE//The Dust Brothers
ou are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else
We are all part of the same compost heap
We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world
You are not your bank account
You are not the clothes you wear
You are not the contents of your wallet
You are not your bowel cancer
You are not your grand latte
You are not the car you drive
You are not your fucking khakis
You have to give up
You have to give up
You have to realise that someday you will die
Until you know that, you are useless.
HALF A WEEK BEFORE THE WINTER//Vanessa Carlton
The unicorns are riding high
Powerful in coats of white
I turn to look but burn my eyes
I carry on, I carry. . .
All the weight of empty promise
As I stand swallowed by the light
Flickering above the highway
I hold my head and know the streets are mine tonight
The vampires are growing tired
The coats of white all turn to red
My heart burns with desire
I carry on, I carry on
The unicorns are riding high
Powerful in coats of white
We turn to look and burn our eyes
I carry on, I carry on . . .
HIDE AND SEEK//Imogen Heap
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before
The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity
Of this still life
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
Blood and tears
They were here first
Mm what'cha say?
Mm, that you only meant well
Well of course you did
Mm what'cha say?
Mm that it's all for the best
Of course it is
Mm what'cha say?
Mm that it's just what we need
You decided this?
HANDLEBARS//Flobots
Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
Alive
In such a small world
I'm all curled up with a book to read
I can make money, open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine
Sixty four miles to the gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make a computer survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you want to buy a product
Movers, shakers, and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
EVERYBODY'S CHANGING//Lily Allen
You say you wander your own land
But when I think about it
I don't see how you can
You're aching, you're breaking
And I can see the pain in your eyes
Says everybody's changing
And I don't know why
So little time
Try to understand that I'm
Trying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing and I don't feel the same
THE DARKNESS"//Disturbed
Don't turn away
I pray you've heard
The words I've spoken
Dare to believe
For one last time
And then I'll get the
Darkness cover me
Deny everything
Slowly walk away
To breathe again
On my own
99 RED BALLOONS//Nena
99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here...
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go
30 MINUTES//T.A.T.U
Mama, Papa forgive me
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of time to decide
Do we run? Should I hide
For the rest of my life
Can we fly? Do we stay?
We could lose we could fail
And the more minutes take
To make planer, or mistakes
30 minutes, the blink of the night
30 minutes to alter our lifes
30 minutes to make up my mind
30 minutes to finally decide
30 minutes to whisper your name
30 minutes to shelter the blame
30 minutes of bliss, 30 lies
30 minutes to finally decide
DIE ANOTHER DAY//Madonna
I'm gonna break the cycle
I'm gonna shake up the system
I'm gonna destroy my ego
I'm gonna close my body now
I think I'll find another way
There's so much more to know
I guess I'll die another day
It's not my time to go
For every sin, I'll have to pay
I've come to work, I've come to play
I think I'll find another way
It's not my time to go
TERRIBLE THOUGHT//Poe
A terrible thought has moved into my mind
Like an unwanted room-mate drunk on wine
It feeds on my happiness won't pay the rent
I must take proper measures to evict it
A terrible thought has moved into my mind
A giant rat that's nibbling on my pride
It's tearing away my patience and my wit
I must take proper measures set a trap for it
BETTER DAYS//The Goo Goo Dolls
I need some place simple where we could live
And something only you can give
And that's faith and trust and peace while we're alive
And the one poor child who saved this world
And there's ten million more who probably could
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them
So take these words and sing out loud
'Cause everyone is forgiven now
'Cause tonight's the night the world begins again
INVINCIBLE//Pat Benatar
This bloody road remains a mystery
This sudden darkness fills the air
What are we waiting for?
Won't anybody help us?
What are we waiting for?
We can't afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
It's a do or die situation
We will be Invincible
This shattered dream you cannot justify
We're gonna scream until we're satisified
What are we running for?
We've got the right to be angry
What are we running for?
When there's no where we can run to anymore
SOMEBODY HELP ME//Full Blown Rose
I've seen the face of my affliction
Of my reality
I'm being tortured by the future
Of things that yet to be
I'm being haunted a vision
It's like the moment never comes
I feel the burning of confusion
Always searching, on the run
Free me
Before I slip away
Heal me
Wake me from this day
Can somebody help me?
ORGAN GRINDER//Emilie Autumn
I paid for your silence
(Instrumental)
REMAINS//Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon
Burn down my home
My memories hardened and are bright as chrome
Good times escape
While every mistake seems to be caught on tape
I will go rolling fast
Arms out in the rain
Feel momentum building ’til
I lift off ground like an airplane
Love ties you down to the pain
A billion eyes are watching, fossilized
They see what remains
Remains
Gave up this town
What waste are we left with when it’s boiled down
Shine light on me
Your image reflected is all you’ll ever see
I will go rolling fast
Arms out in the rain
Feel momentum building ’til
I lift off ground like an airplane
Love ties you down to the pain
A billion eyes are watching, fossilized
They see what remains
Remains
WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW//Jonatha Brooke
What you don't know won't hurt you
Maybe the lies are true
Try to remember, try to forget
Those yesterdays bleeding through
You'll never see me coming
You'll never know my name
Try to remember, try to forget
But you'll never be the same
I could do anything
I could go anywhere
I could be anything
To anyone tonight
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EDITOR'S NOTES: I usually post pictures indicating the scenes that inspired me to pick each song. I didn't do that this time because everything in this mix basically took place between "The Hollow Men" and "Epitaph Two". The mix started with picking "Forsaken" for the day of the robocall and then exploring some of the surviving actuals perspectives. Then adding in a few songs here and there about the people that worked for Rossum with "Better Days" being about the life in the Dollhouse we saw in Epitaph One and "Handlebars" being for those responsible for letting the tech go out of control, and maybe even a bit about Topher.
FORSAKEN//Within Temptation
Now the day has come
We are forsaken this time
We lived our lives in our paradise
As gods we shaped the world around
No borderlines we'd stay behind
Though balance is something fragile
While we thought we were gaining
We would turn back to the tide, it still slips away
Our time has run out, our future has died
There's no more escape
Now the day has come
We are forsaken
There's no time anymore
Life will pass us by
We are forsaken
We're the last of our kind
THIS IS YOUR LIFE//The Dust Brothers
ou are not a beautiful and unique snowflake
You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else
We are all part of the same compost heap
We are the all singing, all dancing crap of the world
You are not your bank account
You are not the clothes you wear
You are not the contents of your wallet
You are not your bowel cancer
You are not your grand latte
You are not the car you drive
You are not your fucking khakis
You have to give up
You have to give up
You have to realise that someday you will die
Until you know that, you are useless.
HALF A WEEK BEFORE THE WINTER//Vanessa Carlton
The unicorns are riding high
Powerful in coats of white
I turn to look but burn my eyes
I carry on, I carry. . .
All the weight of empty promise
As I stand swallowed by the light
Flickering above the highway
I hold my head and know the streets are mine tonight
The vampires are growing tired
The coats of white all turn to red
My heart burns with desire
I carry on, I carry on
The unicorns are riding high
Powerful in coats of white
We turn to look and burn our eyes
I carry on, I carry on . . .
HIDE AND SEEK//Imogen Heap
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before
The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity
Of this still life
Hide and seek
Trains and sewing machines
Blood and tears
They were here first
Mm what'cha say?
Mm, that you only meant well
Well of course you did
Mm what'cha say?
Mm that it's all for the best
Of course it is
Mm what'cha say?
Mm that it's just what we need
You decided this?
HANDLEBARS//Flobots
Look at me
Look at me
Just called to say that it's good to be
Alive
In such a small world
I'm all curled up with a book to read
I can make money, open up a thrift store
I can make a living off a magazine
I can design an engine
Sixty four miles to the gallon of gasoline
I can make new antibiotics
I can make a computer survive aquatic conditions
I know how to run a business
And I can make you want to buy a product
Movers, shakers, and producers
Me and my friends understand the future
I see the strings that control the systems
I can do anything with no assistance
EVERYBODY'S CHANGING//Lily Allen
You say you wander your own land
But when I think about it
I don't see how you can
You're aching, you're breaking
And I can see the pain in your eyes
Says everybody's changing
And I don't know why
So little time
Try to understand that I'm
Trying to make a move just to stay in the game
I try to stay awake and remember my name
But everybody's changing and I don't feel the same
THE DARKNESS"//Disturbed
Don't turn away
I pray you've heard
The words I've spoken
Dare to believe
For one last time
And then I'll get the
Darkness cover me
Deny everything
Slowly walk away
To breathe again
On my own
99 RED BALLOONS//Nena
99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In this dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here...
And here is a red balloon
I think of you and let it go
30 MINUTES//T.A.T.U
Mama, Papa forgive me
Out of sight, out of mind
Out of time to decide
Do we run? Should I hide
For the rest of my life
Can we fly? Do we stay?
We could lose we could fail
And the more minutes take
To make planer, or mistakes
30 minutes, the blink of the night
30 minutes to alter our lifes
30 minutes to make up my mind
30 minutes to finally decide
30 minutes to whisper your name
30 minutes to shelter the blame
30 minutes of bliss, 30 lies
30 minutes to finally decide
DIE ANOTHER DAY//Madonna
I'm gonna break the cycle
I'm gonna shake up the system
I'm gonna destroy my ego
I'm gonna close my body now
I think I'll find another way
There's so much more to know
I guess I'll die another day
It's not my time to go
For every sin, I'll have to pay
I've come to work, I've come to play
I think I'll find another way
It's not my time to go
TERRIBLE THOUGHT//Poe
A terrible thought has moved into my mind
Like an unwanted room-mate drunk on wine
It feeds on my happiness won't pay the rent
I must take proper measures to evict it
A terrible thought has moved into my mind
A giant rat that's nibbling on my pride
It's tearing away my patience and my wit
I must take proper measures set a trap for it
BETTER DAYS//The Goo Goo Dolls
I need some place simple where we could live
And something only you can give
And that's faith and trust and peace while we're alive
And the one poor child who saved this world
And there's ten million more who probably could
If we all just stopped and said a prayer for them
So take these words and sing out loud
'Cause everyone is forgiven now
'Cause tonight's the night the world begins again
INVINCIBLE//Pat Benatar
This bloody road remains a mystery
This sudden darkness fills the air
What are we waiting for?
Won't anybody help us?
What are we waiting for?
We can't afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
It's a do or die situation
We will be Invincible
This shattered dream you cannot justify
We're gonna scream until we're satisified
What are we running for?
We've got the right to be angry
What are we running for?
When there's no where we can run to anymore
SOMEBODY HELP ME//Full Blown Rose
I've seen the face of my affliction
Of my reality
I'm being tortured by the future
Of things that yet to be
I'm being haunted a vision
It's like the moment never comes
I feel the burning of confusion
Always searching, on the run
Free me
Before I slip away
Heal me
Wake me from this day
Can somebody help me?
ORGAN GRINDER//Emilie Autumn
I paid for your silence
(Instrumental)
REMAINS//Maurissa Tancharoen and Jed Whedon
Burn down my home
My memories hardened and are bright as chrome
Good times escape
While every mistake seems to be caught on tape
I will go rolling fast
Arms out in the rain
Feel momentum building ’til
I lift off ground like an airplane
Love ties you down to the pain
A billion eyes are watching, fossilized
They see what remains
Remains
Gave up this town
What waste are we left with when it’s boiled down
Shine light on me
Your image reflected is all you’ll ever see
I will go rolling fast
Arms out in the rain
Feel momentum building ’til
I lift off ground like an airplane
Love ties you down to the pain
A billion eyes are watching, fossilized
They see what remains
Remains
WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW//Jonatha Brooke
What you don't know won't hurt you
Maybe the lies are true
Try to remember, try to forget
Those yesterdays bleeding through
You'll never see me coming
You'll never know my name
Try to remember, try to forget
But you'll never be the same
I could do anything
I could go anywhere
I could be anything
To anyone tonight
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