OH MY GOD YOU GUYS
Okay, so, um, you guys, this is the thing: my personal life is in the shitter to degrees I cannot even explain, this has been up there in worst weeks of my life, and despite it I am doing okay. I am doing okay because the amount of love and support and just dsfjdkf I have gotten from you for this coffee shop fic is literally KEEPING ME SANE. There are just. There are nine pages of comments, I don't even, and every time someone pipes up to tell me that they enjoyed it my entire life gets so much better.
THANK YOU, YOU GUYS. I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH, I REALLY, REALLY CAN'T.
And I was just, I was thinking about that and then I was listening to this song angelgazing sent me last night that is literally the musical summary of that story (it's the last one on this mix, in case you were wondering), and I thought, well, you know what, I might as well make a soundtrack. Because, you know, the least I can do is offer you guys some free music in exchange for my sanity :D
So, uh, without further ado or some such thing:
I've Got Nothing To Do Today But Smile: The Soundtrack
the sound of settling - death cab for cutie
i've got a hunger
twisting my stomach into knots
that my tongue has tied off
my brain's repeating
"if you've got an impulse let it out"
but they never make it past my mouth.
this is the sound of settling
people who think they can - the waifs
i want to be
not so far away from where i'd planned to be
good things come to those who wait
i'm going to lift my head and keep my back up straight
and when it matters most and I can't be found
you just climb to the top and you will find me hanging around
with people who think they can
our way to fall - yo la tengo
i remember a summer's day
i remember walking up to you
i remember my face turned red
and i remember staring at my feet
i remember before we met
i remember standing next to you
and i remember pretending i wasn't looking
so we'll try and try
even if it lasts an hour
with all our might
we'll try and make it ours
cause we're on our way
we're on our way to fall in love
parentheses - the blow
Now and then you can bend, it’s okay
to lean over, lean over my way
you fear that you can’t do it all and you’re right
even day takes relief every day
from its work, making light from the night
and when you’re holding me
we make a pair of parentheses
there’s plenty space to encase
whatever weird way my mind goes
i know i'll be safe in these arms
how the day sounds - greg laswell
oh who would have ever known this
could be this easy
i was a long, long way off
then just like that it was over
everything i knew of love
i was a long, long way off
and i think i like how the day sounds
like how the day sounds through this new song
not your year - the weepies
movies, tv screens reflect just what you expected
there's a world of shiny people somewhere else
out there following their bliss
living easy, getting kissed
while you wonder what else you're doing wrong
every day it starts again
you cannot say if you're happy
you keep trying to be
try harder, maybe, maybe
this is not your year
impressions - jarred gorbel
you can't wash this off your skin
leave the wreckage of your sin
feels a lot like a new beginning
you're so young and impulse driven,
you've made all of the wrong decisions
you sacrifice someone else's time
get yourself in these predicaments
come undressed as the equivalent
lesson learned
paper bag - fiona apple
i believed for a moment that my chances
were approaching to be grabbed
but as it came down near, so did a weary tear
i thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag
hunger hurts, and i want him so bad, oh it kills
'cause i know i'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
i got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold
hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love
i won't disagree - kate voegele
'cause I've got the feeling
you'll be needing love
and of all the lonely hearts
you're the one I'm thinkin' of
i've been told it's gonna take an iron hand
to break the mold and stand above all of the rest
well lately you make me weaker in the knees
and race through my veins baby every time you're close to me
take me away to places i ain't seen
they say you've got a hold on me'
and i won't disagree
harbor - vienna teng
you've got a journey to make
there's a horizon to chase
so go far beyond where we stand
no matter the distance
i'm holding your hand
sail your sea, meet your shore
all i want is to be your harbor
i feel it all - feist
i love you more
i love you more
i don't know what i knew before
but now i know i wanna win the war
no one likes to take a test
sometimes you know more is less
put your weight against the door
kick drum on the basement floor
stranded in a fog of words
loved him like a winter bird
on my head the water pours
gulf stream through the open door
fly away, fly away to what you want to make
i feel it all, i feel it all
the only living boy in new york - simon & garfunkel
i get the news i need on the weather report
oh, i can gather all the news i need on the weather report
hey, i've got nothing to do today but smile
don-da-darlin' oh don-da-darlin' here I am
the only living boy in new york
photosynthesis - frank turner
oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems
and ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams
all your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will
have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled
oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great
about slaving 50 years away on something that you hate,
about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity
well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me
I won't sit down
I won't shut up
and most of all I will not grow up
♥
Download it here, everybody.
THANK YOU, YOU GUYS. I CANNOT THANK YOU ENOUGH, I REALLY, REALLY CAN'T.
And I was just, I was thinking about that and then I was listening to this song angelgazing sent me last night that is literally the musical summary of that story (it's the last one on this mix, in case you were wondering), and I thought, well, you know what, I might as well make a soundtrack. Because, you know, the least I can do is offer you guys some free music in exchange for my sanity :D
So, uh, without further ado or some such thing:
I've Got Nothing To Do Today But Smile: The Soundtrack
the sound of settling - death cab for cutie
i've got a hunger
twisting my stomach into knots
that my tongue has tied off
my brain's repeating
"if you've got an impulse let it out"
but they never make it past my mouth.
this is the sound of settling
people who think they can - the waifs
i want to be
not so far away from where i'd planned to be
good things come to those who wait
i'm going to lift my head and keep my back up straight
and when it matters most and I can't be found
you just climb to the top and you will find me hanging around
with people who think they can
our way to fall - yo la tengo
i remember a summer's day
i remember walking up to you
i remember my face turned red
and i remember staring at my feet
i remember before we met
i remember standing next to you
and i remember pretending i wasn't looking
so we'll try and try
even if it lasts an hour
with all our might
we'll try and make it ours
cause we're on our way
we're on our way to fall in love
parentheses - the blow
Now and then you can bend, it’s okay
to lean over, lean over my way
you fear that you can’t do it all and you’re right
even day takes relief every day
from its work, making light from the night
and when you’re holding me
we make a pair of parentheses
there’s plenty space to encase
whatever weird way my mind goes
i know i'll be safe in these arms
how the day sounds - greg laswell
oh who would have ever known this
could be this easy
i was a long, long way off
then just like that it was over
everything i knew of love
i was a long, long way off
and i think i like how the day sounds
like how the day sounds through this new song
not your year - the weepies
movies, tv screens reflect just what you expected
there's a world of shiny people somewhere else
out there following their bliss
living easy, getting kissed
while you wonder what else you're doing wrong
every day it starts again
you cannot say if you're happy
you keep trying to be
try harder, maybe, maybe
this is not your year
impressions - jarred gorbel
you can't wash this off your skin
leave the wreckage of your sin
feels a lot like a new beginning
you're so young and impulse driven,
you've made all of the wrong decisions
you sacrifice someone else's time
get yourself in these predicaments
come undressed as the equivalent
lesson learned
paper bag - fiona apple
i believed for a moment that my chances
were approaching to be grabbed
but as it came down near, so did a weary tear
i thought it was a bird, but it was just a paper bag
hunger hurts, and i want him so bad, oh it kills
'cause i know i'm a mess he don't wanna clean up
i got to fold 'cause these hands are too shaky to hold
hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love
i won't disagree - kate voegele
'cause I've got the feeling
you'll be needing love
and of all the lonely hearts
you're the one I'm thinkin' of
i've been told it's gonna take an iron hand
to break the mold and stand above all of the rest
well lately you make me weaker in the knees
and race through my veins baby every time you're close to me
take me away to places i ain't seen
they say you've got a hold on me'
and i won't disagree
harbor - vienna teng
you've got a journey to make
there's a horizon to chase
so go far beyond where we stand
no matter the distance
i'm holding your hand
sail your sea, meet your shore
all i want is to be your harbor
i feel it all - feist
i love you more
i love you more
i don't know what i knew before
but now i know i wanna win the war
no one likes to take a test
sometimes you know more is less
put your weight against the door
kick drum on the basement floor
stranded in a fog of words
loved him like a winter bird
on my head the water pours
gulf stream through the open door
fly away, fly away to what you want to make
i feel it all, i feel it all
the only living boy in new york - simon & garfunkel
i get the news i need on the weather report
oh, i can gather all the news i need on the weather report
hey, i've got nothing to do today but smile
don-da-darlin' oh don-da-darlin' here I am
the only living boy in new york
photosynthesis - frank turner
oh maturity's a wrapped up package deal so it seems
and ditching teenage fantasy means ditching all your dreams
all your friends and peers and family solemnly tell you you will
have to grow up be an adult yeah be bored and unfulfilled
oh when no ones yet explained to me exactly what's so great
about slaving 50 years away on something that you hate,
about meekly shuffling down the path of mediocrity
well if that's your road then take it but it's not the road for me
I won't sit down
I won't shut up
and most of all I will not grow up
♥
Download it here, everybody.