SPN Mix: The Greek Ships on Fire - John/Mary
Title: The Greek Ships on Fire
Fandom: Supernatural
Subject: John/Mary
Notes: This is less a mix about John and Mary's relationship then it is a mix about John grieving for Mary after her death. Mary/John is an interesting ship, where "meant to be" really just means "cosmically roofied." But the fall-out from the relationship is practically biblical, and it's John grief and anger which drives a lot of the show for at least the first two seasons. Title of mix is from the poem The Triumph of Achilles because I, for many reasons, associate John with Achilles. Thanks, as always, to familiardevil for the cheerleading. I love you even when you are meowing at my friends.
Stats: Mix contains individual uploads of eight songs, a .zip of all songs, and front and back covers. Enjoy! Feedback is good karma.
ONE || Blues in Dallas - The Mountain Goats
Will I see you there when that final trumpet blows?
Will you walk on in when the angel summons you?
And I am far from where we live, and I have not learned how to forgive.
But I will wait.
I will wait.
I will wait.
TWO || An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail - Lovers
If they send the wolves, I'll join the wolves
and I'll return some day with my teeth sharper
and my blood hotter. I'll be the dog by your grave
with a hanging tongue and a ribcage and a chewed-up tail,
howling with my last exhale. An army of lovers cannot fail.
THREE || Muddy Hymnal - Iron & Wine
The shaking preacher told the captain's man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
And pulled the shade
To keep the crowd from peeking in.
We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house
And telling everyone you'd drowned
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
Your lover's angel told the captain's man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm
And placed it on your dreaming head
FOUR || Broadripple is Burning - Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos
And darling, I'm lost
I heard you whispering that night in Fountain Square
The trash-filled streets made me wish we were headed home
And darling, I'm drunk
And everything that I love has turned to stone
So pack your bags
And come back home
And I'm wasted
You can taste it
Don't look at me that way
And if my woman was a fire
She'd burn out before I wake
And be replaced by pints of whiskey
Cigarettes and outer space
FIVE || The Engine Driver (Live) - Colin Meloy
I'm an engine driver
On a long run, on a long run
Would I were beside her
She's a long one, such a long one.
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
I'm a moneylender
I have fortunes upon fortunes
Take my hand for tender
I am tortured, ever tortured
And if you don't love me, let me go
And if you don't love me, let me go
SIX || Farewell Transmission - Songs: Ohia
The real truth about it is
no one gets it right
The real truth about it is
we're all supposed to try
There ain't no end to the sands
I've been trying to cross
The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off
If I've got the maps or if I'm lost
The real truth about it is there ain't no end to the desert I'll cross
I've really known that all along
Mama here comes midnight
with the dead moon in its jaws
Must be the big star about to fall
Long dark blues
Will-o'-the-wisp
The big star is falling
SEVEN || Search and Destroy - Sanders Bohlke
and the lovers did feast and the birds flew away
and I was so mad at the coming of the day
and I will leave the monsters all at bay
and we can believe it's better this way
I was her lover
you were a child
she was your mother
we didn't cry
and they buried their dead with the flowers in the field
with wounds so deep they never healed
and they gathered their children all on the shore
gonna wait for you to search us and destroy
EIGHT || Lawrence, KS (Acoustic) - Josh Ritter
But I can't leave this world behind
Debts are not like prison where there's hope of getting free
I've been from here to Lawrence, Kansas
Trying to leave my state of mind
Trying to leave this awful sadness
Some prophecies are self-fulfilling
But I've had to work for all of mine
Better times will come to me, God willing
Cause I can't leave this world behind
.zip of music
Fandom: Supernatural
Subject: John/Mary
Notes: This is less a mix about John and Mary's relationship then it is a mix about John grieving for Mary after her death. Mary/John is an interesting ship, where "meant to be" really just means "cosmically roofied." But the fall-out from the relationship is practically biblical, and it's John grief and anger which drives a lot of the show for at least the first two seasons. Title of mix is from the poem The Triumph of Achilles because I, for many reasons, associate John with Achilles. Thanks, as always, to familiardevil for the cheerleading. I love you even when you are meowing at my friends.
Stats: Mix contains individual uploads of eight songs, a .zip of all songs, and front and back covers. Enjoy! Feedback is good karma.
ONE || Blues in Dallas - The Mountain Goats
Will I see you there when that final trumpet blows?
Will you walk on in when the angel summons you?
And I am far from where we live, and I have not learned how to forgive.
But I will wait.
I will wait.
I will wait.
TWO || An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail - Lovers
If they send the wolves, I'll join the wolves
and I'll return some day with my teeth sharper
and my blood hotter. I'll be the dog by your grave
with a hanging tongue and a ribcage and a chewed-up tail,
howling with my last exhale. An army of lovers cannot fail.
THREE || Muddy Hymnal - Iron & Wine
The shaking preacher told the captain's man
The righteous suffer in a fallen land
And pulled the shade
To keep the crowd from peeking in.
We found your children by the tavern door
With wooden buttons and an apple core
Playing house
And telling everyone you'd drowned
We found you sleeping by your lover's stone
Your lover's angel told the captain's man
It never ends the way we had it planned
And kissed her palm
And placed it on your dreaming head
FOUR || Broadripple is Burning - Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos
And darling, I'm lost
I heard you whispering that night in Fountain Square
The trash-filled streets made me wish we were headed home
And darling, I'm drunk
And everything that I love has turned to stone
So pack your bags
And come back home
And I'm wasted
You can taste it
Don't look at me that way
And if my woman was a fire
She'd burn out before I wake
And be replaced by pints of whiskey
Cigarettes and outer space
FIVE || The Engine Driver (Live) - Colin Meloy
I'm an engine driver
On a long run, on a long run
Would I were beside her
She's a long one, such a long one.
And I am a writer, writer of fictions
I am the heart that you call home
And I've written pages upon pages
Trying to rid you from my bones
I'm a moneylender
I have fortunes upon fortunes
Take my hand for tender
I am tortured, ever tortured
And if you don't love me, let me go
And if you don't love me, let me go
SIX || Farewell Transmission - Songs: Ohia
The real truth about it is
no one gets it right
The real truth about it is
we're all supposed to try
There ain't no end to the sands
I've been trying to cross
The real truth about it is my kind of life's no better off
If I've got the maps or if I'm lost
The real truth about it is there ain't no end to the desert I'll cross
I've really known that all along
Mama here comes midnight
with the dead moon in its jaws
Must be the big star about to fall
Long dark blues
Will-o'-the-wisp
The big star is falling
SEVEN || Search and Destroy - Sanders Bohlke
and the lovers did feast and the birds flew away
and I was so mad at the coming of the day
and I will leave the monsters all at bay
and we can believe it's better this way
I was her lover
you were a child
she was your mother
we didn't cry
and they buried their dead with the flowers in the field
with wounds so deep they never healed
and they gathered their children all on the shore
gonna wait for you to search us and destroy
EIGHT || Lawrence, KS (Acoustic) - Josh Ritter
But I can't leave this world behind
Debts are not like prison where there's hope of getting free
I've been from here to Lawrence, Kansas
Trying to leave my state of mind
Trying to leave this awful sadness
Some prophecies are self-fulfilling
But I've had to work for all of mine
Better times will come to me, God willing
Cause I can't leave this world behind
.zip of music