The Watcher and The Slayer: Destined Fanmix
This is my second offering today, a second fanmix. This one focuses on the Watcher-Slayer roles and relationship between Giles and Buffy.
Please enjoy in lieu of my new fics...cross fingers for free-for-all day! :D Enjoy!
Liner Notes
Destined: The Watcher and the Slayer, Together
1 - The Reason by Hoobastank
I found a reason for me, to change who I used to be. A reason to start over new, and the reason is you.
“I was ten years old when my father told me I was destined to be a Watcher....I had very definite plans about my future. I was going to be a fighter pilot. Or possibly a grocer. My father gave me a very tiresome speech about responsibility and sacrifice.”
--Giles, “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date”
2 - Every Breath You Take by The Police
Every move you make, every vow you break, every smile you fake, every claim you stake, I’ll be watching you.
“I know I’m supposed to teach you self-reliance, but I can’t leave you out there to fight alone. To hell with what’s right, I’m ready to back you up. Let’s find the evil and fight it together.”
--Giles, “The Freshman”
3 - A Girl In My Arms by Anthony Stewart Head
With a girl in my arms, it wouldn’t be hard to find myself taken completely off guard. Would it not for the fact that I sense the alarms...with a girl in my arms. The girl’s in my lap, like an innocent child, but I’m not a man who’s so simply beguiled. Yet I could overcome my natural qualms...with a girl in my arms.
“Now wait a minute - you think I’m evil if I bring a group of teenage girls on a camping trip and I don’t touch them?”
--Giles, “The Killer In Me”
4 - Just A Girl by No Doubt
The moment I step outside, so many reasons for me to run and hide. I can’t do the little things I hold so dear...’cause I’m just a girl I’d rather not be...
“How’d you do that?”
“It’s what I do.”
“But you’re...you’re just a girl.”
“That’s what I keep saying.”
--Kid Buffy saves and Buffy, “The Gift”
5 - Building a Mystery by Sarah McLachlan
You come out at night, that’s when the energy comes and the dark side’s light, and the vampires roam...you’re so beautiful with an edge and charm, but so careful...
“If I was at full Slayer power, I’d be punning right about now.”
--Buffy, “Helpless”
6 - Buffy by Velvet Chain
When forces of darkness abound, the demons and vamps always come around. But when they rise up in the night, the slayer will come, the slayer will fight.
“Do you think I chose to be like this? Do you have any idea how lonely it is, how dangerous? I would love to be upstairs watching TV or gossiping about boys, or...God, even studying! But I have to save the world. Again.”
--Buffy, “Becoming, Part 2”
7 - The Prayer of St. Francis by Sarah McLachlan
Where there is hatred, let me sow love...where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light...
“You are full of love. You love with all your soul. It’s brighter than the fire...blinding. That’s why you pull away from it.”
“I’m full of love? I’m not losing it?”
“Only if you reject it. Love is pain, and the Slayer forges strength from pain. Love...give...forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature. Love will bring you to your gift.”
--The First Slayer and Buffy, “Intervention”
8 - Tubthumping by Chumbawumba
I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never going to keep me down!
“What can’t we face if we’re together? What’s in this place that we can’t weather? Apocalypse - we’ve all be there. The same old trips, why should we care?”
“What can’t we do if we get in it? We’ll work through within a minute. We have to try, we’ll pay the price, it’s do or die--”
“Hey, I’ve died twice!”
--Buffy and ensemble, “Once More, With Feeling”
9 - Believe by The Bravery
So give me something to believe, ‘cause I am living just to breathe. And I need something more to keep on breathing for...
“So here’s the part where you make a choice: what if you could have that power now? In every generation, one slayer is born, because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman is more powerful than all of them combined.”
--Buffy, “Chosen”
10 - Dreams by The Cranberries
Oh, my life is changing everyday in every possible way. And oh, my dreams, it’s never quite as it seems.
“Yeah, you’re not the one and only chosen anymore. Just gotta live like a person. How’s that feel?”
--Faith, “Chosen”
All the songs, artwork, and liner notes are available to download here.
Please enjoy in lieu of my new fics...cross fingers for free-for-all day! :D Enjoy!
Liner Notes
Destined: The Watcher and the Slayer, Together
1 - The Reason by Hoobastank
I found a reason for me, to change who I used to be. A reason to start over new, and the reason is you.
“I was ten years old when my father told me I was destined to be a Watcher....I had very definite plans about my future. I was going to be a fighter pilot. Or possibly a grocer. My father gave me a very tiresome speech about responsibility and sacrifice.”
--Giles, “Never Kill a Boy on the First Date”
2 - Every Breath You Take by The Police
Every move you make, every vow you break, every smile you fake, every claim you stake, I’ll be watching you.
“I know I’m supposed to teach you self-reliance, but I can’t leave you out there to fight alone. To hell with what’s right, I’m ready to back you up. Let’s find the evil and fight it together.”
--Giles, “The Freshman”
3 - A Girl In My Arms by Anthony Stewart Head
With a girl in my arms, it wouldn’t be hard to find myself taken completely off guard. Would it not for the fact that I sense the alarms...with a girl in my arms. The girl’s in my lap, like an innocent child, but I’m not a man who’s so simply beguiled. Yet I could overcome my natural qualms...with a girl in my arms.
“Now wait a minute - you think I’m evil if I bring a group of teenage girls on a camping trip and I don’t touch them?”
--Giles, “The Killer In Me”
4 - Just A Girl by No Doubt
The moment I step outside, so many reasons for me to run and hide. I can’t do the little things I hold so dear...’cause I’m just a girl I’d rather not be...
“How’d you do that?”
“It’s what I do.”
“But you’re...you’re just a girl.”
“That’s what I keep saying.”
--Kid Buffy saves and Buffy, “The Gift”
5 - Building a Mystery by Sarah McLachlan
You come out at night, that’s when the energy comes and the dark side’s light, and the vampires roam...you’re so beautiful with an edge and charm, but so careful...
“If I was at full Slayer power, I’d be punning right about now.”
--Buffy, “Helpless”
6 - Buffy by Velvet Chain
When forces of darkness abound, the demons and vamps always come around. But when they rise up in the night, the slayer will come, the slayer will fight.
“Do you think I chose to be like this? Do you have any idea how lonely it is, how dangerous? I would love to be upstairs watching TV or gossiping about boys, or...God, even studying! But I have to save the world. Again.”
--Buffy, “Becoming, Part 2”
7 - The Prayer of St. Francis by Sarah McLachlan
Where there is hatred, let me sow love...where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light...
“You are full of love. You love with all your soul. It’s brighter than the fire...blinding. That’s why you pull away from it.”
“I’m full of love? I’m not losing it?”
“Only if you reject it. Love is pain, and the Slayer forges strength from pain. Love...give...forgive. Risk the pain. It is your nature. Love will bring you to your gift.”
--The First Slayer and Buffy, “Intervention”
8 - Tubthumping by Chumbawumba
I get knocked down, but I get up again, you’re never going to keep me down!
“What can’t we face if we’re together? What’s in this place that we can’t weather? Apocalypse - we’ve all be there. The same old trips, why should we care?”
“What can’t we do if we get in it? We’ll work through within a minute. We have to try, we’ll pay the price, it’s do or die--”
“Hey, I’ve died twice!”
--Buffy and ensemble, “Once More, With Feeling”
9 - Believe by The Bravery
So give me something to believe, ‘cause I am living just to breathe. And I need something more to keep on breathing for...
“So here’s the part where you make a choice: what if you could have that power now? In every generation, one slayer is born, because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman is more powerful than all of them combined.”
--Buffy, “Chosen”
10 - Dreams by The Cranberries
Oh, my life is changing everyday in every possible way. And oh, my dreams, it’s never quite as it seems.
“Yeah, you’re not the one and only chosen anymore. Just gotta live like a person. How’s that feel?”
--Faith, “Chosen”
All the songs, artwork, and liner notes are available to download here.