019: Love and Some Verses - A Leslie/Ben Fanmix
Title: Love and Some Verses
Fandom: Parks and Recreation
Subject: Leslie Knope/Ben Wyatt
Warning: Spoilers up to 4.10 "Citizen Knope"
This mix is dedicated to quick_ly, who requested a Leslie/Ben famix in my holiday gift request post on my personal journal, as well as the folks over at leslie_ben. I know several people requested Leslie/Ben mixes in the holiday request post over there as well so I hope this fits the bill! Also, thank you to zombres for her feedback and for uploading a couple of tracks for me!
I've been wanting to do some kind of project for awhile dedicated to this pairing's progression from the end of season two until now, which is literally one of my favourite narrative arcs ever. So, consider this mix and the accompanying picspam as a chronicle of their ~journey. I'll stop now before I get all sappy and break out into a rousing rendition of "At the Beginning" from Anastasia.
"You may hold my fate in your hands like a small bird, but I still think you're an ass."
01. sara bareilles | KING OF ANYTHING (♫)
You've got opinions, man
We're all entitled to 'em
But I never asked
So let me thank you for time
And try to not waste any more of mine
Get out of here fast
I hate to break it to you babe
But I'm not drowning
There's no one here to save
Who cares if you disagree
You are not me
Who made you king of anything
So you dare tell me who to be
Who died
And made you king of anything
02. aimee mann | THAT'S JUST WHAT YOU ARE (♫)
In our endeavor
We are never seeing eye to eye
No guts to surface
So forever may we wave goodbye
And you're always telling me
That it's my turn to move
When I wonder what could make the needle jump the groove
I won't fall for the oldest trick in the book
So don't sit there and think
You're off of the hook
By saying there is no use changing
Cause that's just what you are
That's just what you are
Acting steady
Always ready to defend your fears
What's the matter with the truth
Did I offend your ears
By suggesting that a change might be a thing to try
It would kill you just to try and be a nicer guy
It's not like you would lose
Some critical piece
If somehow you moved point A to point B
Maintaining there is no point changing
Cause that's just what you are
"Stay here. Help us building something."
03. vienna teng | STRAY ITALIAN GREYHOUND (♫)
Oh no not now
Please not now
I just settled into the glass half empty
Made myself at home
And so why now
Please not now
I just stopped believing in happy endings
Harbors of my own
But you had to come along didn't you
Break down the doors, throw open windows
Oh if you knew just what a fool you have made me
So what do I do with this?
This stray Italian greyhound
These inconvenient fireworks
This ice-cream-covered screaming hyperactive thought
God I just want to lay down
These colors make my eyes hurt
This feeling calls for everything that I am
Not
04. let's go sailing | SIDEWAYS (♫)
The sky looks pretty
Normal and so do the trees
I woke up pretty
Early and I could see
That I’ve been walking
I’ve been thinking
I’ve been looking at you
Sideways.
I’ve been moving
I’ve been dreaming
I’ve been looking at you
Sideways.
I have no problems
Dipping in my feet
But the trouble comes when
I have to jump.
And all the reasons not to
Seem pretty good
At the time
05. jeremy messersmith | TATOOINE (♫)
Twin suns of Tatooine
Taught me everything I know
Twin suns of Tatooine
Taught me everything I know
There's room up there
For second chances
Singles are fine
But doubles are fantastic
I like to think
There's a star for me
And you, spinning 'round
Falling for one another
06. the weepies | I WAS MADE FOR SUNNY DAYS (♫)
Found the book you gave me
When we were first in bloom
When I thought that you might save me
From the dark side of the moon
Instead we both went walking
To the shadows and the gloom
And we never did stop talking
You still light up the room
I say, I was made for sunny days
I made due with gray, but I didn't stay
I was made for sunny days,
And I was made for you
07. the lucksmiths | SUNLIGHT IN A JAR (♫)
Complex, completely credible love
The kind that is made, not handed to you from above
Is difficult to talk about and harder to write
Like the rhythm of a pulse, or the contours of firelight
Overblown libretto and a sumptuous score
Could never contain the contradictions I adore
We can just be chaos and then something aligns
It's so hard to contain, maintain it or define it
I tried to write another chorus
But I didn't get that far
'Cause trying to sum you up in song
Is like catching sunlight in a jar
"It's not just me, right?" "No, it's not just you."
08. yo la tengo | OUR WAY TO FALL (♫)
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 sitting 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
09. the orange peels | WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT (♫)
Under the moon you wax and wane
It happens again, again, again
And lately, things aren’t really what they seem
I saw reality, a dream within a dream
And maybe I’m finally seeing the light
Under your gaze, I think I see
Every possibility
And I can see us at the rainbow's end
We argued endlessly, we were the best of friends
Lately, I’ve lost and found the light
And you tell me, "We're gonna make it"
Come on, say it again
You tell me, "We're gonna-"
"You can’t do this. You know, we broke up. And I kind of feel like we shouldn’t hang out together just the two of us because every time we do, it just makes it harder, you know?"
10. weezer | O GIRLFRIEND (♫)
I miss you
And I wonder how you feel about me too
Do you miss the way we would play
And waste our time away?
Suddenly, we're apart
And I can't see you every night
Though we fight I love you so much
Now I can't feel your touch
Oh girlfriend
That's the end
And I'm lost without your love
Oh love
11. rachael yamagata | EVEN IF I DON'T (♫)
I miss you most in the morning
Most every morning
I wake up thinking
I could call
I could come visit
I could come running
We could relive it
But when I think of all that we've been through
Going back to you
Seems such a foolish thing to do
I hope you know
That even if I don't
I wanted to
All those words
You said at the ending
Were pretty revealing
And I can't forget them
All those ways
We missed at connecting
Despite all our trying
It always came back to
What I couldn't give you
So when I think of starting up again
Or trying to be friends
It seems impossible to do
I hope you know
That even if we can't
I wanted to
12. tegan and sara | AND DARLING (♫)
Creep up and tell me that you
You love me more each time you
Look into my eyes, I feel like
I know you don't mean to be mean
I'm sure you know the same for me
When you creep up and tell me
Darling
It breaks my heart each time you
Darling
You break my heart each time you
You slip your hands inside my pockets
Tell me nothing else would do
Without me, you can't live and
You slip your heart into my chest
"Because I love Leslie. I want to be with her and I don't want to hide the way about I feel about her anymore. So yeah it was worth it because I'm in love with Leslie Knope."
"Let the record state that I, Leslie Knope, love Ben Wyatt. I love him with all of my heart."
13. t.v. carpio | I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND (♫)
Yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
And when I touch you I feel happy, inside
It's such a feeling
That my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide
14. the temper trap | LOVE LOST (♫)
Our love was lost
But now we've found it
Our love was lost, was lost
And hope was gone
Our love was lost
But now we've found it
And if you flash your heart, your heart
I won't deny it
I promise
Our love was lost
In the rubble are all the things
That you've, you've been dreaming of
Keep me in mind
When you're ready
I am here
To take you every time
Oh, our love was lost
Lost, lost, lost, lost
Our love was lost
But now it's found
15. joshua radin and schuyler fisk | PAPERWEIGHT (♫)
Been up all night staring at you
Wondering what's on your mind
I've been this way with so many before
But this feels like the first time
You want the sunrise to go back to bed
I want to make you laugh
Mess up my bed with me
Kick off the covers I'm waiting
Every word you say I think
I should write down
Don't want to forget come daylight
Happy to lay here
Just happy to be here
I'm happy to know you
16. fruit bats | BEAUTIFUL MORNING LIGHT (♫)
Climb up with me to the monkeys nest
And lay your head upon my rumbling chest
Give your lovely lonesome head a rest
In the beautiful morning light
Press your lips upon this hopeless kiss
And I will blow the tiny spider off your wrist
You're the only one I wish to lay here with
In the beautiful morning light
17. iron & wine | LOVE AND SOME VERSES (♫)
Love is a dress that you made long
To hide your knees
Love to say this to your face
I'll love you only
For your days and excitement
Love and some verses you hear
Say what you can say
Love to say this in your ear
I'll love you that way
From your changing contentments
What will you choose for to share?
Someday drawing you different,
May I be weaved in your hair?
18. ingrid michaelson | THE WAY I AM (♫)
If you were falling, then I would catch you
You need a light, I'd find a match
Cause I love the way you say good morning
And you take me the way I am
If you are chilly, here take my sweater
Your head is aching, I'll make it better
Cause I love the way you call me baby
And you take me the way I am
19. mat kearney | COUNT ON ME (♫)
One day to get it all right
Too wrong and not enough right
Three words we said in the night
Before we held the fire
You can count on me, when you can not see
Let me spell it
Out plain and simple now
When your numbers called backs against the wall
Pick you up when you call be there when you fall
BONUS: onerepublic | ALL THIS TIME (♫)
All this time
We were waiting for each other
All this time
I was waiting for you
We got all these words
Can't waste them on another
So I'm straight in a straight line
Running back to you
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Fandom: Parks and Recreation
Subject: Leslie Knope/Ben Wyatt
Warning: Spoilers up to 4.10 "Citizen Knope"
This mix is dedicated to quick_ly, who requested a Leslie/Ben famix in my holiday gift request post on my personal journal, as well as the folks over at leslie_ben. I know several people requested Leslie/Ben mixes in the holiday request post over there as well so I hope this fits the bill! Also, thank you to zombres for her feedback and for uploading a couple of tracks for me!
I've been wanting to do some kind of project for awhile dedicated to this pairing's progression from the end of season two until now, which is literally one of my favourite narrative arcs ever. So, consider this mix and the accompanying picspam as a chronicle of their ~journey. I'll stop now before I get all sappy and break out into a rousing rendition of "At the Beginning" from Anastasia.
"You may hold my fate in your hands like a small bird, but I still think you're an ass."
01. sara bareilles | KING OF ANYTHING (♫)
You've got opinions, man
We're all entitled to 'em
But I never asked
So let me thank you for time
And try to not waste any more of mine
Get out of here fast
I hate to break it to you babe
But I'm not drowning
There's no one here to save
Who cares if you disagree
You are not me
Who made you king of anything
So you dare tell me who to be
Who died
And made you king of anything
02. aimee mann | THAT'S JUST WHAT YOU ARE (♫)
In our endeavor
We are never seeing eye to eye
No guts to surface
So forever may we wave goodbye
And you're always telling me
That it's my turn to move
When I wonder what could make the needle jump the groove
I won't fall for the oldest trick in the book
So don't sit there and think
You're off of the hook
By saying there is no use changing
Cause that's just what you are
That's just what you are
Acting steady
Always ready to defend your fears
What's the matter with the truth
Did I offend your ears
By suggesting that a change might be a thing to try
It would kill you just to try and be a nicer guy
It's not like you would lose
Some critical piece
If somehow you moved point A to point B
Maintaining there is no point changing
Cause that's just what you are
"Stay here. Help us building something."
03. vienna teng | STRAY ITALIAN GREYHOUND (♫)
Oh no not now
Please not now
I just settled into the glass half empty
Made myself at home
And so why now
Please not now
I just stopped believing in happy endings
Harbors of my own
But you had to come along didn't you
Break down the doors, throw open windows
Oh if you knew just what a fool you have made me
So what do I do with this?
This stray Italian greyhound
These inconvenient fireworks
This ice-cream-covered screaming hyperactive thought
God I just want to lay down
These colors make my eyes hurt
This feeling calls for everything that I am
Not
04. let's go sailing | SIDEWAYS (♫)
The sky looks pretty
Normal and so do the trees
I woke up pretty
Early and I could see
That I’ve been walking
I’ve been thinking
I’ve been looking at you
Sideways.
I’ve been moving
I’ve been dreaming
I’ve been looking at you
Sideways.
I have no problems
Dipping in my feet
But the trouble comes when
I have to jump.
And all the reasons not to
Seem pretty good
At the time
05. jeremy messersmith | TATOOINE (♫)
Twin suns of Tatooine
Taught me everything I know
Twin suns of Tatooine
Taught me everything I know
There's room up there
For second chances
Singles are fine
But doubles are fantastic
I like to think
There's a star for me
And you, spinning 'round
Falling for one another
06. the weepies | I WAS MADE FOR SUNNY DAYS (♫)
Found the book you gave me
When we were first in bloom
When I thought that you might save me
From the dark side of the moon
Instead we both went walking
To the shadows and the gloom
And we never did stop talking
You still light up the room
I say, I was made for sunny days
I made due with gray, but I didn't stay
I was made for sunny days,
And I was made for you
07. the lucksmiths | SUNLIGHT IN A JAR (♫)
Complex, completely credible love
The kind that is made, not handed to you from above
Is difficult to talk about and harder to write
Like the rhythm of a pulse, or the contours of firelight
Overblown libretto and a sumptuous score
Could never contain the contradictions I adore
We can just be chaos and then something aligns
It's so hard to contain, maintain it or define it
I tried to write another chorus
But I didn't get that far
'Cause trying to sum you up in song
Is like catching sunlight in a jar
"It's not just me, right?" "No, it's not just you."
08. yo la tengo | OUR WAY TO FALL (♫)
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 sitting 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
09. the orange peels | WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT (♫)
Under the moon you wax and wane
It happens again, again, again
And lately, things aren’t really what they seem
I saw reality, a dream within a dream
And maybe I’m finally seeing the light
Under your gaze, I think I see
Every possibility
And I can see us at the rainbow's end
We argued endlessly, we were the best of friends
Lately, I’ve lost and found the light
And you tell me, "We're gonna make it"
Come on, say it again
You tell me, "We're gonna-"
"You can’t do this. You know, we broke up. And I kind of feel like we shouldn’t hang out together just the two of us because every time we do, it just makes it harder, you know?"
10. weezer | O GIRLFRIEND (♫)
I miss you
And I wonder how you feel about me too
Do you miss the way we would play
And waste our time away?
Suddenly, we're apart
And I can't see you every night
Though we fight I love you so much
Now I can't feel your touch
Oh girlfriend
That's the end
And I'm lost without your love
Oh love
11. rachael yamagata | EVEN IF I DON'T (♫)
I miss you most in the morning
Most every morning
I wake up thinking
I could call
I could come visit
I could come running
We could relive it
But when I think of all that we've been through
Going back to you
Seems such a foolish thing to do
I hope you know
That even if I don't
I wanted to
All those words
You said at the ending
Were pretty revealing
And I can't forget them
All those ways
We missed at connecting
Despite all our trying
It always came back to
What I couldn't give you
So when I think of starting up again
Or trying to be friends
It seems impossible to do
I hope you know
That even if we can't
I wanted to
12. tegan and sara | AND DARLING (♫)
Creep up and tell me that you
You love me more each time you
Look into my eyes, I feel like
I know you don't mean to be mean
I'm sure you know the same for me
When you creep up and tell me
Darling
It breaks my heart each time you
Darling
You break my heart each time you
You slip your hands inside my pockets
Tell me nothing else would do
Without me, you can't live and
You slip your heart into my chest
"Because I love Leslie. I want to be with her and I don't want to hide the way about I feel about her anymore. So yeah it was worth it because I'm in love with Leslie Knope."
"Let the record state that I, Leslie Knope, love Ben Wyatt. I love him with all of my heart."
13. t.v. carpio | I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND (♫)
Yeah, I'll tell you something
I think you'll understand
When I say that something
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
I wanna hold your hand
And when I touch you I feel happy, inside
It's such a feeling
That my love
I can't hide
I can't hide
I can't hide
14. the temper trap | LOVE LOST (♫)
Our love was lost
But now we've found it
Our love was lost, was lost
And hope was gone
Our love was lost
But now we've found it
And if you flash your heart, your heart
I won't deny it
I promise
Our love was lost
In the rubble are all the things
That you've, you've been dreaming of
Keep me in mind
When you're ready
I am here
To take you every time
Oh, our love was lost
Lost, lost, lost, lost
Our love was lost
But now it's found
15. joshua radin and schuyler fisk | PAPERWEIGHT (♫)
Been up all night staring at you
Wondering what's on your mind
I've been this way with so many before
But this feels like the first time
You want the sunrise to go back to bed
I want to make you laugh
Mess up my bed with me
Kick off the covers I'm waiting
Every word you say I think
I should write down
Don't want to forget come daylight
Happy to lay here
Just happy to be here
I'm happy to know you
16. fruit bats | BEAUTIFUL MORNING LIGHT (♫)
Climb up with me to the monkeys nest
And lay your head upon my rumbling chest
Give your lovely lonesome head a rest
In the beautiful morning light
Press your lips upon this hopeless kiss
And I will blow the tiny spider off your wrist
You're the only one I wish to lay here with
In the beautiful morning light
17. iron & wine | LOVE AND SOME VERSES (♫)
Love is a dress that you made long
To hide your knees
Love to say this to your face
I'll love you only
For your days and excitement
Love and some verses you hear
Say what you can say
Love to say this in your ear
I'll love you that way
From your changing contentments
What will you choose for to share?
Someday drawing you different,
May I be weaved in your hair?
18. ingrid michaelson | THE WAY I AM (♫)
If you were falling, then I would catch you
You need a light, I'd find a match
Cause I love the way you say good morning
And you take me the way I am
If you are chilly, here take my sweater
Your head is aching, I'll make it better
Cause I love the way you call me baby
And you take me the way I am
19. mat kearney | COUNT ON ME (♫)
One day to get it all right
Too wrong and not enough right
Three words we said in the night
Before we held the fire
You can count on me, when you can not see
Let me spell it
Out plain and simple now
When your numbers called backs against the wall
Pick you up when you call be there when you fall
BONUS: onerepublic | ALL THIS TIME (♫)
All this time
We were waiting for each other
All this time
I was waiting for you
We got all these words
Can't waste them on another
So I'm straight in a straight line
Running back to you
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Notes:
Disclaimer: