Fandom: Good Omens.
Subject: Crowley/Aziraphale.
Warnings: Angst. With extra 'ang'.
Notes: If it didn't work out. No commentary at all this time - I'm leaving this one entirely open to interpretation. Artists include Paramore, My Brightest Diamond, Bif Naked, Now It's Overhead, Helium, Sleater-Kinney, Brand New, Placebo, Gorillaz, Poe, and Garbage. Thanks to Twitch for tracks 10, 11, 12, and 19. Source for cover art by![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
taiyou_to_tsuki, who is awesome; used with permission. ALL SONGS IN .MP3 FORMAT.
BEGIN AGAIN (SHINING)
a crowley/aziraphale fanmix
one : in the grass, mary timony.
who hid in the grass where jesus lay?
were they the shepherds of the day?
i was on the bus trying to get off
jamming to the fat boys when i was lost
once i was lost but i never was found
the blind bus driver drives me around
i don't understand what my love couldn't see
couldn't see in me.
who hid in the grass where jesus lay?
the biggest mystery today
a sound 16 down from middle C
that rings through the oceans softly
once i came home to a bag of bones
a pile of trash and a plastic throne
throw your bones out to sea
watch them sink so silently.
even i know the fiery place you can go
even i know the fiery place you can go.
two : stuck on you, paramore.
i heard you driving in my car
then in a frozen bar
and i claimed i didn't care for you
but your verse got trapped inside my head
over and over again
you played yourself to death in me
i thought i'd drop you easily
but that was not to be
you burrowed like a summer tick
so you invade my sleep and confuse my dreams
turn my nights to sleepless itch.
stuck on you 'til the end of time
i'm too tired to fight your rhyme
stuck on you 'til the end of time
you've got me paralyzed.
holding on the telephone
i hear your midrange moan
you're everywhere inside my room
even when i'm alone i hear your mellow drone
you're everywhere inside of me.
i can't escape your incessant whine
when you beam it out all across the sky
no i can't escape
(stuck on you 'til the end of time)
your insipid rhyme
(i'm too tired to fight your rhyme)
when you shoot it deep
(stuck on you 'til the end of time)
straight into my mind.
three : burn, don't freeze! sleater-kinney.
i’d set your heart on fire
but arson is no way
to make a love burn brighter
(when you saw me on that first day
said i’d blossom under your care)
always thought that the devil was the only one
who knew the ins and the outs of the ways of love
so i sold off my heart to see how this would end
now i can’t move an inch for fear it will begin
(wrap me up tight inside your wing
is it safe now is it safe to breathe?)
you come in between me and the darkness
please don’t ever leave
(i force my eyes open and now who has changed?
you look different so different today).
holding your eyes in the hardest stare
running around like you wanted me there
lookin’ at me like i’m the hottest in town
then turnin’ your back when you’re movin’ around
i ain’t gonna listen to you no more
breakin’ outta this place throwin’ open the door
use me up just to fan the flame
but you’ll be sorry as i’m walkin’ away
(backwards forwards going out of my mind
backwards forwards spinning way off time
fire to water fire baby baby’s putting me out).
you’re the truest light i’ve known
but someday i’ll learn i don’t need your fuel to burn
(i’m the one who decides who i am
i’m the one who will shed this old skin)
always thought that hell was the only place
hot enough to melt our hearts into a locked embrace
there’s something so safe about a lack of air
the only way to make sure that you’ll always be there
(i force my eyes open and now who has changed?
i feel different so different today).
four : silver angel, helium.
i am the earth
(it's not something that i know)
i am the dirt
(when to freeze and when to grow)
i had my own birth
(when to stay in and when to go)
and i am your curse
(it's not something that i know).
you came out of the sky like a feather from an angel
i was rubbing my eyes
i know i'm not so wise or half as able as your angel size
love as light as light as a lead dove (fly lightly)
love that fits like a wet glove (fly all night).
it feels like a slide show
(it's not something that I know)
it's more like a freak show
(when to stay in and when to go)
what makes the world go?
(when to freeze and when to grow)
what do i know?
(it's not something that i know).
five : me vs. maradona vs. elvis, brand new.
with one or two i get used to the room
we go slow when we first make our moves
by five or six bring you out to the car
number nine with my head on the bar
and it's sad but true
out of cash and IOUs.
i've got desperate desires and unadmirable plans
my tongue will taste of gin and malicious intent
bring you back to the bar get you out of the cold
a sober straight face gets you out of your clothes
and they're scared that we know
all the crimes they'll commit
who they'll kiss before they get home.
i will lie awake
and lie for fun and fake the way i hold you
let you fall for every empty word i say.
barely conscious in the door where you stand
your eyes are fighting sleep while your mouth makes your demands
you laugh at every word trying hard to be cute
i almost feel sorry for what i'm gonna do
and your hair smells of smoke
who will cast the first stone?
you can sin or spend the night all alone.
brass buttons on your coat hold the cold
in the shape of a heart that they cut out of stone
you're using all your looks that you've thrown from the start
if you let me have my way i swear i'll tear you apart
'cause it's all you can be
you're a drunk and you're scared
it's ladies' night and all the girls drink for free.
six : the ice & the storm, my brightest diamond.
open up your heart to me darling
you're resisting this place you've been dreaming only of it
it's just like i was building up inside darling
we've accumulated too much miscommunication
in the beginning everything is soft but defensive
perhaps we begin again shining
i wanna love you to sleep
i wanna love you to sleep
so nothing is stopping me from receiving from giving out.
i want a storm to blow it out
i wanna shake myself and turn my heart inside out
i want a storm to blow it out
i wanna shake myself and turn my heart inside out.
open up your heart to me now
open
darling you're resisting this place you've been dreaming only of it.
don't you want to let it go?
(darling we've accumulated too much miscommunication)
let it go let it let it let it go
let it go let it let it let it go.
seven : west of the fields, r.e.m.
long gone intuition to assume are gone when we try
dream of a living jungle
in my way back home when we die.
west of the fields west of the fields
west of the fields west of the fields
long gone long gone long gone long gone
west of the fields.
dreams of Elysian to assume are gone when we try
tell now what is dreaming
when we try to listen with your eyes oversimplify.
the animals how strange
try try to stick it in.
dreams of Elysian to assume are gone when we try
tell now what is dreaming when we try
listen to your eyes when we die.
eight : song to say goodbye, placebo.
you are one of god's mistakes
you crying tragic waste of skin
i'm well aware of how it aches
and you still won't let me in
now i'm breaking down your door
to try and save your swollen face
though i don't like you anymore
you lying trying waste of space.
my oh my
a song to say goodbye
a song to say goodbye
a song to say goodbye
a song to say
before our innocence was lost
you were always one of those
blessed with lucky sevens
and a voice that made me cry.
you were mother nature's son
someone to whom i could relate
your needle and your damage done
remains a sordid twist of fate
now i'm trying to wake you up
to pull you from the liquid sky
'cause if i don't we'll both end up
with just a song to say goodbye.
nine : every planet we reach is dead, gorillaz.
i lost my leg like i lost my way
so no loose ends nothing to see me down
how are we going to work this out?
dreams aren't bad i had to admit
i love the girl but god only knows it's
getting harder to see the sun coming through
i love you but what are we going to do?
picture i'm the dreamer
i'll take you deeper
down to the sleepy glow
time is a low
don't you know
what are we going to do?
when you go down
all the sick and selfless days
i want to see you again
i love you but what are we going to do?
ten : truce, dresden dolls.
you can have washington i'll take new jersey
you can have london but i want new york city
i should get providence i've got a job now
los angeles obvious that's where you belong now
you can have africa asia australia
as long as you keep your hands off cafe pamplona
we can split germany right down the middle
you'd hate it there anyway take berlin and we'll call it even.
you can have all of the carry-on baggage
i'll trade the saskia jokes for the alphabet language
on special occasions we'll spit between parents
who forced us to hate them on alternating weekends
you call it over and i call you psycho
significant other
just say we were lovers and we'll call it even
we'll call it even.
i am the ground zero ex-friend you ordered
disguised as a hero to get past your borders
i know when i'm wanted i'll leave if you ask me to
mind my own business and speak when i'm spoken to
i am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the groud within hours of impact
i hit back if hit and attack if attacked.
you get route two between concord and lexington
i want mass ave from the square to my apartment
and if we should meet through some misunderstanding
ill be very sweet very patient and forgiving
(now get off my side of the state)
and if we should meet one another in passing
despite these techniques there is sometimes no avoiding
(there must be some kind of mistake)
we'll raise high our white flags and say hi and shake hands
declaring the land we're on unamerican
we'll call it even.
i am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the groud within hours of impact
i hit back if hit and attack if attacked
i am an accident waiting to happen
i'm laughing like mad while you strangle the captain
my place may be taken but make no mistake
from a little black black box i can say without shame
that you've lost
do you know what you've lost?
so take whatever you'd like
i'll strike like the states on fire
you won't sleep very tight
no hiding no safe covers
make your bed and now lie
just like you always do
you can fake it for the papers but i'm on to you.
eleven : set the fire to the third bar, snow patrol.
i find the map and draw a straight line
over rivers farms and state lines
the distance from A to where you'd B
it's only finger-lengths that i see
i touch the place where i'd find your face
my fingers in creases of distant dark places
i hang my coat up in the first bar
there is no peace that i've felt so far
the laughter penetrates my silence
as drunken men find flaws in science
their words mostly noises
ghosts with just voices
your words in my memory
are like music to me.
i'm miles from where you are
i lay down on the cold ground
i pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms.
after i have travelled so far
we'd set the fire to the third bar
we'd share each other like an island
until exhausted close our eyelids
and dreaming pick up from
the last place we left off
your soft skin is weeping
a joy you can't keep it.
twelve : drowned, youth group.
we were drinking
yeah we started drinking round two
and the air was so heavy
yeah the air was heavy with hopes it couldn't fulfil
this is as good as it gets
hope is all we have left
the pilot plays can't hear a sound
all my optimism's drowned.
yeah i'm drowned
i'm drowned and i don't know why.
the cicadas
yeah the cicadas are ringing in my ears
awake from hibernation
and singing from frustration about being locked up all year.
like a chapter
a concluding chapter that sinks you with its hooks
you know this little city
looks like a city i read about in books.
thirteen : wild, poe.
i go wild 'cause you break me open
wild 'cause you left me here
i go wild.
wild because the chips are down
wild because there isn't anybody else around
wild when the waves start to break
and god knows they're breaking in me now
i go wild because it doesn't make sense
for me to cry out in my own defense
wild because i would do anything
to tear you off your precious fence.
so this is what it's like living in limbo
first i'm high then i'm solo.
i go wild 'cause you break me open
wild 'cause you left me here
i go wild 'cause your promises are broken
wild when I know you're near
i go wild
i go wild.
tell me what you've come here for
moving like a hunter through my back door
leaving the perfume of all you adore
to die nameless on my floor
yeah well we both know you don't play fair
i guess you really think that you get me there
let's be honest perhaps this little ride
is too much for even you to bear.
you've got a lot of nerve to come back here
you're not the only one who can smell fear.
i go wild 'cause you break me open
wild 'cause you left me here
i go wild 'cause your promises are broken
wild don't you get it dear
you're not the only one who lives on instincts
no i've got instincts of my own
you've got a lot of nerve to come back
plan your attack yeah i am still waiting
you wrote the rules to try to contain me
you broke 'em now you have untamed me
i go wild
i go wild.
tell me what you've come for
what is it you adore
won't you tell me
what would you go wild for?
you've got a lot of nerve to come back here
speak up my darling i have been waiting.
(communication is more than just words, communication is architecture,
because of course it is quite obvious that a house which would be built without that will, that desire to communicate, would not look the way your house looks today.)
fourteen : metal heart, garbage.
i wish i had a metal heart i could cross the line
i wish i was half as good as you think i am.
now that we know for sure they're telling lies
when they say no one gets hurt and therefore nobody dies
you know it's hard to believe anything that you hear
they say the world is round.
i wish i was as big as you you'd have to tell the truth
i've been nothing you could hurt nothing you could heal.
i want to be dependable i want to be courageous and good
i want to be faithful so that i can be your woman come true
i want to be a friend you can rely on you can lean on and trust
i want to understand so i can forget and give in to love.
i wish i wasn't flesh and blood i would not be scared
from bullets built with me in mind then i could be safe
sweet lord take care of me for i think i'm done
kiss my mother on her cheek lay my burden down
lay my burden down.
fifteen : one more notch, murder by death.
hole up kid there's a storm comin' down
work those fingers to the bone
you got grit that's a fact
you build 'em up just to knock 'em all down
dig a hole that goes down deep in the ground
and when the time comes crawl in
as the earth all shudders
at the pounding of the feet of the four horsemen.
you aren't safe under the earth
hiding your actions covered in dirt
like a snake shedding its skin
if you 'fess up you can start all over again.
and the whirlwind lifts you up to the ceiling
the balconies pass
but you don't even see them
as they go by
and it whips your bodies higher and higher
when your lips lock
you both catch on fire
the crowd covers their eyes.
you've forgotten everything but yourselves
you don't really even matter to each other
it's the rush that you get when you know you've done wrong
as you bake your bodies separate
but you never notice that the other is burning
you just pity yourself.
sixteen : crushcrushcrush, paramore.
i got a lot to say to you
yeah i got a lot to say
i notice your eyes are always blue to me
keeping them here and it doesn't make sense at all.
they taped over your mouth scribbled out the truth with their lies
your little spies
they taped over your mouth scribbled out the truth with their lies
your little spies.
crush crush crushcrushcrush
nothing compares to a quiet evening alone
trust the one to i was just counting on
that never happens i guess i'm dreaming again
let's be more than this.
if you wanna play it like a game
well come on come on let's play
'cause i'd rather waste my life pretending
than have to forget you for one whole minute.
rock and roll baby don't you know that
we're all alone now i need something to sing about
rock and roll hey don't you know that
we're all alone now i need something to sing about
rock and roll hey don't you know baby
we're all alone now give me something to sing about.
seventeen : religion, bif naked.
suck my mouth suck my pain away
suck my mouth suck my pain away
helplessness i am hard to stain
potentially inappropriate.
i am naked before you
look at me
you came for me i pray to you
you are in me.
you are my religion
you are my religion
i'm loving you
you're loving me.
brutal truth
it is profound
can you hear the sound
of my breath?
suck my mouth suck my pain away
suck my mouth suck my pain away
couldn't help me been here all of my life
perverted love on the other side.
you are my religion
you are my religion
i'm loving you
you're loving me
you are my religion
you are my religion
i'm touching you
you're touching me.
intoxicated with your breath
my eyes close i am a mess
starving and cold and i need your love
you keep me real you lift me up
prayer soft i am in love
devotee of your immortal love.
eighteen : before the dawn, evanescence.
meet me after dark again and i'll hold you
i am nothing more than to see you there.
and maybe tonight
we'll fly so far away
we'll be lost before the dawn.
if only night could hold you and i can see you my love
then let me never ever wake again.
somehow i know that we can't wake again
from this dream it's not real but it's ours.
nineteen : tranquilize, the killers.
time it tells living in my home town
wedding bells they begin easy
live it down baby don’t talk that much
baby knows but baby don’t tease me
in the park we could go walking
drown in the dark or we could go sailing
on the sea
always here always on time
close call was it love or was it just easy
money talks when people need shoes and socks
steady boys i'm thinking she needs me
i was just sipping on something sweet
i don’t need political process.
i got this feeling that they‘re gonna break down the door
i got this feeling they they’re gonna come back for more
see i was thinking that i lost my mind
but it’s been getting to me all this time
and it don’t stop dragging me down.
silently reflection turns my world to stone
patiently correction leaves us all alone
and sometimes i’m a traveling man
but tonight this engine's failing
i still hear the children playing.
kick the can kick the can skip and blackjack
steal a car and ring a round-rosey
rock and roll candyland boogeyman
run away and give me your sneakers.
acid rain when Abel looked up at Cain
we began the weeping and wailing
a hurried high from pestilence pills and pride
it’s a shame we could have gone sailing
but heaven knows heaven knows everything
tranquilize.
i still hear the children playing
dead beat dancers come to us and stay.
'cause i don’t care where you've been
and i don’t care what you've seen
we’re the ones who still believe
and we’re looking for a page
in that lifeless book of hope
where a dream might help you cope
with the Bushes and the bombs
are tranquilized.
twenty : love, love, love (love, love), as tall as lions.
have i ever told you before
i think you're beautiful when you're sleeping
(i have faith you watch me in my slumber too)
if i'm all that you're looking for tell me
why is there a river streaming
(down your face sometimes makes me wonder)
all about your love.
(love love love love love)
after some time it's something i find true
love's not a grave it won't decay on you
too many days i was afraid of love.
what if nothing is just that and
suffering's the only thing we're good at?
dreaming picture that
(a whole world in a slumber)
but don't get too attatched to the living
even every single memory's fleeting
(that's a fact, being torn asunder).
but to my surprise
no reason why
one day i woke up and realized.
give it to me love
i'll keep you in my focus
with love and affection.
twenty-one : antidote, now it's overhead.
forked tongue venom cold in my veins
overtaking
forked tongue venom cold in my veins
overtaking.
antidote break open truth
word for word take
antidote break open truth
word for word take.
when my final sun has set
if you're staring up at it
i wanna know
i hope i go out as i came in.
when i'm burning through the clouds
and the rain is falling out
i wanna know
i hope i go out as i came in.
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Subject: Crowley/Aziraphale.
Warnings: Angst. With extra 'ang'.
Notes: If it didn't work out. No commentary at all this time - I'm leaving this one entirely open to interpretation. Artists include Paramore, My Brightest Diamond, Bif Naked, Now It's Overhead, Helium, Sleater-Kinney, Brand New, Placebo, Gorillaz, Poe, and Garbage. Thanks to Twitch for tracks 10, 11, 12, and 19. Source for cover art by
taiyou_to_tsuki, who is awesome; used with permission. ALL SONGS IN .MP3 FORMAT.BEGIN AGAIN (SHINING)
a crowley/aziraphale fanmix
one : in the grass, mary timony.
who hid in the grass where jesus lay?
were they the shepherds of the day?
i was on the bus trying to get off
jamming to the fat boys when i was lost
once i was lost but i never was found
the blind bus driver drives me around
i don't understand what my love couldn't see
couldn't see in me.
who hid in the grass where jesus lay?
the biggest mystery today
a sound 16 down from middle C
that rings through the oceans softly
once i came home to a bag of bones
a pile of trash and a plastic throne
throw your bones out to sea
watch them sink so silently.
even i know the fiery place you can go
even i know the fiery place you can go.
two : stuck on you, paramore.
i heard you driving in my car
then in a frozen bar
and i claimed i didn't care for you
but your verse got trapped inside my head
over and over again
you played yourself to death in me
i thought i'd drop you easily
but that was not to be
you burrowed like a summer tick
so you invade my sleep and confuse my dreams
turn my nights to sleepless itch.
stuck on you 'til the end of time
i'm too tired to fight your rhyme
stuck on you 'til the end of time
you've got me paralyzed.
holding on the telephone
i hear your midrange moan
you're everywhere inside my room
even when i'm alone i hear your mellow drone
you're everywhere inside of me.
i can't escape your incessant whine
when you beam it out all across the sky
no i can't escape
(stuck on you 'til the end of time)
your insipid rhyme
(i'm too tired to fight your rhyme)
when you shoot it deep
(stuck on you 'til the end of time)
straight into my mind.
three : burn, don't freeze! sleater-kinney.
i’d set your heart on fire
but arson is no way
to make a love burn brighter
(when you saw me on that first day
said i’d blossom under your care)
always thought that the devil was the only one
who knew the ins and the outs of the ways of love
so i sold off my heart to see how this would end
now i can’t move an inch for fear it will begin
(wrap me up tight inside your wing
is it safe now is it safe to breathe?)
you come in between me and the darkness
please don’t ever leave
(i force my eyes open and now who has changed?
you look different so different today).
holding your eyes in the hardest stare
running around like you wanted me there
lookin’ at me like i’m the hottest in town
then turnin’ your back when you’re movin’ around
i ain’t gonna listen to you no more
breakin’ outta this place throwin’ open the door
use me up just to fan the flame
but you’ll be sorry as i’m walkin’ away
(backwards forwards going out of my mind
backwards forwards spinning way off time
fire to water fire baby baby’s putting me out).
you’re the truest light i’ve known
but someday i’ll learn i don’t need your fuel to burn
(i’m the one who decides who i am
i’m the one who will shed this old skin)
always thought that hell was the only place
hot enough to melt our hearts into a locked embrace
there’s something so safe about a lack of air
the only way to make sure that you’ll always be there
(i force my eyes open and now who has changed?
i feel different so different today).
four : silver angel, helium.
i am the earth
(it's not something that i know)
i am the dirt
(when to freeze and when to grow)
i had my own birth
(when to stay in and when to go)
and i am your curse
(it's not something that i know).
you came out of the sky like a feather from an angel
i was rubbing my eyes
i know i'm not so wise or half as able as your angel size
love as light as light as a lead dove (fly lightly)
love that fits like a wet glove (fly all night).
it feels like a slide show
(it's not something that I know)
it's more like a freak show
(when to stay in and when to go)
what makes the world go?
(when to freeze and when to grow)
what do i know?
(it's not something that i know).
five : me vs. maradona vs. elvis, brand new.
with one or two i get used to the room
we go slow when we first make our moves
by five or six bring you out to the car
number nine with my head on the bar
and it's sad but true
out of cash and IOUs.
i've got desperate desires and unadmirable plans
my tongue will taste of gin and malicious intent
bring you back to the bar get you out of the cold
a sober straight face gets you out of your clothes
and they're scared that we know
all the crimes they'll commit
who they'll kiss before they get home.
i will lie awake
and lie for fun and fake the way i hold you
let you fall for every empty word i say.
barely conscious in the door where you stand
your eyes are fighting sleep while your mouth makes your demands
you laugh at every word trying hard to be cute
i almost feel sorry for what i'm gonna do
and your hair smells of smoke
who will cast the first stone?
you can sin or spend the night all alone.
brass buttons on your coat hold the cold
in the shape of a heart that they cut out of stone
you're using all your looks that you've thrown from the start
if you let me have my way i swear i'll tear you apart
'cause it's all you can be
you're a drunk and you're scared
it's ladies' night and all the girls drink for free.
six : the ice & the storm, my brightest diamond.
open up your heart to me darling
you're resisting this place you've been dreaming only of it
it's just like i was building up inside darling
we've accumulated too much miscommunication
in the beginning everything is soft but defensive
perhaps we begin again shining
i wanna love you to sleep
i wanna love you to sleep
so nothing is stopping me from receiving from giving out.
i want a storm to blow it out
i wanna shake myself and turn my heart inside out
i want a storm to blow it out
i wanna shake myself and turn my heart inside out.
open up your heart to me now
open
darling you're resisting this place you've been dreaming only of it.
don't you want to let it go?
(darling we've accumulated too much miscommunication)
let it go let it let it let it go
let it go let it let it let it go.
seven : west of the fields, r.e.m.
long gone intuition to assume are gone when we try
dream of a living jungle
in my way back home when we die.
west of the fields west of the fields
west of the fields west of the fields
long gone long gone long gone long gone
west of the fields.
dreams of Elysian to assume are gone when we try
tell now what is dreaming
when we try to listen with your eyes oversimplify.
the animals how strange
try try to stick it in.
dreams of Elysian to assume are gone when we try
tell now what is dreaming when we try
listen to your eyes when we die.
eight : song to say goodbye, placebo.
you are one of god's mistakes
you crying tragic waste of skin
i'm well aware of how it aches
and you still won't let me in
now i'm breaking down your door
to try and save your swollen face
though i don't like you anymore
you lying trying waste of space.
my oh my
a song to say goodbye
a song to say goodbye
a song to say goodbye
a song to say
before our innocence was lost
you were always one of those
blessed with lucky sevens
and a voice that made me cry.
you were mother nature's son
someone to whom i could relate
your needle and your damage done
remains a sordid twist of fate
now i'm trying to wake you up
to pull you from the liquid sky
'cause if i don't we'll both end up
with just a song to say goodbye.
nine : every planet we reach is dead, gorillaz.
i lost my leg like i lost my way
so no loose ends nothing to see me down
how are we going to work this out?
dreams aren't bad i had to admit
i love the girl but god only knows it's
getting harder to see the sun coming through
i love you but what are we going to do?
picture i'm the dreamer
i'll take you deeper
down to the sleepy glow
time is a low
don't you know
what are we going to do?
when you go down
all the sick and selfless days
i want to see you again
i love you but what are we going to do?
ten : truce, dresden dolls.
you can have washington i'll take new jersey
you can have london but i want new york city
i should get providence i've got a job now
los angeles obvious that's where you belong now
you can have africa asia australia
as long as you keep your hands off cafe pamplona
we can split germany right down the middle
you'd hate it there anyway take berlin and we'll call it even.
you can have all of the carry-on baggage
i'll trade the saskia jokes for the alphabet language
on special occasions we'll spit between parents
who forced us to hate them on alternating weekends
you call it over and i call you psycho
significant other
just say we were lovers and we'll call it even
we'll call it even.
i am the ground zero ex-friend you ordered
disguised as a hero to get past your borders
i know when i'm wanted i'll leave if you ask me to
mind my own business and speak when i'm spoken to
i am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the groud within hours of impact
i hit back if hit and attack if attacked.
you get route two between concord and lexington
i want mass ave from the square to my apartment
and if we should meet through some misunderstanding
ill be very sweet very patient and forgiving
(now get off my side of the state)
and if we should meet one another in passing
despite these techniques there is sometimes no avoiding
(there must be some kind of mistake)
we'll raise high our white flags and say hi and shake hands
declaring the land we're on unamerican
we'll call it even.
i am the tower around which you orbited
i am not proud i am just taking orders
i fall to the groud within hours of impact
i hit back if hit and attack if attacked
i am an accident waiting to happen
i'm laughing like mad while you strangle the captain
my place may be taken but make no mistake
from a little black black box i can say without shame
that you've lost
do you know what you've lost?
so take whatever you'd like
i'll strike like the states on fire
you won't sleep very tight
no hiding no safe covers
make your bed and now lie
just like you always do
you can fake it for the papers but i'm on to you.
eleven : set the fire to the third bar, snow patrol.
i find the map and draw a straight line
over rivers farms and state lines
the distance from A to where you'd B
it's only finger-lengths that i see
i touch the place where i'd find your face
my fingers in creases of distant dark places
i hang my coat up in the first bar
there is no peace that i've felt so far
the laughter penetrates my silence
as drunken men find flaws in science
their words mostly noises
ghosts with just voices
your words in my memory
are like music to me.
i'm miles from where you are
i lay down on the cold ground
i pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms.
after i have travelled so far
we'd set the fire to the third bar
we'd share each other like an island
until exhausted close our eyelids
and dreaming pick up from
the last place we left off
your soft skin is weeping
a joy you can't keep it.
twelve : drowned, youth group.
we were drinking
yeah we started drinking round two
and the air was so heavy
yeah the air was heavy with hopes it couldn't fulfil
this is as good as it gets
hope is all we have left
the pilot plays can't hear a sound
all my optimism's drowned.
yeah i'm drowned
i'm drowned and i don't know why.
the cicadas
yeah the cicadas are ringing in my ears
awake from hibernation
and singing from frustration about being locked up all year.
like a chapter
a concluding chapter that sinks you with its hooks
you know this little city
looks like a city i read about in books.
thirteen : wild, poe.
i go wild 'cause you break me open
wild 'cause you left me here
i go wild.
wild because the chips are down
wild because there isn't anybody else around
wild when the waves start to break
and god knows they're breaking in me now
i go wild because it doesn't make sense
for me to cry out in my own defense
wild because i would do anything
to tear you off your precious fence.
so this is what it's like living in limbo
first i'm high then i'm solo.
i go wild 'cause you break me open
wild 'cause you left me here
i go wild 'cause your promises are broken
wild when I know you're near
i go wild
i go wild.
tell me what you've come here for
moving like a hunter through my back door
leaving the perfume of all you adore
to die nameless on my floor
yeah well we both know you don't play fair
i guess you really think that you get me there
let's be honest perhaps this little ride
is too much for even you to bear.
you've got a lot of nerve to come back here
you're not the only one who can smell fear.
i go wild 'cause you break me open
wild 'cause you left me here
i go wild 'cause your promises are broken
wild don't you get it dear
you're not the only one who lives on instincts
no i've got instincts of my own
you've got a lot of nerve to come back
plan your attack yeah i am still waiting
you wrote the rules to try to contain me
you broke 'em now you have untamed me
i go wild
i go wild.
tell me what you've come for
what is it you adore
won't you tell me
what would you go wild for?
you've got a lot of nerve to come back here
speak up my darling i have been waiting.
(communication is more than just words, communication is architecture,
because of course it is quite obvious that a house which would be built without that will, that desire to communicate, would not look the way your house looks today.)
fourteen : metal heart, garbage.
i wish i had a metal heart i could cross the line
i wish i was half as good as you think i am.
now that we know for sure they're telling lies
when they say no one gets hurt and therefore nobody dies
you know it's hard to believe anything that you hear
they say the world is round.
i wish i was as big as you you'd have to tell the truth
i've been nothing you could hurt nothing you could heal.
i want to be dependable i want to be courageous and good
i want to be faithful so that i can be your woman come true
i want to be a friend you can rely on you can lean on and trust
i want to understand so i can forget and give in to love.
i wish i wasn't flesh and blood i would not be scared
from bullets built with me in mind then i could be safe
sweet lord take care of me for i think i'm done
kiss my mother on her cheek lay my burden down
lay my burden down.
fifteen : one more notch, murder by death.
hole up kid there's a storm comin' down
work those fingers to the bone
you got grit that's a fact
you build 'em up just to knock 'em all down
dig a hole that goes down deep in the ground
and when the time comes crawl in
as the earth all shudders
at the pounding of the feet of the four horsemen.
you aren't safe under the earth
hiding your actions covered in dirt
like a snake shedding its skin
if you 'fess up you can start all over again.
and the whirlwind lifts you up to the ceiling
the balconies pass
but you don't even see them
as they go by
and it whips your bodies higher and higher
when your lips lock
you both catch on fire
the crowd covers their eyes.
you've forgotten everything but yourselves
you don't really even matter to each other
it's the rush that you get when you know you've done wrong
as you bake your bodies separate
but you never notice that the other is burning
you just pity yourself.
sixteen : crushcrushcrush, paramore.
i got a lot to say to you
yeah i got a lot to say
i notice your eyes are always blue to me
keeping them here and it doesn't make sense at all.
they taped over your mouth scribbled out the truth with their lies
your little spies
they taped over your mouth scribbled out the truth with their lies
your little spies.
crush crush crushcrushcrush
nothing compares to a quiet evening alone
trust the one to i was just counting on
that never happens i guess i'm dreaming again
let's be more than this.
if you wanna play it like a game
well come on come on let's play
'cause i'd rather waste my life pretending
than have to forget you for one whole minute.
rock and roll baby don't you know that
we're all alone now i need something to sing about
rock and roll hey don't you know that
we're all alone now i need something to sing about
rock and roll hey don't you know baby
we're all alone now give me something to sing about.
seventeen : religion, bif naked.
suck my mouth suck my pain away
suck my mouth suck my pain away
helplessness i am hard to stain
potentially inappropriate.
i am naked before you
look at me
you came for me i pray to you
you are in me.
you are my religion
you are my religion
i'm loving you
you're loving me.
brutal truth
it is profound
can you hear the sound
of my breath?
suck my mouth suck my pain away
suck my mouth suck my pain away
couldn't help me been here all of my life
perverted love on the other side.
you are my religion
you are my religion
i'm loving you
you're loving me
you are my religion
you are my religion
i'm touching you
you're touching me.
intoxicated with your breath
my eyes close i am a mess
starving and cold and i need your love
you keep me real you lift me up
prayer soft i am in love
devotee of your immortal love.
eighteen : before the dawn, evanescence.
meet me after dark again and i'll hold you
i am nothing more than to see you there.
and maybe tonight
we'll fly so far away
we'll be lost before the dawn.
if only night could hold you and i can see you my love
then let me never ever wake again.
somehow i know that we can't wake again
from this dream it's not real but it's ours.
nineteen : tranquilize, the killers.
time it tells living in my home town
wedding bells they begin easy
live it down baby don’t talk that much
baby knows but baby don’t tease me
in the park we could go walking
drown in the dark or we could go sailing
on the sea
always here always on time
close call was it love or was it just easy
money talks when people need shoes and socks
steady boys i'm thinking she needs me
i was just sipping on something sweet
i don’t need political process.
i got this feeling that they‘re gonna break down the door
i got this feeling they they’re gonna come back for more
see i was thinking that i lost my mind
but it’s been getting to me all this time
and it don’t stop dragging me down.
silently reflection turns my world to stone
patiently correction leaves us all alone
and sometimes i’m a traveling man
but tonight this engine's failing
i still hear the children playing.
kick the can kick the can skip and blackjack
steal a car and ring a round-rosey
rock and roll candyland boogeyman
run away and give me your sneakers.
acid rain when Abel looked up at Cain
we began the weeping and wailing
a hurried high from pestilence pills and pride
it’s a shame we could have gone sailing
but heaven knows heaven knows everything
tranquilize.
i still hear the children playing
dead beat dancers come to us and stay.
'cause i don’t care where you've been
and i don’t care what you've seen
we’re the ones who still believe
and we’re looking for a page
in that lifeless book of hope
where a dream might help you cope
with the Bushes and the bombs
are tranquilized.
twenty : love, love, love (love, love), as tall as lions.
have i ever told you before
i think you're beautiful when you're sleeping
(i have faith you watch me in my slumber too)
if i'm all that you're looking for tell me
why is there a river streaming
(down your face sometimes makes me wonder)
all about your love.
(love love love love love)
after some time it's something i find true
love's not a grave it won't decay on you
too many days i was afraid of love.
what if nothing is just that and
suffering's the only thing we're good at?
dreaming picture that
(a whole world in a slumber)
but don't get too attatched to the living
even every single memory's fleeting
(that's a fact, being torn asunder).
but to my surprise
no reason why
one day i woke up and realized.
give it to me love
i'll keep you in my focus
with love and affection.
twenty-one : antidote, now it's overhead.
forked tongue venom cold in my veins
overtaking
forked tongue venom cold in my veins
overtaking.
antidote break open truth
word for word take
antidote break open truth
word for word take.
when my final sun has set
if you're staring up at it
i wanna know
i hope i go out as i came in.
when i'm burning through the clouds
and the rain is falling out
i wanna know
i hope i go out as i came in.
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