the sound of love is out of tune | on the road | dean/sal
title: the sound of love is out of tune
fandom: on the road (movieverse)
pairing: dean/sal
notes: made for waywardmixes's theme 14: journeys. on the road obviously features more than enough journeys and trips, but i mostly chose this fandom because of dean and sal and how their ending leaves me in tears every goddamn time. i hope you can enjoy the movie/book just as much as i do ♥ (ps: i’m sorry the lyrics and such are all over the place but html and i ain’t never gonna be friends, and i’m glad i got the text next to the pictures in the first place.) oh, and thanks to kkwaster this is now also available on 8tracks here!
the hold steady: stuck between stations
there are nights when i think that sal paradise was right
boys and girls in america, they have such a sad time together
sucking off each other at the demonstrations, making sure their makeup's straight
crushing one another with colossal expectations, dependent, undisciplined, sleeping late
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dean rushes around, afraid of running out of time, needing to beat time, and measuring everything in time. sal, does the same for space. he needs to visit all these cities, to get quickly from one place to another, and he measures everything in distance.
while dean used to “spent a third of his time in the poolhall, a third in jail, and a third in the public library” before he came to new york, sal is a young writer - currently lacking any inspiration - who lives with his aunt in new jersey.
bob dylan: visions of johanna
now, little boy lost, he takes himself so seriously
he brags of his misery, he likes to live dangerously
and when bringing her name up
he speaks of a farewell kiss to me
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when sal meets dean, he is intrigued and, throughout the story, seems to forgive dean all his faults or simply overlooks them due to his infatuation with him. to sal, dean is a con-man, an angel, but most of all a hero, even though he tends to abandon those who love him.
marylou is dean’s first wife. she loves him, but understands that she can’t have him because he’s simply “too mad”. they break up and make up multiple times.
of monsters and men: mountain sound
i heard them calling in the distance
so i packed my things and ran
far away from all the trouble
i had caused with my two hands
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sal longs for the freedom of the road and to join dean
and their mutual friend carlo in denver.
the black keys: tighten up
i wanted love, i needed love
most of all, most of all
someone said true love was dead
and i'm bound to fall, bound to fall for you
oh, what can i do?
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sal also gets to know dean’s second wife, camille.
a fine frenzy: the sighting
it was a dark and clouded night
where neither star nor moon would shine
yet standing in a pool of light
like saturn with its rings
a lonesome figure gleamed […]
oh, hi
love
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during a stay in sabinal, where he works in the cotton fields for a while, sal seems to at least partyally overcome his writer’s block,
while dean leaves camille and their newborn child behind to meet up with sal and suprise him on christmas. he decides to take marylou along.
a fine frenzy: winds of wander
learn to float
don’t you worry so
let the winds of wander blow
up and away we go
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since dean spent christmas with sal’s family, he promises sal’s aunt to give her and sal a ride back to new york to thank her.
daughter: candles
'cause we both know i'll never be your lover
i only bring the heat
company under cover
filling space in your sheets
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after a smashing new year’s eve party, dean tries to talk sal into a threesome with marylou.
sal hesitates and backtracks in the last moment.
lena: bliss bliss
your every little heartbeat gets to me
wherever in the world my carousel is spinning
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in dean's hudson all three take off from new york and make it to new orleans.
daughter: landfill
well this is torturous electricity between both of us
and this is dangerous, ‘cause i want you so much
but i hate your guts. i want you so much
but i hate your guts.
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sal, dean, and marylou continue their trip through the states. once in san francisco,
dean leaves the two of them to starve to reunite with camille and his daughter.
woodkid: i love you
whatever i feel for you
you only seem to care about you
is there any chance you could see me too?
‘cause i love you
is there anything i could do
just to get some attention from you?
in the waves i’ve lost every trace of you
oh where are you?
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because sal is sal, he forgives dean and comes to visit him. camille is pregnant again, and unhappy. she throws them out when they get home one night, very late and very drunk. dean and sal hit the road again, but soon run short of money, so dean sleeps
with some guy they meet on the road, gets payed for it, and tells sal, “i did it for us.”
kleerup: until we bleed
i'm naked, i'm numb
i'm stupid, i'm staying
and if cupid's got a gun, then he's shootin'
lights black; heads bang
you're my drug
we live it
you're drunk, you need it
real love, i'll give it
so we're bound to linger on
we drink the fatal drop
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the two of them go to mexico city together, where they spend lots of money, have lots of sex, and drink lots of alcohol.
dan croll: from nowhere
every now and then i fall
every now and then i lose control
in your eyes i see your ghost surrounding me
and i’ve a little bit of thought for you
‘cause every now and then i fall a bit behind
every time i stare into your eyes
‘cause every now and then i fall a bit behind
every time i stare into your eyes
with your thrills, i find
it's not hard to be left behind
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still in mexico, dean abandons sal - again - while sal is in a dysentery-induced fever.
bag raiders: way back home (dean -> sal)
what if just can't find my way back home
what about all the things i just don't don't know
what if i just can't find my way back home
would you be there to show me where to go?
midi matilda: day dreams
(sal -> dean)
you’re not my day dream
you’re not my savior
you’re not my guardian
you’re my get up and go
i’ve got you figured - nobody else does
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a few months later, sal sees dean one last time. he’s obviously started a new life, one that dean and his drugs and drinking doesn’t fit into. dean tells sal he came all the way to new york just to see him. he tries to apologize for leaving a sick sal in mexico, tells sal he wants to spend as much time with him as possible, but a friend of sal tells him to hurry.
when sal gets into his car to leave, dean calls after him, “hey, sal! i love you as ever,” but sal can’t hear him anymore.
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