[FANMIX] charles/erik - dark as stars
01 CALL TO ARMS Beirut
(instrumental)
02 PUBLIC PERVERT Interpol
“If time is a vessel, then learning to love might be my way back to sea/ The flying, the metal, the turning above/ These are just ways to be seen.”
03 PREFERS UNHAPPY ENDINGS Say Hi
“Oh, and it's not for certain/ but I'm pretty sure it won't work out.”
04 BETTER THAN MOST A.C. Newman
“Better than most at feeling your pain/ Walking wounded through the stars tonight/ We wander the plains/ Pointing pistols at the dawn/ Never looked into your eyes this long/ With a dollar's worth of distance run.”
05 A MAN LIKE ME Beulah
“I run my hands down your neck/ Across your back to another fret/ I know you're fragile/ You're bound to self-destruct/ And I can see right through your skin/ Your bones are hollow, they're paper thin/ Tonight, you're weightless/ I know the way you feel/ So try, try lifting all your weight/ for a man, a man gone wrong/ And try, try wasting all your days/ on a man, a man like me.”
06 YOU'VE GONE AWAY ENOUGH Mirah
“It's just the way you are/ You don't have to be afraid/ The way you look at the stars and how you think that they were made/ The motion will never stop turning the night into the day/ You've gone away enough/ When will you decide to stay?”
07 SOFT & WARM Voxtrot
“Worlds of men blurred, us and them/ You love, you despise/ I've seen the years go by in triple lines of gray/ Oh you were always underground/ You're always underground/ If I could catch you, I would hold you for a day.” & “Why can't things just begin, because they always end in tears.”
08 MY MAUDLIN CAREER Camera Obscura
“You say I'm too kind and sentimental/ Like you could catch affection/ Oh, in your eyes there's a sadness enough to kill the both of us.”
09 MY RIGHTS VERSUS YOURS The New Pornographers
“Under your wheels, your hopeless reign/ You fall too hard, we're up too late/ We hang suspended from the heights.”
10 DUST ON THE GROUND Bombay Bicycle Club
“It's that ancient love that you won't outgrow/ It's the fee you pay/ It's the debt you owe/ It's that subtle way that you throw me down/ I'm inches above the dust on the ground/ And always quiet, always quiet now/ And always silent, always silent now/ No, I don't hide it/ I don't hide it now.”
11 THE SCIENTIST Aimee Mann
“I had to find you/ Tell you I need you/ Tell you I set you apart/ Tell me your secrets and ask me your questions/ Oh, let's go back to the start/ Running in circles/ Calling tails/ Heads on a silence apart/ Nobody said it was easy/ Oh, it's such a shame for us to part/ Nobody said it was easy/ But no one ever said it would be so hard.”
12 I'LL BELIEVE IN ANYTHING Wolf Parade
“Give me your eyes/ I need the sunshine/ Your blood, your bones, your voice, and your ghost/ We've both been very brave/ Walk around with both legs/ Wait for the scary day/ We both pull the tricks out of our sleeves/ But I'll believe in anything and you'll believe in anything.”
++ AGAINST ALL ODDS The Postal Service
“You're the only one who really knew me at all.”
Tracklist:
01: "A Call to Arms" - Beirut [.mp3]
02: "Public Pervert" - Interpol [.mp3]
03: "Prefers Unhappy Endings" - Say Hi [.mp3]
04: "Better Than Most" - A.C. Newman [.mp3]
05: "A Man Like Me" - Beulah [.mp3]
06: "You've Gone Away Enough" - Mirah [.mp3]
07: "Soft & Warm" - Voxtrot [.mp3]
08: "My Maudlin Career" - Camera Obscura [.mp3]
09: "My Rights Versus Yours" - The New Pornographers [.mp3]
10: "Dust On the Ground" - Bombay Bicycle Club [.mp3]
11: "The Scientist (Coldplay cover)" - Aimee Mann [.mp3]
12: "I'll Believe in Anything" - Wolf Parade [.mp3]
++: "Against All Odds (Phil Collins cover)" - The Postal Service [.mp3]
.ZIP
Final Thoughts: The state of my life at the moment - everything is gay mutants and everything hurts. Also, lol at my complete inability to make a mix without including some dumb fuck cover. I feel like I owe the world at large an apology.
Here is the mix on tumblr if you'd like to be a doll and reblog/like it there.