Fanmix: Had a complicated childhood (3/3): River Tam (Disk 2)
Disk 2
*Emiliana Torrini - Weird Friendless Kid No one knows a thing about you / No one ever did / Weird friendless kid / You might be weird but you're not stupid / We’ve all seen the pictures you drew / We know what’s in your head
River: Played with Kaylee. Sun came out, and I walked on my feet and heard with my ears. I ate the bits, the bits stayed down, and I work. I function like I'm a girl. I hate it because I know it'll go away. The sun goes dark and chaos has come again.
*Shakespeare’s Sister - Moonchild Birds can fly and fish can swim / But on this planet where do I fit in? / I could be in trouble or just imagining / Sometimes I feel like an alien
River: The sun grows dark and chaos has come again. It's... fluids. What am I?
Simon: You are my beautiful sister.
River: I-I threw up on your bed.
Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
*The Manic Street Preachers - Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head And just like the guy whose feet are too big for his bed / Nothin' seems to fit / Those raindrops are falling on my head, they keep falling
River: You see, the snow on the roof is too heavy, you see, the ceiling will cave in. His brains are in terrible danger.
Book: River, please, why don't you come on out?
River: No! Can't. Too much hair.
*Aimee Mann - Nightmare Girl I'm distilling everything she said into a potion / But it's always going to my head in slow motion / Oh nightmare girl
Simon: Bad dreams again?
River: No I - I can't sleep. There's too much screaming.
Simon: River, there is - there is no screaming
River: There was.
*Muse - Thought of a Dying Atheist I know you're in this room / I'm sure I heard you sigh / Floating in between / where our worlds collide
River: [as her Simon tends to a woman in labor] Who do you think is in there?
*Savage Garden - Carry On Dancing In the dark night / Ultra violet is a wicked spell / The stars and planets taking shape / A stolen kiss has come to late
Dr. Mathias: All our subjects are conditioned for combat, but River... she's a creature of extraordinary grace.
Simon: Yes. She always did love to dance.
*Metric - Monster Hospital Monster Hospital, can you please release me? / You hold my hands down, I've been bad. / You hold my arms down, I've been bad. / I've been bad, I've been bad.
River: Can’t look. Can’t look.
*Matchbox Twenty - Mad Season I need you now / Do you think you can cope? / You figured me out - that I'm lost and I'm hopeless / I'm bleeding and broken, though I've never spoken / I come undone in this mad season
River: You take care of me, Simon. You've always taken care of me. My turn.
*Eels - The Medication is Wearing Off Step on a crack break your mother's heart Red light green light black / Suicide e-mail do not delete / Plug it back in the jack / Start to be what they want you to be / And you see yourself as they see you
Simon: River, do you want to stay with them?
River: It isn't safe.
Simon: No. I fear it isn't safe anymore.[walks away]
River: [quietly] For them.
*Cat Power - Schizophrenia's Weighted Me Down Her light eyes were dancing she is insane / Her brother says she's just a bitch on a golden chain / She keeps coming closer saying / "I can feel it in my bones, schizophrenia is taking me home"
River: We want you to marry us.
Simon: What? We... no! ... What?
River: Two by two. Everyone has a match, a mate, a dopple. I love you.
Simon: No, River... mei-mei... of course, I love you too, but we can't be married. [To Book:] She's really crazy! [River kicks him in the shin] Ow!
*Betty - Go Ahead and Split, Mr. Amoeba Man
River: The human body can be drained of blood in 8.6 seconds given adequate vacuuming systems.
Mal: See, morbid and creepifying, I got no problem with, long as she does it quiet-like.
*Greenday - Paranoia Hear the voices in my head, I swear to god it sounds like they're snoring / But if you're bored, then you're boring / The agony and the irony, they're killing me
Simon: Do you remember why we went to the hospital?
River: Is it time to go to sleep again?
Simon: No, mei-mei. It's time to wake up.
*Suzanne Vega - Blood Makes Noise I think that you might want to know / The details and the facts / But there's something in my blood / Denies the memory of the acts
River: Ask her. She'll show you all.
Simon: Show us what? Who is Miranda?
Am I... talking to Miranda now?
River: [Glares]
*The Tea Party - Transmission Confused by the weight of out virtue / We follow the paths of the slain / In silence we walk through these shadows / Embracing the pleasures of pain
River: Don't be afraid. That's what it says. "Don't be afraid." But you are afraid.
Book: Yes.
River: You're afraid we're going to run out of air. That we'll die gasping. But we won't. That's not going to happen. [Book looks at her hopefully] We'll freeze to death first.
*Tracy Chapman - Born to Fight There ain't no man no woman / No beast alive that can beat me / 'Cause I'm born to fight / They're tryin' to dig into my soul / And take away the spirit of my god / They're tryin' to take control / And monitor my every thought
River: Also, I can kill you with my brain.
*Betty - Chain Reaction
Mal: You know, you ain't quite right
River: It's the popular theory.
Mal: Go on. Get in there. Give your brother a thrashing for messing up your plan.
River: He takes so much looking after.
Bonus tracks: (two songs not linked: Superchick's "One Girl Revolution" and Dido's "Honestly OK" because I can't find MP3 copies)
*Flyleaf - I'm So Sick (T-Virus Remix)
*Madonna - Die Another Day (I did a music video for this song)
*Shonen Knife - Buttercup (I'm a Super Girl)
*Fluke - Atom Bomb
Download entire disk at SendSpace (66MB) All 16 songs as MP3s, artwork, and track listing for both cds.