Miranda's Playlist (Expanding as the Plot Does)
"Mordred's Lullaby," Heather Dale
And you won't understand
The cause of your grief
But you'll always follow
The voices beneath
Singing "Loyalty, loyalty
Loyalty, loyalty
Loyalty, loyalty
Loyalty, only to me"
I love this song so much.
"Planet Hell," Nightwish
A dead world
A dark path
Not even crossroads to choose from
All the blood red
Carpets before me
Behold this fair creation of God
"Stable Song," Death Cab for Cutie
Give us our measly sum,
Getting the air inside my lungs is heavenly
Starting out with noting but crippling doubt.
We'll rest, easy justified
Suffered a swift defeat
I'll endure countless repeats
The gift of memory's an awful curse,
With age it just gets much worse,
But I won't mind
"My Violent Heart," Nine Inch Nails
You and I, we may look the same
But we are very far apart
There's bullet holes where my compassion used to be
And there is violence in my heart
Into fire you can send us
From the fire we return
You can label us a consequence of how much you have to learn
"Crashing Down," Heather Dale
Let us cleanse this farce with fire
Strike the fool who leads the liar
Let it all come crumbling down
Like the firebird from the ashes
We will rise to lead the masses
The strongest will emerge to wear the crown
Well they say, nothing grows
'TIl the oak has hit the ground
So let's clear the way, my boys
And let the giant come crashing down
Very Noah-y song, the fact that it's by the same artist as the very first one and they're both about Mordred is purely coincidental XD
"306," Emilie Autumn
I am the abandoner
But still I remain
And my frozen pulse quickens
As the black plot thickens
Like the story I heard
A lifetime ago
Where a girl (and this is funny)
Took her life
"Suture Up Your Future," Queens of the Stone Age
I'm gonna suture up my future
I ain't jaded, I just hate it
See, I been down too long
It's kinda hard to explain
Done and buried all I carried
All my evil is through a needle
As it pulls through the eye
What was and what will are now gone
...
I don't care if it hurts, just so long as it's real
I think no matter way she is in development as a character, this song fits, which is why I chose it for the CV!FST♥
"Four Winds," Bright Eyes
Your class, your caste, your country, sect, your name or your tribe
There's people always dying trying to keep them alive
There's bodies decomposing in containers tonight
In an abandoned building where
...
She's standing in the ashes at the end of the world
Four Winds blowing through her hair
But when Great Satan's gone... the Whore of Babylon...
She just can't sustain the pressure where it's placed
She caves
"Rebellion (Lies)," Arcade Fire
Sleeping is giving in, no matter what the time is
Sleeping is giving in, so lift those heavy eyelids
People say that you'll die faster than without water
But we know it's just a lie, scare your son and scare your daughter
People say that your dreams are the only things that save ya
...
Everytime you close your eyes lies, lies!
"Pumpkin Soup," Kate Nash
But I trip fast and then I lose
And I hate looking like a fool
...
I'm not in love
I just wanna be touched
...
Now I messed up it's not the first time
I'm not saying you're not on my mind
I hope that you don't think I'm unkind
But I just want your kiss boy, kiss boy, kiss boy
I just want your kiss
A light-hearted song for a change! Very Joyd-like, reflects her changing attitudes on sex and (non-familial) love.
"Dance in the Dark," Lady Gaga
Her kiss is a vampire grin
The moon lights her way while she’s howlin’ at him
...
She’s a tramp, she’s a vamp, but she still does her dance
She’s a tramp, she’s a vamp, but she still kills the dance
Baby loves to dance in the dark
‘Cause when he’s lookin’
She falls apart
Rather paradoxical, like her- she can be sexy and confident one minute and then failing utterly the next.
"Waste it On," Silversun Pickups
Let’s start making
Maps out of all the dead skin
That may be causing false alarms
It might be peeling much too quickly
Clean up with me
The homemade surgeries
My veneers sink into you
And show how twisted we can be when we
Waste it on
"The Horror Of Our Love," Ludo
I'm a killer
Cold and wrathful
Silent sleeper
I've been inside your bedroom
I've murdered half the town
...
There's catastrophe
In everything I'm touching
As I sweat and crush you
And I hold your beating chambers
Until they beat no more
You die like angels sing
Suggested as a sort of love song from her to Joyd, but how I cut it just fits as Miranda more in general as she was at the time- very confident, able to be cruel, and yet still recognizing (even if subconsciously) that what she was doing is catastrophic AKA bad.
"Non-Entity," Nine Inch Nails
Try to stand in line
Try to obey
The ghosts of what I was keep getting in the way
Staring at the sun
Blinded by the light
Now I'm afraid I'm fading out of sight
The echos in my eyes
Of all they used to see
Burning down the world
Ashes and debris
"Ways & Means," Snow Patrol
I've been waiting here my whole damn life
And I've forgotten what I wanted
Maybe I can do it
If I put my back into it
I can leave you if I wanted
But there's nowhere else that I can go
Maybe I won't suffer
If I find a way to love her
I'd be lying to myself
But there is no way out that I can see
...
I never knew the taste of blood till now
It's clear I never should have known
Breathing fire was never this much fun
So there's a dark side in us all
"Black Black Heart (Slow Version)," David Usher
Something ugly this way comes
Through my fingers sliding inside
All these blessings all these burns
I'm godless underneath your cover
...
As I begin to lose my grip
On these realities you're sending
Taste your mind and taste your sex
I'm naked underneath your cover
Covers lie and we will bend and borrow
With the coming sign
The tide will take the sea will rise and time will rape
Black black heart why would you offer more
Why would you make it easier on me to satisfy
I'm on fire I'm rotting to the core
Generally a Tyki-like song, but the slower version fits her very well with it's more melancholic overtones. The rather self-destructive, yet still sexy and aggressive, lyrics work too.
"The Blower's Daughter," Damien Rice
And so it is
The shorter story
No love, no glory
No hero in her skies
...
We'll both forget the breeze
Most of the time
And so it is
The colder water
The blower's daughter
The pupil in denial
...
Did I say that I loathe you?
Did I say that I want to
Leave it all behind?
I can't take my mind off of you
"Blinding," Florence and the Machines
Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realized that it was you who held me under
Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs
...
And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
'Cause all the walls of dreaming, they were torn right open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
Snow White's stitching up the circuit boards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
DO I REALLY NEED TO EXPLAIN... This was pretty much her entire revelation about "why to be a traitor," dream motif included.
"Godrevy Point/The Towans (Medley)," Patrick Wolf
Ten miles I've walked today
Along the shore
I saw your ghost again
The seasoning and the birds gather to go
And I laid down on the top of a cliff
Confessed my sins into the wind
And the sky lay a feather in my mouth
Good Lord what a beautiful day
For untraveling, unraveling this heavy heart away
To forgive and forget myself
And my enemies
My bruises washed away
"Control," Poe
Well you may be king for the moment
But I am a queen understand
And I've got your pawns and your bishops and castles
All inside the palm of my hand
...
You thought you could keep me from loving
You thought you could feed on my soul
But while you were busy destroying my life
What was half in me has become whole
While you were looking the other way
While you had your eyes closed
While you were licking your lips
'Cause I was miserable
While you were selling your soul
While you were tearing a hole in me
I was taking control