Fic: Haven. Soundtrack
Haven: the soundtrack. Cover.
Haven: soundtrack. Track list.
Zip file with all songs / YouTube playlist (because many of these are not on Spotify)
To download individual songs right click/save each title.
1. Simple Man / Jensen Ackles
The guy tunes his guitar for a few minutes, strums it lightly, shifts on the stool and clears his throat. Then he starts playing and Chris has to say, it sounds good. Yeah, it sounds alright. He nods his head to the music. It’s familiar although he can’t quite place it. Country. Ballad, sounds like. When the kid pulls in a breath, Chris holds his own, waiting with hopeful anticipation. And then this deep, seductive voice hits him like a warm breeze from home. Like a summer night out on the ranch, with the stars twinkling above in an endless black sky and the smell of smoke and horse sweat in the air.
2. Whipping Post / Jensen Ackles
The song ends and the guy takes a few deep breaths before kicking the stool aside and then he’s rocking it out. Just him, solo, with an acoustic guitar and no mic and still his voice fills the place, loud enough that Chris feels it in his bones.
3. Wild Mountain Thyme / Jensen Ackles
He's still shaky so he picks something slow, something quiet, something his mama used to sing for him. It’s probably not a song they’d usually play in a place like this but either he does it justice, or everyone’s still scared Chris will kick them in the nuts if they so much as utter a sound because there’s not even a murmur disturbing the lyrics. He sings, letting the words take him back to before he realized how much he didn’t fit in, would never fit in, not back home, maybe nowhere. At one point his voice breaks but no one laughs. He soldiers on, keeping his emotions in check as best he can.
4. Midnight Train To Memphis / Jensen Ackles
He laughs again, suddenly elevated. Standing up he kicks back the stool and throws himself into a rocky version of Midnight Train to Memphis. He forgets about the audience, forgets about his fears of ‘what next?’. He’s just singing for one person and for once that person isn’t just himself.
5. Ain’t No Tellin’ / Radio Company
Chris gestures something that Jensen takes to mean, ‘After you finish the song’ and then he just continues standing there, watching him. It’s weirdly intimate, the slow pace of the music, the lyrics, Chris’s blue eyes. Jensen falters slightly but if anyone notices they don’t call him out on it. He sings the last verse, their eyes locked, and then there’s just a bit of strumming and it’s over.
6. Wrecking Ball / Jensen Ackles
Just then Jensen’s voice comes through the speakers. Low, sultry, practically purring.
7. All Our Own / Radio Company
He walks in to find Jensen on the couch with his guitar, strumming a song Chris doesn’t recognize, singing quietly along, like he’s afraid of being overheard.
8. Outside Looking In / Steve Carlson
He sits listening to the muffled sound of music from downstairs while watching Chris’s chest rise and fall.
9. Angeles / Jensen Ackles and Steve Carlson
Chris stomps up the stairs, hands shaking. He finds Jensen on the couch, eyes closed, strumming his guitar, then plucking the strings, fingers moving like a light-footed ballerina, fast and confident with a skill that Chris had no idea he possessed. Damn. Where did the kid learn to play like that? It’s a déjà-vu of yesterday’s tableau, complete with Chris’s heart hammering in his chest and the fury threatening to overpower him, again. But when Jensen starts singing, voice sweet and soft, it hits Chris like a warm breeze. He leans against the door, closes his eyes, and lets the tranquility of Jensen’s music wash over him. Gradually his heartrate slows down and the tension starts to ease.
10. Luckenbach, Texas / Christian Kane
He mutes the TV, sipping slowly from the bottle while he listens to the music coming from downstairs. It’s muffled enough that he can’t really tell what it is but Kane’s is undeniably country so probably that.
11. Seven Days / Christian Kane
It’s Chris. Chris is on stage. Chris is singing. On stage. Chris is on stage singing. And he looks… Jensen blinks. Heat explodes in his stomach, spreading downwards. It’s so sudden he staggers, almost losing his balance from the blood in his head rushing where it’s absolutely not supposed to be. Uh. This is not good. This is very, very bad.
12. Permanent 99 / Christian Kane
He breathes in, breathes out, breathes in. Permanent 99 is usually a pretty peppy song, rock ‘n roll in a country coat. This time he starts slow, keeping his voice low and sultry, focusing on the words, wanting each and every member of the audience to feel the sweat dripping as he gets their undies soaking wet with innuendo. He’s panting before he’s halfway through, feeling dizzy with lust, dick so hard in his jeans it’d be obscene if the guitar wasn’t covering his crotch. The whole time he keeps glancing at Jensen, each time a little longer until he’s having trouble looking away because Jesus! the kid is practically melting into the table, head cradled in his arms, eyes gazing at him, dark and heavy, mouth panting.
13. Sounds of Someday / Radio Company
Jensen looks down, strumming the guitar a few times, just letting it hum its contentment, then he looks up to find Chris in the audience, just like Chris told him to do, but the intensity of his gaze still hits Chris like the heat from a late night campfire. Then Jensen starts singing, his voice low and hoarse.
14. Restless Man / Radio Company
Chris is about to pour himself yet another drink when the song Jensen’s singing tapers off and then he just sits there, head hanging, for a long time before he looks up at Chris and whispers, hoarse and embarrassed, “I’m sorry. I’m all out.”
15. I Will Survive / Matt Johnson
Someone starts to hum. It takes Chris a moment to recognize it as Gloria Gaynor’s I Will Survive, hummed slow and quietly like a hymn, and by then others have joined in, more and more, until the whole room is vibrating like a beehive.
16. Sweet Carolina Rain / Chris Kane
If this is how they usually play, no wonder the crowd loves them so much. It’s less country than Jensen expected, guess Chris wasn’t kidding about Steve not being so much into that, but Chris is so much country all on his own, in his worn jeans and scuffed cowboy boots and belt buckle the size of Texas, he might as well be singing Willie Nelson.
17. Safe To Say / Steve Carlson
Up on stage, Steve is singing solo while shooting them anxious glances. From what it looks like, Chris leapt straight down from the stage to storm over.
18. City Grown Willow / Radio Company
“Hi again,” Jensen says into the mic, blushing and ducking his head when the crowd whistles and applauses. “Hope you don’t mind me starting a bit easy. Been told you liked that last time. Can’t remember much of it myself but… yeah.”
19. Wondering Why / Jensen Ackles
He laughs, cheeks turning slightly warm. “Don’t know ‘bout that. I’m more of a jeans and boots kinda guy.” He glances up at the stage where Jensen is singing a sweet country song, and smiles.
20. More Than I deserve / Christian Kane
Jensen starts, all quiet and slow. Chris joins in when it’s his turn and damn, they do sound good together, as far as he can tell. Jensen’s liquid voice against Chris’s rougher one, torn up by years of whiskey running down his throat. When it’s time for the chorus they both lean into the mic, so close they might as well kiss, and when the opportunity comes along, with a slight pause before the next verse, Chris snatches it, kissing Jensen softly, smiling when Jensen laughs happily into his mouth.
21. Something’s Gotta Give / Christian Kane
“Well, since it’s Monday night, how about a little working man blues?”
22. Forever Ain’t Long / Radio Company
Chris savors a small sip of whiskey, conscious that the single glass will have to last him until the break. It’s alright, he’s content watching Jensen on stage, strumming his beauty of a guitar, offering one song after another to his captivated audience. It’s another slow night, they have become a fan favorite and Jensen has admitted to preferring the quiet, soft atmosphere to his rockier performances. By now they’re three to one, at least, and even the livelier ones have more soft rock than hard.
23. Now That My Love Is Gone / Steve Carlson
“I’ll make you a bed and give you breakfast,” he says in all seriousness, and she laughs but it sounds a little broken. “Lorna, sweetheart,” he says quietly. “We’re all in your debt.” He nods his head at the crowd dancing and singing along with Steve on stage. “Everyone in here owes you. They just don’t know it.”
24. Different Kind Of Knight / Christian Kane
Chris gazes out over the sea of people and feels a sting in his chest at the look of disappointment in their eyes. Even doing his more mellow songs - stealing some from Jensen because Chris has always been more for the rocky side of country and so never really took the time to learn much of anything else - it is clear he’s not who they came for.
25. Right in front of you / Christian Kane
“Anyway, here’s a little somethin’ I learned from my boy Jensen,” he says and this time when he starts singing the applause is a lot more enthusiastic.
26. Good Ol’ Boys / Christian Kane and Jensen Ackles
“It’s our show,” Jensen says with a smile. And then he grabs the mic and starts singing.
27. It’s alright mama / Radio Company
He’s been dragged up on stage, again and again, to sing with Jared and Lorna and even Steve, who patronizingly called him kiddo and patted his head, just to be an asshole, before hopping off stage to go make out with Matt in the middle of the dance floor.