♌ THE EMPTY CAGE • an Infected fanmix

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This is my love letter to the Infected series by Andrea Speed, in particular a certain death and how it affects the main character. As such, it's basically a walking spoiler, but it isn't something sudden - you know he's going to die fairly early on. Also as such, it's a massive tearjerker. Enter at your own risk.

Roan would not approve of my song choices at all, but I think Paris would rather like them.

For those who aren't familiar with Infected - Roan is a werelion, Paris is a weretiger, and they're a pair of private investigators and lovers. Roan is a grumpy bastard and Paris is a gorgeous heartthrob and they adore each other.




•01 UNNAMED SONG [Yoshiki]


I'm standing on the edge
And coming to my senses
From the reverie
Never thought I would
Never thought I'd need to
Say goodbye, I bid you farewell
My voiceless words are swaying the flame
I can't live without
I can't live without
I can't live without you here in the dark
I whisper your name over again
Give me the strength to seize the light if I should find a way

•02 RAISE YOUR GLASS [Pink]


Can't stop, coming in hot
I should be locked up right on the spot
It's so on right now
So raise your glass if you are wrong
In all the right ways, all my underdogs
We will never be, never be anything but loud
And nitty gritty, dirty little freaks
Won't you come on and come on and
Raise your glass!

•03 PERFECT [Darren Hayes]


Your love is a whisper trying to become a roar.
Your love is a child crying out for more.
And all it could have been is like a symbol in the sand
And all our wasted love is like a language I don't understand.
Cause our love was perfect.
Pieces of a puzzle lying on the floor.
Beginning and ending
A story that continues never, evermore.

•04 THE SOFT GOODBYE [Celtic Woman]


There's a dream that will not sleep,
A burning hope that will not die
So I must go now with the wind,
And leave you waiting on the tide.
Time to fly, time to touch the sky
One voice alone - a haunting cry
One song, one star burning bright,
Let it carry me through darkest night.

•05 I GRIEVE [Peter Gabriel]


It was only one hour ago
It was all so different then
There's nothing yet has really sunk in
Looks like it always did
This flesh and bone
It's just the way that we are tied in
But there's no one home.
The news that truly shocks is the empty empty page
While the final rattle rocks its empty empty cage
And I can't handle this.

They say life carries on
Carries on and on and on and on.

•06 YOU'RE STILL HERE [Poets of the Fall]


Thaw wails inside the walls and laughs in the corners, delighting in its evident victory
Till I feel springtime counting its days of flaunting a novel sensation
Like it's leaving, leaving behind the weight vying for yesteryear
Leaving promises in its wake, whispering, my love, you're still here

•07 A CONVERSATION WITH GOD [Darren Hayes]


It's raining, the bullets melt
The hunger of hunger itself
It's draining, but pain has reservoirs
It keeps for itself
My hands fly off the steering wheel
Can't recall getting here
If I could, I would reach behind
And turn my light off
My thoughts run off the beaten track
There's no lighthouse or way back
Take the hand of God
And bite the feeder
No more lingering

•08 CHEATING THE POLYGRAPH [Porcupine Tree]


Lying through my teeth again
I've been bad again, black lies
Skirting round the truth again
To escape the look in your eyes
Blackening my soul again
With another lie, it's my style
Burying my face again
God I'm so ashamed, this time

•09 BLOWN AWAY [Shiny Toy Guns]


Days
I haven't seen days
Just solid water down my face
Days
I've missed so many days
In a world that has become an unfamiliar place
Now to you, I'm just an unfamiliar face
I'm losing myself again
You swore you'd be around this time

•10 HANG ON [Plumb]


I'm so hungry, how can I stay here?
Starving for what I hold so dear
Like a hurricane it takes everything from me
Wake me from this dream
Hang on when you're barely breathing
Hang on while your heart's still beating
Hang on, just don't ever let go

•11 BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE [Cher Lloyd]


It's my last big breath what you want me to do?
When you act all cool like you already knew
That I'll be stuck here cold just waiting it through
'Til your heart starts beating for that somebody new
You know that it's true
'Cause it's beautiful people like you
Who get whatever they want
And it's beautiful people like you
Who suck the life right outta my heart
And it's beautiful people like you
Who make me cry
'Cause nobody else could be nearly as cruel as you

•12 MAYBE I'M A LION [LeviathanVIII/Nobuo Uematsu]


(instrumental)

•13 GLORIOUS [Darren Hayes]


You will never get older and you will never feel pain
Or fill the room with laughter like you used to
And I won't hear you speaking or others call your name
In spite of this the world will still continue
I'm a little bit hopeful that we all carry on
But part of me still thinks we are just stardust
And from the highest mountain I went to make a sound
I thought that if I called out you would answer
But no one did
I know the rules of the game
For every sunset the light has to fade
But baby a light like yours was so glorious
Glorious

•14 THE PARTING GLASS [The High Kings]


Of all the comrades that e'er I had,
They're sorry for my going away.
And all the sweethearts that e'er I had,
They'd wish me one more day to stay.
But since it fell unto my lot,
That I should rise and you should not,
I'll gently rise and softly call,
Good night and joy be to you all.

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Roan: Hugh Jackman
Paris: Matt Bomer
Dylan: Zachary Quinto

Infected is written by and belongs to Andrea Speed.