We Look Good Together: an Alan/Denny fanmix
'Unconditional' - The Bravery
I'm a beggar and I'm a chooser
I'm accused, I'm an accuser
But nothing's unconditional
I hold the world accused
I've only got myself to blame
I wonder why, I never wonder why
The easiest things are so hard
I just want, I just want love
Denny: Americans - we're homesteaders. We want a safe home, to keep the money we make, and to shoot bad guys. And save the life of someone you love.
Alan: I consider myself many things, Denny, but being loved has never been one of them. And now twice in the same day.
Hired Guns (1.10)
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'Live Forever' - Oasis
Maybe I don't really want to know how your garden grows
'Cos I just want to fly
Lately did you ever feel the pain in the morning rain
As it soaks you to the bone?
Maybe I just want to fly
I want to live, I don't want to die
Maybe I just want to breathe
Maybe I just don't believe
Maybe you're the same as me
We see things I'll never see
You and I are gonna live forever
Denny: The only thing to be scared of is tomorrow. I don't live for tomorrow. Never saw the fun in it.
Alan: Here's to no tomorrows.
Head Cases (1.1)
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'Mystifies Me' - Son Volt
Let me see you, let me know your dreams
Won't you please give me a sign?
Things you say make me look through you
No one mystifies me like you do
This is why I'll always look at you
And I'll hold you to it every day
Alan: You know, Ralph Waldo Emerson said he reckoned a friend to be the masterpiece of nature. I'm not sure I truly understood that before I met you, Denny.
Men to Boys (2.5)
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'I See a Darkness' - Johnny Cash
Well, you're my friend and you can see
Many times we've been out drinking
Many times we've shared our thoughts
Did you ever notice the kind of thoughts I got?
Well, you know I have a love for everyone
And you know I have a drive for life I won't let go
But sometimes this opposition comes rising up in me
This terrible imposition comes blacking through my mind
And then I see a darkness
Oh no, I see a darkness
Do you know how much I love you?
'Cos I'm hoping some day soon
You'll save me from this darkness
Alan: What is it that has you so balled up?
Denny: She isn't slipping, that's what.
Alan: Are you worried about her seeing you age?
Denny: You might not believe this, but I was once a very remarkable man.
Alan: Denny, you're a remarkable man.
Denny: Between you and me, that woman is too much for me.
Alan: Between you and me, we'll take her.
Denny: I'd like that.
Schmidt Happens (1.11)
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'Remember Me' - British Sea Power
Do you worry about your health?
Do you watch it slowly change?
And when you listen to yourself
Does it feel like somebody else?
And did you notice when you began to disappear?
Was it slowly at first until there was nobody really there?
Increment by increment...
Oh, remember me
Yeah, remember me
Alan: [The drug] might make you feel more accute, you'll no doubt work like a demon, but certain pleasures will be gone.
Denny: Like?
Alan: Perhaps fishing. Perhaps sitting in a chair enjoying a football game. Standing on a balcony appreciating the quiet joy of a friendship. There's more to life than recognising faces, Denny.
Denny: You prefer me in my fog?
Alan: I prefer you. Your perspective. Your humour. The acceptance and humility which perhaps can only comes with age. I prefer you.
Denny: I've stopped taking the drug.
It Girls and Beyond (1.13)
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'Satisfied Mind' - Jeff Buckley
Money can't buy back your youth when you're old
A friend when you're lonely, or peace to your soul
The wealthiest person is a pauper at times
Compared to the man with the satisfied mind
When my life is over and my time has run out
My friends and my loved ones, I'll leave them no doubt
But one thing's for certain, when it comes to my time
I'll leave this old world with a satisfied mind
Denny: You go through life and you never tell people how much you care about them. People should probably do that more, you know?
Alan: I care about you.
Denny: I wasn't fishing for that. Fish for steelhead, not mush.
Alan: I care about you, Denny. You don't have to say it back.
Let Sales Ring (1.16)
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'Tonight We Fly' - The Divine Comedy
Tonight we fly over the mountains
The beach and the sea
Over the friends that we've known
And those that we now know
And those who we've yet to meet
And when we die
Will we be that disappointed or sad
If heaven doesn't exist?
What will we have missed?
This life is the best we've ever had
Denny: It's fun being me. Is it fun being you?
Alan: Most of the time, yes, actually.
Denny: Well, what else is there?
Alan: Indeed.
Truly, Madly, Deeply (2.7)
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'Friendship' - Tenacious D
Oh shit, there's a bear
Could you hand me that shotgun?
And also that chair?
We're fighting a bear
Now your life's in grave danger
And you don't even care
It's rare to me, can't you see
It's rare to me, can't you see
Denny: Shirley looked at us kinda funny. Do you think she knows we slept together?
Alan: She might. We still have that glow. Quite a trip.
Denny: I shot my first steelhead!
Alan: Thank you, Denny. You took my mind off Tara. Took me to a new land. Most of all, took me to a new place.
Denny: What do you mean?
Alan: You've occasioned a cynical, material, urbane man to feel passion for fish.
Denny: I think Canada liked us.
Alan: How could they not?
Denny: I think we make quite a team, I can tell you that.
Alan: Yes, we do.
Finding Nimmo (2.3)
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ETA: updated 12/07/08