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if you like, you can think of this as a preview for a story that’s being beta’d right about now. but it’s just a lot of free songs that will probably bum you out.
alice - tom waits
and so a secret kiss brings madness with the bliss
and I will think of this when I’m dead in my grave
set me adrift and I’m lost over there
and I must be insane to go skating on your name
and by tracing it twice, I fell through the ice
and darling - tegan and sara
creep up and tell me that you
you love me more each time you
look into my eyes I feel like
I know you don’t mean to be mean
I’m sure you know the same for me
when you creep up and tell me darling
it breaks my heart each time you darling
anyone’s ghost - the national
you said I came close as anyone’s come
to live underwater for more than a month
you said it was not inside my heart, it was
you said it should tear a kid apart, it does
didn’t want to be your ghost, didn’t want to be anyone’s ghost
but I don’t want anybody else
the biggest lie - elliott smith
you spent everything you had, wanted everything to stop that bad
now I’m a crashed credit card registered to smith - not the same you called me with
you turned white like a saint, I’m tired of dancing on a pot of gold-flecked paint
we’re so very precious, you and I, and everything you do makes me want to die
cosmic love - florence and the machine
I took the stars from our eyes and then I made a map
and I knew that somehow I could find my way back
then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
so I stayed in the darkness with you
eskimo snow - why?
and I’m under something black and thicker than a sheet for ghosts
in the first beat of snow and oh that old cloud’s you
on the crosses on the chests of dead soldiers in a field
and I’m still here
evening kitchen - band of horses
got lost in the places I’ve been, I should go out with my friends
I’d go tonight but I know you’ll be there too, there too
for me this bottle of wine is to slow down my mind
and forget the things that I knew, I knew
and if you’re ever left with any doubt
what you’ll live with and what you’ll do without
I’m only sorry that it took so long to figure out
for real - okkervil river
it's just a drive into the dark stretch
long stretch of night will really stretch this shaking mind
and this room, unlit, unheated
and the ceiling striped and the dark black blinds
I want to know this time if you're really finally mine
I need to know that you're not lying so I want to see you tried
and I don't want to hear you say it shouldn't really be this way
'cause I like this way just fine
ghost wiring - neko case
don't feel sorry for yourself, I’ll always wait for you
your ghost is a lightshow at night on the grand coulee dam
the river is watching you at the drive-in tonight
who do they comfort since I’ve gone away
green grass - tom waits
stand in the shade of me, things are now made of me
the weather vane will say ‘it smells like rain today’
god took the stars and he tossed ‘em, can’t tell the birds from the blossoms
you’ll never be free of me, he’ll make a tree from me
don’t say goodbye to me, describe the sky to me
and if the sky falls, mark my words: we’ll catch mockingbirds
lay your head where my heart used to be, hold the earth above me
lay down in the green grass, remember when you loved me
I felt the chill before the winter came - elvis costello
well there’s a difference in the way that you kissed me
and there’s a sadness in your eyes that you can’t hide
why do you tremble when I kiss you?
I wonder if you feel the same
I felt the chill before the winter came
is this what you wanted - leonard cohen
you got old and wrinkled, I stayed seventeen
you lusted after so many, I lay here with one
you defied your solitude, I came through alone
you said you could never love me, I undid your gown
and is this what you wanted, to live in a house that is haunted
by the ghost of you and me
lake and ocean - the coral sea
you don’t fight, you don’t sigh, you don’t listen back even on the trail of love
you’re all done, we’re not finished yet seeing heights my heart bequeaths
you don’t see, you don’t need, you don’t matter now even on the trail of love
you don’t fall, you don’t recognize all the things I did for you
‘cause I’m over the things you did to me, it’s uneasy but it’s true
didn't I treat you right, you’re breaking me down
didn’t you treat me right, I’m breaking you down
all in all you’re just a lake inside my ocean, all in all you’re just for me
thin blue flame - josh ritter
the future glass buildings and the past in an address
and the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless
and all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right
the suffering verbs put to sleep in the night
the future descending like a bright chandelier
and the world just beginning and the guests in good cheer
in royal city I fell into a trance
oh it’s hell to believe there ain’t a hell of a chance
tiny vessels - death cab for cutie
all I see are dark grey clouds in the distance moving closer with every hour
so when you ask ‘is something wrong?’ I think ‘you’re damn right there is
but we can’t talk about it now,’ no we can’t talk about it now
so one last touch and then you’ll go
and we’ll pretend that it meant something so much more
but it was vile and it was cheap
and you are beautiful but you don’t mean a thing to me
the wolves (act i and ii) - bon iver
someday my pain, someday my pain will mark you
harness your blame, harness your blame and walk through
with the wild wolves around you, in the morning I’ll call you
send it farther on
solace my game, solace my game, it stars you
swing wide your crane, swing wide your crane and run me through
and the story’s all over you
(indirectly related: does anyone know where I can get pictures of the individual looks from Boateng's spring 2011 show? hmm? it's of national importance. to my heart.)
alice - tom waits
and so a secret kiss brings madness with the bliss
and I will think of this when I’m dead in my grave
set me adrift and I’m lost over there
and I must be insane to go skating on your name
and by tracing it twice, I fell through the ice
and darling - tegan and sara
creep up and tell me that you
you love me more each time you
look into my eyes I feel like
I know you don’t mean to be mean
I’m sure you know the same for me
when you creep up and tell me darling
it breaks my heart each time you darling
anyone’s ghost - the national
you said I came close as anyone’s come
to live underwater for more than a month
you said it was not inside my heart, it was
you said it should tear a kid apart, it does
didn’t want to be your ghost, didn’t want to be anyone’s ghost
but I don’t want anybody else
the biggest lie - elliott smith
you spent everything you had, wanted everything to stop that bad
now I’m a crashed credit card registered to smith - not the same you called me with
you turned white like a saint, I’m tired of dancing on a pot of gold-flecked paint
we’re so very precious, you and I, and everything you do makes me want to die
cosmic love - florence and the machine
I took the stars from our eyes and then I made a map
and I knew that somehow I could find my way back
then I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too
so I stayed in the darkness with you
eskimo snow - why?
and I’m under something black and thicker than a sheet for ghosts
in the first beat of snow and oh that old cloud’s you
on the crosses on the chests of dead soldiers in a field
and I’m still here
evening kitchen - band of horses
got lost in the places I’ve been, I should go out with my friends
I’d go tonight but I know you’ll be there too, there too
for me this bottle of wine is to slow down my mind
and forget the things that I knew, I knew
and if you’re ever left with any doubt
what you’ll live with and what you’ll do without
I’m only sorry that it took so long to figure out
for real - okkervil river
it's just a drive into the dark stretch
long stretch of night will really stretch this shaking mind
and this room, unlit, unheated
and the ceiling striped and the dark black blinds
I want to know this time if you're really finally mine
I need to know that you're not lying so I want to see you tried
and I don't want to hear you say it shouldn't really be this way
'cause I like this way just fine
ghost wiring - neko case
don't feel sorry for yourself, I’ll always wait for you
your ghost is a lightshow at night on the grand coulee dam
the river is watching you at the drive-in tonight
who do they comfort since I’ve gone away
green grass - tom waits
stand in the shade of me, things are now made of me
the weather vane will say ‘it smells like rain today’
god took the stars and he tossed ‘em, can’t tell the birds from the blossoms
you’ll never be free of me, he’ll make a tree from me
don’t say goodbye to me, describe the sky to me
and if the sky falls, mark my words: we’ll catch mockingbirds
lay your head where my heart used to be, hold the earth above me
lay down in the green grass, remember when you loved me
I felt the chill before the winter came - elvis costello
well there’s a difference in the way that you kissed me
and there’s a sadness in your eyes that you can’t hide
why do you tremble when I kiss you?
I wonder if you feel the same
I felt the chill before the winter came
is this what you wanted - leonard cohen
you got old and wrinkled, I stayed seventeen
you lusted after so many, I lay here with one
you defied your solitude, I came through alone
you said you could never love me, I undid your gown
and is this what you wanted, to live in a house that is haunted
by the ghost of you and me
lake and ocean - the coral sea
you don’t fight, you don’t sigh, you don’t listen back even on the trail of love
you’re all done, we’re not finished yet seeing heights my heart bequeaths
you don’t see, you don’t need, you don’t matter now even on the trail of love
you don’t fall, you don’t recognize all the things I did for you
‘cause I’m over the things you did to me, it’s uneasy but it’s true
didn't I treat you right, you’re breaking me down
didn’t you treat me right, I’m breaking you down
all in all you’re just a lake inside my ocean, all in all you’re just for me
thin blue flame - josh ritter
the future glass buildings and the past in an address
and the weddings in pollen and the wine bottomless
and all wrongs forgotten and all vengeance made right
the suffering verbs put to sleep in the night
the future descending like a bright chandelier
and the world just beginning and the guests in good cheer
in royal city I fell into a trance
oh it’s hell to believe there ain’t a hell of a chance
tiny vessels - death cab for cutie
all I see are dark grey clouds in the distance moving closer with every hour
so when you ask ‘is something wrong?’ I think ‘you’re damn right there is
but we can’t talk about it now,’ no we can’t talk about it now
so one last touch and then you’ll go
and we’ll pretend that it meant something so much more
but it was vile and it was cheap
and you are beautiful but you don’t mean a thing to me
the wolves (act i and ii) - bon iver
someday my pain, someday my pain will mark you
harness your blame, harness your blame and walk through
with the wild wolves around you, in the morning I’ll call you
send it farther on
solace my game, solace my game, it stars you
swing wide your crane, swing wide your crane and run me through
and the story’s all over you
(indirectly related: does anyone know where I can get pictures of the individual looks from Boateng's spring 2011 show? hmm? it's of national importance. to my heart.)