MIX: THE LEAVERS DANCE
MIX #1: THE LEAVER'S DANCE.
music for those who are homesick and wishing to get home,
those who could not wait to leave home.
And everyone else in between.
"I know it's late there, I just... what happened to us? You know? I don't know who I am anymore. Or how I got here. I miss who I used to be. I wanna have a home again, ya know? And real friends. You know, the kind of friendships we used to believe in. I miss that. And I miss you. I guess I just miss all of it. Does any of that make any sense?"
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o1. It's In Your Blood - Lydia
I can't stay over you. It seems we drive forever but can never get away from here. Just one more try. I'm guessing you are over me, I guess it's bravery. Well cause it's black out the window while you sleep in the passenger seat. It's gone. Oh when it's always on your mind but you never speak of the name, it's in your blood and face and I'm certain it's fame. So I stayed out in the car cause the weather had gotten to me, but its really these road signs and freeways that I can't take.
o2. Franklin - Paramore
And when we get home, I know we won't be home at all. This place we live, it is not where we belong. And I miss who we were in the town that we could call our own, going back to get away after everything has changed. Could you remind me of a time when we were so alive? Do you remember that? Do you remember that? Could you help me push aside all that I have left behind? (Everything has changed)
o3. The Lights and Buzz - Jack's Mannequin
I'm coming home to the lights and buzz. Streets look the same, still nothing's as it was. This place is paradise I'm sure, here's my reservation. I've gotten lost here once before, inside a good vibration. And time, time it stops for no one, the seasons come and go and that's just time.
.o4 Left and Leaving - The Weakerthans
I'm back with scars to show. Back with the streets I know will never take me anywhere, but here. The stain in the carpet, this drink in my hand, the strangers whose faces I know. We meet here for our dress-rehearsal to say "I wanted it this way". Wait for the year to drown, spring forward, fall back down. I'm trying not to wonder where you are.
.o5 Landlocked Blues - Bright Eyes
And the world’s got me dizzy again. You think after all these years I’d be used to the spin. And it only feels worse when I stay in one place, so I’m always pacing around or walking away. I feel more like a stranger each time I come home. So I’m making a deal with the devils of fame, saying “let me walk away, please”. So I’m up at dawn, putting on my shoes. I just want to make a clean escape. I’m leaving but I don’t know where to. I know I’m leaving but I don’t know where to.
.o6 Boston - Augustana
I think I'll go to Boston. I think I'll start a new life, I think I'll start it over, where no one knows my name. I think that I'm just tired. I think I need a new town, to leave this all behind.
.o7 Title and Registration - Death Cab for Cutie
The glove compartment is inaccurately named, and everybody knows it. So i'm proposing a swift orderly change. Cause behind its door there's nothing to keep my fingers warm, and all i find are souvenirs from better times, before the gleam of your taillights fading east, to find yourself a better life.
.o8 - For Blue Skies - Strays Don't Sleep
It’s been a long year since we last spoke. How’s your halo? Just between you and I, you and me and the satellites, I never believed you, I only wanted to . Before all of this, what did I miss? Do you ever get homesick? I can’t get used to it.