Part 2 of GaaNaru OST
PART ONE IS HERE
Here you have, then, the second part to this massive gathering of songs :)
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Sacrifice - t.A.T.u. (video)
Again, how loving tenderness helps us leave behind the worst of us and become a better person. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Sap.
“Can you feel me, solely
Deeper still and wholly
With your understanding
And your arms around me
Can you help me
Hold me
Whisper to me, softly
Move your hands across me
Take my worries from me”
Only Hope - Mandy Moore/Switchfoot (Mandy Moore's version / Switchfoot's version )
The promise of better days in the future may be something only hope can grab, but it helps go through the rough times in the present. I relate this to their avatars in Hunger AND to an important (very into the) future phase in MEOH. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
“So, I lay my head back down.
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours, I pray, to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope.”
Rule The World - Take That (Stardust video)
How two kindred souls together can feel they can control their lives, and change the world around them for the best. Gaara and Naruto as lovers and companion leaders.
Sap. A song from one of my favorite movies.
“If walls break down, I will comfort you
If angels cry, oh I'll be there for you
You've saved my soul
Don't leave me now
Don't leave me now
Yeah you and me we can ride on a star
If you stay with me girl, we can rule the world
Yeah you and me we can light up the sky
If you stay by my side, we can rule the world.”
You And Me - Lifehouse (amv)
Again, the difficulty of expressing new feelings when everything is strange and unknown. Gaara and Naruto about to be lovers.
Sap. Very much sap.
“All of the things that I want to say just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping on words
You've got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here
Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you”
Everything - Lifehouse (video)
(the translation in the video is not very good, so ignore it...)
Smitten Gaara weights everything a certain blonde has done for him, and how he feels about that. Gaara and Naruto as platonic lovers.
Sappy sap sap. Ssssssssaaaaaaaappppp
“Find Me Here
Speak To Me
I want to feel you
I need to hear you
You are the light
That's leading me
To the place where I find peace again.
You are the strength, that keeps me walking.
You are the hope, that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose...you're everything.”
Something There - Paige O’hara & Robby Benson (Beauty and the Beast clip)
People can change, and some changes can be quite mesmerizing. Gaara and Naruto as best friends.
Sappy and cuddly.
“There's something sweet
And almost kind
But he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined
But now he's dear, and so unsure
I wonder why I didn't see it there before”
Weeping - Josh Groban & Ladysmith Black Mambazo (video)
(this song was originally written because of the apartheid in South Africa)
Again, an emotional take on the discrimination they suffered as kids. Gaara and Naruto’s kindred childhood.
Sadness, hopelessness.
“I knew a man who lived in fear
It was huge, it was angry,
It was drawing near.
Behind his house a secret place
Was the shadow of the demon
He could never face.
He built a wall of steel and flame
And men with guns to keep it tame
Then standing back he made it plain
That the nightmare would never ever rise again
But the fear and the fire and the guns remain.”
Stripped - Depeche Mode (Live video / original song download / Shiny Toy Guns's cover )
(I was at that live concert on the first video :D full house, a brilliant night ;.; )
Sometimes it is wonderful to take a day off everything that is stressful and harmful and just spend the time rediscovering what’s real. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Sap.
“Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let the hours pass
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone”
The Grudge - TOOL (video)
Then comes the moment when you’re ripped of all your previous, wrong beliefs, and you have to let go, to understand out to find a new path. Gaara and Naruto at the end of their fight in the Invasion Arc. That one again.
Hope. Transcendence (TOOL ftw).
“Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and
Grip 'em to the lonesome end
Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Terrified of being wrong
Ultimatum prison cell
Saturn ascends
Choose one or ten
Hang on or be
Humbled again
Humbled again”
Save Me - Killswitch Engage (video)
Gaara picks himself up and slowly draws hope to become a better person. Gaara and Naruto as friends, being Naruto Gaara’s savior.
Sap, hope. (I find sap in heavy metal songs)
“Shattered by the hate that I carry
Take me as I am and make me whole again
I am lost without a purpose, always consumed by self
I freely give this calloused heart, can you forgive me?
Even when I fall will you still believe…
Even when I'm lost will you still believe…
Now I don't have much, will you save me…
But I'll give it all, will you save me…”
Bruises - Chairlift (video)
When you’re trying your best to be noticed by the other part and then you realize they’ve been doing the same all along. Just the image of a clumsy Gaara trying to attempt anything more physical than he can accomplish. Gaara and Naruto, platonic.
Sap.
“I tried to do handstands for you
I tried to do headstands for you
Everytime I fell on you, yeah everytime I fell
I tried to do handstands for you
But everytime I fell for you
I'm permanently black and blue, permanently blue for
you “
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens (original version / Lebo M.'s version )
I have distinct image (somewhat brought up by my sister) that the sleeping lion is Sasuke, with Gaara assuring Naruto everything is alright for a while. Gaara and Naruto as friends.
“Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling
The lion sleeps tonight”
The Noose - A Perfect Circle (video)
Even after the first step is taken and Shukaku lessens his control on Gaara, there is still a long way to walk, and Gaara is never sure if he even deserves that chance at all. Gaara being released from Shukaku.
Sadness, hopelessness.
“So glad to see you well, overcome them
Completely silent now
With heaven's help
You've cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead”
A New Day Has Come [Radio Version] - Celine Dion (video)
A song about aided victories, especially when the person who helps you is the one who has motivate you to change all along. Gaara’s platonic love for Naruto.
Sap.
“Where it was dark now there's light
Where there was pain now there's joy
Where there was weakness, I found my strength
All in the eyes of a boy…”
This Is Goodbye - Killswitch Engage (video)
On the other hand, growing apart from a demon is never an easy task, and it sometimes takes all its toll on you… Gaara being released from Shukaku.
Hopelessness, despair.
“This is my goodbye [x3]
But please don't try to stop me
I don't exist, I can't be you
Each day is a new failure
Every trial is permissive
Every step I gain I only fall back sitting”
Vermillion pt 2 - Slipknot (video / shameless self promotion )
Unrequited love causes pain, especially on those moments you’re sure it will never work out, even though we can still draw comfort from the one we cherish so deeply. Gaara’s platonic love for Naruto.
Sap, hopelessness.
“She is everything to me,
The unrequited dream,
The song that no one sings,
The unattainable.
She's a myth that I have to believe in,
All I need to make it real is one more reason.
I don't know what to do,
I don't know what to do when she makes me sad.”
When The Body Speaks (acoustic) - Depeche Mode (listen and/or download)
The path through which platonic feelings soon become passionate emotions. Gaara’s evolving love for Naruto.
Sap. Beautiful sap.
“To the soul's desires
The body listens
What the flesh requires
Keeps the heart imprisoned
What the spirit seeks
The mind will follow
When the body speaks
All else is hollow
I'm just an angel
Driving blindly
Through this world
I'm just a slave here
At the mercy
Of a girl”
Storm - Lifehouse (video)
Once again, the fight for self-imposing. Gaara against Shukaku with Naruto’s help.
Sap.
“I know you didn't
Bring me out here to drown
So why am I 10 feet under and upside down
Barely surviving has become my purpose
‘Cause I'm so used to living underneath the surface
If I could just see you
Everything will be alright
If I see you
This darkness would turn to light
And I will walk on water
And you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
And everything will be alright…”
Sunsets and Car Crashes - The Spill Canvas (video)
Too much time spent in needless impasses, always so little time to use… All of them precious moments to remember dearly. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Sap.
“And in case you were wondering, you are like a sunset to me
You're all kinds of beautiful as you end my day
And you sweetly retire as the stars chase you away
And in case you were wondering, you are like a hurricane to me
Your violence is beautiful, and your center sweet
Now tell me this, do you know how we'd meet?
And in case you were wondering, you are everything to me (to me)”
The Tide - The Spill Canvas (video)
Not to be taken literally, but the lack of love in both their childhoods makes this a lesson they learned quite early. Gaara and Naruto’s kindred childhood.
Heartwrenching sadness.
“And he can't understand
How everyone goes on breathing when true love ends
His mother whispers quietly...
Heaven's not a place that you go when you die
It's that moment in life when you actually feel alive
So live for the moment
And take this advice, live by every word
Love is just a hoax so forget anything that you have heard
And live for the moment now”
Stand By Me - BB King (Timon and Pumbaa's version)
I wonder if it’ll ever come to this, if Naruto begins abusing the protectiveness Gaara has given him lately. Gaara and Naruto as friends.
Sap.
“If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me”
Fly Away From Here - Aerosmith (video)
People fight for their dreams when they think they are worth a living. Love is no exception. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Sap.
“If this life
Gets any harder now
It ain't no nevermind
You got me by your side
And anytime you want
Yeah, we can catch a train and find a better place
Yeah, cause we won't let nothin' or no one keep gettin' us down
Maybe you and I
Could pack our bags and hit the sky”
Third Eye - TOOL (part 1 / part 2 )
Gaara lived his entire childhood trying to be something he could not become with the demon inside him. At the age of six, after murdering his uncle and all the lies he fed him, the young boy finally embraces his fate. Six-year-old Gaara accepting Shukaku.
Fatalism.
“Shrouding all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song...
-So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much.
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?"
Trains - Porcupine Tree (video)
(Apart from having a GaaNaru fic completely inspired in this song)
Long-distance lovers must always make the most of the time they have together, because “always the summers are slipping away”. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Transcendental sap.
“Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay
When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck
When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK”
Here you have, then, the second part to this massive gathering of songs :)
-----
Sacrifice - t.A.T.u. (video)
Again, how loving tenderness helps us leave behind the worst of us and become a better person. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Sap.
“Can you feel me, solely
Deeper still and wholly
With your understanding
And your arms around me
Can you help me
Hold me
Whisper to me, softly
Move your hands across me
Take my worries from me”
Only Hope - Mandy Moore/Switchfoot (Mandy Moore's version / Switchfoot's version )
The promise of better days in the future may be something only hope can grab, but it helps go through the rough times in the present. I relate this to their avatars in Hunger AND to an important (very into the) future phase in MEOH. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
“So, I lay my head back down.
And I lift my hands and pray
To be only yours, I pray, to be only yours
I know now you're my only hope.”
Rule The World - Take That (Stardust video)
How two kindred souls together can feel they can control their lives, and change the world around them for the best. Gaara and Naruto as lovers and companion leaders.
Sap. A song from one of my favorite movies.
“If walls break down, I will comfort you
If angels cry, oh I'll be there for you
You've saved my soul
Don't leave me now
Don't leave me now
Yeah you and me we can ride on a star
If you stay with me girl, we can rule the world
Yeah you and me we can light up the sky
If you stay by my side, we can rule the world.”
You And Me - Lifehouse (amv)
Again, the difficulty of expressing new feelings when everything is strange and unknown. Gaara and Naruto about to be lovers.
Sap. Very much sap.
“All of the things that I want to say just aren't coming out right
I'm tripping on words
You've got my head spinning
I don't know where to go from here
Cause it's you and me and all of the people with nothing to do
Nothing to prove
And it's you and me and all of the people
And I don't know why, I can't keep my eyes off of you”
Everything - Lifehouse (video)
(the translation in the video is not very good, so ignore it...)
Smitten Gaara weights everything a certain blonde has done for him, and how he feels about that. Gaara and Naruto as platonic lovers.
Sappy sap sap. Ssssssssaaaaaaaappppp
“Find Me Here
Speak To Me
I want to feel you
I need to hear you
You are the light
That's leading me
To the place where I find peace again.
You are the strength, that keeps me walking.
You are the hope, that keeps me trusting.
You are the light to my soul.
You are my purpose...you're everything.”
Something There - Paige O’hara & Robby Benson (Beauty and the Beast clip)
People can change, and some changes can be quite mesmerizing. Gaara and Naruto as best friends.
Sappy and cuddly.
“There's something sweet
And almost kind
But he was mean and he was coarse and unrefined
But now he's dear, and so unsure
I wonder why I didn't see it there before”
Weeping - Josh Groban & Ladysmith Black Mambazo (video)
(this song was originally written because of the apartheid in South Africa)
Again, an emotional take on the discrimination they suffered as kids. Gaara and Naruto’s kindred childhood.
Sadness, hopelessness.
“I knew a man who lived in fear
It was huge, it was angry,
It was drawing near.
Behind his house a secret place
Was the shadow of the demon
He could never face.
He built a wall of steel and flame
And men with guns to keep it tame
Then standing back he made it plain
That the nightmare would never ever rise again
But the fear and the fire and the guns remain.”
Stripped - Depeche Mode (Live video / original song download / Shiny Toy Guns's cover )
(I was at that live concert on the first video :D full house, a brilliant night ;.; )
Sometimes it is wonderful to take a day off everything that is stressful and harmful and just spend the time rediscovering what’s real. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Sap.
“Come with me
Into the trees
We'll lay on the grass
And let the hours pass
Take my hand
Come back to the land
Let's get away
Just for one day
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone
Let me see you
Stripped down to the bone”
The Grudge - TOOL (video)
Then comes the moment when you’re ripped of all your previous, wrong beliefs, and you have to let go, to understand out to find a new path. Gaara and Naruto at the end of their fight in the Invasion Arc. That one again.
Hope. Transcendence (TOOL ftw).
“Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Justify denials and
Grip 'em to the lonesome end
Clutch it like a cornerstone
Otherwise it all comes down
Terrified of being wrong
Ultimatum prison cell
Saturn ascends
Choose one or ten
Hang on or be
Humbled again
Humbled again”
Save Me - Killswitch Engage (video)
Gaara picks himself up and slowly draws hope to become a better person. Gaara and Naruto as friends, being Naruto Gaara’s savior.
Sap, hope. (I find sap in heavy metal songs)
“Shattered by the hate that I carry
Take me as I am and make me whole again
I am lost without a purpose, always consumed by self
I freely give this calloused heart, can you forgive me?
Even when I fall will you still believe…
Even when I'm lost will you still believe…
Now I don't have much, will you save me…
But I'll give it all, will you save me…”
Bruises - Chairlift (video)
When you’re trying your best to be noticed by the other part and then you realize they’ve been doing the same all along. Just the image of a clumsy Gaara trying to attempt anything more physical than he can accomplish. Gaara and Naruto, platonic.
Sap.
“I tried to do handstands for you
I tried to do headstands for you
Everytime I fell on you, yeah everytime I fell
I tried to do handstands for you
But everytime I fell for you
I'm permanently black and blue, permanently blue for
you “
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens (original version / Lebo M.'s version )
I have distinct image (somewhat brought up by my sister) that the sleeping lion is Sasuke, with Gaara assuring Naruto everything is alright for a while. Gaara and Naruto as friends.
“Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling
The lion sleeps tonight
Hush, my darling, don't fear, my darling
The lion sleeps tonight”
The Noose - A Perfect Circle (video)
Even after the first step is taken and Shukaku lessens his control on Gaara, there is still a long way to walk, and Gaara is never sure if he even deserves that chance at all. Gaara being released from Shukaku.
Sadness, hopelessness.
“So glad to see you well, overcome them
Completely silent now
With heaven's help
You've cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're plannin' to go about makin' your amends
To the dead
To the dead”
A New Day Has Come [Radio Version] - Celine Dion (video)
A song about aided victories, especially when the person who helps you is the one who has motivate you to change all along. Gaara’s platonic love for Naruto.
Sap.
“Where it was dark now there's light
Where there was pain now there's joy
Where there was weakness, I found my strength
All in the eyes of a boy…”
This Is Goodbye - Killswitch Engage (video)
On the other hand, growing apart from a demon is never an easy task, and it sometimes takes all its toll on you… Gaara being released from Shukaku.
Hopelessness, despair.
“This is my goodbye [x3]
But please don't try to stop me
I don't exist, I can't be you
Each day is a new failure
Every trial is permissive
Every step I gain I only fall back sitting”
Vermillion pt 2 - Slipknot (video / shameless self promotion )
Unrequited love causes pain, especially on those moments you’re sure it will never work out, even though we can still draw comfort from the one we cherish so deeply. Gaara’s platonic love for Naruto.
Sap, hopelessness.
“She is everything to me,
The unrequited dream,
The song that no one sings,
The unattainable.
She's a myth that I have to believe in,
All I need to make it real is one more reason.
I don't know what to do,
I don't know what to do when she makes me sad.”
When The Body Speaks (acoustic) - Depeche Mode (listen and/or download)
The path through which platonic feelings soon become passionate emotions. Gaara’s evolving love for Naruto.
Sap. Beautiful sap.
“To the soul's desires
The body listens
What the flesh requires
Keeps the heart imprisoned
What the spirit seeks
The mind will follow
When the body speaks
All else is hollow
I'm just an angel
Driving blindly
Through this world
I'm just a slave here
At the mercy
Of a girl”
Storm - Lifehouse (video)
Once again, the fight for self-imposing. Gaara against Shukaku with Naruto’s help.
Sap.
“I know you didn't
Bring me out here to drown
So why am I 10 feet under and upside down
Barely surviving has become my purpose
‘Cause I'm so used to living underneath the surface
If I could just see you
Everything will be alright
If I see you
This darkness would turn to light
And I will walk on water
And you will catch me if I fall
And I will get lost into your eyes
And everything will be alright…”
Sunsets and Car Crashes - The Spill Canvas (video)
Too much time spent in needless impasses, always so little time to use… All of them precious moments to remember dearly. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Sap.
“And in case you were wondering, you are like a sunset to me
You're all kinds of beautiful as you end my day
And you sweetly retire as the stars chase you away
And in case you were wondering, you are like a hurricane to me
Your violence is beautiful, and your center sweet
Now tell me this, do you know how we'd meet?
And in case you were wondering, you are everything to me (to me)”
The Tide - The Spill Canvas (video)
Not to be taken literally, but the lack of love in both their childhoods makes this a lesson they learned quite early. Gaara and Naruto’s kindred childhood.
Heartwrenching sadness.
“And he can't understand
How everyone goes on breathing when true love ends
His mother whispers quietly...
Heaven's not a place that you go when you die
It's that moment in life when you actually feel alive
So live for the moment
And take this advice, live by every word
Love is just a hoax so forget anything that you have heard
And live for the moment now”
Stand By Me - BB King (Timon and Pumbaa's version)
I wonder if it’ll ever come to this, if Naruto begins abusing the protectiveness Gaara has given him lately. Gaara and Naruto as friends.
Sap.
“If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall
And the mountains should crumble to the sea
I won't cry, I won't cry, no I won't shed a tear
Just as long as you stand, stand by me”
Fly Away From Here - Aerosmith (video)
People fight for their dreams when they think they are worth a living. Love is no exception. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Sap.
“If this life
Gets any harder now
It ain't no nevermind
You got me by your side
And anytime you want
Yeah, we can catch a train and find a better place
Yeah, cause we won't let nothin' or no one keep gettin' us down
Maybe you and I
Could pack our bags and hit the sky”
Third Eye - TOOL (part 1 / part 2 )
Gaara lived his entire childhood trying to be something he could not become with the demon inside him. At the age of six, after murdering his uncle and all the lies he fed him, the young boy finally embraces his fate. Six-year-old Gaara accepting Shukaku.
Fatalism.
“Shrouding all the ground around me
Is this holy crow above me.
Black as holes within a memory
And blue as our new second sun.
I stick my hand into his shadow
To pull the pieces from the sand.
Which I attempt to reassemble
To see just who I might have been.
I do not recognize the vessel,
But the eyes seem so familiar.
Like phosphorescent desert buttons
Singing one familiar song...
-So good to see you.
I've missed you so much.
So glad it's over.
I've missed you so much.
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?
Came out to watch you play.
Why are you running away?"
Trains - Porcupine Tree (video)
(Apart from having a GaaNaru fic completely inspired in this song)
Long-distance lovers must always make the most of the time they have together, because “always the summers are slipping away”. Gaara and Naruto as lovers.
Transcendental sap.
“Always the summers are slipping away
Find me a way for making it stay
When I hear the engine pass
I'm kissing you wide
The hissing subsides
I'm in luck
When the evening reaches here
You're tying me up
I'm dying of love
It's OK”