Little Light (Priscilla Playlist)
prologue.
BLINDNESS - Metric
Send us a blindfold; send us a blade. Tell the survivors "Help is on the way."
I was a blindfold - never complained. All the survivors singing in the rain.
I was the one with the world at my feet.
Got us a battle?
Leave it up to me.
(What it is and where it stops nobody knows. You gave me a life I never chose. I wanna leave but the world won't let me go.)
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To me, being a soldier is...
LET THE FLAMES BEGIN - Paragon
What a shame we all became such fragile, broken things. A memory remains, just a tiny spark. I give it all my oxygen to let the flames begin. So let the flames begin - oh glory!
Somewhere weakness is our strength and I'll die searching for it. I can't let myself regret, such selfishness, my pain and all the trouble caused. No matter how long I believe that there's hope buried beneath it all and hiding beneath it all and growing beneath it all and...
This is how we'll dance when, when they try to take us down. This is how we'll sing it. This is how we'll stand when, when they burn our houses down. This is what will be - oh glory!
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Mercy bows before the demands of Justice.
chapter one.
NOTHING WALKS AWAY - Terami Hirsch
I can't move past this wall. I give it meaning when it means nothing at all. I want to divide it to make it fall....
I want to burn it to the ground.
But I still feel it racing in my veins. But when I let go, nothing walks away.
(I don't mind losing myself to something outside. But why can't I move on?)
Looking through the wrong side of the glass - got stuck in a moment waiting for a lifetime to pass. I'm a ghost in the bayou, a snake in the grass.
I am as vagrant as the moon
But then I feel it racing in my veins.
But when I let go, nothing walks away.
When I let go, nothing walks away.
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personality statement.
HARDEST OF HEARTS - Florence + The Machine
There is love in your body but you can't hold it in and it pours from your eyes and spills from your skin. Tenderest touch leaves the darkest of marks and the kindest of kisses break the hardest of hearts.
There is love in your body but you can't get it out; it gets stuck in your head, won't come out of your mouth. Sticks to your tongue and shows on your face that the sweetest of words have the bitterest taste.
Darling heart, I loved you from the start, but you'll never know what a fool I've been.
Darling heart, I loved you from the start, but that's no excuse for the state I'm in.
There is love in our bodies and it holds us together but pulls us apart when we're holding each other. We all want something to hold in the night; we don't care if it hurts or we're holding too tight.
My heart swells like a water at weight. Can't stop myself before it's too late, Hold on to your heart, cause I'm coming to take it. Hold on to your heart cause I'm coming to break it.
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it's like they're back to that first night together.
BRAVEDANCING - Rachael Sage
You came to me like lightning upon a picket fence, shattering my illusions with shockingly bad sense and I may never feel the same... but I won't always feel this pain.
You wrangle me like ashes; Volcanoes come and go. You seem to have such passion for someone so shallow and I may never feel the same, but I refuse to play these games.
(I see the moon about to bloom into thousands of bright yellow roses, and they'll be spreading their light across the sky. I wish my garden could grow this.)
When friendship is so frightening, it's hard not to overthink. Kisses were like kite-flying; I knew we'd sail or sink and I may never feel the same but you must see how much I've changed.
So let faith fall on me now. I'm gonna be my own godsend. If you do not hear my voice then you'll know I've had no choice.
So let faith fall on me now. I'm gonna be my own best friend and if you do not see me bend, then you will know I have been. Bravedancing.
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first love changes you. you're never the same thing you were before.
COLD - Karyn Whittemore
From the battles by the courtyard, washed down by the vixen rain, flashes dare to tempt the shadows. She flies like a bird, but her body remains.
Battered hearts come down on living stone. Shattered parts are just fractions of an evening. No one can take away this moment her own - as she breaks the bond between body and soul.
Battered hearts come down on living stone. Shattered parts are just fractions of an evening. No one can take away this moment her own as she breaks the bond between body and soul.
I wonder if you ever knew the look that he gave you. I wonder if you ever saw the cold in his eyes. Did you fight every terror come at you Or, like a lover, let go to the sky?
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they found her corpse in the ruins, tossed like trash among the broken rocks.
SAINT HATE - Catlow
Hand of fate - hand so cold, reaching out from destiny.
Like a saint built from hate you resent everything you've been told.
And I wouldn't lie, I'll tell the truth even if I get hurt.
I'm losing security. I'm losing sincerity. I'm faking the promises; we're getting all lost in them.
I'm losing security. I'm losing sincerity. And if I can't keep my hands off catastrophe... and if I wake up without you next to me...
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i don't know what to do anymore. and if you die, how will i ever stop crying?
TALULA - Tori Amos
Talula Talula, you don't want to lose her. She must be worth losing if it is worth something.
Say goodbye now my baby, glitter girl.
Say goodbye now my baby to the old world.
Talula Talula, she's brand new now to you - wrapped in your papoose, your little fig newton.
Talula Talula. I don't want to lose him. He must be worth losing, if it is worth something.
Talula Talula, he's brand new now to you. Wrapped in your papoose. Your little fig newton.
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for losing one you love, and almost losing yourself.
QUIET - Rachael Yamagata
Baby says I can't come with him. And I had read all of this in his eyes long before he even said so. "Why go?" I asked.
"You know, and I know why.
"And it'll be just as quiet when I leave as it was when I first got here. I don't expect anything. I don't expect anything...
"Take care. I've been hurt before. Too much time spent on closing doors. You may hate me, but I'll remember to love you.
"Goodbye. Don't cry. ...you know why.
"I don't expect anything to change when I leave."
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you left me. and i haven't really been happy since then.
chapter two.
IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE - Maria Mean
Lay a whisper on my pillow, leave the winter on the ground. I wake up lonely - is there a silence in my bedroom and all around?
Touch me now. I close my eyes and dream away.
Make believing we're still together - that I am sheltered by your heart. But in and outside I turn to water, like a teardrop in your palm.
And it's a hard winter's day. I dream away.
It must have been love, but it's over now. It was all that I wanted, but I lost it somehow.
It must have been love, but it's over now. From the moment we met till time had run out.
And time has run out.
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i can stay in my room if i want.
and do what, stare at that damn chicken until you go blind?
UNINVITED - Alanis Morissette
Like anyone would be I am flattered by your fascination with me. Like any hot blooded woman, I have simply wanted an object to crave.
Must be strangely exciting to watch the stoic squirm. Must be somewhat heartening to watch shepherd need shepherd
But you - you're not allowed. You're uninvited. An unfortunate slight.
Like any uncharted territory I must seem greatly intriguing. You speak of my love like tou have experienced love like mine before.
But this is not allowed. You're uninvited - an unfortunate slight.
I don't think you unworthy.
I need a moment to deliberate.
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i can offer you my time. and then if you do get what you want... you'll know it's real.
ODE TO A SAILOR - Rachael Sage
I've been sitting on the ground, much to everyone's surprise, and people say I'm getting dirty. But I would rather kiss the soil than be crippled by disguise. Better down to earth than pretty.
In the ash I see passion; in the dust I see trust. I will turn this ship around.
And if everything crashes, I will burn if I must. I will turn this ship around.
I've been swimming in your sky, waiting for the tide to turn to something beautiful and true. And you've been swallowing my life from a distance, you have earned every right to know I feel you.
In the ash I see passion, in the dust I see trust. I will turn this ship around.
Do you think I'm old fashioned cause I miss you this much? I will turn this ship around.
This ship around.
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mindset statement - for sadness and optimism and lost loves.
HEY JUPITER - Tori Amos
No one's picking up the phone. Guess it's me and me. And this little masochist is ready to confess all the things that she never thought that she could feel, and...
Hey Jupiter. Nothing's been the same, so are you gay, are you blue? Thought we both could use a friend to run to and I thought I wouldn't have to be, with you, as something new.
Sometimes I breathe you in and I know you know. And sometimes you take a swim - found your writing on my wall. If my heart is soaking wet , boy your boots can leave a mess.
No one's picking up the phone. Guess it's clear he's gone. And this little masochist is lifting up her dress. Guess I thought I could never feel the things I feel, and...
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because you're the one i trust the most.
STROMATA - Charlotte Martin
The clues to you and I are sprawling out like roads, and if we find a place for them they won't lead home. I only meant to say it once but it's too late. I'm into you and out again -
The rotted love manipulates me. The rotted love that twists the fates seems a bit confused by my reflection, cause if we die there's still direction and...
I, I, you, we're not thinking my stromata.
If I can think on purpose then you'll be right here. A paranoia got the best of what I hold dear. The cold linoleum is talking up my shoes, deciphering the truth of us --
And now I know what I'm about to lose. Now I know what I'm about to choose. Now we go for some reaction - a little game of who's distracted more and
See the disappointments walking in their lime. But every step they take is perfectly in time. I'm singing you in every breath I'm left to heave. I feel your arms surrounding me--
And when I'm in a dirty river, and my receiver meets her giver, I set a trap to come and catch you. Oh someone stop me now I can't do this, and-
I, I, you, we're not thinking my stromata.
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i know you're always playing games with my head. ...you're doing it right now!
PRIDE - Happy Rhodes
I walk on out and let the water weigh me down to my waist, and let my roots have a drink. Let the rain wash my eyes... and maybe when I open them things will have changed. Things will have changed.
I walk on out and catch a beam in my hair, while the breeze blows away my fears. Now I don't care if my legs don't hold me up. I'll pretend to be a tree
that only smiles. That only smiles.
Still.
I am not a mountain. I am not an island. I am not a hero. I'm not even a saint. And now that this confession's out, let me just lie here. I'll have to find my own resolve someday, someday.
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situation statement -for trying to be strong, and not always succeeding.
SKIPS - Alexz Johnson
I feel my heart doesn't fit cause it beats too many times, and it skips, running races in my head, and then...
I feel my hands don't work, touching your skin in the dark, I was put there to watch, not meant to get caught up in it... close to your skin.
Up and down in this merry-go-round, take me up, put me back in one piece, but let me feel you.
Well here I am, and myself again - ready to fake it on the wheel. But let me break him in. Let me break him in.
I made a choice - try and make myself invisible, make sure I can fit it, cause I'm sick of feeling miserable.
Hidden by some lies, sacrifice my friendly ties, started from scratch - wont attack if he walks my way.
Hear what he has to say.
...I feel my heart doesn't fit, cause it beats too many times, and its skips - running races in my head, and then...
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i do love you. i never thought i could, but i do.
PARASOL- Tori Amos
When I come to terms, to terms with this, when I come to terms with this. When I come to terms, to terms with this, my world will change for me
I haven't moved since the call came - since the call came I haven't moved. I stare at the wall knowing on the other side the storm that waits for me.
I have no need for a sea view - for a sea view I have no need. I have my little pleasures, this wall being one of these.
When I come to terms, to terms with this, when I come to terms with this. When I come to terms with this whip lash of silk on wool embroidery...
And then the seated woman with the parasol may be the only one you can't betray. If I'm the seated woman with the parasol, I will be safe in my frame.
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what? what is it?
you know.
JUDAS - Charlotte Martin
I simplicity best or simply the easiest? The narrowest path is always the holiest... so walk on barefoot for me, suffer some misery, if you want my love.
If you want my love.
Man will survive the harshed conditions and stay alive through difficult decisions... so make up your mind for me, walk the line for me, if you want my love.
If you want my love
And you can fulfill your wildest ambitions. And I'm sure you will lose your inhibitions... so open yourself to me, risk your health for me, if you want my love.
If you want my love.
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promise me that... if you have to kill someone... you'll kill me.
i promise it won't come to that.
WRESTLE AND CUSS - Heather Duby
Take it, take heart - this was your rehearsal for nothing but a bit part. Take it, take heart - you are just another something i should not start.
Take these, they're mine. Nothing I would bother to spare you from in these times. Worthless, crying eyes. Worthless, crying eyes.
So just be still, and tell me that you're mine. 'Cause at least we have this:
Take this, my heart - me and all my problems bored you from the upstart. Take these, my hands - something to rely on in a time without plans.
You strike a nerve trying to remind me there's something that I deserve.
Worthless, crying eyes.
Worthless, crying eyes.
So just be still and tell me that you're mine. Past all the reasons, past all the lies.
patience walks and patience waits and patience stops when things don't change.
(Couldn't be right - incidental passtime, telling me goodnight, pretending its the last time. This is nothing like anything i wanted wanted wanted to believe.
Couldn't be right - incidental pastime, never say goodbye, listing how you were mine. This is nothing like anything i wanted wanted wanted to believe)
Take it, take heart.
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for a love that's married to duty.
chapter three.
LITTLE LIGHT - Terami Hirsch
Little light. If you know they love you imperfectly, why, why do you try? Water and wind are elemental. Oh, they'll snuff you out.
Little light, what will you do when they all outshine you?
Little light, you are ready for your time of illumination and if it's radioactive... you won't care.
Little light, how are you holding back the big, dark night? Fighting everything around you?
Little light, you look for signs that say you're wanted - that you were always meant to shine.
(A counterglow in an infrared sky... what could you be? What could you be? When it's dark you dream of obsidian fires.)
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mindset statement - for betrayal and choosing to follow old vendettas.
WHAT IF - Emilie Autumn
Here you sit in your high-backed chair. Wonder how the view is from there.
I wouldn't know 'cause I like to sit upon the floor, yeah, upon the floor. If you like we could play a game: let's pretend that we are the same. But you will have to look much closer than you do, closer than you do.
And I'm far too tired to stay here anymore. And I don't care what you think anyway, 'cause I think you were wrong about me. Well, what if you were?
What if you were?
I know you've got it figured out - tell me what I am all about. And I just might learn a thing or two hundred about you, maybe about you. I'm the end of your telescope. I don't change just to suit your vision, 'cause I am bound by a fraying rope around my hands, tied around my hands. And you close your eyes when I say I'm breaking free and put your hands over both your ears because you cannot stand to believe I'm not the perfect girl you thought -
Well, what have I got to lose?
What if I'm a snowstorm burning? What if I'm a world unturning? What if I'm an ocean, far too shallow, much too deep? What if I'm the kindest demon - something you may not believe in. What if I'm a siren singing gentlemen to sleep?
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For Irene, Deneve, Clare, Isley. For those who define her and think they do.
I'M A LONELY LITTLE PETUNIA IN AN ONION PATCH - Imogen Heap
I'm a lonely little petunia in an onion patch.
An onion patch.
An onion patch.
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I thought... that you'd understand better than anyone else. What it's like to be a monster.
ASTRONAUT - Terami Hrisch
He wanted to know about my time on the other side of the moon. He wanted to know I'm doing fine without orbiting his sun... but I can't hold back.
He wanted to see my sun shine down and watch it catch my eye. He wanted to feel my wall fall down, and cross my picket line... but I can't hold back.
I can't hold on - no, I can't hold on - without it slipping through my fingers. Without it falling from my hands.
Been on a cruise in the heavens - and how I flew. Down on earth it was a little colder, missing you.
He said that I could light up the sky - He said I was a lovely burn. He said I am his night, oh, I never was one for the sun, but I can't hold back.
I can't hold on, No, I can't hold on, without it slipping through my fingers. Without it falling from my hands.
(It was a lovely burn.)
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Reconnecting.
ANIMAL - Charlotte Martin
The deep's too deep and the salty sweet in this white room. The tall's too tall for a girl to fall through a blood moon. I didn't know your teeth were swords, no I didn't. (I gotta, I gotta, I gotta hold on to you. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta race her. I gotta, I gotta go this far.)
It always burns but I never learn to keep driving. Slow motion chase plays on repeat in my head. Between the lost and the faintest layers is your woman. (I got a, I got a, I got a maniac that's sitting, she's sitting on my shoulder. I gotta, I gotta go this far...)
I never measured up to your mathematics. I never settled like the dust inside of your attics. (I got a, I got a, I got a resting place but cannot, but cannot, but cannot find her. I gotta, I gotta work this out now.)
You didn't know I locked myself in your heart. I can't get out unless you tear me apart. I try to feel you, feel my way through the dark. Instincts don't help a lonely animal.
(I loved you too hard. )
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daddy issues
WONDERFUL LIFE - Tina Cousins
Here I go out to sea again. The sunshine fills my hair, and dreams hang in the air. Gulls in the sky and in my eyes. You know it feels unfair - there's magic everywhere.
Look at me standing, here on my own again. Up straight in the sunshine...
No need to run and hide - it's a wonderful wonderful life.
No need to laugh and cry - it's a wonderful wonderful life.
The sun's in your eyes, the heat is in your hair. They seem to hate you because you're there. And I need a friend, oh, I need a friend to make me happy. Not stand here on my own.
Look at me standing, here on my own again. Up straight in the sunshine...
No need to run and hide - it's a wonderful wonderful life.
No need to laugh and cry - it's a wonderful wonderful life.
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Coming back from Dismas.
CASTLE DOWN - Emilie Autumn
You can see that I swim through the sea of painful. You have watched as I pull myself from the floor. And you were there when I built my tower like pebbles in the rain trying to balance all that I had left with what I didn't have anymore.
If I had another place to go, would you break me? Is it that you know I have no choice but to rebuild again? I'm tied so hard I can't remember when I last walked free upon these feet of mine. But I'll draw the line - there will come a time when I am stronger. Your words won't hurt any longer.
And would you tear my castle down stone by stone and let the wind run through my windows till there is nothing left but a battered rose?
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Headquarters go boom. Fairly self-explanatory, really.
LIAR - Emilie Autumn
"I want to hold you to the sun, I want to be your faithful one, I want to show you all the beauty you don't even know you hold. I'm hurting you for your own good, I'd die for you - you know I would. I'd give up all my wealth to buy you back the soul you never sold.
"I want to mix our blood and put it in the ground so you can never leave. I want to earn your trust, your faith, your heart - you'll never be deceived.
"I want to heal you pretty sweet, I'll throw rose petals at your feet, I'll spend eternity comparing all my poetry to yours. I want to see love through your eyes, you'll never have to compromise, I'll give up all my fame to fight your demons and your bloody wars.
"I want to mix our blood and put it in the ground so you can never leave. I want to earn your trust, your faith, your heart - you'll never be deceived."
"Are you suffering? Are you suffering? Are you suffering? Are you suffering? Are you suffering? Show me your suffering. I want your beautiful suffering, I want to see your pain. Are you suffering? Are you suffering, I want your beautiful suffering. I want it. I want it.
"I want to mix our blood and put it in the ground so you can never leave. I want to earn your trust, your faith, your heart, you'll never be deceived."
Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar!
Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar!
Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar!
Liar! Liar! Liar! Liar!
(I want to mix our blood and put it in the ground so you can never leave.)
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Post-HQ Destruction Isley confrontation - important enough to repeat artists, ho.
Oh, the Endless Fog! - Veda Hille
The winding road. The endless fog. The thought of finally sitting down, staying in when it is snowing... The heavy load. The faithful dog. You can send them on without me - they are eager to be going...
Close the door.
I'm not so old. I act so old... Must straighten up and soldier on - give no care for what they're thinking.
You never know. You think you know. You know so much, it all pulls up. You just take it and keep going -- close the door.
Winding road. The endless fog. Were we ever at the start - are you sure what you remember? You look ahead. It looks the same as what you left - the longest road, the lovely coals, the glowing embers.
Sit down sit down. You will rest. There will be time for wandering off.
You've done so well, sit down, sit down. The road will wait. It winds without us for a day.
It's too cold out anyway.
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Collecting herself.
JOYFUL GIRL - Ani DiFranco
I do it for the joy it brings, because I am a joyful girl. Because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world. I do it because it's the least I can do. I do it because I learned it from you. I do it just because I want to.
Because I want to.
Everything I do is judged, and they mostly get it wrong. Oh well. Cause the bathroom mirror has not budged and the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff that they say, and she looks me in the eye and says... "Would you prefer the easy way? No? Well, okay then.
"Don't cry."
And I wonder if everything I do, I do instead of something I want to do more. The question fills my head, and I know there's no grand plan here. This is just the way it goes. And when everything else seems unclear... at least I know that I do it for the joy it brings. Because I am a joyful girl. Because the world owes me nothing, and we owe each other the world. I do it because it's the least I can do it. I do it because I learned it from you. And I do it just because I want to.
Because I want to.
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Reaffirmation.
LOOK AT THOSE EYES - Alexz Johnson
No, tell me it's not so that people will come and they'll go. We push away all the love that we know - No, tell me it's not so.
Like in the eye of a storm, you're changing form. You feel the pull of the time ticking by - Oh my, look at these times.
But look at who's right beside you! When you're alone barely holding on, you leave your worries behind you - you're not alone in the dark.
But look at who's right beside you! You're looking back thinking, Oh, my God! That somebody's never left you; you're not alone in the dark.
Oh my, look at those eyes. Look at the trouble that they hide inside. I see the flicker of the pain on the rise; oh my, look at those eyes.
But maybe they're like mine - things I wish I did not see. I push away all the dirt and debris...
But what'll be left of me?
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overview statement.
chapter 4.
PINK LIGHT - Laura Veirs
Sorry I was cruel, I was protecting myself. Drifting along with my swords out flying, tattering my own sails... and I tattered yours, too. Took you and rocked you around me like a spell.
Oh, how now the cold seeps in, oh.
Oh, how now I cast you into the wind.
Wracked by winter, I'm cupping my coals in the sand. Growing like a starlight 'cross the garden of night, I'll think bones look lonely. Memories surround me. Good times, skeletons are kicking at the ground.
Oh, how the night drags on, oh. But I think I see a pink light and the coming of dawn.
Oh, how the night drags on, oh. But in the fading of the constellations, I am growing strong.
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Rebuilding her life, and letting grudges drift. A little.
SNOWFLAKES - Charlotte Martin
Snowflake - requiem, requiem. Sounds like castles up in the air, falling down.
Snowflake - wild and so beautiful. Quake-proof, just like I'm bullet-proof. Acting proud.
And I lay awake watching the night fall around on me. And in every shade I try to color myself in ways just to be seen.
Dances are in the eyes of a flaky girl filled with lies. Leaving town. Praying now.
And I'm on my way, taming the sky, but the snow still stings. Washing away every last tear in my heart so I can just feel myself... scream.
Snowflake - requiem, requiem. Hit the streets, but the streets have been blown away. Blown away .
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i feel like something is ending. almost like the world is mourning.
THAT WAS US - Alexz Johnson
I tried to change. Tried everything. Like headlights in the rain, drifting back again... somewhere out there, gathered in the dust. Sometimes I can't remember that was us.
The stars divide, now worlds collide. Surrounded like the air - you were with me everywhere. Somewhere out there, lying in the dust.. sometimes I can't remember that was us.
There was a time for reason, a place for every season. Times I couldn't run away from you. I can't believe it was morning. I can't believe it was pouring.
Should I leave you here and walk away?
I want to change. I'll try anything. I wanted you so bad it nearly drove me mad. Somewhere out there, gathered in the dust... sometimes I can't remember that was us.
Better now than ever, better late than forever. I never meant to waste your time.
It doesn't seem to matter -- maybe nothing really matters long enough to break it all away.
Somewhere out there, gathered in the dust. Sometimes I can't remember - sometimes I can't remember.
I can't remember that was us.
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That night in the ruins.
DROUGHT - Vienna Teng
Summer move forward and stitch me the fabric of fall. wrap life in the brilliance of death to humble us all. how sweet is the day? I'm craving a darkness as I sit tucked away with my back to the wall...
And the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth, and the landscape of merry and desperate drought. How much longer dear angels? Let winterlight come and spread your white sheets over my empty house.
Summer move forward and leave your heat anchored in dust. Forgotten him, cheated him, painted illusions of lust. Now language escape, fugitive of forgiveness, leaving as trace only circles of rust.
And the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth and the landscape of merry and desperate drought. How much longer dear angels? Come break me with ice - let the water of calm trickle over my doubts.
And the taste of dried-up hopes in my mouth, and the landscape of merry and desperate drought...
Once I knew myself and with knowing came love. I would know love again if I had faith enough. Too far is next spring and her jubilant shout... so angels, inside is the only way out
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on being an island
UNBEAUTY - Rachael Sage
Do you miss me at all? Do you turn out the light when you sleep? I always leave the light on.
Do you crawl when you creep? Do you fly when you fall from above? I always fall for someone.
When the rain comes down are you there in your room, listening hard for the thunder?
When the rain comes down are you where you need to be to appreciate the great unbeauty?
Do you miss me at all? Do you turn out the light when you dream? I always leave the light on.
And are you just what you seem? Did you always believe in the one? I still believe he might come.
When the sun comes up are you there in your room listening hard for the silence?
When the sun comes up are you where you need to be to appreciate the great unbeauty?
Do you miss me at all? Do you turn out the light when you... love? I always leave the light on.
Do you crawl when you creep? Do you fly when you fall from above? I'll always fall for someone.
When the darkness falls are you there in your room listening hard for the distance?
When the darkness falls are you where you need to be to appreciate the great unbeauty?
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I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN STAY - Alexz Johnson
Where's my will? Can I find the way? The Earth is wild and I can't sit still.
A familiar sound, a familiar voice, makes it so hard to make a choice; I don't know if I should stay--
A thousand stars, you have my world. I'm bright enough to fill these cracks.
A familiar place, a familiar voice, makes it so hard to make a choice; I don't know if I should stay, and--
--I ran to you water. I threw my body in. And I'll stand up on the ocean just to show you that I am strong, strong... but what if I am wrong?
A familiar look, a familiar smile, makes it so hard to make a choice.
I don't know if I should stay away.
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TREMBLE - Charlotte Martin
We're wild and tame and wild again. We're on and off and sometimes friends. With failed attempts we analyze the strange suggestions we disguise. I let our kiss fall behind a stone.
I read the corners of your mouth. I try to speak but have no sounds. I'm out to get you any way. Under the starlit milky way, I let the spark become a blaze.
Uh oh, I'm in too deep now, so it doesn't matter how I far I go, how long I run after you.
Uh oh, I can't stop myself from feeling the tremble.
Uh oh, I don't have control over this without you
I never tried to cross the line... but in my mind did several times. I turn the page and slam the door, but you still linger even more. I still can taste you in my bordeaux.
Uh oh, I am in too deep now, so it doesn't matter how far I go, how long I run after you.
Uh oh, I can't stop myself from feeling the tremble.
Uh oh, I don't have control over this kind of glue.
(Who am I without you? Spring is always seduced by the snow's brainwashing power.)
Between the sacred and profane, nobody hears me chant your name. Another year has gone again... and I will never be the same. I keep you close under my breath.
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chapter 5 (in progress).
AWAKE SOON - Sarah Slean
Awake soon. The mindstorm.
I feel, I feel... the stars out. The fear goes. I soar now.
As far as I can carry you, as deep, as deep. No thief can take away from you... the way you have taken from me.
His mouth full of loose teeth, I see, I see, the liar is weeping and down on his knees.
The light no longer terrifies. The grief gone to sleep.
So beauty came with agony... but sweet, oh, every love is sweet.
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CREEPER (COMING FOR YOU) - Jakalope
Come to me, follow my lead. I've a confession to make: it's always been this way.
I'm playing you for a fool; You fell for every broken rule. I'm doing what I owe to you - It's been a long time coming... and I'm coming for you.
While I... silently, I scream. Inside I... barely breathe. Silently, I scream...
Reflection of my zone - it'll never be the same. Less, less than jaded, but still, still I-I've changed.
Do you feel... naive? Did you maybe believe. Were you... deceived? Oh, you fell right on your knees.
You've got to crawl away now - no way I'll let you stay. You've got to go away now, I don't want to see your face.
It's taken all this time before I realized that I shook up. Because I told you so, I couldn't let it go without a fight. It might not be right...
Reflection of my zone, no way I'll let you stay. Less, less than jaded but still, still I, I've changed. (I don't want to see your face). You've got to crawl away now - no way I'll let you stay. You've got to go away now - I don't want to see your face.
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THE FROZEN WORLD - Emilie Simon
Won't you open for me the door to your ice world, to your white desert? I just want to stare out over these snowfields until we are one again.
We belong to the frozen world.
When the ice begins to thaw, becomes the sea, oh, you will see how beautiful we can be.
Everything is calm at the end of the planet in our white desert. The sun kissed the ice, it glistens for me, and we are one again.
We belong to the frozen world.
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