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soicantlose) wrote2023-02-01 12:33 am
soicantlose) wrote2023-02-01 12:33 am
Soundtrack, Visuals, & Vibes
A SOFTER WORLD:
How's life? Well, I'm getting back what I put into it. So, not great. (Forewarned is only forearmed if you give a shit.) [x]
There should be a word for the things we do not because we want to but because we want to be the kind of person who wants to. [x]
our bodies are ours to break, ours to throw into rivers, ours to light on fire, ours to launch into the depths of space [x]
It's better to burn out than to have to keep living. [x]
In this world there are two kinds of people. People like me, with knives, and people like you, with eyeballs. [x]
Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes, but then I think, what if my mother could take back hers? [x]
I want to carve our initials in the bark of everyone who ever hurt you. (not every love burns.) [x]
When I look at you all I can see are the mistakes we're going to make. [x]
I've decided what I want on my tombstone. "Loving Husband." Marry me? [x]
I love you the way a knife loves a heart; the way a bomb loves a crowd; the way your mother warned you about, essentially [x]
---
QUOTES:
the gentleness that comes, / not from the absence of violence, but despite / the abundance of it - Richard Siken
I promise I will love you as if it's the only thing I've ever done correctly. - Rudy Francisco
---
MUSIC:
Going to Georgia - The Mountain Goats
(the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you, and that you are standing in the doorway)
Holy Branches - Radical Face
(there's a hole in your chest from the time that you were born, one that don't get filled cause you've always known you're nothing they want)
The Strangest Things - Radical Face
(but I won't bend and I won't move; don't have a lot left, just anger and something to prove, so I can't lose)
Four - Sleeping at Last
(bodies fashioned out of dirt and dust; for a moment we get to be glorious)
Eight - Sleeping at Last
(I won't let you in, I swore never again, I can't afford, no, I refuse to be rejected)
Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
(the day you move, I'm probably going to explode)
Say When - Dessa
(I don't bow, I don't bend, I won't say no, I won't say when)
Palace - Dessa
(oh, that trouble you've been looking for came looking for you)
Model Prisoner - Adam Pascal
(and did you waste your time starving your heart, waiting in line for her?)
All Alright - fun.
(I've given everyone I know a good reason to go)
To Noise Making (Sing) - Hozier
(remember when you'd sing just for the fuck of it, any joy it would bring?)
Boy Like Me - Barns Courtney
(oh no, it's hard to breathe, there ain't no love for a boy like me)
The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace - The Amazing Devil
(cause when I stand, oh, those folks will run and tell the tales of what I've become)
---
that thing where using broadway people as a pb inevitably ends in them singing something that makes you go Them, ranked by how reasonable the Nate Vibes are:
Creep (I mean. I mean.)
Swim (1. this is the kind of optimism Nate can do; 2. this is the kind of angsty-belt stuff he sings these days if you manage to catch him doing so)
Pop Goes the Universe (from the ashes, ashes, think I'm turning into someone new, it's a long way down, I've got to leave this town, I've got a lot to prove; circa college especially, but also hey, guess who weighs WAY more of himself on other people's opinions than he's ever going to admit out loud)
The Way I Feel Inside/This Will Be Our Year (look, sometimes all you can say is VIBES. this has the vibes.)
Growing Up (1. look at this bitter floppy baby; 2. swinging from my family tree, I climb and find myself part of a brilliant legacy of men who never forgave, men who won't forget, and never measure up)
Touch Me/Helplessness Blues (yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself, what good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else?)
Dancing in the Dark (I ain't nothing but tired -- man, I'm just tired and bored with myself)
Broadway, Here I Come (is it the awkward dancing or is it the fact that despite being so upbeat this is one of the performances that leaves in the most explicitly suicidal lyrics? ...yes.)
Some Enchanted Evening (this has nothing to do with the song and everything to do with the visuals.)
How's life? Well, I'm getting back what I put into it. So, not great. (Forewarned is only forearmed if you give a shit.) [x]
There should be a word for the things we do not because we want to but because we want to be the kind of person who wants to. [x]
our bodies are ours to break, ours to throw into rivers, ours to light on fire, ours to launch into the depths of space [x]
It's better to burn out than to have to keep living. [x]
In this world there are two kinds of people. People like me, with knives, and people like you, with eyeballs. [x]
Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes, but then I think, what if my mother could take back hers? [x]
I want to carve our initials in the bark of everyone who ever hurt you. (not every love burns.) [x]
When I look at you all I can see are the mistakes we're going to make. [x]
I've decided what I want on my tombstone. "Loving Husband." Marry me? [x]
I love you the way a knife loves a heart; the way a bomb loves a crowd; the way your mother warned you about, essentially [x]
---
QUOTES:
the gentleness that comes, / not from the absence of violence, but despite / the abundance of it - Richard Siken
I promise I will love you as if it's the only thing I've ever done correctly. - Rudy Francisco
---
MUSIC:
Going to Georgia - The Mountain Goats
(the most remarkable thing about you standing in the doorway is that it's you, and that you are standing in the doorway)
Holy Branches - Radical Face
(there's a hole in your chest from the time that you were born, one that don't get filled cause you've always known you're nothing they want)
The Strangest Things - Radical Face
(but I won't bend and I won't move; don't have a lot left, just anger and something to prove, so I can't lose)
Four - Sleeping at Last
(bodies fashioned out of dirt and dust; for a moment we get to be glorious)
Eight - Sleeping at Last
(I won't let you in, I swore never again, I can't afford, no, I refuse to be rejected)
Nobody Move Nobody Get Hurt - We Are Scientists
(the day you move, I'm probably going to explode)
Say When - Dessa
(I don't bow, I don't bend, I won't say no, I won't say when)
Palace - Dessa
(oh, that trouble you've been looking for came looking for you)
Model Prisoner - Adam Pascal
(and did you waste your time starving your heart, waiting in line for her?)
All Alright - fun.
(I've given everyone I know a good reason to go)
To Noise Making (Sing) - Hozier
(remember when you'd sing just for the fuck of it, any joy it would bring?)
Boy Like Me - Barns Courtney
(oh no, it's hard to breathe, there ain't no love for a boy like me)
The Old Witch Sleep and the Good Man Grace - The Amazing Devil
(cause when I stand, oh, those folks will run and tell the tales of what I've become)
---
that thing where using broadway people as a pb inevitably ends in them singing something that makes you go Them, ranked by how reasonable the Nate Vibes are:
Creep (I mean. I mean.)
Swim (1. this is the kind of optimism Nate can do; 2. this is the kind of angsty-belt stuff he sings these days if you manage to catch him doing so)
Pop Goes the Universe (from the ashes, ashes, think I'm turning into someone new, it's a long way down, I've got to leave this town, I've got a lot to prove; circa college especially, but also hey, guess who weighs WAY more of himself on other people's opinions than he's ever going to admit out loud)
The Way I Feel Inside/This Will Be Our Year (look, sometimes all you can say is VIBES. this has the vibes.)
Growing Up (1. look at this bitter floppy baby; 2. swinging from my family tree, I climb and find myself part of a brilliant legacy of men who never forgave, men who won't forget, and never measure up)
Touch Me/Helplessness Blues (yeah I'm tongue-tied and dizzy and I can't keep it to myself, what good is it to sing helplessness blues, why should I wait for anyone else?)
Dancing in the Dark (I ain't nothing but tired -- man, I'm just tired and bored with myself)
Broadway, Here I Come (is it the awkward dancing or is it the fact that despite being so upbeat this is one of the performances that leaves in the most explicitly suicidal lyrics? ...yes.)
Some Enchanted Evening (this has nothing to do with the song and everything to do with the visuals.)