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tagging anyone who wants a go

put your iTunes on shuffle and list your favourite lyrics of the first 10 songs played:

1. Wake, Hospice -The Antlers

Don’t be scared to speak/Don’t speak with someone’s tooth/Don’t bargain when you’re weak/Don’t take that sharp abuse/Some patients can’t be saved/But that burden’s not on you/Don’t ever let anyone tell you deserve that/Don’t ever let anyone tell you deserve that/Don’t ever let anyone tell you deserve that/Don’t ever let anyone tell you deserve that/Don’t ever let anyone tell you deserve that/Don’t ever let anyone tell you deserve that/Don’t ever let anyone tell you deserve that/Don’t ever let anyone tell you deserve that

2. How Long, Hadestown- Anais Mitchell

How long?/Just as long as I am your wife/It’s true the earth must die/But then the earth comes back to life/And the sun just goes on rising/And how does the sun even fit in the sky?/It just burns like a fire in the pit of the sky/And the earth is a bird on a spit in the sky/How long?/How long?/How long?

3. Common People, Different Class- Pulp

I took her to a supermarket/I don’t know why but I had to start it somewhere/So it started there/I said pretend you’ve got no money/She just laughed and said “ha you’re so funny”/I said “yeah/But I can’t see anyone else smiling around here”

4. 12/17/12, What a Terrible World, What a Beautiful World- The Decemberists

What a gift/What a gift you can give me/Here with my heart so whole while others may be grieving/Think of their grieving

5. Starchild, Ghost Quartet-  Live at the McKittrick Recording

I will light myself on fire/It’s time to get out of bed/And become the starchild I can be

6. White Canvas, White Canvas EP- Brendan Maclean

But I’m no sliding door/If anything I’m a wall

7. Lion’s Teeth, The Sunset Tree- The Mountain Goats

There’s no good way to end this/Anyone can see/There’s this great big you/And little old me

8. Sonya Alone, Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812- The Great Comet Original Cast

And I remember this family/I remember their kindness/And if I never sleep again/I will stand in the dark for you/I will hold you back by force/I will stand here right outside your door/I won’t see you disgraced/I will protect your name and your heart/Because I miss my friend/Because I miss my friend/Because I miss you, my friend

9. Annan Water, The Hazards of Love- The Decemberists

But if you calm/And let me pass/You may render me a wreck when I come back/So calm your waves/And slow the churn/And you may have my precious bones on my return

10. Under Your Thumb, What Did You Expect From The Vaccines- The Vaccines

Mutually assumed/Utterly consumed/Totally adored/ Eleanor

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nonboonarynapstablook:

akumastrife:

xekstrin:

darklydreaminggirl:

no masters or kings, when the ritual begins.
there is no sweeter innocence,
than our gentle sin.

DRAGS HANDS DOWN FACE?!?!!?!

SHE DIDN’T CHANGE THE PRONOUNS

Okay so it’s always really really good when people don’t change the pronouns in songs but I’d just like to point out that “she” in this song was not referring to an actual woman, but to the church/religion, so naturally she wouldn’t change the pronouns.

Aka please don’t ignore the fact that this song was about a gay relationship originally and “she” was not referring to an actual human being, but religion.

if you look at hozier’s actual statements about the song, he’s pretty clear about the fact that the song is a protest against religion of any kind interfering in a relationship. the music video depicts a gay couple to make this point explicitly.  

HOWEVER, that doesn’t mean the ‘she’ in the song is religion, she is his lover (genius has some good dissections with quotes and stuff on this) and it is significant that the pronouns were not changed. to say the song was specifically about a gay realtionship when lyrically it is typically heteronormative is a disservice. 

HOWEVER AGAIN: want to hear a better cover of this song by a wlw? check out claudia boleyn’s version. it’s magical.

Source: darklydreaminggirl

ugh i just can’t stop thinking about hadestown orpheus being partially sighted and relying on his ‘gift from the gods’ voice and using it as a sort of sonar and hades, being a god, having the power to mess with his gift so during ‘doubt comes creeping in’ the echoing ‘where are you’s are orpheus trying to use his gift to find eurydice but he can’t because hades is cloaking her so for the first time he relies on his eyes not his voice and ugh

and at the beginning he’s so sure of the world providing for him and his love because he believes in the gods and their love for him so at the end he’s left with his faith in his gift and his faith in the gods broken and ugh i’m just absolute trash for this album

ALSO hades and persephone being gods in a post-apocalyptic world who are terrified of the world dying and leaving them still alive but with no-one to believe in them which is why he is so obsessive about preserving the wall and the last bit of the world he used to know and persphone (nature goddess, duh) having more faith in the world being renewed and good lord please stop me i have other things i need to be doing instead of thinking about this

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ian-significant:

lucifersalterego:

weekendswithgoodfriends:

You must be swift as a coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon. With all the strength of a raging fire, mysterious as the dark side of the moon.

*hears first .003 seconds of this song* *kicks down door* LET’S GET DOWN TO BUSINESS

HOW CAN ANY BLOG HAVE THE SELF RESTRAINT NOT TO HAVE THIS

Source: weekendswithnewtmas

mumford & sons: but i
mumford & sons:
mumford & sons: will hold on hope, and i
mumford & sons:
mumford & sons: won’t let you choke
mumford & sons: on the noose around your neck
mumford & sons: and i’ll
mumford & sons:
mumford & sons: find strength in pain, and i
mumford & sons:
mumford & sons: will change my ways
mumford & sons: i’ll know my name as it’s called again
mumford & sons: BANJO
me: *sobbing*

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sincewemet:

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man they say murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out for his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run, so we’d both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree.

Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met up at midnight in the hanging tree

The Hanging Tree, from Mockingjay part 1 score (HQ version)

Source: limitenless