FST meme - because goddammit im having emotions

[failure]

Tag in with your characters and then tag with songs that fit them. Explanations are always excellent. Suggesting songs you think fit other characters is also amazing.

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wrecking ball

[mementomari]

I could probably do Mari's using Mountain Goats songs alone PTSD is a helluva thing. So I'll start with those and diversify probably.

The Doll Song - The Mountain Goats

i've got seven little dolls
in a bag
and i tell the dolls my troubles
and the dolls say "nag! nag! nag! nag!
is that all you ever do?
is that all you're capable of?"
and i say to the little dolls
you have no compassion
baby, i'm talking to inanimate objects over you
i'm talking to inanimate objects over you

i started reading the bible
1 corinthians 13
where paul talks all about love
but i don't know what he means
because he says that love is kind
that has not been my experience
so i set the bible on the kitchen table
and yelled at the bible til i was no longer able

Keeping House - The Mountain Goats

Cursing the moment that saw him draw breath
The ghost on your doorstep is starving to death

You spray down the windows, you wipe them all clean
And you douse your old clothing with fresh gasoline
And the ghost on your doorstep is soaked wet with rain
And he clutches his stomach and howls at the pain

And you can stay busy all day
He’s never going away

So let all the lights blaze, keep your heart light
Play really loud music all hours of the night
And when you set the table, set it for two
The ghost on your doorstep has to eat, same as you
Same as you

Cry for Judas - The Mountain Goats

Sad and angry, can't learn how to behave
Still won't know how in the darkness of the grave

Sax Rohmer #1 - The Mountain Goats

Bells ring in the tower, wolves howl in the hills
Chalk marks show up on a few high windowsills
And a rabbit gives up somewhere and a dozen hawks descend
Every moment leads toward its own sad end

[...]

I am coming home to you
With my own blood in my mouth
And I am coming home to you
If it's the last thing that I do

Avocado Baby - Los Campesinos!

'tween the breadth'a your arms span I was a renaissance man, books of lies stacked either side you were my carrell

A heart of stone, rind so tough it's crazy, that's why they call me the avocado, baby

Oh it won't get better, that doesn't mean it's gonna get any worse.
Your final draft's a life-long love letter, signed to the man who will be driving your hearse

Don't Swallow the Cap - The National

Tiny bubbles hang above me.
It's a sign that someone loves me.
I can hardly stand upright
Hit my head up on the light
I have faith but don't believe you
This love ain't enough to leave you.

I have only two emotions,
Careful fear and dead devotion.
I can't get the balance right.
Throw my marbles in the fight.

Everything I love is on the table.
Everything I love is out to sea.

I'm not alone,
I'll never be.
Into the bone,
I'll never grieve.

I'm tired, I'm freezing, I'm dumb
When it gets so late I forget everyone.
I need somewhere to stay.
Don't think anybody I know is awake.
Calm down, it's alright,
Keep my arms the rest of the night.
When they ask what do I see,
I see a bright white beautiful heaven hangin' over me.

Graceless - The National

I'm trying, but I've gone
Through the glass again
Just come and find me
God loves everybody, don't remind me
I took the medicine and I went missing
Just let me hear your voice, just let me listen

All of my thoughts of you
Bullets through rock and through
Come apart at the seams
Now I know what dying means

I am not my rosy self
Left my roses on my shelf
Take the wild ones, they're my favorites
It's the side effects that save us

Bus Stop Boxer - Eels

I don't miss where i came from
But each night i dream about being back home
When i wake up in the morning
I'm too tired
And tired of being alone

So i get up and go downtown
And pick me out a little piece of ground
Where i can prove something to the world
I can prove something to the world

A Life of Arctic Sounds - Modest Mouse

as long as you're gone,
i can't apologize
for all the things that i haven't said and done

Lemonworld - The National

This pricey stuff makes me dizzy
I guess I've always been a delicate man
Takes me a day to remember a day
I didn't mean to let it get so far out of hand
I was a comfortable kid
But I don't think about it much anymore
Lay me on the table, put flowers in my mouth
And we can say that we invented a summer lovin' torture party

I'm too tired to drive anywhere, anyway right now
Do you care if I stay?

(Mari/Abel)

Welcome Home - Radical Face

All my nightmares escape my head
Bar the door, please don't let them in
You were never supposed to leave
Now my head's splitting at the seams
And I don't know if I can

Want You Gone - Jonathan Coulton

Goodbye my only friend
Oh, did you think I meant you?
That would be funny
if it weren't so sad
Well you have been replaced
I don't need anyone now
When I delete you maybe
I'll stop feeling so bad

Go make some new disaster
That's what I'm counting on
You're someone else's problem
Now I only want you gone