Hi! I love your themed playlists (and art of course) for fanfics. Your taste of music is really nice. So I find myself wondering. What are your favourite Merlin and/or Arthur songs? :')
Hi, bb! I’m so thrilled that you ended up liking the mixes! Thank you so much for listening to them. *///* <3 But like, outside of fic/au context, I probably don’t know a lot of songs that you haven’t already heard of? Still, here are some of my all-time Merlin/Arthur favorites (that I cobbled up into a playlist):
upbeat, early seasons aesthetic (for dreaming of what could have been):
Sea of Voices; Porter Robinson // we’ll see creation come undone / these bones that bound us will be gone / we’ll stir our spirits til we’re one / then soft as shadows we’ll become
Chemicals React; Aly & AJ // you make me feel out of my element / like I’m walking on broken glass // kaleidoscope of colors / turning hopes on fire / sun is burning / shining down on both of us / don’t let us lose it // but the planets all aligned when you looked into my eyes
Empire; Of Monsters and Men // heavy stones fear no weather // and from the rain, comes a river running wild that will create / an empire for you // illuminate, there’s a river running wild that will create / an empire for you / an empire for two
bleak, later seasons aesthetic (or dwelling in melancholy):
Strong; London Grammar // and a lion, a lion roars would you not listen? / if a child, a child cries would you not forgive them? // yeah, man seem so strong / yeah, man speak so long / man never been so wrong
Glass Heart Hymn; Paper Route // cut like diamonds / set aside like an ocean’s island / or a child in a field with nowhere to go / memories as heavy as a stone // there’s a ghost in the mirror / I’m afraid more than ever / my feet have led me straight into my grave
Weights and Measures; Dry the River // I was prepared to love you and never expect anything of you / there’s no patron saint of silent restraint / baby there ain’t no sword in our lake / just a funeral wake // you were the coldest star in the sky
The Mortal Boy King; The Paper Kites // night falls, we’re covered over now / daylight, sometimes it ends too soon / and I don’t want to sleep // til I remember lending softer ears to my lungs / and maybe if I hold you now, would you hold me now?
Ces’t La Mort; The Civil Wars // c'est la vie, c'est la mort / you and me, forevermore / let’s walk down the road that has no end / steal away where only angels tread / heaven or hell or somewhere in between / cross your heart to take me when you leave // don’t go, please don’t go / don’t go without me
mellow, modern au aesthetic (for angst and pining, and happy endings):
Moondust; Jaymes Young // I’m building this house on the moon like a lost astronaut / looking at you like a star from the place the world forgot // the brightness of the sun will give me just enough to bury my love in the moondust / I long to hear your voice but still I’ve made the choice to bury my love in the moondust
Revelator Eyes; The Paper Kites // chasing a light in a locked door // I don’t like the way you speak like you’re tied up / you can say what you want but I’m giving it a chance // give me little reason to refuse my center, shifting in with feelings of a sweet surrender / I can feel it, I can feel it alone and I know why / I can see it show in your revelator eyes
Avalanche; by David Cook // these scars we wear remind us / the more we change the more we’re all the same / swept up in this emotion, we fumble through and make the same mistakes / as we are led to the edge // carry me down rolling in your arms / cos I can’t remember ever falling this hard / tell me tonight all that we have planned, was it nothing more than a noise inside my head? / crashing down, crashing down / in your avalanche
Don’t Mind Me; by Walking on Cars // no, we’ve got nothing to lose except everything we have / and I’ve got nothing to prove but it’s just who I am / but it’s the same old rain, no I won’t back down / these satellites overhead, I think I love this town / but you made yourself at home inside my mind // don’t mind me, don’t mind me, I was just thinking of you / I feel alive inside, oh finally, I feel alive inside
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