Nana Characters as Mitski songs with no explanation whatsoever part 2 ft. Laurel Hell
Mitski released her latest album Laurel Hell and my lizard brain produced enough brain worms for part 2. I can't stop listening to it, I can't stop thinking about Nana either so...
I associated plenty of songs for each character (and same song for multiple) that's why I had such a hard time deciding the ultimate songs this time. if you wanna know what the options were and why, feel free to ask!
Nana Osaki - A Burning Hill
Today I will wear my white button-down
I'm tired of wanting more
I think I'm finally worn
For you have a way of promising things
And I've been a forest fire
I am a forest fire
And I am the fire
and I am the forest
And I am a witness watching it
I stand in a valley watching it
And you are not there at all
One morning this sadness will fossilize
And I will forget how to cry
I'll keep going to work and you won't see a change
Save perhaps a slight gray in my eye
I will go jogging routinely
Calmly and rhythmically run
And when I find that a knife's sticking out of my side
I'll pull it out without questioning why
And then one warm summer night
I'll hear fireworks outside
And I'll listen to the memories as they cry, cry, cry
Nobu - Why Didn't You Stop Me?
I know that I ended it, but
Why won't you chase after me?
You know me better than I do
So why didn't you stop me?
Why didn't you stop me
And paint it over?
I look for a picture of you
To keep in my pocket
But I can't seem to find one
Where you look how I remember
Look how I remember
I guess this is the end
I'll have to learn
To be somebody else
It's been you and me
Since before I was me
Without you, I don't yet know
Quite how to live
If I could keep
Anything of you
I would keep
Just this quiet after you
Shin - First Love / Late Spring
So please, hurry, leave me, I can't breathe
Please don't say you love me
Mune ga hachikire-sōde
One word from you and I would
Jump off of this ledge I'm on, baby
Tell me, "Don't," so I can crawl back in
And I was so young when I behaved twenty-five
Yet now, I find I've grown into a tall child
Everyone, all of them
Everyone said, "Don't go that way"
So, of course, to that I said
"I think I'll go that way"
And I left the door open to the dark
I said, "Come in, come in, whatever you are"
But it didn't want me yet
Then like a babe in a crib
After some big hand turns out the light
And I opened my arms wide to the dark
I said, "Take it all, whatever you want"
I didn't know that I was numb
I didn't know what it would take
I didn't know what it would take
Miu - Working for the Knife
I cry at the start of every movie
I guess 'cause I wish I was making things too
But I'm working for the knife
I used to think I would tell stories
But nobody cared for the stories I had about
No good guys
I always thought the choice was mine
And I was right, but I just chose wrong
I start the day lying and end with the truth
That I'm dying for the knife
I call you, to see you again
So I can win, and this can finally end
Spend an hour doing my makeup
To prove something
Walk up in my high heels
All high and mighty
And you say, "Hello"
And I lose
'Cause nobody butters me up like you, and
Nobody fucks me like me
Why am I lonely for lonesome love?
Why am I lonely?
I want you, I hold one card
That I can't use
But I want you
You're coming back
And it's the end of the world
We're starting over
And I love you darling
And I am done, dear
You're in the house
And I am here in the car
'Cause I just need a quiet place
Where I can scream
How I love you
Takumi - There is nothing left for you
There's nothing left for you
Nothing in this room
Try and go outside
Nothing waits for you
You had it once before
Not anymore
So go on to that sweetheart's door
And find a new you
