there are multiple common themes here, such as: of flying/floating, nature, greek myths, the sky, love/admiration for women, synesthesia, anxiety/overthinking
if you like any of these songs, you are obligated (by me) to check out this fic that my lovely friend @salty-goats is writing (please): "An Eternal Flame (Amber and Cerulean)" on ao3 :)
and if you want to give this a listen, it's on youtube!
"Am I allowed / To look at her like that?
Could it be wrong / When she's just so nice to look at?"
"And she smells like lemongrass and sleep
She tastes like apple juice and peach"
1st quote can be from either pov (but mostly clancy due to the way she's internalized the homophobia and repressed the gay away)
2nd one is from tb's pov (synesthesia and connecting how lemony clancy feels to her)
"I do not have wings, love, I never will
Soarin' over a world you are carryin'
If these heights should bring my fall
Let me be your own Icarian carrion"
"I, Carrion (Icarian)" bridge
clancy's escape will never end in flight; she cannot fly :(
the 2nd line connects clancy to icarus + tb to atlas from greek mythology, and it makes sense considering the roles in their myths correspond to these characters
"Making up problems that don't exist
Why do I let myself dream like this?"
"I'd sell my own bones for sapphire stones
'Cause blue's your favourite colour"
"Meteor Shower" verse 1 + 2
1st quote: tb is soooo anxious she's always thinking worse case scenario and likely has nightmares about bad things happening (ahem or maybe just me projecting)
2nd quote: clancy is blue to tb, and i thought this was cute :)
"Dreamers / They never learn"
"Beyond the point / Of no return"
"Then it's too late / The damage is done"
"This goes / Beyond me / Beyond you"
pov of the bishops talking to clancy (or anyone who tried to leave dema)
i think of this as a greek chorus, like a warning that there are things beyond the average citizen's control and that dominos will fall once dreamers start turning on the city
"the point of no return" paladin strait reference?!
"And I knew that the lights of the city were too heavy for me"
"And all of the mothers raise their babies / To stay away from me / And pray they don't grow up to be"
"Golden" pre-chorus + chorus
1st quote: "lights" like neon and "the city" like dema ?!
2nd quote: tb being a clancy meant that, and when she escaped, the citizens likely warned the children of dema to not end up like her (a rebellious bandito)
"Yours was the first face that I saw
I think I was blind before I met you
And I don't know where I am, I don't know where I've been
But I know where I want to go"
"First Day of My Life" verse 2
clancy seeing and meeting tb changed her life and made her realize a) she wants her soo bad and b) she wants to join the resistance by her side
"I've been feeling foolish, you should try it
She came and substituted the peace and quiet for
Acrobatic blood flow, concertina
Cheating heartbeat, rapid fire
She's thunderstorms"
"She's Thunderstorms" verse 1 + chorus
clancy coming to the bandito camp changes things. they have another "special" citizen that escaped on their side, and also makes me think she's the "thunder" to tb's "lightning"
also tb's blood flow is probably doing acrobatics rn
"You shut my mouth / And you buckle my knees
My princess, please / You know it's all I want to do"
"I Want To Be With You" bridge
cutesy wlw relationship (manifesting)
[note: i have many songs that could fit this idea but instead of overloading the playlist w/ relationship-y stuff, i'll keep it to a few. this one needs to be on it though.]
"We fell in love in October
That's why I love fall
Looking at the stars
Admiring from afar"
"we fell in love in october" pre-chorus
a headcanon but. imagine, if you will. them looking up at the fall sky and seeing all the constellations. perchance.
also canonically this fic takes place in october and this song was meant for them, fight me.
"And while you sleep / I'll be scared
So by the time you wake / I'll be brave"
tb pov since she's internally nervous but she has to put on a "brave face" for the sake of being a leader
she probably sends most of her nights thinking too much (eheh, ride reference) and doesn't sleep like the rest of camp
Honey in your mouth when you gave me my name
Tears in your eyes when you pull it like a chain
Half return, half return
clancy's pov of nico giving her the "clancy" title. he loves control, hence honey in his mouth
yet, at the same time, it breaks him to think that this clancy will not live up to his expectations, so he believes he has to be cruel
a "half return" instead of a full one is like an incomplete cycle (and we all know that dema lore is all about cycles)
"You haven't been good for long
Is it the sound of your own thoughts
That always keeps you up at night?"
"You haven't felt right for days
Is it the fact you never say
What comes in your mind that day?"
tb is likely depressed and overwhlemed by all the responsibility she carries on her shoulders (also, like atlas)
she also doesn't really like talking about her feelings
Always been too scared and unprepared
To let anybody get too close to me
But when I met you, right away, I knew
You would never, ever, ever hurt me
both clancy and tb haven't really gotten the chance to let anyone in, but they can make an exception for each other :)
another cutesy song (i can't resist putting them on the playlist)
"All you have is your fire
And the place you need to reach
Don't you ever tame your demons
But always keep 'em on a leash"
"Arsonist's Lullaby" chorus
tb's title of being a literal torchbearer, and the banditos always having their flames and places to reach (dema for recon and camp for shelter)
tb's inner demons of homosexuality (i know what you are...)
"Sometimes I need to be alone"
"It's such a simple question / With such an easy answer
But I'm afraid / It's you"
"Sometimes I Need to Be Alone" verse 1 + chorus
tb probably gets overstimulated easily and maybe this is just me projecting bc i like this song (of course, i like all the ones on this list) but. she feels like this. yeah.
also, if tb's question is "why am i feeling this way?" the answer is probably "clancy"
"Weren't we the stars in Heaven?
Weren't we the salt in the sea?
Dragon in the new warm mountain
Didn't you believe in me?
Yeah, you held me the whole way through
But I couldn't say the words like you"
i'm not sure what their religion believes in exactly, but i'd like to think that the people in trench think we were created from stardust or maybe, as the song suggest, "salt in the sea" as a human origin story
trash the dragon reference spotted!
i think clancy might understand some of the complex emotions that tb feels (and vice versa) because they are more similar than they appear
might add more in the future, but this is what's on the playlist now. remember to read and enjoy the fic!!
kianamaiart
gummygunk
izzy806
areudirty
titsay
