the songs from Spring Awakening if they were non-musical theatre songs
this took a super long time and even though Spring Awakening is a rock musical, this was deceptively hard. because I like to torture myself more than I need to, I only allowed myself, or at least tried, to use songs in the style of the show (70s folk and 90s-early 2000s alternative rock/singer-songwriter styles). if I couldn’t find a song with both the correct lyrics and the correct feel, which by the way was super rare, I went more with the feel of the song.
Mama Who Bore Me: Blue by Joni Mitchell - "hey Blue, there is a song for you / ink on a pin / underneath the skin / an empty space to fill in / well, there's so many sinking / that you gotta keep thinking / we can make it through these waves"
Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise): I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker by Sandi Thom - "oh, I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair / in '77 and '69 revolution was in the air / oh, I was born too late into a world that doesn't care"
All That's Known: Karma Police by Radiohead - "karma police, arrest this man / he talks in maths / he buzzes like a fridge / he's like a defined radio / for a minute there, I lost myself / I lost myself, I lost myself"
The Bitch of Living: Sick of Myself by Matthew Sweet - "you don't know how you move me / deconstruct me and consume me / I'm all used up, I'm out of luck and I'm starstruck ... but I'm sick of myself when I look at you"
My Junk: Lovefool by The Cardigans - "so, I cry, I pray and I beg for you to love me, love me / say that you love me / fool me, fool me / go on and fool me ... I don't care about anything but you"
Touch Me: Lover, You Should've Come Over by Jeff Buckley - "maybe I'm too young / to keep good love from going wrong / but tonight you're on my mind so you'll never know / I'm broken down and hungry for your love / with no way to feed it"
The Word of Your Body: Love Affair by Regina Spektor - "yet despite this imperfection / he was clean-looking and respectable-looking / and you'll never find a mother / who doesn't appreciate a natural man"
The Dark I Know Well: Sympathetic Character by Alanis Morissette - "I was afraid you'd hit me if I'd spoken up / I was afraid of your physical strength ... I have as much rage as you have / I have as much pain as you do"
And Then There Were None: All Downhill From Here by New Found Glory - "I try to get it out but all I hear from you are lies / and I can tell you're going through the motions ... you contradict the fact that you still want me around"
The Mirror Blue Night: Devil in the Details by Bright Eyes - "well, I made amends / in the general sense / but the devil's in the details / and I know the cause / but I can't do it / I just can't do it / there was love I meant / there were accidents"
I Believe: Love Love Love by The Mountain Goats - "love, love is gonna lead you by the hand / into a white and soundless place / now we see things as in a mirror dimly / then we shall see each other face to face"
The Guilty Ones: Glass by Ingrid Michaelson - "rolled around on kitchen floors / tied my tongue in pretty bows with yours / and now we pass and just like glass / I see through you, you see through me like I'm not there"
Don't Do Sadness: Missing the War by Ben Folds Five - "time may fly and dreams may die / the shaking voice that tells him 'go' / she thinks he might, he knows he won't / I'm missing the war / I'm missing the war all my life"
Blue Wind: Come Away With Me by Norah Jones - "and I wanna walk with you on a cloudy day / in fields where the yellow grass grows knee high / so won't you try and come away with me"
Left Behind: Memphis Skyline by Rufus Wainwright - "but still, I've come to sing for him / so southern furies prepare to walk / for my harp, I have strung / and I will leave with him"
Totally Fucked: Know Your Enemy by Green Day - "bringing on the fury / the choir infantry / revolt against the honour to obey ... do you know the enemy? / do you know your enemy? / well, gotta know the enemy"
The Word of Your Body (Reprise): To Be Alone With You by Sufjan Stevens - "I'd swim across Lake Michigan / I'd sell my shoes / I'd give my body to be back again / in the rest of the room / to be alone with you ... I've never known a man who loved me"
Whispering: Northern Lad by Tori Amos - "had a northern lad / well, not exactly had ... and if you could see me now / said, if you could see me now / girls, you've got to know when it's time to turn the page"
Those You've Known: The Scientist by Coldplay - "tell me you love me / come back to haunt me ... nobody said it was easy / oh, it's such a shame for us to part / nobody said it was easy / no one ever said it would be so hard / I'm going back to the start"
The Song of Purple Summer: Way Over Yonder by Carole King - "way over yonder is a place that I know / where I can find shelter from the hunger and the cold ... maybe tomorrow I'll find my way ... way over yonder, that's where I'm bound"