@sifkiweek Okay, so, I have never posted a playlist to Tumblr before, and I'm hoping this works right. If not, my apologies in advance.
This jumps all over in terms of time (they've been alive a thousand years plus, so there are a lot of valid options!), genre (Cole Porter to NIN to Dolly Parton to Springsteen), and connection (unhealthy relationship, childhood sweethearts, pining, madness, and a little nod to Sif as goddess of the harvest via Sting). I hope you enjoy it. :)
“Gone” – U2
You're taking steps that make you feel dizzy
Then you get to like the way it feels.
You hurt yourself you hurt your lover
Then you discover
What you thought was freedom is just greed.
“The Old Ways” – Loreena McKennitt
As we cast our gaze on the tumbling sea
A vision came o'er me
Of thundering hooves and beating wings
In clouds above
Turning to go as you call out my name
Like a bird in a cage spreading its wings to fly
"The old ways are lost, " you sang as you flew
And I wondered why.
“A Matter of Trust” – Billy Joel
Some love is just a lie of the heart
The cold remains of what began with a passionate start
And they may not want it to end
But it will it's just a question of when
I've lived long enough to have learned
The closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned
But that won't happen to us
'Cause it's always been a matter of trust
“Here You Come Again” – Dolly Parton
Here you come again
Just when I'm about to make it work without you
You look into my eyes and light those dreamy eyes
And pretty soon I'm wondering how I came to doubt you
All you gotta do is smile that smile
And there go all my defenses
Just leave it up to you and in a little while
You're messing up my mind and filling up my senses
“You’re So Vain” – Carly Simon
You had me several years ago when I was still quite naive
Well you said that we made such a pretty pair and that you would never leave
But you gave away the things you loved
And one of them was me
“You’re No Good” – Linda Ronstadt
Feelin' better now that we're through
Feelin' better, 'cause I'm over you
I learned my lesson, it left a scar
Now I see how you really are
“He’s a Pirate” – Klaus Badelt (Pirates of the Caribbean)
“Cold” – Annie Lennox
Time it may take us but God only knows
How I've paid for those things in the past
Dying is easy it's living that scares me to death, ooh, yeah
I could be so content hearing the sound of your breath, ooh, yeah
“Charade” – Henry Mancini
When we played our charade
We were like children posing
Playing at games, acting out names
Guessing the parts we played
“Truly Madly Deeply” – Savage Garden
I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish, I'll be your fantasy
I'll be your hope, I'll be your love, be everything that you need
I'll love you more with every breath, truly, madly, deeply do
“Torn” – Natalie Imbruglia
Well, you couldn’t be that man I adored.
You don’t seem to know
Seem to care what your heart is for
But I don’t know him anymore.
There’s nothing where he used to lie.
My conversation has run dry.
That’s what’s going on.
Nothing’s fine, I’m torn,
I’m all out of faith.
“Secret Garden” – Bruce Springsteen
She’ll let you in her heart
If you got a hammer and a vise,
But into her secret garden, don’t think twice.
You’ve gone a million miles,
How far’d you get
To that place that you can’t remember
And you can’t forget?
“Something to Save” – George Michael
We're moving further from heaven
And closer to the deep blue sea
'Cause I have no secrets from you
And I have nothing left to hide
And I'm open to all your questions
Why can't you reach inside like I have
Like I have for you
And all these games that you play
Don't tell me how a man should be
“Come Undone” – Duran Duran
Words, playing me deja vu
Like a radio tune, I swear I've heard before
Chill, is it something real?
Or the magic I'm feeding off your fingers
Lost, in a snow filled sky
We'll make it alright to come undone
“Fields of Gold” – Sting
See the west wind move like a lover’s soul
Upon the fields of barley
Feel her body rise when you kiss her mouth
Among the fields of gold
I never made promises lightly
And there have been some that I've broken
But I swear in the days still left
We'll walk in fields of gold
“Found Out about You” – Gin Blossoms
Is there a line that I could write
That's sad enough to make you cry?
And all the lines you wrote to me were lies
Months roll past the love that you struck dead
Did you love me only in my head?
“Possession” – Sarah McLachlan
Through this world I stumble,
So many times betrayed,
Trying to find an honest word,
To find the truth enslaved.
You speak to me in riddles
And you speak to me in rhymes.
My body aches to breathe your breath,
Your words keep me alive.
“Everything You Want” – Vertical Horizon
You howl and listen,
Listen and wait for the
Echoes of angels who won't return.
He's everything you want,
He's everything you need,
He's everything inside of you
That you wish you could be.
He says all the right things
At exactly the right time,
But he means nothing to you
And you don't know why.
“Days of Wine and Roses” – Cassandra Wilson
The days of wine and roses
Laugh and run away
Like a child at play
Through a meadowland toward a closing door
A door marked “nevermore”
That wasn’t there before.
The lonely night discloses
Just a passing breeze
Filled with memories
Of the golden smile that introduced me to
The days of wind and roses and you
“Night and Day” – Billie Holiday
Night day you are the one
Only you ‘neath the moon and under the sun.
Whether near to me or far,
It’s no matter, darling, where you are
I think of you night and day.
“Demon Seed” – Nine Inch Nails
It keeps growing
And I can feel it breathe
I have been trying
To behave myself
“Two Princes” – Spin Doctors
Marry him or marry me.
I'm the one that loves you baby can't you see?
I ain't got no future or a family tree,
But I know what a prince and lover ought to be,
I know what a prince and lover ought to be.
“The Sweetest Taboo” - Sade
If I tell you, if I tell you now
Will you keep on, will you keep on loving me?
If I tell you, if I tell you how I feel
Will you keep on bringing out the best in?
You give me, you give me the sweetest taboo.
