Since practically all of the works and chapters in this fic are titled after songs, and I reference even more in the fic itself, I thought why not make a playlist? (Link here)
As usual, the track listings & my stream of consciousness commentary are under the read more.
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Press Restart - Walk the Moon
The first work: Dan going to Rome, and trying to move on.
The last chapter in the story of my old self/ Damsel in distress / Waiting for a deus ex / In line to be your next ex
London Calling - The Clash
The ice age is coming, the sun's zoomin' in / Engines stop running, the wheat is growin' thin
The Angel Islington - Frank Turner
Dan choosing to stay in London with his sister.
By the waters of the Thames / I resolved to start again: / To wash my feet and cleanse my sins / To lose my cobwebs on the wind
Sweet Albion Blues - Frank Turner
Don't go stopping and putting down roots / Or your shoes won't fit in your travelling boots
Walking on Broken Glass - Annie Lennox
Second work. Blair & Dan still sifting through the aftermath of their breakup, almost a year later
Since you've abandoned me / My whole life has crashed
Once I Was - as performed by Penn Badgley
I find myself searching / Through the ashes of our ruins / For the days when we smiled / And the hours that ran wild
Bon Iver - Skinny Love
I tell my love to wreck it all / Cut out all the ropes and let me fall
45 - The Gaslight Anthem
I hear the alarm / I used to hear when she would sleep in my arms
Turn the key and engine over / Let her go / Let somebody else lay at her feet
1930 - The Gaslight Anthem (Brian Fallon acoustic)
one of the songs Dan & Rufus play in the studio
So I'm saying my goodbyes to your deep blue eyes / Cause I don't know how to say, "Stay still in the pain."
If I recall the last thing you said to me / Before it broke up, before it took you from me
Miles Davis and the Cool [Acoustic] - The Gaslight Anthem
again, an in-scene song imagining
Like poor Mr. Pitiful, I can't turn you loose / You move like a dream I had, I woke up sweating in my room
Graceland - Paul Simon
She comes back to tell me she's gone / As if I didn't know that / As if I didn't know my own bed
Dan's Song - Frank Turner
the first song Dan plays onstage with Panic
Like where it is we're going now and what we had to show / For all the sunny days we spent shut up in the shells / Of expectations of our ultimate directions / And the stations that we should have reached by now
Miles Davis and the Cool ['59 Sound Sessions] - The Gaslight Anthem
the original rough cut lyrics are SO different than the ones they released but both are SO GOOD (i love this band in case you haven't noticed)
Like poor Mr. Pitiful, in the grays and the blues /I'm a nervous wreck tonight / In these opera house rooms / In these chambers of uncertainty / In these hallways of doubt / In these dark tossin' waters of my soul /Don't let me drown
Resentment - Kesha
not cited anywhere in the story but I listened to it a Lot while writing the chair breakup (along with the next two)
I don't hate you, babe, it's worse than that / 'Cause you hurt me and I don't react
Tell Me How - Paramore
I think I'm tired of getting over it / Just starting something new again / I'm getting sick of the beginnings / And always coming to your defenses
Clean - as performed by Sara Bareilles
okay so I just discovered this cover but it's EXQUISITE
When I was drowning, that's when I could finally breathe
the 1 - tswift
a friend in crisis makes Dan & Blair's paths cross again
I persist and resist the temptation to ask you / If one thing had been different / Would everything be different today?
Les Champs-Elysees - as performed by Walk off the Earth
Dair reignite their friendship on the streets of Paris
N'importe qui et ce fut toi, je t'ai dit n'importe quoi / Il suffisait de te parler, pour t'apprivoiser
Be - Hozier
Be like the love that discovered the sin / That freed the first man and will do so again
L'Etang - Blossom Dearie
Une étoile brille au fond de l'étang / Pour les amoureux
Sun It Rises - Fleet Foxes
a chapter title and also the song Dan plays one morning in Oxford
Hold me dear into the night
Almost (Sweet Music) - Hozier
I got some colour back, she thinks so, too / I laugh like me again, she laughs like you
Sweet Thing - as performed by Hozier
a couple chapter titles were taken from this, and it's the first song Dan plays at open mic night in Dublin
And you shall take me strongly in your arms again / And I will not remember that I ever felt the pain
Mae [Acoustic] - The Gaslight Anthem
the second song Dan plays in Dublin
Stay the same, don't ever change / Cause I'd miss your ways / With your Bette Davis eyes / And your mama's party dress
You Are in Love - tswift
3 words. 8 letters.
You keep his shirt, he keeps his word
Out of the Woods - tswift
what follows the 3 words 8 letters
Looking at it now / Last December / We were built to fall apart / Then fall back together
Swing Low, Sail High - The Wailin' Jennys
I have failed you / I have lost my way, lost my nerve, I've failed you / But I love you / How I love you
Cigarettes and Coffee - Otis Redding
But it seems so natural, darling / That you and I are here
Etta James - Brian Fallon
Etta James / play that symphony / because she drifts through my blood like a remedy
Dinner & Diatribes - Hozier
the shameless pwp threesome fic
I knew well from our first hookup / The look of mischief in your eyes
To Be Alone - Hozier
another smutty, smutty outtake
Honey, when you kill the lights and kiss my eyes / I feel like a person for a moment of my life
Moon River - Henry Mancini & Johnny Mercer
Wherever you're going I'm going your way
Saint Honesty - Sara Bareilles
the big reconciliation musical number
Rain on us, Saint Honesty / Salvation is coming in the morning, but now what we need / Is a little rain on our face from you, sweet Saint Honesty
Graceland Too - Phoebe Bridgers
Said she knows she lived through it to get to this moment / Ate a sleeve of saltines on my floor and I knew then / I would do anything you want me to / I would do anything for you
Sugar in My Bowl - Nina Simone
I want some sugar in my bowl / I want a little sweetness / Down in my soul
In the Morning - Nina Simone
In the morning when the moon is at it's rest / You will find me at the time I love the best
B - Sarah Kay
plot twist: a poem not a song???? whatevs it's an amazing poem y'all should listen to it
And when they finally hand you heartache, / when they slip war and hatred under your door and offer you handouts on street-corners of cynicism and defeat, / you tell them that they really ought to meet your mother.
Long Time Comin' - Bruce Springsteen
dilf!dan my beloved.
If I had one wish in this god-forsaken world, kids / It'd be, your mistakes'll be your own
