❝ love me for who i am ...
not for what you want me to be. ❞
anon; hey there! could i request a playlist for a gentle, misunderstood werewolf who doesn't want to be seen as a monster anymore? i like artists like hozier, ricky montgomery, aurora and the oh hellos, but i'm open to any kinds of music similar to these. thanks in advance ^^
♡ - mod 👽
1) dinner & diatribes ― hozier
2) it’s called: freefall* ― rainbow kitten surprise
3) oh klahoma ― jack stauber
4) it’s alright ― mother mother
5) this december ― rick montgomery
6) heart for brains* ― roar
7) dead weight ― jack stauber
8) trust fall ― wallows
9) best friend ― rex orange county
10) monster ― dodie
I've been sitting on this one for a few days while I mulled it over so buckle the fuck up because I got shit to say about this girl. Courtesy cut so I don't wreck your dash with sad, angry Roe lady feels and banging folksy / bluegrass / Americana songs.
1) After Many Miles - The Ghost of Paul Revere
This song as a whole is just a great vibe for Wolf. Heavy. Loud. Sorta aggressive but also intensely sentimental. I imagine it as someone singing about her. I also love these lyrics in particular because y'know:
Oh lover I'll see you there
waiting in the willows with your autumn hair.
Oh lover I'll see you there
after many miles.
2) Magpie - The Mountain Goats
Have you ever run across a song after creating a character and you're like, "Shit, sure hope I didn't hear this a month ago and then just turn it into a character?" That's this song. Y'know what? Maybe I WILL just copy and paste the whole song here:
Feed the kittens in the kitchen
Set food out for the strays
Try hard to do your best
The magpie will have his way
Fill your mouth with berries
By the full light of the moon
Work all night if you have to
The magpie comes at noon
Shore up the crucifixes
Above the archways and the doors
The magpie will come at midday
And you will go down on all fours
And when the cherries white with blossoms
Be ready and be brave
And remember what we had here
When there was something left to save
3) Bitter Water - The Oh Hellos
This song is for Wolf's relationship to the Twelveswood and Gridania. It's a place she loves. It's her home. But that love and that feeling of belonging doesn't stop her from seeing the terrible things her nation does to people in the name of balance and in honor of the elementals. These lyrics in particular hit HARD:
I still taste you on my lips
Lovely bitter water
The terrible fire of old regret is honey on my tongue
And I know I shouldn't love you
I know I shouldn't love you but I do
Even now you mark my steps
Lovely bitter water
All the days of our delights are poison in my veins
I know I shouldn't love you
I know
4) Avila - The Wailing Jennys
If Bitter Water is about her relationship to Gridania then Avila is about her response to it. Particularly these lyrics here:
I will not rest
Until this place is full of sunlight
Or at least until the darkness
Is quiet for a while
And we will not wait
For the murdered to come calling
The night will simply fall
And the morning will rise
5) We Can Only Listen - Ruth Moody
Look, up there's all this political shit and feels about one's role in society and obligations to your fellow man and so I gotta have one song about a past (& future !?) love in here, right? You're damn right I do, also to fill my Ruth Moody quota. Anyway, Wolf, stop being an idiot and go get it.
Would it be easier beneath the sun
Where apples fall and rivers run
And I'd be lying there next to you
In the silence it all comes through
And then we wouldn't have to speak
All you'd hear is my heart-beat
We cannot choose the ones we love
When our hearts they speak so loudly
We can only listen
We can only listen
Tagged by: @luck-and-larceny who should know what she was getting into by now. <3
Tagging: @pidgeon-sorrel, @the-void-stared-back, @the-warrior-and-the-mage, @etherealrosexiv, @vazaymir, @violetlypurple, @mischiefwife, & anyone else who wants to tag me in their replies I love this stuff!
if you could only see the beast you've made of me / I held it in but now it seems you've set it running free / screaming in the dark, I howl when we're apart / drag my teeth across your chest to taste your beating heart
