podcast characters as the crane wives songs part 2!!!
Aubrey wood - once and for all, + safe ship harboured
“Once and for all / what does that mean / it’s a promise I’m making / that I don’t actually believe” + “don’t break the bottle, / don’t waste your blessings on me.”
⌬ I think this girl has some deeply repressed guilt she’s gotta deal w and soon. Oh right false promises and believing she’s not good enough unless she’s constantly doing something productive
Bryony halbech - high horse
“She’s a pretty thing on a high, high horse”
⌬ this song has the perfect amount of fucking ego for bryony. She’d describe herself as a pretty thing on a high high shelf. She believes herself more worthy than anyone
Warren godby - scars + down the river
“All the love / all the kindness / all your best-laid plans, /couldn’t stop me from becoming / the way that I am” + “you were never the one to suffer.”
⌬ no matter how much anyone tried to stop it Warren still ended up in hyper sleep and also repeating the cycle of violence and pain to others. However he knows suffering like no other so
Gordon porlock - canary in a coal mine + easier
“Am I the only thing that keeps you safe / when the light is gone?” + “and if I were someplace else / would this be easier”
⌬ first bit is about Warren obviously. He’s his canary, and when he frets Warren is probably in danger, the canary goes down first and is cared for by its owner but is quite literally a physical warning of danger. I wonder if Gordon thought much of the possibilities of being somewhere else and not having the burden of red valley but he probably knows it wouldn’t be any easier
Clive Schill - I ain’t done
“I am a pretty young thing / I am consumed with selfish wanting, / carelessly broke you down / but I ain’t done”
⌬ he lowkey threatened so many people out of selfish wanting and is just a little dickhead so. Thought this was fitting yk
Pamela Jennings - strangler fig
“You built your kingdom around me / now I’m trapped within your walls / and all I want is to be free / for as winsome as you may be / all you’re doing now is losing me”
⌬ this reminds me of her being trapped in overhead while Clive roamed and went free while she didn’t have a bed and was sleeping on office chairs.
Hester Hiyashi - shallow river
“Oh i know that the promise you wear, / well it ain’t for me”
⌬ that song is about the love of someone’s life marrying someone else, the promise is a promise ring and this reminds me of the point in the series where Hester and Aubrey were exes, and made me think of them very generally
