Fanmix: pour out like light, Anna

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Title: pour out like light
Subject: Anna
Summary: A mix for Anna before she was human, from her time as a soldier and leader of her garrison, through her doubt and her loneliness, and up until her fall. A huge thank you to familiardevil  for the encouragement and support and suggesting "When Your Good Heart Leads You Home." You are brilliant and lovely.

Mix contains 12 individually uploaded songs, a .zip of all songs, and front and back covers.








 

And we, who have always thought
of happiness as rising, would feel
the emotion that almost overwhelms us
whenever a happy thing falls.

~Rilke, excerpt from The Tenth Elegy

 
(1) Celebration Guns – Stars
Desert wind and a perverse desire to win
History buried in shame

Are the beating drums
Celebration guns
The thunder and the laughter
The last thing they remember

Then the next day
How will you know your enemy
By their colour or your fear
One by one
We can cage them in your freedom
Make them all disappear

Six hundred sixty six
Hundred sixty days

My hands grow darker everyday

(2) Intervention – Arcade Fire
Working for the church
While your family dies.
You take what they give you
And you keep it inside.

I can taste the fear.
Lift me up and take me out of here,
Don't want to fight, don't want to die

Who's going to throw the very first stone?
And when you finally disappear
We'll just say you were never here.

Been working for the church
While your life falls apart,
Singing hallelujah with the fear in your heart,
Every spark of friendship and love
Will die without a home.

(3) Runaway – The National
There's no savin' anything
I'll swallow the shine of the sun

but I won't be a runaway
'cause I won't run
no, I won't be a runaway
what makes you think I enjoy being led to the flood?

(4) Soldier On – The Temper Trap
Well this side of, mortality is
Scaring, me, to death
To death

Don't think about it at all
Just keep your head low
Don't think about it at all

soldier on
soldier on
Keep your heart, close to the ground

(5) Bullets – Tuung
Our blood and guts are out
We spread our bones across the table at night
We cut our fingers off
To give ourselves those little extra insights

We're catching bullets in our teeth
And though they try hard not to say how it's done
They always do

So sweet to lose a friend
You leave the church and taste
The air in your lungs
Old lies and fireflies
Carve angels on your eyes
And all is undone
You whisper prayers into the dark
Up to a god in whom you've never believed
You always do

(6) Apres Moi – Regina Spektor
I must go on standing
You can't break that which isn't yours
I must go on standing
I'm not my own, it's not my choice

Be afraid of the lame, they'll inherit your legs
Be afraid of the old, they'll inherit your souls
Be afraid of the cold, they'll inherit your blood
Après moi, le deluge, after me comes the flood

(7) Fine Young Cannibals – Wolf Parade
In this house
There's no order
There's no loss of love out here
If it's over

Well all that's in the mind
Has trickled out
Let me breathe

All that's in the mind
Has trickled out
Let me leave

My heart is clean
Like a crater moon

(8) Swimming in the Flood – Passion Pit
What can I do?
The river's overrun
We're swimming in a flood, you know?
I thought I felt your touch
But the water's rising up

Then I lie naked in a rampage
In the flesh, face to face with the onset
I forget everything that's ever made me
Rise again
Now slowly leave my memory

(9) Zero – Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Shake it like a ladder to the sun
Makes me feel like a madman on the run
Find me, never, never far gone
So get your leather, leather, leather on, on, on, on

You're zero
What's your name?
No one's going to ask you
Better find out where they want you to go

Crying, crying, crying, oh, oh
Can you climb, climb, climb higher?

(10) Staring at the Sun – TV on the Radio
I am the conscience clear
in pain or ecstasy
and we were all weaned my dear
upon the same fatigue

staring at the sun
oh my own voice cannot save me now
standing in the sea
it's just one more breath
and then down I go

beat the skins and let the
loose lips kiss you clean
quietly pour out like light
like light, like answering the sun

you're staring at the sun
you're standing in the sea
your mouth is open wide
you're trying hard to breathe
the water's at your neck
there's lightning in your teeth

(11) Between Two Lungs – Florence + the Machine
Between two lungs it was released
The breath that carried me
The sigh that blew me forward

Because it was trapped
Trapped between two lungs

And my running feet could fly

Now all the days of begging
The days of theft
No more gasping for a breath
The air has filled me head-to-toe
And I can see the ground far below

(12) Let Your Good Heart Lead You Home – The Editors
You let the dark in
Somehow

Some things do matter
A price to pay
We will find our own way
Always

Sharks swim around your
Drowning soul
Let your good heart
Lead you home

Once you've gone, girl
You can't come back

.zip of music