coyotesuspect | Fanmix: Love's Uneven Remainders

On Tuesday,

familiardevil said I should make a Stefan/Elena mix, and

scorpiod1 agreed with her. I replied that I had no idea how a Stefan/Elena mix would work.

Today is Thursday. Here is a Stefan/Elena mix.

Title: Love's Uneven Remainders
Subject: Stefan/Elena
Summary: Stefan and Elena are probably my favorite canon couple on TV right now. They're both their own person, with their own interests and issues, but they also work incredibly well together. They're mature about their relationship and open with each other in a way that you rarely see on television, let alone television shows about teenagers. More importantly, they're in love, and they make each other happy. They face a lot of obstacles, hence the overall achey sound of this mix, but, idk guys. I'm really rooting for these two. ♥ THEY'RE OTP.
Notes: Mix contains front and back covers, individual uploads of 13 songs, and a .zip of all songs.

For

scorpiod1 . ♥ And with special thanks to

familiardevil .

(1) Reasons to Love You – Meiko
Give me a reason to fall in love
Take my hand and let's dance
Give me a reason to make me smile
Cause I think I forgot how

I wanna fall asleep with you tonight
I wanna know that I am safe when you hold me tight
I wanna feel like I wanna feel forever

(2) I Don’t Know – Lisa Hannigan
I don't know if you can swim
If the sea is any draw for you
If you’re better in the morning or when the sun goes down
I'd like to call you

If you walk my way, I could keep my head
We could creep away
In the dark
Or maybe now

I don't know if you read novels or the magazines
If you love the hand that feeds you
I assume that your heart's been bruised
I'd like to know you

If you walk my way, I will keep my head
We will feel our way through the dark
Though I don't know you
I think that I would do

(3) Lay Me Down – Haroula Rose
Give me something to believe
So that I might fall asleep

Oh won't you look again
For the monsters beneath the bed

Show me a heart that's true
Show me your heart so true
Lover lay me down
And I'll look after you
I'll look after you too

(4) I Became Awake – The Great Lakes Swimmers
I became awake
From a very dark place
Patchwork of fear of poorly conceived ideas
With a blister of water

Together we are magic, together we are dreaming
Together we will reach endlessly
The center of a seed, so full of possibilities

All awake, all awake
All awake

I was heavy but now I am light
I was heavy but now I am light

(5) Sailor – Hem
I'm not a sailor
I'm not so strong out of my shoes
dragging like anchors

over the ocean
pearls in the sky are strung around the moon
pointing to you

and I'll sail 'til morning
or I'll sail 'til I
am carried to you tonight

(6) A Glow – Okkervil River
Climb into my arms
With blood on your clothes
You've got a glow
You've got a glow

And you're no one’s but mine

You’re light and alive
You're lithe and you're strong
And you've wanted to do that, my love
For so long

(7) Daughters of the Soho Riots – The National
I have your dreams and your teeth marks
And all my fingernails are painted

I'm here to take you now

You were right about the end
It didn't make a difference
Everything I can remember
I remember wrong

How can anybody know
How they got to be this way
You must have known I'd do this someday
Break my arms around the one I love
And be forgiven by the time my lover comes

(8) A Light on a Hill – Margot & the Nuclear So and Sos
That’s no way to live,
All tangled up like balls of string.
And we woke at dawn,
And watched the sun glide over the hill.

They're all waiting for you to tell them the truth,
the truth is a line that you'll never use.

Her dignity shown so brightly like a light on a hill,
and she burned for me and no other man came near her flame.
Bad country songs, the deafening twang of the rich white kid blues.
You can own the strange but the lights and glares will not make you real.

She whispers to me I was meant to be free,
this life that we built is deadly.

(9) Wonderwall – Ryan Adams
Today is gonna be the day
That they’re gonna throw it back to you
By now you should’ve somehow
Realized what you gotta do
I don’t believe that anybody
Feels the way I do about you now

And all the roads we have to walk along are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would
Like to say to you
I don’t know how
Because maybe
You’re gonna be the one who saves me?
And after all
You’re my wonderwall

(10) Remain – Jose Gonzalez
We'll remain after everything's been washed away by the rain
We will stand upright as we stand today

(11) Lion’s Mane – Iron & Wine
So I'll clear the road, the gravel
And the thornbush in your path
That burns a scented oil
That I'll drip into your bath
The water's there to warm you
And the earth is warmer when you laugh

And love is the scene I render
When you catch me wide awake
And love is the dream you enter
Though I shake and shake and shake you
And love is the best endeavor
Waiting in the lion's mane

(12) Marry Song – Band of Horses
I'll marry my lover in a place to admire
I don't have to even ask her I can look in her eyes
And thank God that I am forgiven

Marry my mind is to say the least
it’s been awful hard to just stand on my feet
I think I'll slow down if I am able
I won't drown in the ocean
For starving my place at the table

Lucky ones are we all til it is over
Everyone near and far
When you smile the sun it peaks through the clouds
Never die for always be around and around and around

(13) Bowl of Oranges – Bright Eyes
When crying don't help, you can't compose yourself
It's best to compose a poem
An honest verse of longing
Or a simple song of hope

That's why I'm singing, baby, don't worry
Because now I've got your back
And every time you feel like crying
I'm gonna try to make you laugh
And if I can't, if it just hurts too bad
Then we'll wait for it to pass
And I will keep you company
Through those days so long and black

We'll keep working on the problem
We know we'll never solve
Of love's uneven remainders
Our lives are fractions of a whole
But if the world could remain within a frame
Like a painting on a wall
Then I think we'd see the beauty then
And stand staring in awe

.zip of music