Valentine's Day Music Mix

[channonyarrow]

So apparently one of my journals is going to send V-Gifts to theferrett approximately every fucking twelve hours until Livejournal actually gets back into the fucking office and fixes this. I am not happy.

So. Valentine's Day.

I don't particularly have a negative association with Valentine's Day per se. It's not my favourite day, but that's more because I'm not super impressed by commercialism, and at least with Christmas you have a runup to do a lot of other things. It's a holiday season. Valentine's ... not so much.

I also really don't like stereotypical love songs. I listen to them, but that's not what love is, not when you're doing it right. When you're doing it right, it's destructive and creative, it's all-consuming, it's something that takes and gives in equal measure. Love, at the end of the day, is a promise, and that promise is sometimes entirely as destructive as love itself can be.

And there is something so amazing about the thought of someone who loves you so much they would drive off a cliff with you.

There are songs that did not make it on here: Demolition Lovers is on everyone's playlist, and I just put it up a couple months back. If you want it, you've got it. By the same token It's Warmer In The Basement didn't make the cut. There are others that never made it that I think of as love songs, but that would take even more explaining than these might.

All files are mp3. Uploaded to Mediafire; if you need them in a different host that is not Sendspace, let me know. If you want them in Sendspace, you're talking to the wrong person.



Little Sparrow, Dolly Parton
All ye maidens heed my warning
Never trust the hearts of men
They will crush you like a sparrow,
Leaving you to never mend

Welcome Home, Coheed & Cambria
One last kiss for you, one more wish for you
Please make up your mind girl
Before I hope you die

10 More Minutes, Kill Hannah
Oh it's what you live for
So what you lived for,
Would you die for it?
I'm alive for ten more minutes

Hands Clean, Alanis Morrissette
We'll fast forward to a few years later
And no one knows except the both of us
And I have honored your request for silence
And you've washed your hands clean of this

I'm Not Over, Carolina Liar
I'm not over
I'm not over you just yet
Can not hide it
You're not that easy to forget

Untitled Lullaby, Mark Lanegan
Until you sleep
And your fingers are finally still
I'm going to stay awake
All night

How I Could Just Kill A Man, Charlotte Sometimes
And if I wanted to stay
You won't stand in my way
But I'm choosing to leave
With your heart on my sleeve
It feels too good without you

Dilaudid, The Mountain Goats
If we live to see the other side of this
I will remember your kiss.
So do it with your mouth open.
And take your foot off of the brake.

Lover I Don't Have To Love, Bright Eyes
I want a lover I don't have to love
I want a boy who's so drunk he doesn't talk

Hipbones and Microphones, Cute Is What We Aim For
Next comes the Photoshop
To crop and cut
To show those strangers just what
You've been covered and covering up
The shutter speed and the lighting that you need

All Misery/Flowers, The Gutter Twins
If you could hear me, love
I'd tell to you my story
To you and only you
So love that you might save me
I woke up from a dream

Past The Mission, Tori Amos
I don't believe I went too far
I said I was willing
She said she knew what my books did not
I thought she knew what's up

Checkmarks, The Academy Is...
As far as I remember you weren't half bad.
Your bedroom behavior was never more than checkmarks on bedposts.

One Day, Robots Will Cry, Cobra Starship
Cause people change
Can't you see my eyes
Are they not the same after the lies?
I know I'm like a machine
But I still have dreams

I Spy, Pulp
I will come to you, I will come to you
I will take you from this sickness, dinner parties and champagne
I'll hold your body and make it sing again. come on - sing again, let's sing again.
Oh yeah, cause I spy, yes, I spy

Welcome Home, Son, Radical Face
Heal the scars from off my back
I don't need them anymore
You can throw them out or keep them in your mason jars
I've come home

Marlene On The Wall, Suzanne Vega
And I tried so hard to resist
When you held me in your handsome fist
And reminded me of the night we kissed
And of why I should be leaving

How Many Cans?, Soul Coughing
How many cans must I stack up
To wash you out of my mind,
Out of my consciousness?

Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong, Radiohead
I stood in front of her face
When the first bullet was shot

Dead Leaves And The Dirty Ground, The White Stripes
Thirty notes in the mailbox
Will tell you that I'm coming home
And I think I'm gonna stick around
For a while so you're not alone

Damned, Bon Jovi
A door slams like a shotgun, you jump up to your feet
But it's just the wind blowing through the secrets that we keep

Delia's Gone, Johnny Cash
If I hadn't shot poor Delia,
I'd've had her for my wife

Stink, Arab Strap
Come with me, but this is the last time
Understand you're no more than a pastime.

The Jetset Life Is Gonna Kill You, My Chemical Romance
Gaze into her killing jar
I'd sometimes stare for hours
She even poked the holes so I can breathe.

When I Was A Young Girl, Rasputina
Then we married, married, married,
Then we married, then oh then.
Then he died, died, died,
Then he died, then oh then.

Infra-Red, Placebo
One last thing before I shuffle off the planet
I will be the one to make you crawl
So I came down to wish you an unhappy birthday
Someone call the ambulance, there’s gonna be an accident

A Box Full of Sharp Objects, The Used
We've fallen in love
It was the best idea I ever had

Early Sunsets Over Monroeville, My Chemical Romance
And in saying you loved me,
Made things harder at best,
And these words changing nothing
As your body remains,
And there's no room in this hell,
There's no room in the next,
And our memories defeat us,
And I'll end this direct.

A Reminder, Radiohead
If I get old, remind me of this:
That night we kissed, and I really meant it.

Whatever happens, if we're still speaking.
Pick up the phone, play me this song.

Little Sparrow (Reprise), Dolly Parton
Instrumental

Yes, I did put a song about Dawn of the Dead on here. Nothing says love like shooting your zombie girlfriend in the head.