Friday DE: From the top

[bjornwilde]

For some reason, be it demonic curse, misfired magic, or the karaoke machine gaining more power, everyone in Milliways is now singing as if they're in a musical.

Sing (i.e. type) us a few lines from a song of theirs.

I am imagining this can be songs from your playlist, songs from a musical, or even lyrics you make up yourself, but as ever, answer as the topic hits you. And sorry for the easy answer Emcee mun.

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[sticktothemission]

(To the tune of 'I Just Can't Wait To Be King')

I'm gonna be a superhero
Better than the rest
Just gotta get through being sick
And all these fucking tests

I'm gonna stop the omnic war
Just you wait and see
Working on my Death Blossom
And tactics mastery

With every step and twirl
I'm gonna save the whole damned world!

[irish_vagabond]

Ahaha, brilliant!

[isawit]

I'm honestly torn between:
I don't look for trouble
But trouble looks for me
And it's been waiting around corners
Since I was thirteen
They say "Here comes a hurricane
Trouble is her middle name!"
But I don't look for trouble
Yeah trouble looks for me

And:
This girl thinks she's the queen of the neighborhood
She's got the hottest skills in town
This girl she holds her head up so high
They think I want to be their best friend, yeah

I'm honestly not all the familiar with musicals, but I also can't help thinking a Gotham/Rent AU wouldn't be all sorts of amazing.

[irish_vagabond]

Jesse is a friend
Yeah I know he's been a good friend of mine
But lately something's changed that ain't hard to define
Jesse's got himself a girl and I wanna make her mine

And she's watching him with those eyes
And she's loving him with that body, I just know it
Yeah 'n he's holding her in his arms late, late at night

You know I wish that I had Jesse's girl
I wish that I had Jesse's girl
Where can I find a woman like that

Basically the entirety of Rick Springfield's "Jessie's Girl" is Cassidy's song. That and the Killers' "Mr. Brightside." And for the record I would love to see a Preacher rock musical.

[quick_clean_pure]

WHAT A GRAND TIME TO BE FROM A MUSICAL. :D

Graverobber has three major songs and a couple of sung narrative interludes, so, really, any of them would be good. That said, if he had to 1) sing the song alone, and 2) have it be a song that's ~his song~ that sets him up as a person, then it's gotta be 21st Century Cure, the song I plucked his username from.



Lyrics:

Industrialization has crippled the globe
Nature failed as technology spread
And and in this wake, a market erected.
An entire city built on top of the dead!


And you can finance your bones and your kidneys
For every market a submarket grows
But, best you be punctual with making your payments
Lest it be you on the concrete below.

It's quick
It's clean
It's pure.
It could change your life,
rest assured.
It's the 21st Century's cure.

And it's my job
to steal and rob
GRAAAAAAAAAAVES!

So why care for these petty obsessions?
Your designer heart still beats with common blood.
And what if you could have genetic perfection?
Would you change who you are if you could?

It's quick.
It's clean.
It's pure.
It could change your life,
rest assured.

It's the 21st Century cure.

And its my job
To steal and rob
GRAAAAAAAVES!!!
GRAAAAAAAVES!!!

[bjornwilde]

D'oh! I forgot to add you to the "This will be easy for you" apology. =)

[errant_valkyrior]

I'm on the battlefield
Like, oh my God (ooh la la)
Knocking soldiers down
Like house of cards (ooh la la)

with a refrain of:
One, two, three, one, two, three, drink
One, two, three, one, two, three, drink
One, two, three, one, two, three, drink
Throw em back, till I lose count

The Rolling Stones' Painted Black might be mixed in somewhere also.

[no_more_hiding]

Pretty much the whole of Echo and the Bunnymen's What Are you Going to do With Your Life?

If I knew now what I knew then
I'd wonder how not wonder when
There's something going wrong again
With me and mine
It's only ever what it seems
Memories and might have beens
Heaven's scent: the smell of dreams
We'll never find
Tell me... tell me... tell me...

[freedom_is_grey]

For Ysalwen, the song that she'd sing is this one, Scuffle, by Dessa.

This part:

Hands are shaking
Radiating doubt and debating
Whether it's worth it
A person is always going to stay
And I've been planning my escape
Mapping out what it would take
I need a rope ladder, a plane ticket
A mess of new mistakes
I got myself in my hands
I'm not sure how to support her
But maybe 55404 is not the only venue for her
Cause if I can't keep my cool in public
You know the mockingbirds, they love that shit
See I'm the starlet of the scandal that's the talk of this tiny town
And every room I enter everybody shuts they mouths
Like I'm so oblivious that I'm downright stunned
Like I can't hear the words you're hiding underneath your tongue
I didn't catch you saying grace, motherfucker
So tell my how does my name taste?
Spit it out, so tell me how does my name taste?

And super-most-especially the end bit:

And I don't care about the cool kids at the corner coffee shop
Let them keep that idle talk
You just spread those broken wings
You spread those busted wings
You fucking walk

[cutting_edgex23]

X-23 would sing Love Knows How to Fight by M. Craft.

Cause all of the satellites which circle way up high won't save me now
And all of the meteorites that shoot across the sky won't save me now
All of the galaxies that turn before my eye won't get me out
Out of this mess i'm in now, no nothing can save me now

So if you wanna fuck up with a beer bottle in your hand then so do i
And if you wanna cut up the blueprints and the plans then so do i
You wanna get messed up, and make a final stand? well so do i
Cause i look around me and i see, nothing can save me now..

Love knows how to fight
Love knows how to fight
Love knows how to fight
And fight it will right up until the end

Love knows how to fight
Like darkness wrapped in light
Darkness wrapped in light
But love knows how to fight
Love knows how to fight

Clone Wars era

[jedi_interrupted]

(Fall Out Boy's Immortals)
They say we are what we are
But we don't have to be.
I'm bad behavior but I do it in the best way.
I'll be the watcher (watcher) of the eternal flame.
I'll be the guard dog of all your fever dreams.

Oooooooh
I am the sand in the bottom half of the hourglass (glass, glass)
Oooooooh,
I try to picture me without you but I can't

'Cause we could be immortals, immortals
Just not for long, for long.
And live with me forever now,
You pull the blackout curtains down
Just not for long, for long.

Post-CW and into the Empire era

[jedi_interrupted]

(Paramore's Last Hope)
I don't even know myself at all
I thought I would be happy but now
The more I try to push it I realize gonna let go of control

[messwiththebest]

Sombra's seems really obvious to me. It's Trouble by Pink. You know in your heart it's true.

You think you're right
But you were wrong
You tried to take me
But I knew all along
You can't take me, for a ride
Cause I'm no fool now
So you better run and hide

I got trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble y'all
I got trouble in my town
I'm trouble
Yeah trouble now
I'm trouble y'all
I got trouble in my town

So if you see me coming
Down the street then
You know it's time to
Go (go-oh-oh)

[mightbeagoodone]

Thousands s of answers
To one simple question
Come take this weight off me now

Oh I'm like a kid who just won't let it go
Twisting and turning the colors in rows
I'm so intent to find out what it is
This is my Rubik's cube
I know I will figure it out

Rubik's Cube by Athlete (Spotify link)

[thekidfrombrooklyn]

My spirit aches,
And I can't stop this river flowing.
In fear I take
Each laboured breath I draw in, knowing
That this could be my life,
My final hour.
But faith and hope and love
Give me the power,
For you,
For you.

For You by Johnny Cash & Dave Matthews (Youtube link)

[notapilot]

Lean On Me by Bill Withers, though the cover by Club Nouveau is a close call.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow
Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Like I could pick anything else....

[explosive_artist]

A medley of 21 Pilot’s Fairly Local, Green Days’ She’s a Rebel, and The Damned’s Ignite:
I'm not evil to the core
What I shouldn't do I will fight
I know I'm emotional
What I wanna save I will try
I know who I truly am
I truly do have a chance
Tomorrow I'll switch the beat
To avoid yesterday's dance

I paint the revolution
The dawning of our lives
I draw this liberation
That I just can't define
Well, nothing comes to mind

Under my hand blood is rushing to my head
No pleasure tonight in lying in bed
Like a candle man must ignite
I'm gonna set the world alight
Tonight
Light the fuse I must ignite
I'm gonna set the world alight
Light the fuse I must ignite
I'm gonna set the world alight

Then, as she’s walking offstage, in a stage whisper,
Do you know what's worth fighting for
When it's not worth dying for?

[manythorned]

In the daylight,
I’m your sweetheart,
Your goody-two-shoes prude is a work of art
But you don’t know me,
And soon you won’t forget,
Bad as can be, yeah you know I’m not so innocent

Better beware I go bump in the night,
Devil-may-care with a lust for life,
And I know you,
Can’t resist me,
Soon though you,
Are so addicted
Boy you better run for your life!

Welcome to the nightmare in my head,
Say hello to something scary,
The monster in your bed,
Just give in and you won’t be sorry,
Welcome to my other side,
Hello it’s Mz Hyde!



Mz. Hyde by Halestorm

[death_gone_mad]

I've only started listening to Halestorm recently an I just want to say heck yes \m/

[shadowandsnark]

( Siouxsie and the Banshees' Shadowtime )

Turn your wish to a vapour, the silhouette fades
Eclipse your blue eyes and the outline remains
From the house of the moon to the stars up above
Amidst the comets, first sight of love

So begin the countdown

Falling sky, a solar sigh
It all begins beneath the skin
No-one is near, no-one will hear
Your changeling song takes shape
In Shadowtime

[touched_by_fire]

Apashe feat Sway, I'm a Dragon (shifted to fit him singing it)

I put in practice and discipline
No giving up, no giving in
I'm match fit, I'm here to win
For those who don't know better fill them in, fill them in
Information, information
I'm the realest out here, no imitation
Been all around the world, no immigration
And I'm getting in without an invitation

And I'll be damned, but Mötley Crüe's Home Sweet Home works well also:

You know I'm a dreamer
But my heart's of gold
I had to run away high
So I wouldn't come home low
Just when things went right
It doesn't mean they were always wrong
Just take this song and you'll never feel
Left all alone
Take me to your heart
Feel me in your bones
Just one more night
And I'm comin' off this
Long and winding road
I'm on my way
I'm on my way
Home sweet home

[bjornwilde]

Just heard DMC’s Just Like Me, featuring Sarah McLachlan, and while I’m tempted to filk it for Danny, it kinda feels like appropriation so I won’t. Stil, Harry Chapin’s Cat’s in the Cradle could really work and now I have feels.

[garde723]

I got nothing but a reworking of White Town's Your Woman:

Just tell me what you've got to say to me
I've been waiting for so long to hear the truth
It comes as no surprise at all you see
So cut the crap and tell me what we are

I wish I could think of songs that cover their narrative but I am failing.

[bjornwilde]

Actually, Izana could always just sing the first opening theme of Knights of Sidonia (I'd look at the second but I can't find an English traslation):

Give me a reason to throw our lives away
Give me a reason to fight another day
No matter the cost

We’ll win the battle (4x)

Fly into space with the wind beneath you feet
Towards a future many light years away
Don’t hesitate and train ‘till the break of dawn
Assemble, knights, and fight on!

We’ll win the battle (Knight of SIdonia)
The time’s upon us (Knight of SIdonia)
They’re never take us (Knight of SIdonia)

Release your powers
Survive for what you believe in
Give me a reason to throw our lives away
Give me a reason to fight another day

It’s time for us to fulfill this vow
Sacrifice my life for tomorrow
No matter that burden, move on
For we fight for our fate here and now

Here’s an English cover. ETA: OK, the person is making a valiant effort with the song but is pushign their range in ways they likely shouldn't. Here's the original theme and, what the heck, season two's as well.

[iprotectyou]

Umm. I have no idea. Suggestions?

[bjornwilde]

Green Days' "21 Guns" comes to mind. Or "Wake Me Up When September Ends" but these might be too gloomy or angsty.

[ceitfianna]

I'm a little too tired to make up new ones but I can tell you songs I connect with the characters.

Cassian would find himself singing 21 Guns from American Idiot.

Quentin would sing something from Into the Woods, not sure exactly what or one of Seanan McGuire's other lyrics.

Charles for now would I think sing No More from Into the Woods and later No One is Alone, how could I forget a song that is his lyric for life.

I could see Will S. actually singing and liking songs from Disney's Robin Hood, glad that Not in Nottingham isn't true anymore.

I can't think of the others for the moment.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato has one in canon: 'For Me,' sung by his Tri voice actor. It's largely about Yamato's abandonment issues and being left behind by someone irreplaceable -- and it applies equally to Gabumon and Taichi.

“I want to become stronger and protect you” I said quietly, laughing
And it felt like everything was okay again

Don’t say good bye, it has to be you
You say good bye, if that time were to come
You’re irreplaceable to me
The promise we exchanged is always here in my heart.

He also has one for 01! It is less about being sad and more Yamato comparing himself to Taichi and alternately going "You're kind of an idiot," and "I am very jealous of you."

tl;dr: Please stop singing songs about Taichi, Yams. We get it, you have several feelings about him.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut in a musical? Ha! Well, parts of Eyes on Fire by Blue Foundation are too perfectly story relevant not to include.
And I'm not scared of your stolen power
I see right through you any hour

I won't soothe your pain
I won't ease your strain
You'll be waiting in vain
I got nothing for you to gain

I'm taking it slow
Feeding my flame
Shuffling the cards of your game
And just in time
In the right place
Suddenly I will play my ace

I can imagine her hamming it up by singing In This Moment songs in private moments or for big reveals but when other characters are around she'll be quiet.

[lazy_but_loyal]

For Pam, I'm not even going to be ironic about this, it's "Bring Me to Life" by Evanescence. This song is all Pam, all for Eric when he turns her.

Frozen inside, without your touch
Without your love, darling
Only you are my life
Among the dead

I've been sleeping a thousand years it seems
Got to open my eyes to everything
Don't let me die here
Bring me to life

Wake me up inside
Wake me up inside
Call my name and save me from the dark
Bid my blood to run
Before I come undone
Save me from the nothing I've become

[gods_that_haunt_me]

Floki is difficult to find a song for, but I think maybe REM's "Finest Worksong." Just the whole sound of it is very...well, workmanlike.

The time to rise has been engaged
You're better best to rearrange
I'm talking here to me alone
I listen to the finest worksong
Your finest hour, your finest hour

Another chance has been engaged
To throw Thoreau and rearrange
You are following this time
I beg you not, beg to rhyme
(Blow your horn) Your finest hour
(Blow your horn) Your finest hour

Take your instinct by the reins
You're better best to rearrange
What we want and what we need
Has been confused been confused
(Blow your horn) Your finest hour
(Blow your horn) Your finest hour

I would also like to suggest "Losing My Religion" for Athelstan >_>

[have_no_mercy]

No one knows what it's like
To be the bad girl
To be the sad girl
Behind blue eyes
And no one knows what it's like
To be hated
To be fated to telling only lies

But my dreams they aren't as empty
As my conscience seems to be
I have hours, only lonely
My love is vengeance
That's never free

No one knows what its like
To feel these feelings
Like I do, and I blame you
No one bites back as hard
On their anger
None of my pain and woe
Can show through...



Behind Blue Eyes by Within Temptation