PLAYLIST | songs are like birds

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SING, LITTLE BIRD sing for your life ( play the playlist in a new tab )

MOCKINGBIRD father and i have larger concerns

Apotheosis ♔ JOURNEY OST | instrumental

CIVILIAN ♔ WYE OAK | I am nothing without pretend | I know my thoughts | Can't live with them | I am nothing without a man | I know my thoughts | But I can't hide them | I still keep my baby teeth | In the bedside table with my jewelry | You still sleep in the bed with me, my jewelry, and my baby teeth | I don't need another friend | When most of them | I can barely keep up with them | Perfectly able to hold my own hand | But I still can't kiss my own neck | I wanted to give you everything | But I still stand in awe of superficial things | I wanted to love you like my mother's mother's mothers did | Civilian | Civilian

PRETTY FACE ♔ SOLEY | I see my pretty face in his old eyes | I listen to our blood run side by side | I throw my hands to you and run away | It´s so cold so dangerous that I can't stay | I run away from you | Into your dream and who the one | That I was in when you took me | That I could never meet my friends again | I thought I touched them but I can't feel I´m in your dream | They want to take me but I will hide from them | Tonight I take your life and throw it far away | I'll use my pretty face to find my way to him

FOLLOW YOU DOWN TO THE RED OAK TREE ♔ JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW | follow you down to the red oak tree | as the air moves thick through the hollow reeds | i will wait for you there until someone comes | to carry me, carry me down | see i have not i have not grown cold | i have stole from men who have stole from those | with their arms so thin and their skin so old | but you are young, you are young, you are young | then somebody laughs like it’s all just for hell | as though we could not be saved from the depth of the well | but the cloth that i make is a cloth you can sell | to pay for the gossamer seed | names get carved in the red oak tree | of the ones who stay and the ones who leave | i will wait for you there with these cindered bones | so follow me follow me down | follow me follow me down | follow me follow me down | follow me follow me down

THE ENEMY ♔ MUMFORD AND SONS | Give me hope in silence | It's easier; It's kinder | Tell me not of heartbreak | It plagues my soul, plagues my soul | We will meet back on this road | Nothing gaining, truth be told | But I am not the enemy | it isn't me, the enemy | But I came and I was nothing | And time will give us nothing | So why did you choose to lean on | A man you knew was falling | Give me hope in silence | It's easier; It's kinder | Tell me not of heartbreak | It plagues my soul, plagues my soul | And bury me beside you | I have no hope | In solitude | And the world will follow | To the earth down below

BERNADETTE ♔ IAMX | You and me in our playhouse | Living in a veil | We never need to go without | Memories bring no joy or peace | We are alone | And all we need | Tuning out of the poison | Every waking day | Intolerance to overcome | Fortunes won by the boys with the guns | We are alone | Nowhere to run | Bernadette | You are my liberty | I celebrate the day | That you changed my history | Life and death | Will always lead you into love and regret | But you have answers | And I have the key | For the door to Bernadette | Winding down our emotions | Family and friends | Becoming ghosts to dream of and pass on | Time will erase every face every name | We are alone | No-one to blame

DO I HAVE POWER ♔ TIMBER TIMBRE | In a movement of a thousand helping hands | I am not beyond the saccharine of sycophantic rants | In a moment of a wilderness exposed | Is this lack of wisdom better than a charismatic soul | And I'm bringing up blue horse meat thinking that I've lost control | Do I have power Do I have power Do I have power over it | Do I have power Do I have power Do I have any power over it

I'M SO HEAVY ♔ FLORENCE + THE MACHINE | I was a heavy heart to carry | My beloved was weighed down | My arms around his neck | My fingers laced to crown | I was a heavy heart to carry | My feet dragged across ground | And he took me to the river | Where he slowly let me drown | My love has concrete feet | My love's an iron ball | Wrapped around your ankles | Over the waterfall | I'm so heavy, heavy | Heavy in your arms | I'm so heavy, heavy | Heavy in your arms | And is it worth the wait | All this killing time | Are you strong enough to stand | Protecting both your heart and mine | Who is the betrayer | Who's the killer in the crowd | The one who creeps in corridors | And doesn't make a sound

WOMAN KING ♔ IRON & WINE | Blackbird claw, raven wing | Under the red sunlight | Long clothesline, two shirtsleeves | Waving as we go by | Hundred years, hundred more | Someday we may see | A woman king | Wristwatch time | Slowin' as she goes to sleep | Black horsefly, lemonade | Jar on the red anthill | Garden worm, cigarette | Ash on the windowsill | Hundred years, hundred more | Someday we may see | A woman king | Sword in hand | Swing at some evil and bleed

SOBER ♔ TOOL (COVERED BY ROCKABYE BABY) | Instrumental

SHAKE IT OUT ♔ FLORENCE + THE MACHINE (the Weeknd REMIX) | Regrets collect like old friends | Here to relive your darkest moments | I can see no way, I can see no way | And all of the ghouls come out to play | And every demon wants his pound of flesh | But I like to keep some things to myself | I like to keep my issues strong | It's always darkest before the dawn | And I've been a fool and I've been blind | I can never leave the past behind | I can see no way, I can see no way | I'm always dragging that horse around | I am done with my graceless heart | So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart | Cause I like to keep my issues strong | It's always darkest before the dawn | And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back | So shake him off

WONG CHIA CHI'S THEME ♔ LUST, CAUTION OST | instrumental

DIREWOLF that day was done and so was sansa

WINTERFELL ♔ GAME OF THRONES S2 OST | instrumental

MY BODY IS A CAGE ♔ ARCADE FIRE | My body is a cage | that keeps me from dancing | with the one I love | but my mind holds the key | I'm standing on a stage | of fear and self-doubt | it's a hollow play | but they'll clap anyway | My body is a cage | that keeps me from dancing | with the one I love | but my mind holds the key | my mind holds the key | My mind holds the key | I'm living in an age | that calls darkness light | though my language is dead | still the shapes fill my head | I'm living in an age | whose name I don't know | though the fear keeps me moving | still my heart beats so slow | My body is a cage | we take what we are given | just because you've forgotten | doesn't mean you're forgiven

GAETA'S LAMENT ♔ BEAR McCREARY | Alone she sleeps in the shirt of man | with my three wishes clutched in her hand | The first that she be spared the pain | that comes from a dark and laughing rain | when she finds love may it always stay true | this I beg for the second wish I may too | but wish no more | my life you can take | to have her please just one day wake | to have her please just one day wake | to have her please just one day wake

GLASS ♔ BATS FOR LASHES | I will rise now | And go about the city | In the street's | Broadways I seek | Him whom my soul loveth | Went over the sea | What did I find? | A thousand crystal towers | A hundred emerald cities | And the hand of the watchman | In the night sky | Points to my beloved | A knight in crystal armour | And I tried to hold him | I tried for the creed | I'll make a suit of colours | To stop the blinding mirrors | Sew a cape of red and gold | Stifle up the being | With the perfect armour | With a perfect dream | To be made of glass | When two suns are shining | The battle becomes blinding | To be made of glass | But we ride tonight, tonight, tonight, we ride

TURN THE DIRT OVER ♔ SEA WOLF | Come closer to the window frame | Window to the dark and the field of snow | I saw you running like summer flame | Running through the grass, turning gold to black | Oh! turn the dirt over | If you wanna grow back | Oh! open up the shutters | See the moon light on the snow | You left your brother in a northern town | Took the ferry o'er the water on the bay | His body covered by the colors going down | The statue in the square before the wind could change | Oh! turn the water over | If you wanna flow down | Oh! open up the shutters | See the fallen snow | Fallen snow

DREAM ♔ PRISCILLA AHN | I was a little girl | Alone in my little world | Who dreamed of a little home for me | I played pretend between the trees | And fed my houseguests bark and leaves | And laughed in my pretty bed of green | I had a dream | That I could fly | From the highest swing | I had a dream | Long walks in the dark | Through woods grown behind the park | I asked God who I'm supposed to be | The stars smiled down at me | God answered in silent reverie | I said a prayer and fell asleep | I had a dream | That I could fly | From the highest tree | I had a dream

AURA ♔ .hack//SIGN OST | If you are near to the dark | I will tell you 'bout the sun | You are here, no escape | From my visions of the world | You will cry all alone | But it does not mean a thing to me | Knowing the song I will sing | Till the darkness comes to sleep | Come to me, I will tell | 'Bout the secret of the sun | It's in you, not in me | But it does not mean a thing to you | The sun is in your eyes | The sun is in your ears | I hope you see the sun | Someday in the darkness

WHO WILL LOVE ME NOW ♔ PJ HARVEY | In the forest, is a monster | It has done terrible things | So in the wood, it's hiding | And this is the song it sings | Who will love me now? | Who will ever love me? | Who will say to me | "You are my desire, I set you free?" | Who will forgive and make me live again? | Who will bring me back to the world again? | In the forest, is a monster | And it looks so very much like me Will someone hear me singing? | Please save me, please rescue me

MAKE UP ♔ PSAPP | Eat up your shame | You did not choose to be this way | These names live on your lips | But you cant help how bloodlines slip | I could never fall for an empty page anyway | I wouldn't like it | You cant haggle with your mother | You cannot choose her love, oh no | Come and fight your corner | Theres no one doing it for you | There would be nobody if we all stayed all alone | I wouldnt like it

WINTER ♔ MUM | instrumental

TO BE OF LIONS they have made me a lannister

AWAKEN ♔ JANE EYRE OST | instrumental

THE RAINS OF CASTAMERE ♔ THE NATIONAL | And who are you, the proud lord said | that I must bow so low | Only a cat of a different coat | that's all the truth I know | In a coat of gold or a coat of red | a lion still has claws | And mine are long and sharp, my lord | as long and sharp as yours | And so he spoke, and so he spoke | that lord of Castamere | But now the rains weep o'er his hall | with no one there to hear | Yes now the rains weep o'er his hall | and not a soul to hear.

OH DEATH ♔ JEN TITUS | Oh, Death, оh Death, oh Death | Won't you spare me over til another year | But what is this, that I cant see with ice cold hands taking hold of me | When God is gone and the Devil takes hold | who will have mercy on your soul | Oh, Death, оh Death, oh Death | No wealth, no ruin, no silver, no gold | Nothing satisfies me but your soul | Oh, Death | Well I am Death, none can excel | I'll open the door to heaven or hell | Oh, Death, оh Death | my name is Death and the end is here

SEVEN DEVILS ♔ FLORENCE + THE MACHINE | Holy water cannot help you now | Thousand armies couldn't keep me out | I don't want your money | I don't want your crown | See I've come to burn your kingdom down | Holy water cannot help you now | See I've come to burn your kingdom down | And no rivers and no lakes can put the fire out | I'm gonna raise the stakes, I'm gonna smoke you out | Seven devils all around me | Seven devils in my house | See they were there when I woke up this morning | I'll be dead before the day is done

MARGARET IN CAPTIVITY ♔ THE DECEMBERISTS | I have snipped your wingspan | My precious captive swan | Here all clipped of kickstand | Your spirit won't last long | Don't you lift a finger | Don't you snap and jaw | Limber limbs akimbo | Rest till rubbing raw | Oh my own true love! Oh my own true love | Can you hear me, love | Can you hear me, love | Don't hold out for rescue | None can hear your call | Till I have wrest and wrecked you | Behind these fortress walls

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 | Apres moi, le deluge | After me comes the flood | Февраль. Достать чернил и плакать! | Писать о феврале навзрыд | Пока грохочущая слякоть | Весною черною горит.

WHAT HE WROTE ♔ LAURA MARLING | Forgive me, Hera, I cannot stay | He cut out my tongue | there is nothing to say | Love me, oh Lord, | he threw me away | He laughed at my sins, in his arms I must stay | He wrote | I am broke | please send for me | But I am broken too | and spoken for | do not tempt me | Her skin is white | and I'm light as the sun | so holy light shines on the things you have done | So I asked him how he became this man | how did he learn to hold fruit in his hands | and where is the lamb that gave you your name | he had to leave though I begged him to stay | Left me alone when I needed the light | fell to my knees and I wept for my life | If he had of stayed you might understand | If he had of stayed you never would have taken my hand

THE LION'S ROAR ♔ FIRST AID KIT | Well the pale mornin sings of forgotten things | she plays a tune for those who wish to overlook | the fact that they've been blindly deceived | by those who preach and pray and teach | but she falls short and the night explodes in laughter | don't you come here and say i didn't warn you | about the way your world can alter | and oh how you try to command it all still | every single time it all shifts one way or the other | and i'm a goddamn coward, but then again so are you | and the lion's roar, the lion's roar | has me evading and hollering for you | and i never really knew what to do | well i guess sometimes i wish you were a | little more predictable | that i could read you just like a book | but now i can only guess what's coming next | by examining your timid smile | and the ways of the old, old winds blowing you back 'round

YOUTH ♔ DAUGHTER | Shadows settle on the place, that you left | Our minds are troubled by the emptiness | Destroy the middle, it's a waste of time | From the perfect start to the finish line | And if you're still breathing, you're the lucky ones | Cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs | Setting fire to our insides for fun | Collecting names of the lovers that went wrong | The lovers that went wrong | We are the reckless | We are the wild youth | Chasing visions of our futures | One day we'll reveal the truth | That one will die before he gets there | And if you're still bleeding, you're the lucky ones | Cause most of our feelings, they are dead and they are gone | We're setting fire to our insides for fun | Collecting pictures from the flood that wrecked our home | it was a flood that wrecked this | and you caused it | and you caused it | and you caused it

DEATH IS THE ROAD TO AWE ♔ THE FOUNTAIN OST | instrumental

BURY ME WITH IT it was not dead, just broken; like me

THE ROAD ♔ THE ROAD OST | instrumental

GALLOWS ♔ COCOROSIE | It was just before the moon hung | Her weary heavy head in | The gallows and the graves of | The milky milky cradle | His tears have turned to poppies | A shimmer in the midnight | A flower in the twilight | A flower in the twilight | And our screaming | Is in his screaming | Our screaming in the willow | They took him to the gallows | He fought them all the way though | And when they asked us how we knew his name | We died just before him | Our eyes are in the flowers | Our hands are in the branches | Our voices in the breezes | And our screaming | Is in his screaming | Our screaming in the willow tree

GIVE UP ♔ LOW ROAR | I won't wake | A wealthy man someday | Cause the sun, don't follow me | I won't wake | Without a song to sing | Nothing to some | Everything to me | On my worst | I'll do my best | To make it seem | Like I am happy | I've grown numb | Dry as my tear ducts | I've grown dumb | and empty | But don't give up on me

MOTHER I'M HERE ♔ BASTION OST | I set my sail | fly the wind it will take me | back to my home, sweet home | Lie on my back | clouds are making way for me | I'm coming home, sweet home | I see your star you left it burning for me | Mother, I'm here | Eyes open wide | feel your heart and it's glowing | I'm welcome home, sweet home | I take your hand | now you'll never be lonely | not when I'm home, sweet home | I see your star, you left it burning for me | Mother, I'm here

O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL ♔ SUFJAN STEVENS | O come, O come, Emmanuel | And ransom captive Israel | That mourns in lonely exile here | Until the Son of God appear | Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel | Shall come to thee, O Israel | O come, Thou Day-Spring, come and cheer | Our spirits by Thine advent here | Disperse the gloomy clouds of night | And death's dark shadows put to flight | Rejoice! Rejoice! Emmanuel | Shall come to thee, O Israel.

NOTHING BUT THE WIND ♔ THE EDITORS | We can never go home | We no longer have one | I'll help you carry the load | I'll carry you in my arms | The kiss of the snow | The cresent moon above us | Our blood is cold and we're alone | But I'm alone with you | Help me to carry the fire | We will keep it alight together | Help me to carry the fire | It will light our way forever | If I say shut your eyes | If I say look away | Bury your face in my shoulder | Think of a birthday | The things you put in your heads | They will stay here forever | Our blood is cold and we're alone | But I'm alone with you

BLACK FLIES ♔ BEN HOWARD | Black flies on the windowsill | That we are | That we are | That we are to know | Winter stole summer's thrill | And the river's cracked and cold | See the sky is no man's land | A darkened plume to stay | Hope here needs a humble hand | Not a fox found in your place | And no man is an island, oh this I know | But can't you see, oh | Maybe you were the ocean, when I was just a stone | Black flies on the windowsill | That we are | That we are | That we are to hold | Comfort came against my will | And every story must grow old

LEAVING EARTH + AN END ONCE AND FOR ALL (REMIX) ♔ MASS EFFECT 3 OST | Instrumental

I WAS BORN FOR THIS ♔ JOURNEY OST | COMPOSER NOTE: The text from the aria comes from a variety of global "hero's journeys," either from history or mythology. Joan of Arc, the Aenied, Beowolf, etc ... all in original languages.