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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Stay In My Corner by The Arcs, Teleport 2 Me, Jamie by KID CUDI, & Forget the Past by The Irrepressibles

    January 19, 2024 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Kage by Maris Black

    Stay in My Corner by The Arcs for a book about Kage finding the man worth keeping in his corner.

    They can steal away my soul
    Hang it dangerously low
    I don’t care for they go
    ‘Cause I’ve been down there before, before

    Stay in my corner, babe
    Stay in my corner, please
    Stay in my corner, babe
    I will fight for you if you fight for me too

    Soundtrack to Kage: Unleashed by Maris Black

    Teleport 2 Me, Jamie by KID CUDI is Kage’s entrance song and secret message to Jamie so I just had to put it here. That scene slayed me!

    Getting in from the airport
    You getting in from the study group
    The only thing missing at this point
    Is bonafide chillin’ time with you
    I can’t stand the times when I’m alone at night
    And I feel your side of the bed and it’s cold
    Wide awake, I don’t know the time
    ‘Cause I’m too busy textin’ you on my phone

    Sayin’, I want you girl
    And I need your body right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me?)

    Soundtrack to Kage: Unmasked by Maris Black

    Forget the Past by The Irrepressibles for a book about Kage and Jamie, the past that haunted them, the present that challenged them, and the future they fought hard for.

    You’ll be the wave that will gain
    You’ll be the water on stain
    You’ll be there calling my name
    Jamie, Jamie
    You’ll have a warrant to kill
    All of my fears and then spill
    Into me all of your will
    Find me, find me
    Find me, find me
    Find me, find me
    My love, my love
    My love, my love
    You’ll be the essence of fire
    You’ll take hold of my desire
    You’ll make me bold and inspire
    Mold me, mold me

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    January 19, 2024 / No Comments

    I won’t always be a winner, babe
    In fact, I’m bound to burn
    All these bumps in the road, dear
    They’re just lessons we learned, we learned

    Stay in my corner, babe
    Stay in my corner, please
    Stay in my corner, babe
    I will fight for you if you fight for me too

    They can steal away my soul
    Hang it dangerously low
    I don’t care for they go
    ‘Cause I’ve been down there before, before

    Stay in my corner, babe
    Stay in my corner, please
    Stay in my corner, babe
    I will fight for you if you fight for me too

    We sit together forever
    By the color, TV glow
    Telling stories, allegories
    Letting ourselves go

    Stay in my corner, babe
    Stay in my corner, please
    Stay in my corner, babe
    I will fight for you if you fight for me to

    Getting in from the airport
    You getting in from the study group
    The only thing missing at this point
    Is bonafide chillin’ time with you
    I can’t stand the times when I’m alone at night
    And I feel your side of the bed and it’s cold
    Wide awake, I don’t know the time
    ‘Cause I’m too busy textin’ you on my phone

    Sayin’, I want you girl
    And I need your body right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me?)
    I want you girl
    I need your body right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me?)
    I want you girl
    Right here, right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me?)
    I want you girl
    Right here, right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me, baby?)

    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

    You call out to me through the light
    I know you must be close
    The moment when I realize it’s all in my mind
    The moment I hate the most
    Somebody help me out? Does anyone care?

    Can anyone hear me?
    Is there anyone there?
    I’m over the loneliness
    And I can’t close my eyes
    Without you by my side

    I want you girl
    And I need your body right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me?)
    I want you girl
    I need your body right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me?)
    I want you girl
    Right here, right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me?)
    I want you girl
    Right here, right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me, baby?)

    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
    Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na

    Teleport to me
    Right here
    (Won’t you teleport to me, baby?)

    You’ll be the wave that will gain
    You’ll be the water on stain
    You’ll be there calling my name
    Jamie, Jamie
    You’ll have a warrant to kill
    All of my fears and then spill
    Into me all of your will
    Find me, find me
    Find me, find me
    Find me, find me
    My love, my love
    My love, my love
    You’ll be the essence of fire
    You’ll take hold of my desire
    You’ll make me bold and inspire
    Mold me, mold me
    You’ll be the eye of the storm
    You’ll be the letters I’ve worn
    You’ll be the dreams that I’ve torn
    Know me, know me
    Know me, know me
    Mold me, mold me
    My love, my love
    My love, my love
    Find me inside the calm of the storm where lovers decide
    What might come with the dawn
    And we sit on the grass and wait
    For machines and forget the past
    Find me inside the calm of the storm where lovers decide
    What might come with the dawn
    And we sit on the grass and wait
    For machines and forget the past
    You’ll be the wave that will gain
    You’ll be the water on stain
    You’ll be there calling my name
    Jamie, Jamie

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    SOUNDTRACK: To Be by The Irrepressibles

    December 23, 2023 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Vitale Brothers: Say I Do by Brea Alepou & Skyler Snow

    To Be by The Irrepressibles for a book about a sham marriage between two bitter enemies becoming a bond of true love and family.

    I live a life of lies
    I love the truth you hide
    Can we accept the weight?
    Our love is born through hate

    Feeling the way you breath down my side
    I’ll never escape you, I can never try
    Seeing the way you look in my eyes
    I’m lost in illusion, my world set aside

    Are all my senses real?
    For all I am and feel?
    In you I see perfection in all I am and feel

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    December 23, 2023 / No Comments

    I’m born by time and race
    I long to find a face
    In love I am alive

    These fears I cannot hide

    I live a life of lies
    I love the truth you hide
    Can we accept the weight?
    Our love is born through hate

    Feeling the way you breath down my side
    I’ll never escape you, I can never try
    Seeing the way you look in my eyes
    I’m lost in illusion, my world set aside

    Are all my senses real?
    For all I am and feel?
    In you I see perfection in all I am and feel

    Feeling the way you breath down my side
    I’ll never escape you, I can never try
    Seeing the way you look in my eyes
    I’m lost in illusion, my world set aside

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    SOUNDTRACK: Animal Impulses by IAMX & My Witness by The Irrepressibles

    December 29, 2020 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Handled: Cleansed by Romilly King

    I chose Animal Impulses because there are frequent references to animals and primal urges in Cleansed and the other books. Nathan compares Gray to a predator many times. The lyrics seemed tailor-made for psychos, going on about “Shine razor eyes in delight / Shine razor eyes before you die” and “I’m tired of this human duet / No civilizing hides / Our animal impulses”

    Soundtrack to Handled: Polished by Romilly King

    For the series finale, Polished, that puts the spotlight on the complicated and weirdly intimate relationship between Handler and Witness, the only song for it is, none other than My Witness. With verses that go “Make the fall, take the fire / Fuck the law nicely / Tint it all with desire / Shape the form I see” and “I will wake from the rain from the light of you / Take a knife to my chest, I’m alive by you“, they described how these relationships changed the two people involved in it.

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    December 29, 2020 / No Comments

    Bury me with a sword, with a chain and ache
    I’m alive with the flyers, with the flames at stake
    To be gone in a thought that’s arranged by you
    To be formed by a shape that’s innate of you

    I will wake from the rain from the light of you
    Take a knife to my chest, I’m alive by you

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, my witness
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, my witness

    Make the fall, take the fire
    Fuck the law nicely
    Tint it all with desire
    Shape the form I see

    I’m alive with a knife, with a wife in me
    I’m a crane looking out at the hypocrisy

    Ooh, ooh, my witness
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, my witness

    Take the sting from the sky
    Make their love in an eye
    Take the sting from the sky
    Make their love in an eye
    Take the sting from the sky

    Ooh, ooh, ooh, my witness
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, my witness

    Take your wars of your faiths
    Of your bitterness, please
    Take your wars of your faiths
    Of your ignorance and leave

    I will wake from the rain from the light of you
    Take a knife to my chest, I’m alive by you

    Ooh, ooh, my witness
    Ooh, ooh, ooh, my witness

    Take the sting from the sky
    Make their love in an eye
    Take the sting from the sky
    Make their love in an eye
    Take the sting from the sky

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    SOUNDTRACK: I’ll Maybe Let You by The Irrepressibles

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    Soundtrack to Prime Time: Breaking News by Ella Frank

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    September 15, 2020 / No Comments

    I might like to be in love with you
    I might like to dance
    I might like to

    I see your face
    On my pillow case
    In my secret space
    I see your face

    I might like high
    I might like low
    I might want to go
    Or put you in my show

    I’ll maybe let you into my dream
    I’ll maybe let you
    I’ll maybe let you into my dream
    I’ll maybe let you

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    SOUNDTRACK: New World by The Irrepressibles

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    Soundtrack to Cabrini Law: Other Than Honorable by Parker St. John

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    June 26, 2020 / No Comments

    Show me your reasons to fight,
    The new world tonight,
    And I will be here by your side,
    So true.

    Because I couldn’t see truth from my eyes,
    They blinded me with rules from when I was a child,
    Because all around the vain ones decide,
    The ways in which we live our lives.

    But we’ll breathe,
    Our dreams,
    And we’ll scream,
    Louder, so we’ll be seen.

    Show me the truth that you hide,
    The world needs to know,
    That there’ll be no sacrifice,
    The love we share has to grow.

    Take off that burden that persists,
    There’ll be no miracles to make you fit.
    And look deep into my eyes,
    You’ll see the truth you long to find.

    And we’ll breath,
    Our dreams,
    And we’ll scream,
    Louder, so we’ll be seen.

    Show me the tears that you cry,
    Some problems can cut deep inside,
    But I believe there’s ways to climb,
    Up out into another time.

    Where we’ll breath
    Our dreams,
    And we’ll scream
    Louder, so we’ll be seen…

    Love…
    Is.
    Freedom…

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neverhollowed Never Hollowed By The Stare @neverhollowed ·
10 Jun

𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐮𝐦 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐲—𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬.

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Unrequited love can make you blind.

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9 Jun

Sometimes growing up means growing apart in this queer take on As You Like It featuring first loves and friend breakups, from award-winning author Julia Drake.

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