I've finally switched away from Spotify but before I forget, here's my playlist for Ryland Grace (with complicated Grace?Stratt vibes, falling in love with a rock spider alien, and Ocean = Erid = Home as a recurring motif)
"Neighborhood #2 (Laika)" Arcade Fire
our mother should have just named you Laika / it's for your own good, it's for the neighborhood
"Two Receivers" the Klaxons
and in space, two receivers turn away
"Major Tom" Shiny Toy Guns
far beneath the ship, the world is mourning / they don't realize he's alive / no one understands what Major Tom sees / now the light commands: this is my home, i'm coming home
"Autoclave" The Mountain Goats
EVERY SINGLE LINE but I am this great unstable mass of blood and foam / and no emotion that's worth having would call my heart its home / my heart's an autoclave
"Futile Devices" Sufjan Stevens
the metal vibrates underneath your fingers / and when you crochet I feel mesmerized and proud / and I would say I love you but saying it out loud is hard / so I won't say it at all / and I won't stay very long
"Gravity's Rainbow" The Klaxons
you'd slip through time, but I won't let you / come with me, we'll travel to infinity / I'll always be there, my future love
"Starlight (Live from Rome)" Muse*
far away, this ship is taking me far away / from the memories of the people who cared if I live or die
"Vittorio E" Spoon
I took the river but the river was long / I want you to stay, I want you to go
"The Changing Lights" Broken Bells**
you don't need me now / and sometimes you wonder if it's all just another mistake // you gotta measure the cost / what have you gained? what have you lost?
my cards are on the table / I'm here tonight / but I don't need anything from you
"Sky Starts Falling" Doves**
I swear I heard her call, call my name / can I move on? / did she call herself a friend? / don't call on me again / did she seem like before? / did she seem above it all? / be sure to send my love
"On the Run" Glass Animals**
AGAIN EVERY SINGLE LINE the internet said it would take a firm commitment / but I got a way, definitely / that I can make it painless / I'm thinking this: thinking I should fake my own death / there's no fixing this, thanks for all the fish / I'll go, and you'll forget this / 'cause them's the consequences, ooh
I'm going on the run on the run on the run on the on the run
"Future Reflections" MGMT
I wrapped a string around my finger
but as long as you feel it, I'm a believer / my heart is phosphor // is the cost to stay lost / forever in an empty skin, pale and thin?
their guns don't see us, there's a sea outside my door / and one day I'll appreciate the rush of blood and the washed-out beat of the shore
"Lost in the Ocean" Glass Animals
EVERY. LINE. OH GRACE. Laika didn't die, she found a new home. you get lost in the ocean / what do you do when you are so broken? / the flood, the feeling comes over / how are you so loved and so lonesome?
"Rylan" The National***
always ALWAYS save the best for last when doing a playlist folks
is it easy to keep so quiet? / everybody loves a quiet child / underwater you're almost free / if you wanna be alone, come with me / is it easy to live inside yourself? // everybody wants to be amazing
Ryland, California's rotten / dress light blue to be forgotten / eat your pearls on sunday morning / keep your conversations boring / stay with me among the strangers / change your mind and nothing changes / don't let show any emotions / when you climb into the ocean
Ryland, you should try to get some sun / there's a little but of hell in everyone / you remind me of everyone
* Specifically using this live version of "Starlight" because it's the ultimate rendition, the entire stadium singing the lyrics makes me shiver
** If it's not obvious, this is the Grace And Eva Block. In which Grace never forgives her, in which he still thinks of her, and in which he runs away again (but much more successfully)
*** I almost don't even want to include this song because if I ever lose control and make a fanvid, it will be to this song. I cannot fucking believe The National has a purposefully gender-ambiguous song called "Rylan" and THESE are the fucking lyrics and THAT FINAL VERSE omg
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