Immortals Quartet fanmix: Fair Strange Lover

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The Boy's been reading Tamora Pierce's Immortals Quartet. Oh gods above but I loved - love - those books so much. I read them for the first time as a little teen, and they were just so completely the thing that I wanted. Awhile ago, thefourthvine wrote a gorgeous meta on being part of the audience - the Immortals books were one of my first real experiences with being front and center in a writer's audience. To this day, I still have a strong desire to draw little tiny hearts around Tamora Pierce.

So he's been reading them, and we've been talking about them, and I seem to have nerded out and made a ship fanmix. Um.









Blackbird, Dove
{the beginning of a story: Take these broken wings and learn to fly/ All your life/ You were only waiting for this moment to arise}

Kywitt! Kywitt! Caprice
{Daine: fairytale birdsongs}

Animal Instinct, The Cranberries
{Daine: And the thing that freaks me out/ Is I'll always be in doubt/ It is a lovely thing, the animal instinct}

Girl and Her Horse, Carbon Leaf
{Daine: With no words to say/ A girl and her horse can communicate}

Flowers Never Bend With The Rainfall, Simon & Garfunkel
{Numair: I don't know what is real/ I can't touch what I feel/ And I hide behind the shield of my illusion}

Lover Lover Lover, Leonard Cohen
{Numair: I said, Father change my name/ The one I'm using now it's covered up/ with fear and filth and cowardice and shame}

Apprentice of the Universe, Pure Reason Revolution
{Numair: and give me something to dream about, I'm tiring/ I'm cold & I want to go to sleep}

Falcon, Martha Tilston and the Woods
{Wild Magic: these days of inbetween are something I could do without/ down, down and I swoop down, remind me how freedom feels}

Fallen Icons, Delerium
{with the wolves: no hounds to guide me no army at my back/ I'm gonna stand up/ this is how/ you made my heart a hunter}

Blood and Fire, Indigo Girls
{growing up: I am intense, I am in need/ I am in pain, I am in love/ I feel forsaken, like the things I gave away/ Blood and fire/ Are too much for these restless arms to hold}

Teachers, Leonard Cohen
{doubts & fears: Some girls wander by mistake/ into the mess that scalpels make/ Are you the teachers of my heart?/ We teach old hearts to break}

Bird on a Wire, k.d. lang
{companionship: If I have been unkind/ I hope that you can just let it go by/ If I have been untrue/ I hope you know it was never to you}

The Old Ways, Loreena McKennitt
{godborn: Like a bird in a cage spreading its wings to fly/ “The old ways are lost,” you sang as you flew/ And I wondered why}

Time After Time, Cyndi Lauper
{friendship: you say go slow/ I fall behind/ the second hand unwinds/ if you're lost you can look and you will find me/ time after time}

If I Fell, Across the Universe
{Carthak: If I give my heart to you/ I must be sure/ From the very start/ That you would love me more than her}

Atropine, Rainier Maria
{Daine loses her temper: Have you got any magic tricks/ That will work for me?/ 'cause my baby is in the ground}

Gravity, Vienna Teng
{falling: Hey love/ That's the name we've long held back/ From the core of truth/ So don't turn away now/ I am turning in revolution}

Deep Water, Jewel
{passion: And when you're drowning in deep water/ And you wake up making love to a wall/ It's nothing without love}

The Crane Wife pt. 3, The Decemberists
{love: Each feather it fell from skin/ 'Til thread bare while she grew thin/ How were my eyes so blinded?/ Each feather it fell from skin}

Let's Do It, Ella Fitzgerald
{epilogue: Birds do it, bees do it/ Even educated fleas do it/ Let's do it, let's fall in love}

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[lotesse]

I know you are, you realist you!

Seriously - starting Sunday I've got two hours of driving to do every day, and I think a few new Tammy novels on cd sound just fiiiine.