appropriate music

Heh.

AWOLNATION - Kill Your Heroes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_H77Ledl_I

Fly, fly, baby; don't cry.

Fun note -- the guy in the video was the costume inspiration for my Warshade.

Can be but one song for me, the words and tone of the song are particularly poignant at this moment in time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTMrlHHVx8A


Into the night
Desperate and broken
The sound of a fight
Father has spoken

We were the kings and queens of promise
We were the victims of ourselves
Maybe the children of a lesser God
Between Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell

Into your eyes
Hopeless and taken
We stole our new lives
Through blood and pain
In defense of our dreams
In defense of our dreams

We were the Kings and Queens of promise
We were the victims of ourselves
Maybe the Children of a lesser God
Between Heaven and Hell
Heaven and Hell

The age of man is over
A darkness comes and all
These lessons that we learned here
Have only just begun

We were the Kings and Queens of promise
We were the victims of ourselves
Maybe the Children of a Lesser God
Between Heaven and Hell

We are the Kings
We are the Queens
We are the Kings
We are the Queens


And a Song for all the friends I will miss

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8smO4VS9134

When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark.

At the end of the storm
There's a golden sky
And the sweet silver
Song of a lark.

Walk on through the wind

Walk on through the rain

Though your dreams
Be tossed and blown.

Walk on
Walk on

With hope in your hearts

I And you'll never walk alone

You'll never walk alone.

Walk on
Walk on

Swedish House Mafia - Save the World

This song came onto my Pandora while I was doing my best to keep my mind on other things. I couldn't handle it. I broke down and became useless for like an hour after hearing that song.

"Who's gonna bring you back to life? "

We are!

Aww, Viridian.

Just gotta know what happens next, eh?

Next time you need to get psyched up, try this instead: http://www.myspace.com/video/mark/boom/1079306

I somehow got really involved in the Save Paragon City! movement. One song that keeps going through my mind? "How Far We've Come" by Matchbox 20:

Waking up at the start of the end of the world,
But it's feeling just like every other morning before,
Now I wonder what my life is going to mean if it's gone,
The cars are moving like a half a mile an hour
And I started staring at the passengers who're waving goodbye
Can you tell me what was ever really special about me all this time?

I believe the world is burning to the ground
Oh well I guess we're gonna find out
Let's see how far we've come...

I think that's where a lot of people fighting to save the game are: the world may be burning to the ground, but it's just one more chance to see how far we, the community, have come.

Eighth day - Hazel O'Connor seems somehow appropriate

He said: Behold what man has done
There's not a world for anyone
Nobody laughs, nobody cries
World's at an end, everyone has died
Forever amen (amen), amen (amen), amen (amen)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xsMq0xCk6g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egY8rUpxqcE

Can't think of a more perfectly fitting song than My Way.

And now the end is near
And so I face the final curtain
My friend I'll say it clear
I'll state my case of which I'm certain

I've lived a life that's full
I traveled each and every highway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way

Regrets I've had a few
But then again too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption

I planned each charted course
Each careful step along the byway
And more, much more than this
I did it my way

Yes there were times I'm sure you knew
When I bit off more than I could chew
But through it all when there was doubt
I ate it up and spit it out, I faced it all
And I stood tall and did it my way

I've loved, I've laughed and cried
I've had my fill, my share of losing
And now as tears subside
I find it all so amusing

To think I did all that
And may I say not in a shy way
Oh no, oh no, not me
I did it my way

For what is a man what has he got
If not himself then he has not
To say the things he truly feels
And not the words of one who kneels
The record shows I took the blows
And did it my way

Yes it was my way

Seeing as I forgot to post pertinent lyrics last time:

Player One - Machinae Supremacy

I wanna play until I die / Don't wanna lose my reasons why / I race towards the sky / In a world that never ends / I keep coming back for more / Coming back until I score / Always stronger than before / In a world that never ends

Weirdly, strangely appropriate now (and maybe particularly for me): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTs41zOeOro

I remember when, I remember
I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that place
Even your emotions have an echo in so much space

And when you're out there without care
Yeah, I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much

Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Possibly

And I hope that you are having the time of your life
But think twice
That's my only advice

Come on now, who do you, who do you, who do you,
who do you think you are?
Ha ha ha, bless your soul
You really think you're in control?

Well, I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
I think you're crazy
Just like me

My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember
Is thinking, I want to be like them

Ever since I was little
Ever since I was little
Oh it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done

But maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably

If I Ever Leave this World Alive - Flogging Molly

If I ever leave this world alive
I'll take on all the sadness
That I left behind
If I ever leave this world alive
The madness that you feel will soon subside
So in a word don't shed a tear
I'll be here when it all gets weird
If I ever leave this world alive

Fight the Good Fight;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRHwnFWvuA

No matter how long it takes
No mater how long
No matter how long it takes
We'll never be alone

Don't wanna make
A wrong headline
No matter how strong

They'll be watching
Every move you make
Don't let em know
They can beat you

Fortune favor the brave
Learn how to use that muscle
Take a little chance will get you
Everything you see

Living at the speed of light
Gotta make your heart beat faster
You gotta climb inside
Set that spirit free

Fight the good fight
Fingers to the bone
take a stand And save
this land of liberty

Stumble on the ground
That shakes you
Push it to the point
That breaks you
Little bit of fire

It gives you soul of a winner
Help you bring them
To their knees

No matter how long it takes
(No matter)
No mater how long
(No matter how long)
No matter how long it takes
We'll never be alone

Don't wanna make
A wrong headline
No matter how strong
(No matter how strong)

They'll be watching
Every move you make
Don't let em know
They can beat you

In the face of the foe
Never let em drag you under
Don't you wanna leave
Behind you, a legacy

Catch another streak of lightning
By the god of fire and thunder
Battle in the name of the nation
Making history

Fight the good fight
Finger to the bone
Gotta take a stand
And save this land of liberty

And brother
When you're down to zero
Everybody needs that hero
Gotta be a star to follow
All the way there
And all the way home

No matter how long it takes
No mater how long
No matter how long it takes
We'll never be alone

Don't wanna make
A wrong headline
No matter how strong

They'll be watching
Every move you make
Don't let em know
They can beat you

Don't let me know (fight)
No matter how long (fight)
No matter how long (fight)
No matter how long (fight)

No matter
No matter how long (fight)
How long
No matter how long (fight)

I have the Sweedish House Mafia song on repeat now, thuck you Vir.

D'aww, it has one with doggies! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXpdmKELE1k

I think Freddie and the boys can say it best...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ADh8Fs3YdU



We're not dead yet.

Never say die (Black Sabbath)

Another song that comes to mind is the 'theme song' that my first SG adopted, back in the Issue 1 days. We had a few wannabe writers (myself included, of course) in the group, and most of the stories we wrote about the SG were about a desperate group trying to create some kind of safe haven in a suffering city. We had kind of a dark view of CoH back then (not bad, just... dark).

World on Fire - Sarah McLachlan

Poets of the Fall's "Locking Up the Sun" was unanimously voted by the leaders of our SG (Star Patrol, on Justice) as our theme song. (I'd actually half-finished a video for it when my hard drive crashed and I lost all the footage I'd shot for it.) The idea that we were the heroes who were 'the [expendable] scapegoats who rock the boat', the 'volunteers to face their fears' was tremendously appealing for us.

As for the songs that come to mind about the closure of COH... they're entirely too depressing to share here.

Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Take me home.

Hello darkness my old friend...I've come to talk to you again...

Simon and Garfunkel - The Sound of Silence. This music will be for the final 'walk' around the city.

This is the saddest music in history.

Godzilla Vs. Destoroyah soundtrack - Requiem. To be played in the last few minutes before the servers go down.

...But before it gets to that time...

We will fight.

Auron's Theme
One Piece Soundtrack- Overtaken

This is music to fight to. To send petitions to. To rally to.

We're one week down. We've close to 11 weeks left to have an impact.

Until the day comes that the place closes with no chance of anyone picking the game up, I'm still playing this:

http://youtu.be/RayPLl8IHXE - Snow Patrol, Take Back the City.

Surprised no one has posted this tune as a theme for all the actions going on to save CoH.


Or I've just missed it due to vodka induced blindness. (Disclaimer! Not been taken due to anything other than end of week enjoyment!)