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the stars and the moon shine together: a junzhe fanmix
BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY:
- This mix is divided into two discs, designed to be listened chronologically one after the other, without any skips.
- Content warning for Disc 2 for themes and allusions relating to 813 and what comes after.
- Disclaimer: all opinions and thoughts expressed here both explicitly in the text and implicitly through the song and image choices are strictly within the realm of pretend play fiction.
- HAVING SAID THAT, of course, love is rio! This mix came from a place of deep love and affection, so I do hope you enjoy and drop me a comment here on in twitter and let me know what you thought of it!
***
the stars and the moon shine together
a fanmix for zhang zhehan and gong jun
DISC ONE: DAY || youtube playlist || spotify playlist (apologies, it's missing the first track)
INTRO: Matt and Kim – Daylight (instrumental)
The camera pans over bright and sunny Hengdian, over the booting ceremony and our two shy and awkward protagonists, blissfully unaware that it would be a meeting that would surely change their fates. Meanwhile, Ma-jie is probably off to the side thinking, "shit, these two aren't hitting it off, we're fucked."
Tegan & Sara - Closer || lyrics
All you think of lately is getting underneath me
All I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me
Here comes the heat before we meet, a little bit closer
Here comes the spark before the dark, come a little closer
Didn't take long to fix that, did it. Zhehan wants the D and he won't be stopped! While Ma-jie's probably to the side being all "shit, I've unleashed a monster in these two." Seriously, when I think about everything the cast and crew and fansites must have seen, I get a little X_x.
Selena Gomez - Hands to Myself || lyrics
Can't keep my hands to myself
No matter how hard I'm trying to
I want you all to myself
Your metaphorical gin and juice
So come on, give me a taste
Of what it's like to be next to you
Won't let one drop go to waste
Your metaphorical gin and juice
I mean, I'm sure by now we've all seen Real-ge's BTS and how absolutely shameless laopo was in pursuit of the big gong, haven't we?
Troye Sivan, Allday - for him || lyrics
We are runnin' so fast
And we never look back
And whatever I lack, you make up
We make a really good team
And not everyone sees
We got this crazy chemistry
Between us
From feeding apples to each other to all the tietie in the blistering summer heat, I'm sure all the cast and crew were absolutely filled with dog food. Hat tip to the LLDFest2k22 event because someone posted this absolutely perfect song in response to a prompt and I couldn't *not* include it. Also, hat tip for Gong Jun for including this in *his* own playlist, making my job so much easier.
Ariana Grande - positions || lyrics
This some shit that I usually don't do
But for you, I kinda, kinda want to
'Cause you're down for me and I'm down too
Yeah, I'm down too, switching the positions for you
When you're spending *so* much time with each other, both in bed and out of it (cough), and you adore what you see in each other, it's inevitable that both of you would catch feelings I guess. (I like how the song is both domestic and sensual at once, which I think encapsulates the ship a lot!)
Turnover - Dizzy on the Countdown || lyrics
Would you come here and spin with me?
I've been dying to get you dizzy
Find a way up into your head
So I can make you feel like new again
Now collapse, take delight in the fall and catch your breath
I know you feel the ring from it
So try and collect yourself now
It's just a euphoric comedown
Gong Jun gets his word in edgewise. Must be nice to be dating on set and having so much fun with your boyfriend while working, lucky bastards. The rest of us can't relate.
Ingrid Michaelson - Young and In Love || lyrics
Old enough, old enough, old enough to know that
We are young in love, young in love, young and in love
You and me, we can see, time will stand still
If we stay young in love, young in love, young and in love
As someone roughly contemporaneous in age with them (cough), 30 years old is pretty young in the grand scheme of things, but I have to wonder how would it feel to have been working roughly a decade in the industry and still be patiently grinding away for the chance of one's big break, looking at others vaulting past you into success. Or even, as Gong Jun admits candidly in his memoir, to have never experienced a grand, passionate love before.
Mike Mains and the Branches - I Love You Always Forever || lyrics
Feels like I'm standing in a timeless dream
Of light mists with pale amber rose
Feels like I'm lost in a deep cloud of heavenly scent
Touching, discovering you
Those days of warm rains come rushing back to me
Miles of windless summer night air
Secret moments shared in the heat of the afternoon
Out of the stillness, soft spoken words
Say it, say it again
Shaqing comes, and with it comes a temporary parting.
Fiji Blue - Butterflies || lyrics
You
You should've seen the way that you bloomed
I think I saw your face in the moon
I promise I'll be with you as soon as I find a way up (ya)
'Cause you
You're farther than a kiss on the phone
There's things about you I'll never know
I hope that one day we'll be in love when you're not far away
Being in a long-distance relationship after being so tietie with each other all summer must be a special kind of agony.
The Aces - Daydream || lyrics
Daydream about me
And I know that you hate the nights without me
Baby, I hate 'em too
But you know, but you know, but you know
I'm comin' back to you
Midnight, my heart is racing
We're wide awake in
This hotel room
We only got six hours
But sleep don't matter
When I'm with you
One Night in Nanjing is the sort of lld lore that deserves immortalizing. What could be more romantic than driving all through the night, just for the chance to hold your loved one in your arms for a few short hours?
Bleachers - Let's Get Married || lyrics
Change me at all costs
Starlight and star-crossed
Take me so breathless
We could be reckless
Why don't you change me at all costs?
Starlight and star-crossed
Take me so breathless
Yeah, woke up in a safe house singing
The SHL concert in Suzhou, and the vow that shook the fandom. Bravely taking each other's hands, looking into the future, and saying I know it's bad when we look out, but bad, bad people don't live in our house.
Hellogoodbye - Baby, It's Fact || lyrics
Just in case they're wondering
They've got us pinned terribly
They don't believe our love is real
Cause they don't know how real love feels
You should know it's true
Just now, the part about my love for you
And how my heart's about burst
Into a thousand pieces
Oh it must be true
And they'll believe us too soon
Horrible people don't believe love is rio? Double lawsuit at Shanghai will put a rest to that right quick.
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights || lyrics
I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true, it may seem like a stretch,
But its thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
When I am missing you to death
Ending Disc One with a melancholy meditation on fate and the red string that ties them both even over distance and time. (How can one have matching moles and birthmarks in *so* many places? At some point one *has* to suspect divine intervention.)
***
DISC TWO: NIGHT || youtube playlist || spotify playlist CW: 813
Brand New - Tautou || lyrics
I'm sinkin' like a stone in the sea
I'm burning like a bridge for your body
I chose this track to open Disc Two because the lyrics works as a neat thematic callback to a certain scene in SHL, which *also* has some depressingly ominous mirrors to their RL situation. Everything from this track onwards is probably going to be a downer so, uh sorry about that.
Placebo - Running Up That Hill || lyrics
It doesn't hurt me
You want to feel how it feels?
You want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
You want to hear about the deal I'm making?
You (be running up that hill)
You and me (be running up that hill)
And if I only could
Make a deal with God
I'd get him to swap our places
Be running up that road
Be running up that hill
Be running up that building
If I only could, oh
The anger and the hopelessness of this cover makes this a perfect fit, such that everyone and their grandma already probably had this as their pick for a post-813 playlist already.
Radiohead - Sit Down, Stand Up || lyrics
Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
Walk into the jaws of hell (Sit down)
Walk into the jaws of hell (Stand up)
Anytime (Sit down)
Anytime (Stand up)
Sit down, stand up
Sit down
We can wipe you out anytime (Stand up)
We can wipe you out (Sit down)
Radiohead at their weirdest is a perfect soundtrack for everyone in their coffins in August and September. "Hail to the Thief" was a very politically-charged album with explicit allusions to 1984, just to throw out a fun fact with absolutely no bearing on Current Real Life Goings On, I'm sure.
I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - Choke || lyrics
You get everything you want
And money always talks
To the idiot savants
Yeah, yeah
Now shut your dirty mouth
If I could burn this town
I wouldn't hesitate
To smile while you suffocate and die
And that would be just fine
And what a lovely time
That it would surely be
So bite your tongue and choke yourself to sleep
Speaking of anger! The cheerfulest song about systemic injustice and murder you ever did hear. You ever have one of those days where you just want to tear the whole world down because it dared to harm a hair on the head of your loved ones? I think GJ can relate.
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know || lyrics
I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?
Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
Coming back to Hengdian where it all began, but now with the shadow of him and with memories of your days together around every corner and every street.
Imagine Dragons - Wrecked || lyrics
Days pass by and my eyes stay dry, and I think that I'm okay
'Til I find myself in conversation, fading away
The way you smile, the way you walk
The time you took to teach me all that you had taught
Tell me, how am I supposed to move on?
These days I'm becoming everything that I hate
Wishing you were around but now it's too late
My mind is a place that I can't escape your ghost
This is very explicitly a song about grief and mourning after the passing of a loved one - any commentary I could make would be pretty extraneous :(
Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon || lyrics
Remember when we first met
And everything was still a bet
In love's game
You would call, I'd call you back
And then I'd leave
A message
On your answering machine
But right now, everything is turning blue
And right now, the sun is trying to kill the moon
And right now, I wish I could follow you
To the shores, of freedom, where no one lives
C-Ent can be a total shithole, if we all aren't perfectly clear on that point by now. And yet somehow, the moon survives to shine another day.
Hozier - Wasteland, Baby! || lyrics
Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking
Though quaking, though crazy
That's just wasteland, baby
And that day that we'll watch the death of the sun
That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on
And you'll gaze unafraid as they sob from the city roofs
The world ends; somehow, life goes on. (There's a lot of beautiful but haunting apocalyptic imagery in this song, and I really deliberated heavily in cutting this track because I initially thought it was too overwrought, but fuck it, if the complete erasure of an innocent man from public life isn't an apocalyptic event then what is?)
Elbow - One Day Like This || lyrics
'Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see the light
Yeah, lying with you half awake
Stumbling over what to say
Well, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day
Beautiful mornings still do come even in the darkest of times. Remember when GJXM had a livestream after all the shit went down and he was like "🥺 this song represents my current mood 🥺" and it was pretty explicitly a love song? 🙃
Snow Patrol - Life and Death || lyrics
I will turn the light on
I will turn the light on everywhere
And I'll watch you lift your head up
Higher than it was before
No, I don't know how it ends
For both of us
But why would you need to know the end, my dear?
A declaration of intent. Keeping your memory alive in bold, unafraid defiance of those who wanted to erase you. GJXM best and bravest laogong.
Ani DiFranco - Willing to Fight || lyrics
I was a long time coming
I'll be a long time gone
You've got your whole life to do something
And that's not very long
So why don't you give me a call
When you're willing to fight
For what you think is real
For what you think is right
"I understand. Thank you Li-laoshi for giving me this chance to speak and defend myself. I also want to thank all the netizens and legal professionals following this matter. I am willing to be investigated and questioned. I also hope that, I also hope that my innocence can be returned to me." (My heart and emotions are just too much of a mess at this point to write any longer commentary, but you best believe that this is the one track on this fanmix whose inclusion I thought was non-negotiable. Additionally, on a meta note, you'll notice that this is the first and only song in Disc Two that is by a female singer. This is very deliberate.)
Ok Go - This Will Be Our Year || lyrics
The warmth of your love's like the warmth of the sun,
And this will be our year, took a long time to come.
Don't let go of my hand now darkness is gone,
And this will be our year, took a long time to come.
And I wont forget the way you held me
Up when I was down.
And I wont forget the way you said
'Darling, I love you',
you gave me faith to go on
Now we're there,
And we've only just begun.
This will be our year,
Took a long time to come.
As of the time of writing (August 2022), everything's still very much up in the air. But I am persistently optimistic that there will be a time in the very near future where the choice of this track will be prescient.
OUTRO: Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
A breath; exhale; after the battle ends.
***
Thanks for listening and reading! And innumerable thanks to kiky and bea who gave SO many good, insightful comments during the period when I was stressing out over this. There is a second post where I put all the tracks that nearly made it on the final mix, but got cut for one reason or another.
- This mix is divided into two discs, designed to be listened chronologically one after the other, without any skips.
- Content warning for Disc 2 for themes and allusions relating to 813 and what comes after.
- Disclaimer: all opinions and thoughts expressed here both explicitly in the text and implicitly through the song and image choices are strictly within the realm of pretend play fiction.
- HAVING SAID THAT, of course, love is rio! This mix came from a place of deep love and affection, so I do hope you enjoy and drop me a comment here on in twitter and let me know what you thought of it!
***
the stars and the moon shine together
a fanmix for zhang zhehan and gong jun
DISC ONE: DAY || youtube playlist || spotify playlist (apologies, it's missing the first track)
INTRO: Matt and Kim – Daylight (instrumental)
The camera pans over bright and sunny Hengdian, over the booting ceremony and our two shy and awkward protagonists, blissfully unaware that it would be a meeting that would surely change their fates. Meanwhile, Ma-jie is probably off to the side thinking, "shit, these two aren't hitting it off, we're fucked."
Tegan & Sara - Closer || lyrics
All you think of lately is getting underneath me
All I dream of lately is how to get you underneath me
Here comes the heat before we meet, a little bit closer
Here comes the spark before the dark, come a little closer
Didn't take long to fix that, did it. Zhehan wants the D and he won't be stopped! While Ma-jie's probably to the side being all "shit, I've unleashed a monster in these two." Seriously, when I think about everything the cast and crew and fansites must have seen, I get a little X_x.
Selena Gomez - Hands to Myself || lyrics
Can't keep my hands to myself
No matter how hard I'm trying to
I want you all to myself
Your metaphorical gin and juice
So come on, give me a taste
Of what it's like to be next to you
Won't let one drop go to waste
Your metaphorical gin and juice
I mean, I'm sure by now we've all seen Real-ge's BTS and how absolutely shameless laopo was in pursuit of the big gong, haven't we?
Troye Sivan, Allday - for him || lyrics
We are runnin' so fast
And we never look back
And whatever I lack, you make up
We make a really good team
And not everyone sees
We got this crazy chemistry
Between us
From feeding apples to each other to all the tietie in the blistering summer heat, I'm sure all the cast and crew were absolutely filled with dog food. Hat tip to the LLDFest2k22 event because someone posted this absolutely perfect song in response to a prompt and I couldn't *not* include it. Also, hat tip for Gong Jun for including this in *his* own playlist, making my job so much easier.
Ariana Grande - positions || lyrics
This some shit that I usually don't do
But for you, I kinda, kinda want to
'Cause you're down for me and I'm down too
Yeah, I'm down too, switching the positions for you
When you're spending *so* much time with each other, both in bed and out of it (cough), and you adore what you see in each other, it's inevitable that both of you would catch feelings I guess. (I like how the song is both domestic and sensual at once, which I think encapsulates the ship a lot!)
Turnover - Dizzy on the Countdown || lyrics
Would you come here and spin with me?
I've been dying to get you dizzy
Find a way up into your head
So I can make you feel like new again
Now collapse, take delight in the fall and catch your breath
I know you feel the ring from it
So try and collect yourself now
It's just a euphoric comedown
Gong Jun gets his word in edgewise. Must be nice to be dating on set and having so much fun with your boyfriend while working, lucky bastards. The rest of us can't relate.
Ingrid Michaelson - Young and In Love || lyrics
Old enough, old enough, old enough to know that
We are young in love, young in love, young and in love
You and me, we can see, time will stand still
If we stay young in love, young in love, young and in love
As someone roughly contemporaneous in age with them (cough), 30 years old is pretty young in the grand scheme of things, but I have to wonder how would it feel to have been working roughly a decade in the industry and still be patiently grinding away for the chance of one's big break, looking at others vaulting past you into success. Or even, as Gong Jun admits candidly in his memoir, to have never experienced a grand, passionate love before.
Mike Mains and the Branches - I Love You Always Forever || lyrics
Feels like I'm standing in a timeless dream
Of light mists with pale amber rose
Feels like I'm lost in a deep cloud of heavenly scent
Touching, discovering you
Those days of warm rains come rushing back to me
Miles of windless summer night air
Secret moments shared in the heat of the afternoon
Out of the stillness, soft spoken words
Say it, say it again
Shaqing comes, and with it comes a temporary parting.
Fiji Blue - Butterflies || lyrics
You
You should've seen the way that you bloomed
I think I saw your face in the moon
I promise I'll be with you as soon as I find a way up (ya)
'Cause you
You're farther than a kiss on the phone
There's things about you I'll never know
I hope that one day we'll be in love when you're not far away
Being in a long-distance relationship after being so tietie with each other all summer must be a special kind of agony.
The Aces - Daydream || lyrics
Daydream about me
And I know that you hate the nights without me
Baby, I hate 'em too
But you know, but you know, but you know
I'm comin' back to you
Midnight, my heart is racing
We're wide awake in
This hotel room
We only got six hours
But sleep don't matter
When I'm with you
One Night in Nanjing is the sort of lld lore that deserves immortalizing. What could be more romantic than driving all through the night, just for the chance to hold your loved one in your arms for a few short hours?
Bleachers - Let's Get Married || lyrics
Change me at all costs
Starlight and star-crossed
Take me so breathless
We could be reckless
Why don't you change me at all costs?
Starlight and star-crossed
Take me so breathless
Yeah, woke up in a safe house singing
The SHL concert in Suzhou, and the vow that shook the fandom. Bravely taking each other's hands, looking into the future, and saying I know it's bad when we look out, but bad, bad people don't live in our house.
Hellogoodbye - Baby, It's Fact || lyrics
Just in case they're wondering
They've got us pinned terribly
They don't believe our love is real
Cause they don't know how real love feels
You should know it's true
Just now, the part about my love for you
And how my heart's about burst
Into a thousand pieces
Oh it must be true
And they'll believe us too soon
Horrible people don't believe love is rio? Double lawsuit at Shanghai will put a rest to that right quick.
The Postal Service - Such Great Heights || lyrics
I am thinking it's a sign
That the freckles in our eyes
Are mirror images and when
We kiss they're perfectly aligned
And I have to speculate
That God himself did make
Us into corresponding shapes
Like puzzle pieces from the clay
And true, it may seem like a stretch,
But its thoughts like this that catch
My troubled head when you're away
When I am missing you to death
Ending Disc One with a melancholy meditation on fate and the red string that ties them both even over distance and time. (How can one have matching moles and birthmarks in *so* many places? At some point one *has* to suspect divine intervention.)
***
DISC TWO: NIGHT || youtube playlist || spotify playlist CW: 813
Brand New - Tautou || lyrics
I'm sinkin' like a stone in the sea
I'm burning like a bridge for your body
I chose this track to open Disc Two because the lyrics works as a neat thematic callback to a certain scene in SHL, which *also* has some depressingly ominous mirrors to their RL situation. Everything from this track onwards is probably going to be a downer so, uh sorry about that.
Placebo - Running Up That Hill || lyrics
It doesn't hurt me
You want to feel how it feels?
You want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
You want to hear about the deal I'm making?
You (be running up that hill)
You and me (be running up that hill)
And if I only could
Make a deal with God
I'd get him to swap our places
Be running up that road
Be running up that hill
Be running up that building
If I only could, oh
The anger and the hopelessness of this cover makes this a perfect fit, such that everyone and their grandma already probably had this as their pick for a post-813 playlist already.
Radiohead - Sit Down, Stand Up || lyrics
Sit down, stand up
Sit down, stand up
Walk into the jaws of hell (Sit down)
Walk into the jaws of hell (Stand up)
Anytime (Sit down)
Anytime (Stand up)
Sit down, stand up
Sit down
We can wipe you out anytime (Stand up)
We can wipe you out (Sit down)
Radiohead at their weirdest is a perfect soundtrack for everyone in their coffins in August and September. "Hail to the Thief" was a very politically-charged album with explicit allusions to 1984, just to throw out a fun fact with absolutely no bearing on Current Real Life Goings On, I'm sure.
I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME - Choke || lyrics
You get everything you want
And money always talks
To the idiot savants
Yeah, yeah
Now shut your dirty mouth
If I could burn this town
I wouldn't hesitate
To smile while you suffocate and die
And that would be just fine
And what a lovely time
That it would surely be
So bite your tongue and choke yourself to sleep
Speaking of anger! The cheerfulest song about systemic injustice and murder you ever did hear. You ever have one of those days where you just want to tear the whole world down because it dared to harm a hair on the head of your loved ones? I think GJ can relate.
Keane - Somewhere Only We Know || lyrics
I came across a fallen tree
I felt the branches of it looking at me
Is this the place we used to love?
Is this the place that I've been dreaming of?
Oh simple thing where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on
So tell me when you're gonna let me in
I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin
Coming back to Hengdian where it all began, but now with the shadow of him and with memories of your days together around every corner and every street.
Imagine Dragons - Wrecked || lyrics
Days pass by and my eyes stay dry, and I think that I'm okay
'Til I find myself in conversation, fading away
The way you smile, the way you walk
The time you took to teach me all that you had taught
Tell me, how am I supposed to move on?
These days I'm becoming everything that I hate
Wishing you were around but now it's too late
My mind is a place that I can't escape your ghost
This is very explicitly a song about grief and mourning after the passing of a loved one - any commentary I could make would be pretty extraneous :(
Joseph Arthur - Honey and the Moon || lyrics
Remember when we first met
And everything was still a bet
In love's game
You would call, I'd call you back
And then I'd leave
A message
On your answering machine
But right now, everything is turning blue
And right now, the sun is trying to kill the moon
And right now, I wish I could follow you
To the shores, of freedom, where no one lives
C-Ent can be a total shithole, if we all aren't perfectly clear on that point by now. And yet somehow, the moon survives to shine another day.
Hozier - Wasteland, Baby! || lyrics
Be still, my indelible friend, you are unbreaking
Though quaking, though crazy
That's just wasteland, baby
And that day that we'll watch the death of the sun
That the cloud and the cold and those jeans you have on
And you'll gaze unafraid as they sob from the city roofs
The world ends; somehow, life goes on. (There's a lot of beautiful but haunting apocalyptic imagery in this song, and I really deliberated heavily in cutting this track because I initially thought it was too overwrought, but fuck it, if the complete erasure of an innocent man from public life isn't an apocalyptic event then what is?)
Elbow - One Day Like This || lyrics
'Cause holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see the light
Yeah, lying with you half awake
Stumbling over what to say
Well, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day
Beautiful mornings still do come even in the darkest of times. Remember when GJXM had a livestream after all the shit went down and he was like "🥺 this song represents my current mood 🥺" and it was pretty explicitly a love song? 🙃
Snow Patrol - Life and Death || lyrics
I will turn the light on
I will turn the light on everywhere
And I'll watch you lift your head up
Higher than it was before
No, I don't know how it ends
For both of us
But why would you need to know the end, my dear?
A declaration of intent. Keeping your memory alive in bold, unafraid defiance of those who wanted to erase you. GJXM best and bravest laogong.
Ani DiFranco - Willing to Fight || lyrics
I was a long time coming
I'll be a long time gone
You've got your whole life to do something
And that's not very long
So why don't you give me a call
When you're willing to fight
For what you think is real
For what you think is right
"I understand. Thank you Li-laoshi for giving me this chance to speak and defend myself. I also want to thank all the netizens and legal professionals following this matter. I am willing to be investigated and questioned. I also hope that, I also hope that my innocence can be returned to me." (My heart and emotions are just too much of a mess at this point to write any longer commentary, but you best believe that this is the one track on this fanmix whose inclusion I thought was non-negotiable. Additionally, on a meta note, you'll notice that this is the first and only song in Disc Two that is by a female singer. This is very deliberate.)
Ok Go - This Will Be Our Year || lyrics
The warmth of your love's like the warmth of the sun,
And this will be our year, took a long time to come.
Don't let go of my hand now darkness is gone,
And this will be our year, took a long time to come.
And I wont forget the way you held me
Up when I was down.
And I wont forget the way you said
'Darling, I love you',
you gave me faith to go on
Now we're there,
And we've only just begun.
This will be our year,
Took a long time to come.
As of the time of writing (August 2022), everything's still very much up in the air. But I am persistently optimistic that there will be a time in the very near future where the choice of this track will be prescient.
OUTRO: Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine
A breath; exhale; after the battle ends.
***
Thanks for listening and reading! And innumerable thanks to kiky and bea who gave SO many good, insightful comments during the period when I was stressing out over this. There is a second post where I put all the tracks that nearly made it on the final mix, but got cut for one reason or another.