#‘a major sacrifice but clueless at the time. enter Caroline’

[sandu-zidian]

End of Beginning came on blorbo playlist shuffle

[mousy-nona]

First — I love your work and your account! Your characterization is incredible and I really enjoy your style. Second — Radioapple prompt! I know its a common one in the fandom, but I love the concept of them dancing/getting to know each other through mutual love of music. Not too specific, but I think it definitely has room to be cute! <3

A major sacrifice

But clueless at the time

Enter, Caroline

Just trust me, you'll be fine

“What is that noise?”

Lucifer turned around warily. It was always good to be wary around Alastor. “Music.”

Alastor gave him a Look. It was his “Don’t Be An Obtuse Idiot” look, the one he saved just for Lucifer. 

He sighed. “It’s a song. The humans come up with some interesting stuff when left to their own devices.” He waved to the radio sitting on his desk. “It took a bit of work, but I managed to figure out how to connect this old thing to some of Earth’s music stations.” 

Alastor’s ears twitched, a surefire sign he was interested and trying not to show it. He lowered himself down onto the other side of the sofa, and they listened in silence together. 

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning.

“I’ve never heard of these instruments,” Alastor mused. 

“Synth? It’s a pretty new invention. I believe it was heavily popular around the 1980s, and it’s gone in and out of style since then. What do you think?”

“It doesn’t have as much soul as a good saxophone or a piano riff, but it’s not horrible.” Alastor admitted. “I don’t suppose humans on Earth still listen to singers like Ella Fitzgerald?”

“Hard to match a once-in-a-lifetime artist like Ella,” Lucifer remarked. Alastor snapped his fingers, his eyes gleaming with pure, genuine delight. It was rare to see him so excited about anything that didn’t have anything to do with blood or death, and Lucifer drank it in like a man dying of thirst. 

“Exactly,” Alastor grinned. “I see you don’t have completely irredeemable taste in music.”

“She’s fantastic, but you will not believe some of the stuff they have up there now.”

Alastor glanced at him with poorly disguised interest. “You don’t say? Do you happen to listen to these stations quite often?”

“Every night.” 

Alastor paused, as if weighing his next words. “Would you mind a little company?”

The smile that exploded from Lucifer was unexpected – but not unwanted. And that was how the king of Hell and the Radio Demon declared a truce every night, between the hours of 12 AM to 1 AM.

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“Boy, you’re in for a treat today,” Lucifer said as soon as Alastor walked in. “They’re playing electro swing on 58.3 The Breeze.” 

Alastor furrowed his brow. “Electro…swing?” He shuddered. “Sounds positively horrid. Why ruin a perfectly good thing with extra noises?” 

“Don’t be such a Debbie Downer,” Lucifer scowled. “Sit down, shut up, and give it a chance, will you?”

To his credit, Alastor did sit and shut up – for approximately ten seconds. Then he groaned. “This is a travesty. They’re calling this garbage swing?” 

“Electro swing,” Lucifer corrected. 

“No, no, enough of this swill.” Alastor snapped his fingers, and the song immediately cut off. “Let me show what true swing sounds like.” 

A moment’s pause, then a new song came on the speakers.

Heaven, I'm in heaven

And my heart beats so that I can hardly speak…

Lucifer perked up. “This is…Louis Armstrong?” Just the sound of his voice brought back whispers of slower times, of smoky jazz clubs and whiskey in crystal glasses, of dreams laid out on silver screens. Suddenly, it was the 1950s again.

Alastor bowed and held out his hand, every move so darkly dashing it would make Fred Astaire weep with envy. But his eyes gleamed with challenge.

Dance with me? Asked Louis and Ella.

Spellbound, Lucifer took the devil’s hand. He placed the other on his shoulder hesitantly, but Alastor’s grip was strong and sure as he slowly led him around the room. 

“I want my arms about you, the charms about you will carry me through,” Alastor hummed along. The old-fashioned words were perfect in his radio static, as if the song was made for the two of them, for this very moment. 

Relax, you silly goose. He’s just singing the song. He’s not talking about you, Lucifer tried to reason with himself, but it was exceedingly difficult to think straight with Alastor’s face so very close. His voice – oddly lovely for a man who specialized in conducting screams – cast a spell over them. Time stopped. And Lucifer relaxed, letting Alastor’s song chase his worries away. 

“Heaven, I’m in heaven!” 

—------------------------

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

“You’re listening to this again?” 

Lucifer blushed and scrambled to change it to another station, but Alastor materialized in front of the radio and covered the fast forward button with his hand before he could get to it. Damn those tricksy shadows of his.  

“I…I didn’t hear you come in.”

“Yes, that is one of the benefits of teleportation,” he said, as effortlessly smug as always.

“It’s not our usual time,” Lucifer frowned, peeking at the clock. 10 PM. Far too early for what was quickly becoming his favorite hour of the day, although he’d never admit it out loud. 

“Well, I heard a cry for help coming from this room, so I thought I’d be a good neighbor and pop my head in,” Alastor said.

“Cry for help–” Lucifer started indignantly, but Alastor put a finger to his lips. 

And the damn song was still playing. 

So when everything feels like the movies

Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive…

Lucifer turned so red his entire face resembled a tomato on fire. “I can listen to whatever I want during my private time,” he spluttered.

“That would be true, but I can hear your ‘private time’ from the other end of the hotel.” Alastor sighed, as if no one else in the history of the world had ever experienced the pain of a noisy neighbor. “So I decided to check on you, just to make sure you hadn’t fully devolved into an angsty child.”

“It’s silly, I know, but sometimes listening to this stuff makes me feel…like I’m not so alone,” Lucifer admitted, not quite able to look the demon in the eye. “It’s been a tough couple of years.” Tough couple of hundred years, but who’s counting? 

Alastor didn’t say anything, but he didn’t leave either. Eventually, they turned the radio to another station – Billboard Top 100s, this time – and Alastor’s horrified face at “Think U The Shit (Fart)” made Lucifer laugh so hard water came out of his nose. 

He completely forgot about his depression. At least for the rest of the night. And that was enough. That was more than Lucifer had had in a long time. 

—------------------------

The next day, Lucifer came back to his room to find an old-fashioned ‘30s vinyl record player perched on his desk. A vinyl had already been set up, its arm perched delicately halfway through a song, ready for Lucifer to hit Play. 

Attached to it was a note.

As a thank you for all the new music. -A.

So Lucifer hit Play.

Immediately, the swing of the sax and Ella’s clear, dulcet tones filtered through the speakers. 

Blue days

All of them gone

Nothing but blue skies

From now on

I never saw the sun shining so bright

Never saw things going oh-so right

Noticing the days hurrying by

The record stopped there, as abruptly as if the entire track had been magically wiped. No matter how many times he tried to reset it and play it again, that was the only verse on the record. 

It didn’t matter. Had Alastor forgotten how ancient he truly was? Lucifer had been around for the dinosaurs, the age of ice, man’s first cities, and the launch to the moon. He remembered the greats, because that was his job. He was to live, and he was to bear witness.

He knew the rest of the song, even if Alastor had gone to such great lengths to erase it. 

Noticing the days hurrying by

When you're in love, my how they fly…

He smiled. And he sang along, letting the vinyl spin and spin until the words themselves were nothing but senseless sounds and only Alastor’s promise remained. 

“Blue days, all of them gone. Nothing but blue skies, from now on…”

[aftertheglitterfades]

DJO - End of Beginning

A major sacrifice, but clueless at the time. Enter Caroline, “Just trust me, you’ll be fine.” 

[a-gilded-imprisonment]

Song challenge!

Share at least 5 songs that you associate with or remind you of your muse!

(Ooc: Tagged by both @veritas-ratio-rp and @spaceoddityhsr :3 Thank you!)

#1 : Unsweetened Lemonade - Amélie Farren

I fucked the reaper cause I knew My time was coming can't you see I was either gonna die At 12 or 90-fucking-3

I'd do anything for twenty bucks I'd sell my sour soul Cause lemonade is bitter till you Sweeten up the bowl

And I'm sitting in the bathroom I'm crying citrus tears Everything I used to love Decayed over the years

It's hard to finish sentences I'll sell my pride instead Cause it's easier to focus I'm just the price above my head

#2 : Poker Face - Lady Gaga

I wanna hold 'em like they do in Texas, please Fold 'em, let 'em hit me, raise it, baby, stay with me (I love it) Love game intuition, play the cards with spades to start And after he's been hooked, I'll play the one that's on his heart

Can't read my, can't read my No, he can't read my poker face (She's got me like nobody) Can't read my, can't read my No, he can't read my poker face (She's got me like nobody)

I wanna roll with him, a hard pair we will be (hey) A little gamblin' is fun when you're with me (I love it) Russian roulette is not the same without a gun And baby, when it's love, if it's not rough, it isn't fun (fun)

#3 : Slut! - Taylor Swift

Got lovestruck, went straight to my head Got lovesick, all over my bed Love to think you'll never forget Handprints in wet cement

Adorned with smoke on my clothes Lovelorn and nobody knows Love thorns all over this rose I'll pay the price, you won't

But if I'm all dressed up They might as well be looking at us And if they call me a slut You know it might be worth it for once And if I'm gonna be drunk Might as well be drunk in love

Send the code, he's waiting there The sticks and stones they throw froze mid-air Everyone wants him That was my crime The wrong place at the right time And I break down, then he's pullin' me in In a world of boys, he's a gentleman

#4 : Victorious - Panic! At the Disco

Double bubble disco queen Headed to the guillotine Skin as cool as Steve McQueen Let me be your killer king

It hurts until it stops We will love until it's not I'm a killing spree in white Eyes like broken Christmas lights

My touch is black and poisonous And nothing like my punch drunk kiss I know you need it Do you feel it Drink the water Drink the wine

#5 : Mirrorball - Taylor Swift

I want you to know I'm a mirrorball I can change everything about me to fit in You are not like the regulars The masquerade revelers Drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten

Hush! When no one is around, my dear You'll find me on my tallest tiptoes Spinning in my highest heels, love Shining just for you

Hush! I know they said the end is near But I'm still on my tallest tiptoes Spinning in my highest heels, love Shining just for you

I'm still on that tightrope I'm still trying everything to get you laughing at me I'm still a believer but I don't know why I've never been a natural All I do is try, try, try

I'm still on that trapeze I'm still trying everything To keep you looking at me

#6 : End of Beginning - Djo

Just one more tear to cry One teardrop from my eye You better save it for The middle of the night When things aren't black and white Enter, Troubadour "Remember twenty-four?"

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it Another version of me, I was in it I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

This song has started now And you're just finding out Now isn't that a laugh? A major sacrifice But clueless at the time Enter, Caroline "Just trust me, you'll be fine"

#7 : Blame Brett - The Beaches

That's why I won't get vulnerable Don't you dare get comfortable Heartbreak is impossible Feelings doing somersaults

I'm not ready for therapy To take accountability Right now, it's about me Me and only 'bout me, hey

You could be my baby, baby, baby You could be my baby boy, dear lady You could be my baby, baby, maybe Oh, oh

I'm sorry in advance I'm only gonna treat you bad I'm probably gonna let you down I'm probably gonna sleep around

So sorry in advance Before you take off your pants I wouldn't let me near your friends I wouldn't let me near your dad

#8 : Mastermind - Taylor Swift

What if I told you none of it was accidental And the first night that you saw me, I knew I wanted your body? I laid the groundwork and then, just like clockwork The dominoes cascaded in a line

What if I told you I'm a mastermind? And now you're mine It was all my design 'Cause I'm a mastermind

No one wanted to play with me as a little kid So I've been scheming like a criminal ever since To make them love me and make it seem effortless This is the first time I've felt the need to confess And I swear I'm only cryptic and Machiavellian 'cause I care

So I told you none of it was accidental And the first night that you saw me, nothing was gonna stop me I laid the groundwork and then saw a wide smirk On your face, you knew the entire time

(Ooc: Thank you!!! This was so fun :3

I'll lightly tag @sunday-halovian, @emanator-of-nihility, @intergalactic-singer, @teardrop-san, @sword-master-jingliu, @servallandauofficial, @stellaron-hunter-blade, and @scar-of-fractsidus only if you'd like or haven't already done it! ~ Mod Minie)

[squilfmybeloved]

the song has started now (you're dating him, too far in, no going back now)

and you're just finding out? (it's been a year since you started dating him, and you just now realized?)

now isn't that a laugh? (wow, you're that stupid?)

a major sacrifice, but clueless at the time (you didn't know what you were sacrificing when you said "i like you too")

enter, caroline (your reason for realization walks in)

just trust me, you'll be fine (you'll be okay in the end)

and when i'm back in chicago, i feel it (when you're with her, you can't ignore it anymore)

another version of me, i was in it (you are another version of yourself with her, not with him)

i wave goodbye to the end of beginning (you wave goodbye to your end of beginning. she is your end, and your beginning)

you take the man out of the city, not the city out the man (you take yourself out of your lesbian situationship, not the lesbian out of yourself, even when you're with him)

[freckledjoes]

okayy, so, i have a few 🎵 , so buckle up, buttercup.

i know you, i swear i’ve seen your face before - climax

In a conversation and I'm looking right down on it, Then you pull my body back and whisper in my ear - change

A major sacrifice, But clueless at the time, Enter, Caroline, Just trust me, you'll be fine - end of beginning

I know my hair looked good in the bathroom at the bar - gloom

Thought that I did too and then I saw myself in you, So we're both alike, it doesn't work that way - keep your head up

Ahhh great picks!! I love seeing the variety so far in the responses I've seen in the reblogs/tags and such. I haven't truly made up my mind yet but the first that did come to mind was: I'm a jester and I'm yours Call me your look into my eyes and baby whisper fool

[hauxicrook]

and when i'm back in chicago, i feel it another version of me, i was in it i wave goodbye to the end of beginning

This song has started now

And you're just finding out

Now isn't that a laugh?

A major sacrifice

But clueless at the time

Enter, Caroline

"Just trust me, you'll be fine"

[lyric-archive]

This song has started now

And you're just finding out

Now isn't that a laugh?

A major sacrifice

But clueless at the time

Enter, Caroline

"Just trust me, you'll be fine"

End of Beginning - Djo

[courageisneverforgotten]

🎶✨when u get this, list 5 songs u like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positivity is cool)🎶✨

hehe thank you dolly!! 🌸

I shuffled my “on repeat” playlist for this, and I’m going to include my favorite lyrics from each song, for fun

• not strong enough - boygenius

I don’t know why I am the way I am / there’s something in the static / I think I’ve been having revelations

• you’re on your own, kid - taylor swift

‘cause there were pages turned with the bridges burned / everything you lose is a step you take / so make the friendship bracelets, take the moment and taste it / you’ve got no reason to be afraid / you’re on your own kid / yeah, you can face this

• end of beginning - djo

this song has started now, and you’re just finding out / now isn’t that a laugh? / a major sacrifice, but clueless at the time / enter, Caroline / “just trust me, you’ll be fine!”

• honey - coastal club

I’ve learned to love you, honey / you’ve got a way with me / you’re wide-eyed and alive, so full of life / I’m mesmerized by your love

• kissing in swimming pools - holly humberstone

I wanna be the one who gets to fix you, honey / I wanna fall asleep to your sound / when you found me, I was a trainwreck / you gathered my bones in a blanket

[ivorystand]

A major sacrifice

But clueless at the time

Enter, Caroline

"Just trust me, you'll be fine"

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

(End of Beginning - Djo)

(Under the cut for vague spoilers)

I am so emo over Yuhki's Azem, Eris, and Estinien's ancient, Achilles.

Like incredibly emo. I'm crossfaded right now (smoked some weed and had a bit to drink) and @pinkcadaver sent me the base sketch of a commission of Estinien and Yuhki and i was ready to sob over them. I'm that emotional over their story, both ancients and now.

So Achilles and Eris were pretty much star-crossed lovers. With Eris being Azem, and Achillles being a warden for Pandaemonium, they weren't truly able to be together outside of small moments. During the final days, I want to think that their longing to be by each other's side was what caused Yuhki and Estinien to be soulmates.

Now I'm going to go back to trying not to sob over them.

[cosmic-circumstance]

Just one more tear to cry

One teardrop from my eye

You better save it for

The middle of the night

When things aren't black and white

Enter, Troubadour

Remember twenty-four?

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

This song has started now

And you're just finding out

Now isn't that a laugh?

A major sacrifice

But clueless at the time

Enter, Caroline

Just trust me, you'll be fine

[hungry-black-eels]

Just one more tear to cry One teardrop from my eye You better save it for The middle of the night When things aren't black and white Enter, Troubadour Remember twenty-four? And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it Another version of me, I was in it I wave goodbye to the end of beginning This song has started now And you're just finding out Now isn't that a laugh? A major sacrifice But clueless at the time Enter, Caroline Just trust me, you'll be fine And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it Another version of me, I was in it I wave goodbye to the end of beginning (Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye) You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man You take the man out of the And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it Another version of me, I was in it Oh, I wave goodbye to the end of beginning (Goodbye, goodbye)

Djo - End of Beginning

[my-chaos-radio]

Release: September 16, 2022

Lyrics:

Just one more tear to cry

One teardrop from my eye

You better save it for

The middle of the night

When things aren't black-and-white

Enter, Troubadour:

"Remember 24?"

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

This song has started now

And you're just finding out

Now isn't that a laugh?

A major sacrifice, but clueless at the time

Enter, Caroline:

"Just trust me, you'll be fine"

And when I'm back in Chicago I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

(Goodbye)

(Goodbye)

(Goodbye)

(Goodbye)

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the

Songwriter: Joe Keery

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

(Goodbye)

(Goodbye)

SongFacts:

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Homepage:

Djo

[abhyudayaa]

LYRICS ANALYSING

Week 10

This week we decided on the lyrics we will include for our songs and didn't include any explicit or inappropriate words. Thus the song was clean and didn't use foul language, following the regulations provided by Cambridge.

Verse 1] Just one more tear to cry, one teardrop from my eye You better save it for The middle of the night when things aren't black and white Enter, Troubadour "Remember twenty-four?"

[Chorus] And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it Another version of me, I was in it I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

[Verse 2] This song has started now, and you're just finding out Now isn't that a laugh? A major sacrifice, but clueless at the time Enter, Caroline "Just trust me, you'll be fine"

[Chorus] And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it Another version of me, I was in it I wave goodbye to the end of beginning (Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye)

[Bridge] You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man You take the man out of the—

[Chorus] And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it Another version of me, I was in it Oh, I wave goodbye to the end of beginning (Goodbye, goodbye)

[alevelsamairabantwal]

Week 10

Lyrics Analyzing

This week, my team members and I analyzed the lyrics of the song before we chose it for our music video to rule out any scope of the lyrics being inappropriate or explicit in any circumstances.

The Music Name - 'End of Beginning by Djo'

Here are the lyrics below

[Verse 1]

Just one more tear to cry, one teardrop from my eye

You better save it for

The middle of the night when things aren't black and white

Enter, Troubadour

"Remember twenty-four?"

[Chorus]

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

[Verse 2]

This song has started now, and you're just finding out

Now isn't that a laugh?

A major sacrifice, but clueless at the time

Enter, Caroline

"Just trust me, you'll be fine"

[Chorus]

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

(Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye)

[Bridge]

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the city, not the city out the man

You take the man out of the—

[Chorus]

And when I'm back in Chicago, I feel it

Another version of me, I was in it

Oh, I wave goodbye to the end of beginning

(Goodbye, goodbye)

[tierracottas]

just one more tear to cry one teardrop from my eye you better save it for the middle of the night when things aren't black and white enter troubadour remember 24 and when i'm back in chicago i feel it another version of me i was in it i wave goodbye to the end of beginning this song has started now and you're just finding out now isn't that a laugh a major sacrifice but clueless at the time enter caroline just trust me you'll be fine and when i'm back in chicago i feel it another version of me i was in it i wave goodbye to the end of beginning goodbye goodbye goodbye you take the man out of the city not the city out the man you take the man out of the city not the city out the man you take man out of the city not the city out the man you take the man out of the and when i'm back in chicago i feel it another version of me i was in it i wave goodbye to the end of beginning goodbye goodbye