#and also crane wives

[moonlit-aura]

@droodle-bug said anyone is free to do this in a very sweet way so i figured why not :D

rules: shuffle your ‘on repeat’ playlist & post the first ten tracks, then tag people

Mitski - The Deal

Swimware - Confessions in the Dark

bôa - Twilight

Pixies - Is She Weird

Nick Mulvey - Imogen

bo en - My Time

Mitski - I Don't Like My Mind

The Lumineers - Ophelia

First Aid Kit - Wolf

Crane Wives - Turn out the Lights

i'm tagging,,,, well whoever wants to do it first off! but maybe specifically @47catsinatrenchcoat @8ozo @sage3m5 @starryherbs and @plutosongs if any of you want to do this! (and use spotify lol)

[crowscacophony]

okay we’re collectively still not over this right? right?

[izel-scribbles]

strangler fig - the crane wives

(click for hd/closeups under the cut)

every single crane wives song fits malevolent (fight me on this. i'll win)

ty to @ganem-ouchie for giving me this idea last month in the replies of a random shitpost

[cable-salamdr]

Useless // Finally Shattered

I didn’t know which title of those two to give this, so take whichever one you will— either way my shinenigans of putting Arin through trauma continues (and I actually really like this one agjhjhhghs)

Lyrics from The Hand That Feeds - The Crane Wives

[nephriteknight]

something the crane wives does that always makes me lose my shit is changing lyrics between choruses, often recontextualizing the earlier lines

like in I Talk In My Sleep, the first chorus ends with a long drawn out "I" which could just be vocalizing, the second is "I won't say" and the last "I will finally say" and then for the first time resolves to "that I am not okay"

I think my favorite example is in Nobody, we get the line "nobody ever loved me" in a bunch of variations--on its own, as "nobody ever loved me like she loves me", and then "nobody ever loved me so she tells me"

in Steady, Steady, "i am ready to be the one" turns into "i am ready to run" and "you know when you're ready" turns into "we weren't ready"

something about it just hits so hard I eat this shit up

[noccynoo]

happy Fiddleford Friday to all those who celebrate

[shy-sapphic-ace]

Turns out organizing artists into categories is really fun, I should do this more often. Anyway, my favourite music genre right now is whatever all of these is

[sc0lippi]

the night doesn’t frighten me,

i chose to close my eyes

it is mine

[chronicowboy]

just merlin and unraveling by the crane wives

[cassqween]

Spoiler warning for Baldurs gate ending for laezel!

There are times when I still wonder about you

You are someone I have loved, but never known

Broke my heart doing this in the game.. Thoughts behind this specific piece: Shadowheart actively chooses to let her go, insists upon it despite the fact Lae’zel would be willing to stay for her, despite the fact she wants her to stay. For the greater good, ‘for this is bigger than us.’

[autistic-evil-xisuma]

since I'll be seeing the crane wives soon, here's a cover of stranger fig I made for my audio production class a few months ago. I was going for a chiptune video game feel with it

please visualize an 8 bit strangler fig boss monster that you have to fight to this 👆

[cha1cedony]

Has this been done

[paris-writes]

I am of the firm belief that there is a Crane Wives song for every single emotion.

Are you in the mood for a song about being trapped in an abusive relationship where your partner keeps making you feel as if no one else loves you like they (Tell you) do?

Try Nobody, by the Crane Wives.

You need a song about how you've not taken the opportunities offered to you because you're so scared of what could happen, and you know you need to get up and try and go but there's always the "what if" holding you back?

How about Safe Ship, Harbored by the Crane Wives, or Keep You Safe, by the Crane Wives?

You need a song about how religion has helped create a narrative of men being superior to women and that you had to grow up protecting your own self from men, and now you're finally able to relax and watch the little girls grow up shielded and stronger for it but you still chose to leave the abusive men, the horrible men in your life and live "in the darkness" because it finally makes you feel safe?

Ribs, by the Crane Wives.

How about literally having NO HANDLE on your life and feeling utterly useless because it seems like everyone has it together but you literally have no idea what to do? And you feel as if you were cheated in your adult/elder life because you were told "It would just work it?"

Hard Sell, by the Crane Wives

A SONG ABOUT HOW ABUSIVE PEOPLE LEAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON YOUR LIFE AND YOU CAN'T GET RID OF THE SCARS THEY LEAVE????

Pretty Little Things, by the Crane Wives

A SONG ABOUT BEING LEFT BEHIND CONSTANTLY AND TRYING TO BE MORE LIKEABLE BUT STILL BEING SO FUCKING LONELY ALL THE FUCKING TIME?????

Here I Am, by the Crane Wives

A SONG ABOUT HOW CAPITALISM IS LITERALLY DESTROYING OUR LIVES????

The Hand That Feeds, by the Crane Wives

So anyways I just think the Crane Wives are neat. There are SO MANY songs from them there's a reason they're my number one on Spotify.

[go-to-the-mirror]

the thing about tongues & teeth is that i barely ever think about it from the singer's perspective, it's always the other, always the victim, but god look at it. think about it. i'm a monster and i have blood on my hands and i'm going to hurt anyone who gets close but get close anyway, please. ignore the risks. i'm telling you not to but i need you to know that i need you.

[astralzeraphias]

put your ear to my heart or set your teeth against my throat

give me something pretty to wear beneath my bloodstained clothes

my darling, the devil knows my name

[magicgirlboss]

eleanor's "now he asks me to back off charles. to proclaim to the world that what happened to max is acceptable. to apologize to those animals for having ever said otherwise and smile while they lord it over me."

and flint's "it requires an intolerable sacrifice. to apologize. to england. they took everything from us and then they called me a monster. the moment I sign that pardon, the moment I ask for one, I proclaim to the world that they were right."