#come sail away - styx

[mikurulucky]

Have you ever fangirled a little listening to a song you like because the singer sounds like one of your f/o's?

[thevillagequeer]

for ur playlist ask game thing i got 2, if that's cool: come sail away on luther's playlist & a boy named sue on diego's playlist (:

of course it's cool :) if i ever turn down a yap session about music and the umbrella academy, i don't want to know that day

okay! so first

Come Sail Away - Styx

listen here!

okay i'm just gonna write as i listen first and then edit this down okay so first off the song is by styx which is interesting because an in show 'klaus song' is renegade, also by styx, which i think gives a nice parallel to how luther wishes he could be like klaus (so carefree lol)

and also, just the space-vibes of course. its a song about space travel and aliens that look like angels. luther vibes amiright

but lyrically, it's very luther, very hopeful (very demure). i think that is something so interesting about luther, for all his gruffness. he is incredibly earnest and full of hope for a long, long time, it really only crashes down when he learns Reginald didn't open anything he sent him from the moon.

i think of childhood friends and the dreams we had

we lived happily forever, so the story goes,

but somehow we missed out, on our pot of gold,

but we'll try, best as we can to carry on

do i even need to say anything-- if that ain't luther's pre-apocalypse mantra, i don't know what is. the idea that the Umbrella Academy wasn't a farce is something he holds onto for so long. that maybe his siblings were just jaded to the point they couldn't see the promise, the potienial. that it wasn't all fruitless abuse.

AND THE BEAT DROPS

we all know Luther loves a good groove and if Come Sail Away is not a good groove, i don't want to talk to you.

i thought that there were angels, come to my surprise,

we climbed aboard their starship and headed for the skies!

this also just strikes me as a luther line too, his love and joy of space, the way i can picture him looking up at sloane with such affection because she's like his awesome floating space angel

I can also just picture little luther absolutely breaking it down in his bedroom to this like he puts on the record while he's studying or whateve but then as it picks up he's just crab dancin' all round that joint.

additional viewing: this scene from Freaks and Geeks (great show, with great writing and an amazing soundtrack--shows like this are why s1 of TUA make my brain sing) if Luther didn't know the song beforehand, i feel like this is something that could very well happen to him. wants to use his one promised dance with his crush on a slow dance, but then it ends up being a synthy rock disco banger.

damn that got long lol I think I will do Boy Named Sue as its own post so people aren't stuck scrolling forever and ever

hope that was vaguely coherent! thank you so much for the ask :)

Send me an ask about a song from my playlists for the characters of the Umbrella Academy!

[aboutoriginality]

Styx - Come Sail Away (1977) (1080p HQ)

[boatmediatourney]

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Round 4A, match 1

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[brittlebutch]

have i been insane about this throughline on here yet?

[mccoys-killer-queen]

me: I like Come Sail Away for the artistic visuals the music puts in my head :)

the artistic visuals the music puts in my head:

[myimaginaryradio]

Come Sail Away - Styx - 1978

[the-other-nightmare-people]

I know DAMN well that Tommy Shaw and JY had something going on in the 80s fr

[t-bone-barnes]

save me listening to come sail away by styx at 11 pm…. listening to come sail away by styx at 11 pm…….. listening to come sail away by styx at 11 pm save me….

[collectorofallthingssentimental]

[signals-over-the-air]

my current favorite work pastime is asking my boss his opinions on different bands/artists because his takes are just so fucking out of pocket and wild

[stuck-in-the-ghost-zone]

if theyre actually angels im gonna lose my shit

[boatmediatourney]

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[mccoys-killer-queen]

"Oh God, yeah. Thank goodness for cocaine." -Tommy Roland Shaw (b. Sept. 11th 1953)