#i posted about this earlier but Flowers into Thus Always To Tyrants goes CRAZY

[nephriteknight]

i've made a playlist for my hanahaki-adjacent martin corruption fic! i spent way too much time on this, and it is ordered deliberately ;) it is almost entirely the crane wives because a) the themes!! and b) i just love their music okay. thought i'd highlight some lines from each song, think of it as a tonal sneak peak (can you tell i'm way too invested in this wip? ironically, it is consuming me)

"Feed me promises, keep my heart well, I'll sing you songs until the darkness does recede. But if in the end I lose my voice will you forget about your love for me?" (Canary in a Coal Mine by the Crane Wives)

"I bite my tongue to keep the worst of the words in so they don't hurt nobody but me. Swallow the poison I wanna spit, bitter medicine, I think it's making me sick." (Bitter Medicine by the Crane Wives)

"Oh, the path of least resistance, foolish misinterpretation. Your heart is a nasty place, I'm afraid to say no to you." (Predator by the Crane Wives)

"Folks 'round here are mean, spit fire and gasoline but all I want is solitude. I have half a mind to climb up in the sky and hide myself inside the moon." (New Colors by the Crane Wives)

"I will drown for you, sink to black from blue, and let the water win. Wear you 'round my waist, hold your heart like weight, open my lungs to let you in." (The Diving Bell by the Crane Wives)

"Someone teach me to love without it swallowing me whole. If to love is to be changed I'm only worsening, mosquito larvae in my ribs. He only loves me when I rot like him." (The Bog Bodies by Rabbitology)

"I should be counting blessings, something is better than nothing, isn't it, isn't it, isn't it? It's close enough to perfect, what does it hurt, a little bit?" (Nobody by the Crane Wives)

"All my aching bones are trembling and I may yet fall apart. Won't you stay with me my darling, when the war starts in my heart?" (Curses by the Crane Wives)

"Maybe it's the heat or maybe it's the pain but I can't shake the feeling we're not coming back again. We're not pure of heart but we're true of aim and our heads are full of love and blood and whiskey." (Blood and Whiskey by the Mechanisms)

"Dreams are sweet until they're not. Men are kind until they aren't. Flowers bloom until they rot and fall apart. Is anybody listening? I open my mouth and nothing comes out. Nothing, nothing gonna wake me now." (Flowers from Hadestown)

"There's a wind alive in the valley, it will fill your lungs if you'll have it. Where I go, will you still follow? Will you leave your shaded hollow? Will you greet the daylight looming? Learn to love without consuming?" (Thus Always To Tyrants by the Oh Hellos)

"Come my dear and drink while the water's still cold. I am naught but a scar upon your breastbone. So kiss me quick steal every secret I keep. You can have anything that you want from me." (October by the Crane Wives)

"When it's love turns you sour, only love can turn you back. Stop waiting on the flowers. Blood don't mean a thing in the end." (Caleb Trask by the Crane Wives)

"Been enraptured and tied, turn your ghosts into mine, all the years, all the years I'm alive. Softly a cold wind paints my face into your arms, sell my sorry soul." (Naked, the Night Falls by the Crane Wives)

"The moon will sing a song for me, I loved you like the sun. Bore the shadows that you made with no light of my own." (The Moon Will Sing by the Crane Wives)

"Time will change you. You'll leave behind what doesn't move. We all outgrow our roots." (Time Will Change You by the Crane Wives)

"So lets throw my garden party, you promised roses but gave me thorns. You'd leave me rotting 'til summer's over, guess I'll be digging alone." (Garden Party by Madds Buckley)

"Climb ye higher and higher and higher 'til you're far away and breathing cleaner air. Oh my brother, my brother, my brother who have you become in the wake of all that happened here? They're burning down the orchard to the soil, to the soil, to the grave. Spreading out the ashes of a love that only gave and gave." (Icarus by the Crane Wives)

"So I take a deep breath and turn to be brave. Harvest the fruits of being afraid." (Red Clay by the Crane Wives)

"I thank these walls, my hideaway, my sanctuary to worship the pain. I never thought I'd leave the cave, but I'm more curious than afraid." (Arcturus Beaming)

"I won't bargain, I won't break, my mind made up though my head still aches, and all my love you tried to take but you can't have it all." (Can't Have It All by the Crane Wives)

"I have always known you, you have always been there in my mind. But now I understand you and I will not be part of your designs." (Dear Wormwood by the Oh Hellos)