#i write down good reasons to freeze to death / in my spiral ring notebook

[symphonicsunsets]

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[tmglineaday]

I write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook

[outofcontextgoats]

i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook

[milfbius]

marrow

a kiamei playlist (spotify link)

tracklist + lyric selections below cut

part 1: mei

nobody dies - thao & the get down stay down

I send all of it, I take all of it I send all of it and then you send You send it all back to me

2. cosmonauts - fiona apple

When you resist me, hon', I cease to exist Because I only like the way I look when looking through your eyes And when you come back You commemorate the penetration of the sun into the deep, dark sky

3. moonstruck - los campesinos!

You and me, antipodes The Earth's collapse, we finally meet

4. living room, ny - laura stevenson

So I’ll fold the world to be there tonight 'Cause I want to fall asleep on your time I want to fall asleep where you lie I want to fall asleep with you shifting by my side

5. anything you love - art in manila

I've come to show my self I'm a love that won't die I will never let go

part 2: kiana

self-destruct - origami angel

Back when I was happy I was cool, wasn't tortured By this thing inside my head I felt therе was purpose in my life When I could bе who I wanted all the time Now I sit in silence Wishing that I could hear you say my name

2. faraway lightning - moonface

I search the sky at night for a sign of your violence

3. broom people - the mountain goats

I write down good reasons to freeze to death In my spiral ring notebook But in the long tresses of your hair I am a babbling brook

4. maps - yeah yeah yeahs

Wait, they don't love you like I love you Wait, they don't love you like I love you Maps Wait, they don't love you like I love you

5. this tornado loves you - neko case

My love, I am the speed of sound I left them motherless, fatherless Their souls dangling inside-out from their mouths But it's never enough

I want you

part 3: bonus tracks

there is a light that never goes out - the lucksmiths (smiths cover)

And if a double-decker bus crashes into us To die by your side is such a heavenly way to die And if a ten tonne truck kills the both of us To die by your side, well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine

2. marrow - thao & the get down stay down

I've got grief in my marrow Will you marry me still? I'm one of two on the straight and the narrow And I'm coming for you

3. honkai world diva (movie ver.) - mika kobayashi

I can hear the voices of thе people I miss in this final song I would tremble just to hold them once more

[solomon-revisited]

broom people, the mountain goats x bristlecone photographs, earl cecil payne

[ID: a photograph of cacti silhouettes, with blue-toned mountains in the background. the lyrics "i write down good reasons to freeze to death / in my spiral ring notebook" are overlayed on the photo.]

[strawcherrysorbet]

When tmg said "I write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook" I felt that

[sybilius]

Sybsybsyb!! For the TMG ask, I'll say a song from a few of the albuns you picked bc I'm curious to hear your takes!! You can pick one song or all of them, your choice Outer Scorpion Squadron Southwestern Territory White Cedar Broom People Heretic Pride

Outer Scorpion Squadron, from Heretic Pride -- you know what, I don't linger on this song a lot but I should, the instrumentation is lovely. Anyways:

Find a place where there's water, // hold you under till you're still

Not to sound silt-pilled but this reminds me of my specialest worst boy Faulkner (oooh you want to listen to TSV podcast soooo bad)

-

Southwestern Territory, from Beat the Champ. God. one of my favourites, no doubt. From memory:

I try to remember to write in the diary // that my son gave me climb the turnbuckle high // take two falls out of three // black out for local TV

Just. the tenderness of a travelling wrestler, doing their damndest to snatch time for the thing that makes them feel alive. Trying also to do right by a son, so far away on the road...it gets me, you know?-

-

White Cedar from Transcendental Youth. Honestly, it's rare for me to say this, but it's not the lyrics that get me in this song. It's the swell of the horns. But in any case, this one:

Woke up on lockdown one more time // My visions won't ever learn But I see the light that much clearer // Every time I return

Yeah.....

- Broom People from The Sunset Tree. Man. I almost wrote a fic on the energy of this song. Obsessed in particular with this line, godddd:

I write down good reasons to freeze to death // in my spiral ring notebook But in the long tresses of your hair // I am a babbling brook

It's so... young, this song, and hurting and trapped like this whole album and finding small, young loves as the only reason to survive. The evoking of "freezing to death" gets me.

- Heretic Pride, from Heretic Pride, the song that turned me on to the album! As a devout atheist (Christian cultural, and full respect to the fact that JD writes a lot from his Christianity), and a freaky queer, I couldn't love this song more.

And I start laughing like a child // and I mark their faces one by one Transfiguration's gonna come for me at last// and I will burn hotter than the sun

Yeah? yeah <33

[scalpho]

Lyrics and song for numbers 28,54,95

28. rule #4 - fish in a birdcage

god it feels like ages since i've actually listened to this song erm

it has to be true / i’m counting on you / to be my wings and my eyes

54. only - nine inch nails

chanting along to the chorus is the best part tbh. there is no you there is only me..!

95. broom people - the mountain goats

i love the whole song dearly and it should've been higher but

i write down good reasons to freeze to death / in my spiral ring notebook / but in the long tresses of your hair / i am a babbling brook

[puckrph]

"THE SUNSET TREE" STARTERS

taken from the album by the mountain goats. feel free to change pronouns, etc. tw for mentions/implications of familial abuse, drug use, and suicide

"i walked down to the corner store just before nightfall in my bare feet, the black tarry asphalt soft and hot." "i spread out my supplies on the counter by the sink, looked myself right in the eyes: st. joseph's baby aspirin, bartles and jaymes, and you. or your memory." "i ducked behind the drapes when i saw the moon begin to rise." "down there in the dark, i could see the real truth about me as clear as day." "if i make it through tonight, then i will mend my ways and walk the straight path to the end of my days." "my friends don't have a clue." "down in your arms, i am a wild creature." "i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook." "i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook—but in the long tresses of your hair, i am a babbling brook." "i broke free on a saturday morning, put the pedal to the floor." "my broken house is behind me and good things are ahead." "i am going to make it through this year if it kills me." "i pictured the look on my stepfather's face, ready for the bad things to come." "the scene ends badly, as you might imagine, in a cavalcade of anger and fear." "there will be feasting and dancing in jerusalem next year." "the delicate balance has shifted." "let's pretend the fog has lifted." "now you say you love me, pretty soon you won't." "if we get our full three-score and ten, we won't pass this way again." "kiss me with your mouth open." "stay sweet." "if we live to see the other side of this, i will remember your kiss." "indications that there's something wrong with our new house trip down the wire twice daily." "you're the last best thing i've got going." "what am i supposed to do? no way of knowing." "so i'll follow you down your twisted alleyways and find a few cul-de-sacs of my own, because there's only one place this road ever ends up, and i don't want to die alone." "let me down gently." "you were looking at the void and seldom blinking. the best that i could do was to train my eyes on you." "we scaled the hidden hills beneath the surface, scraped our fingers bloody on the stones." "we kept our friends at bay all summer long and treated the days as though they'd kill us if they could." "we were wringing out the hours like blood-drenched bedsheets to keep wintertime at bay, but december showed up anyway." "i went downtown, sold off most of what i owned." "there's bound to be a ghost at the back of your closet, no matter where you live." "there'll always be a few things, maybe several things, that you're going to find really difficult to forgive." "there's gonna come a day when you feel better. just when that day is coming, who can say?" "they will shake their heads and wag their bony fingers in all the wrong directions, and by daybreak we'll be gone." "by daybreak, we'll be gone." "i'm going to get myself in fighting trim, scope out every angle of unfair advantage." "i'm gonna bribe the officials. i'm gonna kill all the judges. it's gonna take them years to recover from all of the damage." "when your chances fall in your lap like that, you gotta recognize them for what they really are." "nobody in this house wants to own up to the truth." "i am going to regret the day that i was born." "i'm dreaming of you." "there's no good way to end this, anyone can see." "i am young and i am good." "if i wake him up, there will be hell to pay." "alone in my room, i am the last of a lost civilization." "but i do wake him up, and when i do he blazes down the hall and he screams." "held under these smothering waves by his strong and thick-veined hand, but one of these days i'm going to wiggle up on dry land." "try hard to do your best, the magpie will have his way." "remember what we had here when there was something left to save." "it took all the coke in town to bring down dennis brown. on the day my lung collapses, we'll see just how much it takes." "some things you do for money, and some you do for love."

[steddie-fanfic-recs]

broom people

by pizzabones

Rating: Explicit Archive Warning: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationship: Steve Harrington/Eddie Munson Characters: Steve Harrington, Eddie Munson Additional Tags: Established Relationship, Long-Term Relationship(s), reconnecting, Explicit Sexual Content, Sleep Paralysis, Nightmares, Hurt/Comfort, Failed Adoption, Surrogacy Mention, Happy Ending, Edgeplay, Come Eating, Anal Sex, Prostate Massage, Bottom Eddie Munson, Top Steve Harrington, Angst and Fluff and Smut, Dirty Talk Words: 9,928 Chapters: 1/1

Summary

After seventeen years together, Steve has a revelation. '36 Hudson in the garage All sorts of junk in the unattached spare room Dishes in the kitchen sink New straw for the old broom Friends who don’t have a clue Well-meaning teachers But down in your arms, in your arms I am a wild creature Floor two-foot high with newspapers White carpet thick with pet hair Half-eaten gallons of ice cream in the freezer Fresh fuel for the sodium flares I write down good reasons to freeze to death In my spiral ring notebook But in the long tresses of your hair I am a babbling brook broom people - the mountain goats

[shkspr]

tmg song ask - broom people (bc it also makes me feel like I’m gonna throw up my lungs everytime I listen to it)

@if-they-cannot-see-me also requested broom people teehee

i gotta go with “i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral-ring notebook”

[malaisequotes]

“I write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook, but in the long tresses of your hair, I am a babbling brook.”

Broom People by The Mountain Goats

[glitteratti]

sorry but “i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook but in the long tresses of your hair i am a babbling brook”

[bitd]

top five lyrics? :O

AGH THIS IS SO HARD BECAUSE THIS CHANGES ALL THE TIME. I LOVE THIS QUESTION. i'm limiting to tmg because i cannot pick five lyrics of all time honestly

the bad taste in our mouths / the twinkle in your eye / good things never last / bad things never die, which while not the height of songwriting does mean the world to me because it is the basis for the way I AM about the alpha couple

and i handed you a drink of the lovely little thing / on which our survival depends / people say friends don't destroy one another / what do they know about friends? which is uniquely just. i think so much about hte alpha couple obviously but this one affects me deeply and makes me feel absolutely insane.

the ghosts that haunt your building are prepared to take on substance / the dull pain that you live with isn't getting any duller < just does things to me. makes me ill in the head. etc etc. you understand how it is

the arteries are clogging in the main frame / there's too much information in the pipes / i saw the mess you left up in the east bedroom / a tigers never gonna change it's stripes / i guess, i guess / but jesus what a mess / one way in / no way out / the men were here to get your belgian things / and only i was here to watch them do it / i wish you had a number where you are / it's hard with no one here to help me through it - i have a very complex relationship with your belgian things and this specific set of lyrics for many reasons and i am experiencing another period of my life where it is disorienting with how much i cling to it but the number where you are bit always gets me for reasons i can't exactly put a finger on.

and what would this list be without: i saw the future in a dream last night / somebody's gonna get hurt, somebody's gonna get hurt / hope it's not me / but i suspect it's going to have to be + when it's time came, i could see it happen / blossoms black and sweet as texas crude / i saw the future flowering like a ruptured vessel / somebody's gonna get screwed / it won't be me. / one day i am going to walk out of here free, which are lyrics i have clung to for a long time and "I*" have clung to even longer *DID HAVER

honorable mentions to i loved you before i even knew what love was like and i am gonna make it through this year if it kills me of course. and to when the shovels break we still have our fingernails for being the best marketing for bleed out. i could go for longer but so much of my interaction with lyrics is like. association with specific people. like i write down good reasons to freeze to death in my spiral ring notebook but here in the long tresses of your hair i am babbling brook + when you came in, i could breathe again are associated with people and extremely strong positive Feelings about those people that i consider integral to my existence even if i don't really think the songs they're from are that good.

thank you so much for the question i love infodumping about my mountie goats :D

[bumpyfrog]

I write down good reasons to freeze to death. In my spiral ring notebook

[slutabed]

im sorry I have the most boring and mainstream interests of all time but the mountain goats discography is really hitting for me rn and broom people is both an eddie and a will song in ways that are different but the same