#lyrics from the great divide by noah kahan

[mydeadgaywizards]

“Come with me, Reg. Please?” Sirius knows Regulus’ answer, but asks again anyways.

I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich

Regulus sighs and shakes his head. “You know I can’t.”

I hope you’re scared of all the ordinary shit

Tears leaking out of his eyes, Sirius pulls his brother into a hug. “Stay safe. You know where to find me if you ever need me.”

Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin

Regulus nods, and Sirius gives him one last glance over before picking up his bags and slipping out the front door.

And not your soul and what He might do with it

It’s not until Sirius is long gone and Regulus is alone in his room that he finally lets the tears fall.

[holdingcaulfields]

j.d. salinger / noah kahan

[persephoneprice]

Since you're still thinking about it, open invitation to talk about Festus/Felix sad tragic love story?

why thank you abyssal 😌

i was listening to clips of noah kahan’s new song while half awake last night and i was unfortunately plagued by thoughts of my tragic gays.

i’m going to put all of this under the cut because…yeah i think most people probably are not that interested in a line-by-line breakdown of noah kahan’s new (and unreleased) song + sad gays.

okay, for those of you who are willing to entertain my nonsense! i see different parts of the song as different perspectives of the two boys.

festus creed

I can’t recall the last time that we talked

‘Bout anything but looking out for cops

We got cigarette burns on the same side of our hands, but we ain’t friends

We’re just morons who broke skin in the same spot

festus & felix has a long history together but by this point they’ve grown apart. in this moment (that i’ve completely made up and forced the lyrics to fit), they’re together after a long time of not speaking. i like to imagine that it’s sometime right before festus’s and persephone’s wedding.

But I’ve never seen you take a turn that wide

And I’m high enough to still care if I die

felix is reckless with his emotions and begging festus to change his mind- and festus is still too conscious of his image and family pressure to give in.

Well, I’ve tried to read the thoughts that you’d worked overtime to stop

You said, “fuck off”, and I said nothing for a while

festus doesn’t understand why felix is so upset about the situation. to him, it seems obvious that they can just continue their relationship privately. felix has a bad habit of spiraling and won’t let festus in.

You know I think about you all the time

And my deep misunderstanding of your life

And how bad it must have been for you back then

And how hard it was to keep it all inside

i think this is festus further in the future looking back after he’s learned some ravinstill secrets from being in snow’s inner circle. festus is realizing that he didn’t really understand what felix’s life was like or just how much he was willing to risk for festus.

felix ravinstill

I hope you settle down, I hope you marry rich

I hope you’re scared of only ordinary shit

Like murderers and ghosts and cancer on your skin

And not your soul and what He might do with it

this is felix after he and festus stopped seeing each other. festus is going to marry persephone and is working closely with snow, whose political career is looking promising. felix knows that snow plans to become president.

felix also knows just how dark being the president- and being close to the president- can be. he’s heard the hushed conversations of things that go on in the capitol and panem as a whole. and he hopes that since he can’t save festus from this path, he at least isn’t haunted by the political choices and actions made the way felix was.

You inched yourself across the great divide

While we drove aimlessly along the Twin State line

I heard nothing but the bass in every ballad that you’d play

While you swore to God the singer read your mind

this is when felix and festus are still together but festus is slowly pulling away. and felix isn’t understanding why festus is doing it because he’s only focused on what he believes festus to be feeling and not what festus is actually saying and doing.

But the world is scared of hesitating things

Yeah, they only shoot the birds who cannot sing

And I’m finally aware of how shitty and unfair

It was to stare ahead like everything was fine

felix is realizing how unfair it was to keep trying to push their relationship and pretend like everything is and would continue to be fine when festus was clearly struggling with all of it.

felix ravinstill

Rage

In small ways

Did you wish that I could know?

festus creed

You’d fade

To some place

I wasn’t brave enough to go

both festus and felix are reflecting of their relationship and where things went wrong. for felix, he is looking back and realizing all the signs that he had missed from festus. for festus, he is realizing just how much he was asking from felix in wanting to have his cake and eat it too.

felix ravinstill

I hope you threw a brick right into that stained glass

I hope you’re with someone who isn’t scared to ask

I hope you’re not losing sleep about what’s next

Or about about your soul and what He might do with it

felix is again thinking about where festus is heading in terms of his career and politics. he’s holding out hope that festus will do what felix always loved about him- fight back. he sees where snow is going and he hears rumors of gauls plans and he hopes that festus will use his position to fight back against it all and make panem better.

felix is hoping that snow won’t take festus and turn him into something twisted like he’s seen from his great-uncle’s associates in the past. basically, felix is hoping that festus holds onto his humanity and remains a good person.

[wallpaper-inside-my-heart]

top five favorite songs (or artists/albums, whatever you wanna gush about!)

Oh Lydia.. you have no idea what you have unleashed by asking me to gush about music 😹💕 Music is truly one of my nr.1 interests of all time! 🫶

So me answering this got way out of hand... Therefore, here a (somewhat) brief summary:

Top 5 songs of last week:

The grudge by Olivia Rodrigo -> “your flowers filled with vitriol” is a line that goes so hard istg! (the whole song is a banger tho)

Midnight by Ed Sheeran

Making the bed by Olivia Rodrigo

Stick Season by Noah Kahan

That’s on me by Ed Sheeran

Top 5 fave artists atm (artist -> fave album -> fave song on it)

The Amazing Devil -> Ruin -> Drinking Song for the socially anxious

Taylor Swift -> evermore -> cowboy like me

Sleeping at last -> Enneagram -> Nine (my own type lmao)

Bo Burnham -> Inside -> Goodbye

Ed Sheeran -> (currently) Autumn Variations -> Spring

Way too extensive elaboration under the cut (bc once I start talking about music it’s very hard to stop)

So out of the 5 arrtists I mention, I also have fave albums and on those albums at least 5 songs so… I don’t expect anyone to actually read through all that, no worries 😹💕 (I was also about to include fave lyrics, but then I was reminded of several irl deadlines so… another time maybe…hopefully... cause I love talking about lyrics so much!)

(fave songs in order of their track nr. On the album, not their actual rank; fave bolded)

1.) The Amazing Devil

Love Run -> King, Shower Day, Elsa’s Song, Two Minutes, Not Yet/Love Run

The Horror and the Wild -> The Rockrose & the Thistle, Welly Boots, Farewell Wanderlust, Fair, That Unwanted Animal

Ruin -> The Calling, Drinking Song, Chords, The Old Witch Sleep, Ruin, Inkpot Gods

2.) Taylor Swift (okay, I am just doing top 5 albums for her, cause otherwise we’ll be sitting here all day)

Evermore -> champagne problems, ivy, cowboy like me, marjorie, right where you left me

Red -> The Lucky One, Better Man, Nothing New, Forever Winter, ATW 10 min

Reputation -> I did smth bad, King of my Heart, Dancing with our hands tied, Call it what you want, New Years Day

Folklore -> the 1, my tears ricochet, seven, peace, the lakes

Midnights -> Maroon, Sweet Nothing, The Great War, WCS, You’re losing me

3.) Sleeping at last

Space -> Sun, Earth, Mars, Neptune, Pluto

Enneagram -> 1, 2, 3, 8, 9

4.) Bo Burnham

Words words words -> WWW, Oh Bo, What’s Funny, Rant, Art is Dead

What -> left brain right brain (yt amv flashbacks istg…) , from god’s perspective, Nerds, Channel 5 News, Hell of a Ride

Make Happy -> straight white man, country song, lower your expectations, kys, can’t handle this (+ r u happy – bc oof…)

Inside (deluxe) -> problematic, welcome to the internet, that funny feeling, all eyes on me, goodbye + five years

5.) Ed Sheeran (also just 5, bc I am ignoring that = exists)

Plus -> it’s been too long since  listened to this one, so I only remember “Little Bird” and “The A Team”

X -> Don’t, Photograph, Tenerife Sea, Thinking Out Loud, I see Fire

Divide -> Shape of you (idc that it’s overplayed!! I still unironically like this song!), Happier, What do I know?, Supermarket Flowers, Save Myself

Substract -> Eyes Closed, End of Youth, Curtains, Vega, Stoned

Autumn Variations -> England, Midnight, Spring, Punchline, When will I be alright

[emuchipmunk]

Jason Todd Playlist

This Was A Home Once // Bad Suns - Though we can't control the rest one thing will always be true / This was a home once / Where we found our way, oh the golden days / This was a home once / Where my life begun, where life moves on

Younger // Ruel - Deep in my heart, I know that it's over / Deleted your number, so I can't call you / Call you my brother, the way that we used to / When we were younger, younger / I saw you just the other night / I didn't even recognize you / Find it kind of strange, I guess that people change / But I didn't expect you to

He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother // The Hollies - It's a long, long road / From which there is no return / While we're on the way to there / Why not share? / And the load / Doesn't weigh me down at all / He ain't heavy, he's my brother

Bored To Death // Blink-182 - The voices in my head are always screaming / That none of this means anything to me / And it's a long way back from seventeen / The whispers turn into a scream / And I... I'm not coming home / Save your breath, I'm nearly / Bored to death and fading fast / Life is too short to last long

Wow, I’m Not Crazy // AJR - Oh, different, so different / They tell us to be different / But no one told me I could go too far / Frankly, I’m scared of clowns / And get-togethers get me down / But when you talk, it’s like, "Wow, I’m not crazy" / Frankly, I feel insane / But you say you feel the same / And suddenly, it’s like, "Hey, I’m not crazy"

We back, my dudes. This one was surprisingly super easy to find highlight songs for, a little wild. Anyways, here’s the Spotify and YouTube links and the rest are under the cut. Enjoy!

Songs with lyrical relevance 

Sight of the Sun - Fun.

Far Too Young To Die - Panic! at the Disco

Still Breathing - Green Day

Want You Back - 5 Seconds of Summer

Please Don’t Leave Me - Pink

I Bet My Life - Imagine Dragons

It’s On Us - AJR (this would have been a highlight song if I didn’t already have a song from them)

Figure Me Out - The Summer Set 

Live Like Legends - Ruelle

Brother - Kodaline

Luck - American Authors

Alone Sometimes - The Mowgli’s

Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths

Forget The Lies - Quietdrive

Silence - Marshmello, Khalid

Karma - AJR

Icarus - Bastille

Hard Love - NeedToBreath

I Am Not A Robot - Marina

Catastrophize - Noah Kahan

Hype songs before a mission

Legend - The Score

Unstoppable - The Score

Wilson (Expensive Mistakes) - Fall Out Boy

Let The Games Begin - AJR

Anything - Hedley

Who I Am - The Score

LA Devotee - Panic! at the Disco

100 Bad Days - AJR

Bad Blood - Taylor Swift

Stayin Alive - Bee Gees

Sad ones 

Down - Jason Walker

Blackbird - The Beatles

I’ll Be Good - Jaymes Young

Youth - Daughter

Where Do I Begin - Sick Puppies

Stay - Hurts

Iridescent - Linkin Park 

Choke - OneRepublic

Somewhere Only We Know - Keane

World Gone Mad - Bastille 

Role Models - AJR

Heavy - Birdtalker

The Great Divide - Breaking Benjamin

Come Back When You Can - Barcelona

Those Nights - Bastille

Is This The World We Created - Queen

Boogie Down songs 

Kill Your Heroes - Awolnation

West End Kids - New Politics

I’m Born to Run - American Authors

Sunshine Riptide - Fall Out Boy

Sinner - Andy Grammar 

Glorious - Macklemore, Skylar Grey

Angel With a Shotgun - The Cab

Superheroes - The Script

Morning in America - Jon Bellion

Livin Right - The Score

Miracle - The Score

Til I Forget About You - Big Time Rush

Street Fight - Smallpools

Sober Up - AJR, Rivers Cuomo

Battle Cry - Havana Brown, Bebe Rexha, Savi

Animals - Maroon 5

King of the World - Young Rising Sons

Tongue Tied - Grouplove

You’re My World - Atlas

We Are The Kids - Walk The Moon

What I Want - The Band Camino

Bad Decisions - Bastille

Kids in the Street - The All-American Rejects

Tonight, Tonight - The Smashing Pumpkins

Crash My car - Coin

You’re Such A - Hailee Steinfeld

Hiccups - Waters

Color - Finish Ticket

number One - Tove Styrke

It’s Tricky - Run-DMC

Beekeeper - Keaton Henson

Anyways, hope y’all enjoy! As always, feel free to recommend any songs that you think would fit in any of these playlists I have or suggest a new playlist. Heck, you could ask about my other playlists and I’d probably bore you to death talking about them but I guess if that’s what you like to do. 

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