#matt pa pond

[zamyamf1028]

Someday you will find me

Beneath the landslide

In a champagne supernova in the sky

[batgirlsay]

Fallen Threads Across the Dancefloor

An Obiyuki Week 2024 Playlist for Day 7: West Coast Swing (Free Day) by @snowwhite-andtheknight

Been waiting to use these songs for over a year after remembering some perfect Postal Service songs and discovering some new Beths songs! The playlist started out with a “Red String of Fate” theme, but it also works for this swinging friends-to-lovers theme. There’s even kinda a swing beat in the title lyric track “Our Braided Lives” and maybe a few more. I actually used to swing dance for fun and I’m glad West Coast Swing was added to the prompt list, it’s perfect for Obiyuki!

Took a while to figure out a good order for this playlist without putting two songs by the same band next to each other… ended up starting with a night out and the consequences (and feelings) that ensued… ending in Obi style with his overwhelming doubts.

Fallen Threads Across the Dancefloor

A Tattered Line of String- The Postal Service Untangled Love- Brandon Flowers Our Braided Lives- Matt Pond PA Brand New Colony- The Postal Service Jump Rope Gazers- The Beths Sugar River- Matt Pond PA Just Shy of Sure- The Beths Glory of the Snow- Clairo Unraveling- Violents and Monica Martin Keep The Distance (Demo)- The Beths

Summary lyrics are cited after the cut (and bonus feels Obi):

A Tattered Line of String- The Postal Service

You've got a tattered line of string And you tied 'round everything That you want to call your own But it never seems to hold

When we walk, we agreed That we would not ever speak of of this night to anyone that we both knew

Then you said "Every time we kissed I felt something that couldn't exist"

Untangled Love- Brandon Flowers

Well let's say that now's the time to start Blessed all, the young at heart

I've been looking for untangled love But it's hard to get a handle on I always hoped I'd see the light Break the bad luck in my life

It's been twenty-one years since I left home I've been looking for a place to call my own I see the silver lining shining like polished gold

Untangled love I can see it in your eyes Untangled love You took me by surprise

Our Braided Lives- Matt Pond PA

Our braided lives At times I'm tied Fallen threads across The bedroom floor

Will this not end? Will this star claim us all?

The space between Our wandering hands I might not have to be Alone anymore The night could end The dark could leave us all

Far below the glowing Ceiling sky The night will end The dark will leave The time begins For us to see it all

Brand New Colony- The Postal Service

I'll be the phonograph that plays your favorite albums back As you're lying there, drifting off to sleep

I'll be the platform shoes, undo what heredity's done to you You won't have to strain to look into my eyes

I'll be your winter coat, buttoned and zipped straight to the throat With the collar up, so you won't catch a cold

Start a brand new colony Where everything will change We'll give ourselves new names, identities erased The sun will heat the grounds Under our bare feet in this brand new colony

Jump Rope Gazers- The Beths

I've never been the dramatic type But if I don't see your face tonight I, well I guess I'll be fine

Decipher the signs Like we're slowly coming together Yeah it's slowly coming out about us

Oh I, I think I love you And I think that I loved you the whole time

How could this happen We were jump rope gazers in the middle of the night Hide my heart behind a brighter light So you struggle straining eyes to find Why we made it this way

My hopes are prone to elevate But the way your mind and mine relate It breaks the patterns we make

I was just waiting for the grazes on my hands to mend I was afraid of the sting

And I wanna give it my best try How could this happen We were jump rope gazers

Sugar River- Matt Pond PA

Hollow hearts don't know their wrong from right The world we're waiting for won't disappear The world we're waiting for is all right here

Along the river bank the root stays strong Heart of hearts you know there's nothing wrong

The world we're waiting for will shake our dreams Move them through the dark and down the street

Reaching and rallying they merge every time Our ties become part of the way we survive To stare down the shadows Made up in the hollows We're safe in these seconds There's proof in your eyes

Sugar river rolling through the night Rushing under the midnight sky

Just Shy of Sure- The Beths

Love in memory Was a plague that consumed me Shifted all my priorities

I have kept the hurt buried deep into winter dirt I watch at night when the mound stirs This is not the burn I've known It's an ache in my every bone Maybe you want to be alone

When do things suffice? Can you be happy all your life? Do you think it can happen twice? Maybe that's a swing Hey, you can't win without entering Are you cool to lose everything?

Weak, but I'll pretend That you still want me I'm the one you adore But I'm just shy of sure

Glory of the Snow- Clairo

I can feel there's something in the between For a moment, I heard you talking to me

I pull on the string that binds me To memories of the way I loved you I push on the door, the one I've ignored The one that leads me to you

Glory of the snow I'm waking up and now I know

I can see there's someone looking for me For a moment, I heard the rustling lеaves

Sweeping under rugs, the one I was not gonna Gonna dance on again

Unraveling- Violents and Monica Martin

Wide-eyed wonder, where did you go? Pagan cynic, constant critic, friend to a foe I'm unraveling

I much prefer you the way that I found you And I hate who I am when I am around you But you're far away and I need you close to me A sad simple truth that's lost in the irony

Keep The Distance (Demo)- The Beths

We kept the distance Kept it at no one’s insistence Pushing against no resistance but ourselves It’s not complicated Lovers get humiliated I wanted you but couldn’t say it out loud

There's a hole in my memory It's widening with each new entry Blooming like a flower when everything falls through Each death and redemption Each second of increasing tension Every ounce of pure prevention we hеld to

If you’re heading out then I insist you make a move But if it’s not the moment Then bottle up the breath I’m holding Sorry to my serotonin Some bad news

We’re caught, torn in the fabric Enthrallеd, drawn like a magnet But we keep the distance Just an attempt to get by

[lostdeviantartcollages]

new tape

[garglyswoof]

It is a universal truth that when I find an artist that's new to me, they have a tiny desk concert with millions of views.

[punkrockmixtapes]

Listen/purchase: Halloween Two by matt pond PA

The head is haunted, but it belongs to me An amplified apology A skeleton in a window frame, giving candy away Sometimes I feel the same

[grapehyasynth]

Chuck (2007-2012) really introduced me to so much good music

[johnnymartyr]

Backstage with Nikki Glaser

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[mea-cuppa-part-2]

Snow Day - Matt Pond PA, 2005

[wonderlandleighleigh]

tagged by @strangenewgirls <3 shuffle your on repeat playlist and list the first 10 songs

New Hampshire - Matt Pond PA

Sugar Assault Me Now - Pop Levi

The Luckiest - Ben Folds

Only the Good Die Young - Billy Joel

Dazz - Dazz Disco Mix - Brick

Little Lies - Fleetwood Mac

A Violent Yet Flammable World - Au Revoir Simone

Comin' Home Baby - Mel Torme

I Could Be In Love With Someone Like You - Aaron Tveit

Anti-Hero - Taylor Swift

@mbqnoyolo @kayliemalinza @theycallme-thejackal @metricula @theresawritesstuff @iconuk01 @phoenix @velvetjezebel @bekindreblog and anyone else!

[mischas]

If you were to create a playlist for Ryan + Marissa, what songs would you put on it? It can be anything from songs that have been on the show, songs you feel fit them as a couple, songs in movies & other T.V. shows, etc.

This is such a fun question! It's also impossible to nail down completely because I honestly imagine RM when I listen to music, lol. Here's my working list (they include head canon/future ideas):

Savior Complex by Phoebe Bridgers

Smoke Signals by Phoebe Bridgers

ICU by Phoebe Bridgers

The Night We Met by Lord Huron and Phoebe Bridgers

White Flag by Clairo

Strawberries & Cigarettes by Troye Sivan

Lucky Strike by Troye Sivan

Nobody Compares to You by Griffin

Losing You by boy pablo

Prom by courtship.

Just Friends by Audrey Mika

New York by Snow Patrol

Make This Go On Forever by Snow Patrol

Chasing Cars by Snow Patrol

Ode to a Conversation Stuck in Your Throat by Del Water Gap

Summer Years by Death Cab

Near/Far by Death Cab

Transatlanticism by Death Cab

I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab

Such Great Heights by The Postal Service

So Contagious by Acceptance

England by The National

Light Years by The National

Slow Show by The National

I Should Live in Salt by The National

illicit affairs by Taylor Swift

tis the damn season by Taylor Swift

august by Taylor Swift

cardigan by Taylor Swift

exile by Taylor Swift and Bon Iver

Last Kiss by Taylor Swift

Mine by Taylor Swift

Labyrinth by Taylor Swift

I Almost Do by Taylor Swift

The Last Time by Taylor Swift and Gary Lightbody

Cornelia Street by Taylor Swift

Daylight by Taylor Swift

Afterglow by Taylor Swift

Renegade by Big Red Machine and Taylor Swift

Easy Silence by The Chicks

In My Veins by Andrew Belle

A Drop in the Ocean by Ron Pope

The Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script

If You Ever Come Back by The Script

Breakeven by The Script

May I by Trading Yesterday

Love Song Requiem by Trading Yesterday

Orange Sky by Alexi Murdoch

Forever Young by Youth Group (Alphaville cover)

Paint the Silence by South

Maybe I'm Amazed by Jem (Paul McCartney cover)

Honey and the Moon by Joseph Arthur

Dice by Finley Quaye and William Orbit

Yellow by Petra Haden and Bill Frisell (Coldplay cover)

Fix You by Coldplay

California 2005 by Phantom Planet

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by Matt Pond PA (Neutral Milk Hotel cover)

Strange and Beautiful by Aqualung

Blue Light by Bloc Party

All Kinds of Time by Fountains of Wayne

Legendary by Lou Barlow

Trouble Sleeping by The Perishers

Nothing Like You and I by The Perishers

This is not at all exhaustive! A chunk of these came from this playlist. So much of my music tastes of the last year came from there. Whoever made it, bless you. Also I know the genres are kind of all over the place, lol. I tried not to make it too angsty, and I have songs like F2F by SZA that I think are applicable to very specific situations (late s3). Moon Song by Phoebe would work for s2 as well. Stuff like that. Basically every Phoebe song.

[batgirlsay]

Bodyguard Tempting Fate

Obiyuki Trope Madness 2024 Playlist for Bodyguard Crush

Another early Obi playlist using the most broadly themed trope, so I could include some songs I’ve been wanting to use for a while! Most songs have some common themes from previous playlists (arrows, snow, green vs. gold) but I had a difficult time naming this playlist before noticing the lyric “troublemaker tempting fate” from the Nada Surf song.

Bodyguard Tempting Fate

An Arrow in the Wall- Death Cab for Cutie Acrid- The Beths Troublemaker- Nada Surf Bite The Hand- boygenius Whose Authority- Nada Surf The State of Gold, Pt. 1- Matt Pond PA Bring You Down- The Dear Hunter Green Eyes, Red Face- Lucy Dacus Copper Mine- Matt Pond PA

Summary lyrics are cited after the cut:

An Arrow in the Wall- Death Cab for Cutie

My heart runs on gasoline vapors The thousand drums waking up the neighbors But I can feel the fissures in the freeways The rusted steel, deception in the handshakes

An arrow in the wall Take it as a warning That you are gonna fall Even if you're soaring

There's more than one way to get your freedom

Acrid- The Beths

Acrid, the smell of burning rubber is a daily feature When I throw myself into reverse Check out of my surroundings Backing up so blindly, my back to the universe

Like a ship out of commission Like an arrow always missing

I'm trying to lie like a pro And I know it looks easy from the outside But it's hard to hold your brow just so

Like a record slowly twisting Like an arrow always missing I'm always whistling by But it's you I want to run into Tragic, the messages I send my mind post-midnight Are showing seen but no reply So I mash the keys a million times for a million years And maybe by chance I'll say it right Closing in on your middle distance Filling quivers with ammunition But I'm always missing you

I want to run into you Like a light burning bright in your hard heart I won't make a sound when I go dark Can you see me through

Troublemaker- Nada Surf

Why do I feel bad again? I shouldn't be sad or miss a grin Doubt creeps in and doubt creeps out Skews the view from my cloud

Troublemaker tempting fate Questioning the path I take Showing me the twists and turns The forks and points of no return

Every day I choose to spend the rest of my life with her And every day I break the molds of lives and worlds I already miss the things that I will never know I will never know the things that I've already missed

Bite The Hand- boygenius

I can't hear you, you're too far away I can't see you, the light is in my face I can't touch you, I wouldn't if I could

Here's the best part distilled for you But you want what I can't give to you Your hands are gravity while my hands are tied I can't love you how you want me to

Whose Authority- Nada Surf

I walk like you guide me, my eyes Are shut like I'm blind Turn to you and listening and tryin' To be in your mind

Surprised in translation World without end

How do you stay where You most want to be? Where'd you get the patience Did it come easily?

On whose authority I have none over me 

The State of Gold, Pt. 1- Matt Pond PA

I might have a drink to be myself I hope nobody notices tonight what it takes to be real To truly keep this lamppost standing

I don’t care if anyone carries me I don’t care if anyone drops me Cause I know how to be alone At least I’ve learned how to be alone

We might have to fight to get out That’s the way I picture almost every night below stars Below the crown of heaven

All I care about is your sentences And all the secrets you left down in them There’s so much we’ll never know All the vastness in the word hello

There's more than one way to live There's more than one way to love There's more than one way to give I won't stop climbing to the state of gold

In the ether above our reach is the state of gold worth believing in

Bring You Down- The Dear Hunter

You took me by surprise A stranger through my eager eyes

I tried so hard to hide The cynic in me far from sight But moments still arise when My flaws get the best of me

So don't let me bring you down No, don't let me bring you down

Green Eyes, Red Face- Lucy Dacus

Slow dancing At low tide Drawn to move By the moon

And I see the seat next to yours is unoccupied And I was wondering if you'd let me come and sit by your side And I got plenty of affection I'll be glad to show you some time

What am I supposed to do With you in the room? What am I supposed to say With your green eyes on my red face?

Copper Mine- Matt Pond PA

When it snows from above the towers The ground stays still - it can't get away Clothe the roofs hour after hour

With this ease ignore the obvious Heard the cold lost all its power If we go let's go away

[groovefreddie]

Melody, soft

Bedroom Indie

It tells the story of two lovers that, although now apart, still remember the time they were together with much esteem, recalling their fun little games, gimmicks and inside jokes that stuck with them even after the breakup.

I really like to listen to this type of song to calm down/sleep. If only life were so simple, to find someone you really bond with and nothing goes wrong, a happy ever after. But this song shows the reality, a relationship might last forever or not, and that’s ok, for whatever reason they decided to break up it doesn’t mean there were only bad moments in the relationship, in fact, most of it was graceful and beautiful. Damn, indie is the best man!

Don’t hold hate for the bad parts of your life, cherish what good you got from it, after all, you’re still here.

[reconprate]

Matt Pond PA

Matt Pond PA “Korea” The Ballad Of The Natural Lines (02-07-2025) “I wrote ‘Korea’ after collaborating with Chris Hansen to score footage of an American soldier overseas in 1959.  There was an earnest openness to the film that struck me. It felt as though the camera was searching for something – yet at the same time, it was accepting, fully open to this world across the ocean. We recorded the…