#of course my first lyrics edit is hozier of course it is. i'm such a stereotype :') <3

[sollucets]

there's something tragic about you / something so magic about you

khathadome + aquamarine feat. from eden by hozier for @ahxu-laowen

[dragonsruby]

Logic:  You can’t make a good Mozenrath playlist! Most of the info you have on his character is based off of single lines or fan interpretations!

Me:  Haha continuous emo phase go brrrrrrr

Here's the Spotify link if anyone wants to view what I've got or edit it!

Under the line is the list of songs I think go with Mozey's character or general aesthetic and their YouTube lyrics links, along with occasional personal explanations, since I enjoy seeing those in others' playlists. Feel free to dispute or add on! ...Beware. It's long.

Emperor's New Clothes - Panic! At The Disco

When You're Evil - Voltaire

Dark Matter - Les Friction

Arsonist's Lullaby - Hozier (This reminds me of The DVD Fairy's concept for a Mozenrath story in Once Upon A Time. The whole concept of Moze seeing himself as the embodiment of magic serving a dark purpose is fascinating!)

In The Woods Somewhere - Hozier (Another fanfiction, but this song feels so much like Antiphony!)

Castle - Halsey (C'mon, this could practically be his villain song!)

Let Me In - The Unseen Guest ("And sometimes in the night, you answer the phone, and they breathe down the line just to see if you're home...")

Die In A Fire - The Living Tombstone (Yeah, yeah, I know, but you KNOW this is going through his head through 90% of his episodes)

The Devil Within - Digital Daggers

God Syndrome - Madame Macabre ("Don't play God, you're no deity!" "Who, pray tell, would try and stop me?!")

COPYCAT - Billie Eilish

My Way - Chase Holfelder (Oh gosh, I LOVE this interpretation of the song! Mozenrath sees how little time he has left, reflects on what he's accomplished up until now, and decides to go out on a bang! Of course, the original song by Frank Sinatra would go as well!)

Tag, You're It - Melanie Martinez (Side note, did anyone else notice as a kid that Moze kidnapped/imprisoned a major character, usually Aladdin, almost every episode he appeared in? That's what drew me to the show in the first place; I had never seen a male villain imprison a male hero that often. ...Don't read too far into that.)

Milk and Cookies - Melanie Martinez

Outrunning Karma - Alec Benjamin (If I had any art skills, I would make an animatic of Moze with this song SO FAST...)

This is Love - Air Traffic Controller (Trigger warning for lyrical mentions of domestic/mental abuse. The song is heavy. "It's pathetic, I know, a jealous fool who won't let go. If I were sorry for my actions would I ever stoop so low?")

The Wolf - SIAMÉS

Phantom - NateWantsToBattle ("There ain't nothing to debate. Blow this purgatory state. The city lights will drown you out in the exposure.")

Villainous Thing - Shayfer James

Choke - I DON'T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME (Yay, murder!)

Necromancin Dancin - Bear Ghost (I need a good excuse to add this one because I love this song. It's about a necromancer and it's PERFECT.)

High Enough - K.Flay

Kamikazee - MISSIO ("I want money and power and champagne and fame. I want money and power. My black heart's to blame!")

Twisted - MISSIO ("I'm uncontrollable, emotional, chaotically proportional, I'm visceral, reloadable, I'm crazy...")

Everybody Gets High - MISSIO ("Everybody gets high, why the hell can't I?")

Wolf In Sheep's Clothing - Set It Off

Kill The Lights - Set It Off

Paranoid Android - Radiohead

Ysma's Song - Jonathan Young (or the original by the late and great Eartha Kitt!)

Believer - Imagine Dragons

Jenny Was A Friend Of Mine - The Killers

Sweet Tooth - Scott Helman ("I hold hands with cosmic entities. I'll take this tube out if I please!")

Burned - Grace VanderWaal

Who Will Save You Now - Les Friction

Everybody Knows - Sigrid

Kicks - Barns Courtney ("Oh, diamond deeds, a minimal variety. I'll play until my fingers bleed. I'll never lack the quality.")

Glitter and Gold - Barns Courtney

Bottom of the Deep Blue Sea - MISSIO

Victorious - Panic! At The Disco

The Phoenix - Fall Out Boy

Colors - Halsey

Yellow Flicker Beat - Lorde ("I've got my fingers laced together and I've made a little prison and I'm locking up anyone who ever laid a finger on me. This is the start of how it all ever ends. They used to shout my name, now they whisper it.")

Let’s Kill Tonight - Panic! At The Disco

The Haunting - Set It Off ("Catch a lover, turn an enemy just to watch them burn alive!")

Don’t Mess With Me - temposhark

Little Game - Benny

Animal Impulses - IAMX

Blood - End Credits - My Chemical Romance

Another Way Out - Hollywood Undead

Mama - My Chemical Romance

I’m Only Joking - KONGOS

Brand New Day - Neil Patrick Harris

Slipping - Neil Patrick Harris

Pretty Little Head - Eliza Rickman

I Can’t Decide - Scissor Sisters

Bird Song - Florence + The Machine

Hell to Your Doorstep - Thomas Borchert

Look What You Made Me Do - Jack Leopards & The Dolphin Club (or any singer, really)

you should see me in a crown - Billie Eilish

Dead! - My Chemical Romance

The Hearse Song - Rusty Cage

Undead Lullaby - JT Music ("Bliss and pain, health and blight. I feel disparity preparing me to die.")

Dark Souls - Acoustic Mix - JT Music

Body - Mother Mother

HVY MTL DRMR - Des Rocs ("Rage like Eve in the garden. Oh, the sweetest fruit you could bear! When the riptide's dragging you under, are you gonna drown?")

Blood In The Cut - K.Flay

Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People

Ashes - NateWantsToBattle

Mad Hatter - Melanie Martinez

Turn the Lights Off - Tally Hall (Another one I would love to see or make an animatic of!)

Sirens - Bear Ghost

Rewrite - Darling Thieves

The Beginning Is The End Is The Beginning - The Smashing Pumpkins ("And in your darkest hour, I hold secret's flame. We can watch the world devoured in its pain.")

Hellfire - Barns Courtney

Fire - Barns Courtney

Natural - Imagine Dragons

System - Chester Bennington

Oops! ...I Did It Again! - Britney Spears

The Ballad of Mona Lisa - Panic! At The Disco

[terrainofheartfelt]

SVDW - A Playlist

over the course of one train commute, I was hit with inspiration for a playlist for Best Girl, Serena. There's a lot of Kesha. It's mostly Kesha.

(it does get sad I'm very sorry)

playlist link

Track listings and color commentary under the cut.

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My Own Dance - Kesha "You're the party girl, you're the tragedy" / But the funny thing's I'm fucking everything

Boys - Lizzo the sex positive anthem our girl deserves!

From the playboys to the gay boys / Go and slay, boys, you my fave boys

Crazy Beautiful Life - Kesha With the parties, the disasters / With my friends, all pretty and plastered

Vegas - Sara Barellies the beginning of the restless anywhere-but-here-themed songs

It's always just around the corner or you're / On your way to somewhere / That is bigger or better / If you could only get there

the last great american dynasty - tswift ah yes, the classic Rhodes family folk ballad

She had a marvelous time ruining everything

Eden - Sara Bareilles It's the whole, the life that looks outwardly perfect is actually less than great. And Sara, of course, knows how to carry an extended metaphor: Eden, Eve, fallen woman, etc.

Let me paint a picture for you / Then I'll have to teach you to see it / Illustrate the remnants of the life / I used to live here in Eden

Thursday - Jess Glyne The beginning of the Serena Sads

I won't wear makeup on Thursday / I'm sick of covering up

Secret Life (feat. Lana del Rey) - Bleachers blairena. it's blairena.

You're always looking like a photograph just took / Acting high life, reading your old Russian books / Don't I know that you think I think I'm better than I am

Colors - Halsey this song is like: is she the subject? is she the narrator? I like that it's a little bit of both

Your little brother never tells you but he loves you so / You said your mother only smiled on her TV show

Wanderlust - Frank Turner is it a Liz Playlist without her shoving some Frank in there? in truth though, this also strikes me very much as a song for a girl who keeps getting pulled elsewhere. I didn't really think it at first, but now on repeated listens this has a Sad Blairena Vibe which I'm kinda into.

I didn't choose, no, I was chosen / By a life that must be lived in passing through

I Am Disappeared - Frank Turner these songs are getting sadder and sadder. my apologies

I sleep with my passport / One eye on the back door / So I can always run / I can get up, shower, and in half an hour I'll be gone

Go Where You Wanna Go - Echo in the Canyon

the first of several break up songs on this playlist. and it's a nod to the writers in Laurel Canyon, which I firmly believe Serena loves.

You don't understand / That a girl like me can love just one man

Someone New - Hozier Love with every stranger / The stranger the better

Beach House - Carly Rae Jepsen so many boys. much boys

I've been on this ride / This roller coaster's a carousel / And I'm getting nowhere

No More Virgos - CMAT enough boys!

My mental health is banking on my chastity / And you're bad for me, although / I only made that deal with myself / And you're treating me well

Don't Know Why - Norah Jones More wandering heart, wandering soul vibes

Something has to make you run / I don't know why I didn't come

Just Like a Woman - Bob Dylan It's her! or her, pov Daniel...

'Til she finally sees that she's like all the rest / With her fog, her amphetamine, and her pearls

California - Joni Mitchell Joni my beloved.

Oh, will you take me as I am / Strung out on another man / California, I'm coming home

Cowboy Blues - Kesha if I could gif I would have SO made an edit of these lyrics with Serena with Dan, Carter, and Nate. But alas, I cannot gif. You get this playlist instead &lt;3

Did I fuck my whole life up? / Did I miss my one true love?

My Brother - MisterWives this is just so s1 Eric & Serena

Our love will never face a drought

Kyoto - Phoebe Bridgers And now we have our "will van der woodsen is a piece of hot garbage" songs.

I don't forgive you / But please don't hold me to it

Father Daughter Dance - Kesha Oh, I wish my heart wasn't broken from the start / I never stood a fightin' chance

LA Devotee - Panic! at the Disco obligatory SVDW on the West Coast (along with the Joni)

The black magic of Mulholland Drive / Swimming pools under desert skies / Drinking white wine in the blushing light

Only Human - MisterWives I figured I needed to throw in another bop for the sake of appearances.

only human / As beautiful as the sea, glistening so dangerously

Fuck it I love you - Lana Del Rey Lana, like Kesha, also gives me a lot of Serena vibes, but I am admittedly less acquainted with her discography. This song, tho.

So I moved to California‚ but it's just a state of mind / It  turns out everywhere you go‚ you take yourself‚ that's not a lie

cowboy like me - tswift idk, this just screams Serena/Carter to me.

Perched in the dark / Telling all the rich folks anything they wanna hear / Like it could be love

Beautiful - Carole King I wasn't going to add any more and then I remembered this song! And it's just that like, classic Serena optimism of being hurt but continuing to have faith in people.

I have often asked myself the reason for the sadness / In a world where tears are just a lullaby / If there's any answer, maybe love can end the madness

Summer - Kesha after all this I have to end on a happy song right? whatever Serena ship you sail on, just picture them with this song.

When I'm with you, I feel like a teenager, we're dynamite / It's dangerous, but beautiful, ain't that the point of life?