#songs for ford the scientist and the dreamer

[f-imaginings]

Since billford is becoming popular again I figured I might as well post my trusty Billford playlist for folks to enjoy.

This playlist helped keep me inspired while writing Knowing Me Knowing You and has some great songs for both Ford, Bill and the changing nature of their relationship at different points.

(Also I love when ppl put song lyrics beneath fanart and there are some bangers in here, go nuts!)

[as-be-low]

Well damn, I really feel the need to make a Coheed/(Prog)Rock Gravity Falls AU

You can probably tell songfics were my JAM back in the day lol

It’s just like, Domino the Destitute??? SUCH A STAN SONG. (Ford, too, kinda.)

Boxers who make bad life choices? ✔️

With bad relationships with family, complete with resentment over the success of others and envy over the happiness of others? ✔️

Sci-fi scientists in way over their heads getting trapped in space? ✔️✔️✔️

Demonic possession? Ehh kinda sorta

Dreamscape-like theme? ✔️✔️

An aspirational dreamer getting smoke blown up their ass by a malevolent figure using promises of grandeur to trick the unsuspecting dreamer? ✔️✔️✔️

Benevolent, maternal space figure?? YOU AINT EVEN GOTTA ASK MY FRIEND ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️

AND THIS IS JUST ONE SONG.

The Sword's Apocryphon is also REMARKABLY APT TOO, like??? The first lines might as well have been written about Ford

Set adrift in the multiverse By the whims of fate In thrall to the demiurge We all await escape

I also think there could definitely be a Moby Dick themed something to do with Ford too. (I wanted to work something like that with the Leviathan album into THCM but I cut it.) Destroying Bill is /definitely/ Ford's thing, and he'll do it at all costs really (I mean, he's justified, but STILL.) Mastodon's Blood and Thunder is ABSOLUTELY a Ford song, just for that.

I think that someone is trying to kill me Infecting my blood and destroying my mind No man of the flesh could ever stop me The fight for this fish is a fight to the death

I mean, I could seep a little into fez disoourse on fish symbolism or whatever just a thought and also:

What remorseless emperor commands me I no longer govern my soul I am completely immersed in darkness As I turn my body away from the sun

I mean, I think that sounds like Ford.

I'll stop rambling while I'm ahead but Deftones has a song called Prayers/Triangles and I think you know exactly how I feel about it without having to have heard it ever.