#the chemical worker's song (process man)

[your-fav-song-is-an-avatar]

The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man) by Great Big Sea is an Avatar of the Corruption.

A process man am I and I’m telling you no lie,

I work and breath among the fumes that trail across the sky.

There’s thunder all around me and a poison in the air,

There’s a lousy smell that smacks o’ hell and dust all in me hair.

[auressea]

from their 2nd album. "UP".

this arrangement of The Chemical Worker's Song- launched this work song into the public consciousness...

[hyperions-light]

Tagged by @covertleathers ! What a fun idea, thanks so much <3

Put your music library on shuffle, then list the first five songs that come up in a poll to let people vote for which one they like the most! Then tag Tumblr friends to keep the game going!

Tbh do not remember putting the last two in my library lmao

Tagging @dymme @mageofquandrix @biowaredisasterbisexual @umbrace-rambles @wardensantoineandevka @uchidachi @thedissonantverses @taashyvashedan @chamtong

I am sure some of you have already done this or don’t want to— plz ignore, if that’s the case!

[verdantwyrm]

song recs for playlists!

genral story vibes:

'Homesick' by Rosetta (originally by the Cure)

'Meds' by Placebo

'The Yawning Grave' by Lord Huron

'Cold Souls' by Drab Majesty

'A Warm Place' by Nine Inch Nails

'Born to Die' by Tiamat (originaly by Lana Del Rey)

'The Racing Rats' by Editors

'Blasphemous Rumours' by Depeche Mode

'On the Wire' by the Sisters of Mercy

Daisuke:

'No Time to Cry' by the Sisters of Mercy

'Graveyard Whistling' by Nothing But Thieves

'Out on an Island' by Cock Sparrer

'The Middleman' by Bright Eyes

'Good Things' by the Sisters of Mercy

Swansea:

'Drinkibg the Ghosts' by Rain to Rust

'The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)' by Great Big Sea

'That's When I Reach For My Revolver' by Mission of Burma

'Wolves' by Down Like Silver

Anya:

'Mayn Rue Platz' by Cinder Well

'Down by the Water' by PJ Harvey

'The Last One Standing' by Ladytron

'True Colors' by Zedd feat. Ke$ha

'Unfinished Sympathy' by Massive Attack

'Control' by Poe

Curly:

'Walk Away' by the Sisters of Mercy

'Trying Not to Die' by Soft Kill

'Becoming' by Nine Inch Nails

'Swamp Thing' by the Chameleons

'Lightning Field' by Sneaker Pimps

'Asleep' by the Smiths

'Sister Morphine' by the Urn (Rolling Stones cover)

jimmy:

'My Name Is Ruin' by Gary Numan

'Pretty When You Cry' by VAST

'No Witnesses' by Ritual Howls

'See You At My Funeral' by the Black Veils

'Kerosene' by Big Black

'Piggy' by Nine Inch Nails

Woah lots and lots of really good songs! I've added what was appropriate to the playlists (´｡• ᵕ •｡`) ♡

[sandssavvy]

A playlist for Sean Finnerty:

I Don't Wanna Play Solider No More

I saw Candela Obscura: Needle and Thread, and Brennan Lee Mullugan promptly desroyed my soul with his character, Sean Finnerty. Here's a playlist for my favorite broken boy.

On spotify

On 8tracks

Click beyond the read more to see the songs and reasons behind the selection. Spoilers behind the cut.

Warning for mentions of depression, self-hatred, & suicidal ideation.

Things We Lost in the Fire

Song by Bastille

After the war he came back to nothing.

Sorrow

Song by The National

Is it a Sean Finnerty playlist without a song about him being consumed by depression after the loss of his brothers?

Zombie

Song by The Cranberries

It's the same old theme, since 1916

In your head, in your head, they're still fightin'

With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their guns

In your head, in your head, they are dyin'

In his mind Sean never truly left the war.

The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)

Song by Great Big Sea

This song obviously paints a picture of impoverished factory workers (like Sean's father) being slowly killed by their jobs. It also reminds me of Sean's certainty that he & Marion won't survive working for Candela Obscura and that the organization doesn't care what happens to them. Not to mention all the lower-class young men who died by his side on the battlefield.

They'll time your every breath

And every day you're in this place

You're two days nearer death

Red Right Hand

Song by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Many powerful figures manipulate and destroy the lives of the poor and destitute.

Therapy

Song by All Time Low

Ah yes, a song about depression, suicidal ideation, and covering it all up with jokes and humor. We know this boy would never get therapy after what happened to his ma.

Dust Bowl Dance

Song by Mumford & Sons

One of the few things keeping Sean going was vengeance against the men who destroyed his family. This section of the song is particularly fitting:

Well, you are my accuser, now look in my face

Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace

So one man has and another has not

How can you love what it is you have got

When you took it all from the weak hands of the poor?

Liars and thieves you know not what is in store

There will come a time I will look in your eye

You will pray to the God that you always denied

Then I'll go out back, and I'll get my gun

I'll say, "You haven't met me, I am the only son"

Blood on My Name

Song by The Brothers Bright

We all know Sean felt monstrous and had suicidal ideation. Beyond that, he believed he would die young in the war and in Candela Obscura. "They're going to keep sending me down those holes"

Day Three: Pain

Song by Ayreon

It's fair to say that a large portion of Sean's mind is consumed by pain, depression, and wrath.

Devil on My Shoulder

Song by Orla Gartland

Unfortunately, I couldn't find this one on spotify. To me this one fits somewhere in where Sean is considering the deal.

There you are the

devil on my shoulder

smiling as the

flames are growing colder

how can I believe in what I have?

Lose Your Soul

Song by DJ Filip and Dead Man's Bones

Sean doesn't see any value in his own soul or life anymore. He's afraid of himself, but he's determined to follow through with his plans.

Uprising

Song by Muse

Rise up and take the power back

It's time the fat cats had a heart attack

He could take the power away from at least 5 of the powerful men who ruined his family.

Who Are You, Really?

Song by Mikky Ekko

The freedom of no longer trying to keep up his mask of being alright and fight for what he wants.

Me and the Devil

Song by Soap&Skin

Sean making a deal with "another monster" that looks just like him.

The Lion and the Wolf

Song by Thrice

I think that Sean sees himself as the lion and the wolf of this song. The Lion is who he is at war or whenever the humor drops away and there is only violence. The wolf is how he sees himself the rest of the time. He could be mistaken for a friend or faithful companion but believes he is only a monstrous beast that destroys everything around him.

The lion's claws are sharpened for war

The wolf's teeth are red

And what a monstrous sight he makes

Mocking man's best friend

When both the wolf and lion crave

The same thing in the end

Elsa’s Song

Song by The Amazing Devil

Marion and the others try so hard to reach Sean, but part of him died in the war.

"The truth is, I'm not that different from Tony and Jimmy. What happened out there, I don't think I could ever come home"

Seven Devils

Song by Florence & The Machine

Sean's last plan was simple. Kill the men who destroyed his family, free his ma, and die during the shapeshifter's plan. If he refused the plan and lost the fight? His mom dies in the basement of the asylum. If he wins the fight, he still has no way of covering up the murders in the basement and getting his mom out legally without suspicion landing on her. Not to mention he was told there were many other shapeshifters (and some could seek vengeance on his ma), so the plan to bring Marion to the mother is the only one that saves Sean's ma. He has to unflinchingly follow through with the plan and not give anything away? Fine, he'll just die (hopefully before his friends can start dropping). He left his mother at Marion's home, hoping that the others would help her after Sean is dead. He throws himself into the watery underground tunnel and afterwards acts as callously as possible in the fight, hoping that he will be killed first and the rest will survive. He died thinking that the plan worked and believing Marion would be able to look after his mom.

"I'm not a gardener, and the world doesn't need me. It's better for me to go away."

"I don't want your money

I don't want your crown

See, I've come to burn your kingdom down"

"See, I was dead when I woke up this morning

I'll be dead before the day is done

Before the day is done"

Brennan Lee Mulligan, you gave me psychic damage. I'm never recovering from this character.

[the-punforgiven]

Me naming d&d characters: This guy's name is Merle Fettler, his first name comes from Merle Travis, the man who wrote the song Sixteen Tons (not to be confused with Ernie Ford, the man who sang it), and his last name comes from the band The Fettlers, lead by Ron Angel, who composed The Chemical Worker's Song, also known as Process Man

Also me making d&d characters: This is my artificer, Jerry Riggs

[babsbabbles]

87 for spotify wrapped!

The Chemical Worker's Song - Process Man by Great Big Sea :)

[kipperlillycopperkettle]

tagged by: @bodyelectric77 <3

rules: shuffle your song playlist and create a poll from the first five songs - i'm stealing sam's idea and just using my on repeat <333

tagging: whoever sees this & wants to do it !!

[rawr-monsters]

Sometimes I listen to a song and the person just does not have the right voice for it, and usually it's because it's too pretty. It happens most often with working songs, though. I'm sorry but if you have a pretty voice you should not be singing the chemical workers song. The line "well a process man am I, and I'm telling you no lie" sounds like a goddamn lie outta some of these mouths.

[queen-tashie]

Tagged by @mrbexwrites, thank you!!

Leaving this as a fully open tag, remember to tag me if you jump in! :D

Rules: Pick an OC and post a song you relate to them, an image that represents them in some way (aesthetic, picrew, art, etc), and a quote of dialogue or narration from them. Totally feel free to expand and explain!

Dr. Amelia Roch from my WIP Copper Frames!

She's an academic and a general practitioner, but for some reason when I was making the playlist to listen to when I wrote the first draft, I felt that The Chemical Worker's Song - Process Man by Great Big Sea really fit what she would go through in my book and the overall aesthetic of the world.

(I could not for the life of me upload the original image for some reason, so please accept this worse screencap of it from unsplash.)

This image is just a lil foreshadowing for a later scene in the book ;)

Narration (btw, as will all of my MCs so far, she is an ADHD-haver lol):

Amelia might not be the one to figure out a cure, but she was going to contribute as much as she could, even if that contribution was simply caring for their patients. It was true, she was an accomplished microbiologist. Was. It had been almost a decade since she had made any real breakthroughs when she decided to quit and become a physician. That was when she met Dr. Petro Shvets, her professor in medical school. Amelia became one of his top students, and after she graduated, they stayed in touch. It was only since she had opened her practice that she stopped catching up with him.

[daily-song-daily]

Friday, January 26

[tma-entity-song-poll]

Battle of the Fear Bands B2R2: The Corruption

The Chemical Worker's Song:

“Half Corruption Half Buried. A song about doing a job that makes you sicker and sicker as you work. And yet… you need the cash, right?”

Stalker's Tango:

"toxic love is very corruptiony"

Lyrics below the line!

The Chemical Worker's Song:

And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death But you go Well, a Process Man am I and I'm tellin' you no lie I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death But you go Well, I've worked among the spinners, and I breathe the oily smoke I've shovelled up the gypsum and it nigh on makes you choke I've stood knee deep in cyanide, got sick with a caustic burn Been workin' rough, I've seen enough to make your stomach turn And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death But you go There's overtime and bonus opportunities galore The young men like their money and they all come back for more But soon you're knockin' on and you look older than you should For every bob made on the job, you pay with flesh and blood And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death But you go Well, a Process Man am I and I'm tellin' you no lie I work and breathe among the fumes that trail across the sky There's thunder all around me and there's poison in the air There's a lousy smell that smacks of hell and dust all in me hair And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death But you go

The Stalker's Tango:

I know, I know, I know this situation's strange It takes a little getting, a little getting used to Love me, love me, love me, love me Love me, love me, love me, love me Love me, love me, love me, love me more Than you possibly can It's not that complicated, no matter what they say You'll never meet another me It's not that difficult to get your head around You'll never meet another me You'll never-never-ever-never ever meet another me I know, I know, I know I'm always in your place But don't you see, my dear? I am your Doppelgänger Have your faith so Love me, love me, love me, love me Love me, love me, love me, love me Love me, love me, love me, love me more Than you possibly can It's not that complicated, no matter what they say You'll never meet another me It's not that difficult to get your head around You'll never meet another me You'll never-never-never-ever-ever meet another me Ey-ey-ah Bada-bam-bam-bam-bam Bada-bam-bam-bam-bam Bada-ba-ah Bam-bam-bam-bam Bada-bam-bam-bam-bam Bada-bam-bam-bam-bam Bada-ba It's not that complicated, no matter what they say I'll never meet another you It's not that difficult to get my head around I'll never meet another you

[krenenbaker]

✨️When you get this ask you have to put 5 songs you listen to, post it, then send this ask to 10 of your favorite followers (positive vibes are cool)🎶

I've got a few of these, so I'll answer each with 5 songs from different genres I like :)

[subbymothpimp]

3 ships: Silco/Vander, Silco/Singed, Silco/Singed/Vander

Last song: The Chemical Worker's Song (Process Man)

Last movie: The Menu

Currently reading: 1984 (Orwell), the Manifesto, the Dispossessed (Le Guin), A Modest Proposal and Gulliver's Travels (Swift)

Currently watching: the Last of Us

Currently consuming: Green tea

Currently craving: French Fries. For my allergies to stop acting up, for my chronic pain to take a break, for more people to read my fics.

Nine tags: @not-a-jinx-anymore you're enough for the remaining eight tags there, dear.

[aidanchaser]

66!!

Okay. Well. I feel like I owe you harry potter, BUT you did give me 66. So I'm feeling... Order 66 vibes....

And it's go boys, go They'll time your every breath And every day you're in this place You're two days nearer death

The fumes of Mustafar would have killed the average man, but neither fumes nor the heat were the thing Anakin feared as he trekked across the lava fields between the black obsidian palace and the landing shuttle.

It was the ghosts.

It wasn't Padmé's cry of anguish nor Obi Wan's desperate pleas that haunted Anakin. It wasn't regret.

It was the moment the light had changed in their eyes, when heartbreak had turned to acceptance.

Their pale eyes seemed to wink at him, neither judging nor accusing. Simply disappointed.

With a heavier heart and heavier limbs, Vader boarded the shuttle.

But you go --The Chemical Worker's Song - Process Man, Great Big Sea