Since I was a procrastinator and because I was painting my bedroom, I wasn’t able to finish the video that I wanted to post to follow up last year’s entry. I was able to put together an EP and a few icons to celebrate the Spuffy love for this season. I hope you enjoy my contributions. I might have more icons on the free for all day.
The Seasons of Variations : a Buffy & Spike EP
Some of my song choices might not seem right to everyone but I personally think they all relate to Buffy & Spike in those particular seasons as well as their individual choices and the lifes of those around them. I tried to find songs that hadn’t been used a lot in relation to them, or ones that you might not think work at all with them. Each song relates to a season, starting with season 2 and ending with 7, but with a theme connecting them all together in a way.
1. Blow Away – A Fine Frenzy (Season 2)
one of us is gonna be here and
one of us is gonna be running
off alone into the great unknown
you’re not me, you’re a model of freedom
all you need are your kicks when you need ’em
come and go, caught that slow alright
with one hand off the side
we get farther away in the blink of an eye
and it’s the time we waste
swallowed into space
it’s the time it takes to blow away
to blow away
to blow away
hey, hey you, yeah you gotta be leaving,
say what you want, what you say, say anything
no one knows just how deep it goes
we are old in your teenaged tyranny
and all you need is a hunger to feed
i’ve got my own secrets though, say what?
with a heart full of mess and lore
we are doomed but we wanted more
it’s the ride we take
the many winged escape
it’s the bough we break to blow away
to blow away
and we blow away
one of us is now retreating
you knocked me down so hard i’m seeing a thousand stars
come out where you are
’cause i won’t ever be caught crying
and i will not be taken lying down
it blows into smoke
the time we waste
swallowed into space
it’s the time it takes to blow
it’s the ride we take
the many winged escape
it’s the bough we break to blow away
to blow away
it’s the times we say that no one’s gonna take your place
it’s a mistake to blow away
to blow away
we blow away
2. Come Out & Play – The Offspring (Season 3)
You gotta keep ’em separated
Like the latest fashion
Like a spreading disease
The kids are strappin’ on their way to the classroom
Getting weapons with the greatest of ease
The gangs stake out their own campus locale
And if they catch you slippin’ then it’s all over pal
If one guy’s colors and the other’s don’t mix
They’re gonna bash it up bash it up bash it up bash it up
Hey, man you talkin’ back to me?
Take him out
You gotta keep ’em separated
Hey, man you disrespecting me?
Take him out
You gotta keep ’em separated
Hey, they don’t pay no mind
If you’re under 18 you won’t be doing any time
Hey, come out and play
By the time you hear the siren
It’s already too late
One goes to the morgue and the other to jail
One guy’s wasted and the other’s a waste
It goes down the same as the thousands before
No one’s getting smarter
No one’s learning to score
Your never ending spree of death and violence and hate
Is gonna tie your own rope tie your own rope tie your own
Hey, man you disrespecting me?
Take him out
You gotta keep ’em separated
Hey, man you talkin’ back to me?
Take him out
You gotta keep ’em separated
Hey, they don’t pay no mind
If you’re under 18 you won’t be doing any time
Hey, come out and play
[Repeat last verse from “It goes down..” and first chorus]
3. Fitz & Dizzyspells – Andrew Bird (Season 4)
Comes and goes
Like in fits and dizzy spells
Like the weather
And it blows
Like it knows what’s going wrong
Like it’s clever
Has a name but the name goes unspoken
Weather vanes
Were all twisted and broken
So soldier on, soldier on
Flailing to the whir of a snack machine
And muted screams of an old regime
And then oh
Something gets in it
The nightshade gets in it
We were all fast asleep
Were all so fast asleep
But you woke us
You woke us from the strangest dream that an aubergine could ever know
Would ever know
Lava flows over crooks and craggy cliffs to the ocean
And explodes in a steam heat fevered cyclical motion
Has a name
But the name goes unspoken
It’s in vain
Cause the language is broken
So cast your own, cast your own
Soldier on
4. Use Somebody – Laura Jansen (Season 5)
I’ve been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
Painted faces fill the places I can’t reach
You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you
And all you know
And how you speak
Countless lovers undercover of the street
You know that I could use somebody
You know that I could use somebody
Someone like you
Off in the night
While you live it up I’m off to sleep
Waging wars to shape the poet and the beat
I hope it’s gonna make you notice
I hope it’s gonna make you notice
Someone like me
Someone like me
Someone like me
Somebody
Someone like you
Somebody
Someone like you
Somebody
Someone like you
Somebody
I’ve been roaming around
Always looking down at all I see
5. Forget It – Breaking Benjamin (Season 6)
It’s a crime you let it happen to me
Nevermind, I’ll let it happen to you
Out of mind, forget it there’s nothing to lose
But my mind and all the things I wanted
Everytime I get it I throw it away
It’s a sign, I get it, I wanna stay
By the time I lose it I’m not afraid
I’m alive but I can surely fake it
How can I believe when this cloud hangs over me
You’re the part of me that I don’t wanna see
Forget it
There’s a place I see you follow me
Just a taste of all that might come to be
I’m alone but holding breath you can breathe
To question every answer counted
Just fade away
Please let me stay
Caught in your way
Forget it
Just fade away
Please let me stay
Caught in your way
It’s a crime you let it happen to me
Out of mind, I love it, easy to please
Nevermind, forget it, just memories
On a page inside a spiral notebook
Just fade away
Please let me stay
Caught in your way
I can live forever here
Forget it
How can I believe when this cloud hangs over me
You’re a part of me that I don’t wanna see
I can live forever here
6. Answer – Sarah McLachlan (Season 7)
I will be the answer
At the end of the line
I will be there for you
While you take the time
In the burning of uncertainty
I will be your solid ground
I will hold the balance
If you can’t look down
If it takes my whole life
I won’t break, I won’t bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all gone out
You’ll still be burning so bright
Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
Take me to a
Place so holy
That I can wash this from my mind
The memory of choosing not to fight
If it takes my whole life
I won’t break, I won’t bend
It will all be worth it
Worth it in the end
‘Cause I can only tell you what I know
That I need you in my life
When the stars have all burned out
You’ll still be burning so bright
Cast me gently
Into morning
For the night has been unkind
All 6 songs in a zipped folder here
6 icons + wallpaper
Credit betweenthewoods
No hotlinking/altering
Teaser:
And these icons/wallpaper represent the after, when they finally get it right. There’s a whole fic idea for the reason why Spike is a brunette at their wedding, but I’m not talented enough to write it:)
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Originally posted at http://seasonal-spuffy.livejournal.com/402720.html
