Kaythryn's Song Thread

POSTED BY: Sarahetc
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SARAHETC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:05 AM

Hi. This thread is for Kaythryn. She wants us all to share what songs we have in our heads for The Intrepid Crew of Serenity.

I'll go first.

River: "Furnace Room Lullaby" by Neko Case

Now, I know y'all are probably sick to death of my evangelizing about Neko, but she stone cold rocks, simple as that. I suggest everyone acquire this song and others like it with all speed.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

TALRIUS

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:23 AM

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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
I suggest everyone acquire this song and others like it with all speed.

Why are they going some where?

HOTFORKAYLEE

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:27 AM

This one's gonna take some thought. First thing that popped into mind though was the look on Mal's face when he said to Niska "do you wanna see the real me?". That look, brrr, what I heard was 'Am I Evil' by Metallica. After all, he's a mean old man.

Quote:
"Will you follow me into fire? Will you follow me into darkness? Will you follow me into death?"
"I will."
"Then follow."

SARAHETC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:29 AM

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Originally posted by Talrius:
Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahetc:
I suggest everyone acquire this song and others like it with all speed.

Why are they going some where?

Yes.

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

TALRIUS

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:31 AM

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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Yes.

Where are they going?

LJC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:35 AM

"Hide My Track" by Boiled In Lead is so my "Firefly" song.

I got no home I can go back to
I got no one to call a friend
I can't find the place I started
I can only guess how it will end.

CHORUS:
Keep them hounds off my trail
These jailers off my back
Get these bracelets off of me
A little rain to hide my track.

There's no whiskey in the jar
I'm so dry I need a drink.
I need a place to lay my head down
I need to find some time to think.

CHORUS

That old river keeps on rolling
And old Hannah won't go down.
I can't give back what I ain't taken
And I won't give up, if I ain't found.

I have nothing I can offer
I'm like a dog without a bone;
But if there's someone up there listening
There's a poor boy out here alone.

CHORUS

--
Some take the high road. Some take the low road.
And some just go screaming down the highway, dropping flaming bits of wreckage.

SARAHETC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:35 AM

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Originally posted by Talrius:
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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Yes.

Where are they going?

Can you keep a secret?

TALRIUS

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:38 AM

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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Can you keep a secret?

Most of the time. Can't say always.

SARAHETC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:41 AM

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Originally posted by LJC:
"Hide My Track" by Boiled In Lead is so my "Firefly" song.

I got no home I can go back to
I got no one to call a friend
I can't find the place I started
I can only guess how it will end.

Word.

Every time I think I come up with something, I second guess myself and decide I'm dumb.

Seems every single song I hear I try to relate to Firefly and that's the problem. Listening to Sarah McLachlan now and thinking that "Good Enough" is a Simon-River-Kaylee song. Not in a crazy space incest way but more of a new family being formed kind of way.

Don't tell me why he's never been good to you.
Don't tell me why he's never been there for you.
Don't you know that why is simply not good enough.
Oh, so just let my try, and I will be good to you.
Just let me try, and I will be there for you.
I'll show you why is so much more than good enough.

??

SARAHETC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:43 AM

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Originally posted by Talrius:
Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Can you keep a secret?

Most of the time. Can't say always.

Argh! You're supposed to say "Yes." Then I say, "So can I" and change the subject! Haven't you ever seen Clue, man?!

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

TALRIUS

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Argh! You're supposed to say "Yes." Then I say, "So can I" and change the subject! Haven't you ever seen Clue, man?!

No, I haven't seen Clue.

Sorry Kaythryn we're hijacking your thread.

SARAHETC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 3:47 AM

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Originally posted by Talrius:
Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Argh! You're supposed to say "Yes." Then I say, "So can I" and change the subject! Haven't you ever seen Clue, man?!

No, I haven't seen Clue.

Sorry Kaythryn we're hijacking your thread.

You must go directly to the video store and rent Clue. Right this minute. Go go go. Don't look back.

Thread's only half hijacked. 'Sides, that's what makes it special.

TALRIUS

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:01 AM

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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
You must go directly to the video store and rent Clue. Right this minute. Go go go. Don't look back.

Sorry don't got the money to be doin' that.

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Thread's only half hijacked. 'Sides, that's what makes it special.

There should really be a BS thread where people can just simply talk.

KAYTHRYN

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:01 AM

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Posted by Talrius: Sorry Kaythryn we're hijacking your thread.

That's okay. Ha, ha, ha, it's still got my name on it so I'm happy.

And the thread was finally made so I’m extra happy.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

PHILOMEL

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:02 AM

And ... back on topic --

I sorta see Jann Arden's Thing for You as maybe Zoe's song? It seems life-affirming in a cool way.

And for Simon, I see shades of "Goodbye to You" by Michelle Branch. Sorta kinda maybe?

Hmmm.

Phil.

PHILOMEL

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:02 AM

Sorry. Double post deleted.

TALRIUS

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:03 AM

Well I'm glad your glad. There has been way too much anger on this board today.

KAYTHRYN

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:15 AM

And am I the only one who hears "I'm too sexy" when they see Simon in OiS? Or when they see Wash in bed with Zoe and he's saying "Somehow less attractive now that she's all corspeified and gross"?

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

TALRIUS

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:19 AM

Uh, it wouldn't be right for me to hear that.

HOTFORKAYLEE

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:19 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Talrius:
Well I'm glad your glad. There has been way too much anger on this board today.

Maybe we could push a couple of other threads off the opening page. Another one that just came to me, especially after reading Heart Of Gold I could see a montage of Mal and Inara set to 'Careless Whisper'.

Quote:
"I know, I know what it's like to lose someone, only to find her and then lose her a second time. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, not even you, as much as I might want to."

SARAHETC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:25 AM

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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
And am I the only one who hears "I'm too sexy" when they see Simon in OiS? Or when they see Wash in bed with Zoe and he's saying "Somehow less attractive now that she's all corspeified and gross"?

Yes you sure are!

I'm secretly compiling a list for a Browncoat Chronicles mix and that is so on it!!!

Kaythryn you crack me up.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

KAYTHRYN

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:31 AM

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Posted by Sarahetc:
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Originally posted by Kaythryn:
And am I the only one who hears "I'm too sexy" when they see Simon in OiS? Or when they see Wash in bed with Zoe and he's saying "Somehow less attractive now that she's all corspeified and gross"?

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Yes you sure are!

I'm secretly compiling a list for a Browncoat Chronicles mix and that is so on it!!!

Oh I can't wait to read it!

And I am not Sarah! I know you've got some naughty Wash thoughts in that mind of yours.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

GINOBIFFARONI

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:40 AM

I would like to throw in Steve Earles
"Mercenary " for Jayne, in particular and Mal most of the time.

" We'll fight for no country
But we'd die for good pay
Under the flag of the greenback dollar
Or the peso, down Mexico way "

SARAHETC

Sunday, April 20, 2003 4:45 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Kaythryn:

And I am not Sarah! I know you've got some naughty Wash thoughts in that mind of yours.

Heh. You know me and sex fantasies: The longing, the dreaming, the... hugging!

How many flavors of lame am I?!

Oh! Sexy Wash song though:

"Whip the Blankets" by Neko Case (who else?!)
(and note: some of her lyrics are indeciferable--naming rights of my first born to anyone can help)

Well it's hot in the ---- and it's cool in the bed,
And I'll whip the blankets into cotton thread.
I'll tear all the carpet up over my head
So my feet can go right through the basement.

Well you play so surprised at what you have found.
But I heard you comin' from way across town.
?And this beds a gettin'? I'm burnin' it down
?I've a fire and it's prayed in my madness?

Chorus:
Cos I'm steeped in this pleasure
And I've snapped from my tether
The ----- has vibrated hard.
And you lead me again to the back of the line
And we'll work our way slow to the start.

The dishes are broken and the kitchen's a mess.
I'm trapped in the ---- why don't you make me confess
Something something maybe the word delicious I make up my own words about Wash being hot and sexy

Chorus!
Steel guitar solo!
Chorus!

Well instinct is dirty and morality's clean.
And we're bound for damnation say those magazines.
The hell with the sorrow and watered down scenes
We'll burn us a ---- straight to heaven.

Chorus!

I admit it might only be sexy to me. Has a sexy beat, tho.

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

KAYTHRYN

Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:07 AM

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Posted by Philomel: And for Simon, I see shades of "Goodbye to You" by Michelle Branch. Sorta kinda maybe?

I just downloaded that and it almost made me cry.

It sounds like it would play if River was being taken back to the Alliance. Maybe if Simon was having flash backs- his childhood, freeing river, their life on Serenity, and then her being taken from him despite all the he went though to find her and keep her safe. She is the one person he really loves.

Oh, teary again!

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

LUPA

Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:07 AM

Ooh! Stevie Ray Vaughan (spelling?)does a southern rock version of the Beatle's "Taxman" which I think perfectly expresses how Mal feels about the Alliance.
Similarly the Who's "Won't Get Fooled Again."
The Steve Miller Band's "Take the Money and Run," cuz that's what they do.
I always saw "Carry On Wayward Son" as being a Simon song, or possibly a Mal.
A Tori Amos song would be great for River, becuase they often sound a bit like I would imagine River thinks, but I can't think of a specific one.
For Jayne, maybe ZZ Top's "Gun Love"
For Kaylee Cream's "Sunshine of Your Love"
and that's all I got.

LERXST

Sunday, April 20, 2003 5:29 AM

Rush's "Bravado" makes me think of Mal. Last line also makes me think of Simon.

When the dust has cleared
And victory denied
A summit too lofty
A river a little too wide
If we keep our pride --
Though paradise is lost
We will pay the price,
but we will not count the cost

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Cap'n, can I have money for a slinky dress?

PHILOMEL

Sunday, April 20, 2003 6:01 AM

Since I'm oddly in a Michelle Branch mood tonight, "All You Wanted" seems like it would fit Wash--for Zoe, I mean, the words ... and if it were sung by a guy ... No? Maybe I'm just sleepy ...

I don't think that made any sense. Pretty tune, though. :-)

KAYTHRYN

Monday, April 21, 2003 3:15 AM

Okay, this song makes made me think of Jayne for some pretty obvious reasons.

Ape man by the Kinks

The lyrics don’t really fit... with a possible exception to this part-

I'm an ape man
I'm an ape ape man
Oh, I'm an ape man
I'm a King Kong man
I'm a voodoo man
Oh, I'm an ape man

I look out the window
But I can't see the sky
The air pollution is foggin' up my eyes
I want to get out of this city alive
And make like an ape man

Still maybe not, but it gains points with me 'cause it's just too funny.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

MELEE

Monday, April 21, 2003 4:11 AM

Hmmm... it's a very sad thought, but the song "Concrete Angel" really reminds me of poor River. *snifflesob* Especially the last two verses.

Someone crys in the middle of the night
The neighbors hear but they turn out the lights
A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate
When morning comes it'll be too late

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel

MARK

Monday, April 21, 2003 9:07 AM

There's one song, a little Filk, that always reminds me of River in OiS... When she's pretending to be Serenity.

Phoenix by Julia Ecklar.

"My wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel. I am the joy of terror for the power that I wield. Once upon a lifetime, I died a pioneer. Now I sing within this space-ship's heart, does anybody hear."

Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.

HAPPYENDINGS

Monday, April 21, 2003 10:27 PM

Ooh, happy topic.

* For Wash and Zoe (or any other FF couple/pairing, I guess), there's Bruce Cockburn's (or the kickass cover by the Barenaked Ladies) "Lovers in Dangerous Time."

These fragile bodies of touch and taste
This vibrant skin, this hair like lace
Spirits open to the thrust of grace
Never a breath you can afford to waste

When you're lovers in a dangerous time
Sometimes you're made to feel as if your love's a crime
But nothing worth having comes without some kind of fight
Got to kick at the darkness 'til it bleeds daylight

* For Wash and his insecurities, there's Student Rick's "Acoustic Song."

I'm watching you asleep
wondering if I'm in your dreams
did I catch you when you fell?
did I kiss your tears away?
'cause I just wanna be
the man she sees in me
he seems so far away
he's calling out my name
but can I ever be
the man that's in her dreams?
I pray to be one day...

* And for Mal and Inara and their little games, even though it's more of a song for after they get together and then lose each other (say, in season two or three), there's the Dire Strait's "Romeo and Juliet."

Come up on different streets and they both were streets of shame
Both dirty, both mean, yes, and the dream was just the same
I dreamed your dream for you and now your dream is real
How can you look at me as if I was just another one of your deals?

You can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold
You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold
You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin
Now you just say, oh romeo, yeah you know I used to have a scene with him

FUTURESMITH

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:28 AM

Quote:
Originally posted by Mark:
There's one song, a little Filk, that always reminds me of River in OiS... When she's pretending to be Serenity.

Phoenix by Julia Ecklar.

"My wings are made of Tungsten, my flesh of glass and steel. I am the joy of terror for the power that I wield. Once upon a lifetime, I died a pioneer. Now I sing within this space-ship's heart, does anybody hear."

Oh I hadn't thought of Phoenix in years. You are right, it's a great River song. But I think your quote is misspelled. "I am the joy of Terra ..." since this was written after the Challenger was lost.

TALRIUS

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:45 AM

Hey shouldn't there be some country songs in here? It's a space western, right?

KAYTHRYN

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:48 AM

But it's Kaythryn's song thread. Kaythryn's! Notice the name? I want some oldies rock songs in here!

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

TALRIUS

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:52 AM

Hmm. It's your thread. Kinda selfish. But I LIKE it. Anyway so be it I'll start listenin' to some oldies rock, what decade?

Finely that stupid argue in circles threads off the main page. I can relax now.

KAYTHRYN

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 6:57 AM

Little 50's, some 60's, lots of 70's and 80's and very little 90's.

Hum, did that help?

What do you listen to anyway?

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

TALRIUS

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 7:02 AM

That's... that's a whole hell of a lot of listenin' to find a song that fits firefly. But what the hell.

I listen to Metal, rock, Alternitive- not pop alt though. Classical, opera, some country, insperational. Just about anything that the beat catches me. Really no faves only one hate, rap.

KAYTHRYN

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 7:07 AM

Yo, yo, yo, yo.
(White girl trying to sound like a black rapper= stupid.)
You don't like rap? I think Some of it's pretty good. No vanilla ice, but anything that has that magic beat you were talking about.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

TALRIUS

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 7:11 AM

Yo, yo, yo, homie,

Maybe a beat or two here and there. But I didn't listen long because it's unbearable.

SARAHETC

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 1:35 PM

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Originally posted by Talrius:
Hey shouldn't there be some country songs in here? It's a space western, right?

Neko's alt-country.

*ducks and covers*

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

MARK

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 5:50 PM

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Oh I hadn't thought of Phoenix in years. You are right, it's a great River song. But I think your quote is misspelled. "I am the joy of Terra ..." since this was written after the Challenger was lost.

You're quite right about the mis-quoting... I was listening to the song and transcribing and got it wrong... As for being after Challenger, I think you're wrong there. I think this one was written in 1983 and, if you listen closely, then it references 'Capsule 12' and lots about dying in fire. I think it's referring to the three men who died in a fire in the Apollo program. I believe it was Apollo 12. The door jammed and the matting caught fire.

The other song that belongs in a pair with this one is 'Fire in the Sky' by Dr. Jordin Kare that Buzz Aldrin quoted after the Columbia disaster.

"The Gods do not give lightly of the powers they have made, and with Challenger and seven, once again the price is paid. Though a nation watched her falling, now a world can only cry a they passed from us to glory, riding fire in the Sky."

Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.

KAYTHRYN

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:44 PM

This is a perfect song for how Zoe feels about Wash! I see her getting mad at him and thinking “Sometimes I never want to see you again”, but then quickly going back to “You’re still the one that makes me laugh. Still the one that’s my better half, we’re still having fun, and you’re still the one.” The one *wink, wink* The one she chose. Here are the lyrics.

You're still the one-- Orleans

We've been together since way back when
Sometimes I never want to see you again
But I want you to know, after all these years
You're still the one I want whisperin' in my ear

You're still the one I want to talk to in bed
Still the one that turns my head
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

I looked at your face every day
But I never saw it 'til I went away
When winter came, I just wanted to go
Deep in the desert, I longed for the snow

You're still the one that makes me laugh
Still the one that's my better half
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You're still the one that makes me strong
Still the one I want to take along
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

Changing, our love is going gold
Even though we grow old, it grows new

You're still the one that I love to touch
Still the one and I can't get enough
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You're still the one who can scratch my itch
Still the one and I wouldn't switch
We're still having fun, and you're still the one

You are still the one that makes me shout
Still the one that I dream about
We're still having fun, and you're still the one...

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

TALRIUS

Tuesday, April 22, 2003 8:49 PM

That's cool Kaythryn.

LERXST

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 2:48 AM

Man, that song brings me back! It was on this Disco Duck LP from K-tel that I ordered when I was ten.

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Cap'n, can I have money for a slinky dress?

SARAHETC

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 3:00 AM

I downloaded "Lover's in a Dangerous Time" and really like, except for that I really don't like that one guy's voice. Why do they let him sing? Anyway, it is very Wash'n'Zoe.

Dl'ing yours now, Kaythryn.

Somebody on the fox board mentioned "Your Body is a Wonderland" by John Mayer as a Wash'n'Zoe song, so now I always think of them when I hear it.

Haven't found one on my own that I would really say reminds me.

Question: Should "Baby Got Back" be a Browncoat Chronicles song!?

Maybe a more toward question should be: should I go soak my head?

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

TALRIUS

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:21 AM

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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Question: Should "Baby Got Back" be a Browncoat Chronicles song!?

Maybe a more toward question should be: should I go soak my head?

No to the first and yes to the second. I think you've been video taping one too many Proms. Get out now before you start rappin' and wearing your pants around your ankles.

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DOBSON: Okay. I can see you're not an idiot.

DOBSON: I'm supposed to be meeting my wife's sister. I've only got a few days to see her...

ZOE: I wish there was another way...

DOBSON: Oh, no, no. That woman is like a dragon. I mean, I believe she has a tail. If there's any other moons we need to visit, or if we could just
fly very slowly...

SARAHETC

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 12:37 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Talrius:
Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahetc:
Question: Should "Baby Got Back" be a Browncoat Chronicles song!?

Maybe a more toward question should be: should I go soak my head?

No to the first and yes to the second. I think you've been video taping one too many Proms. Get out now before you start rappin' and wearing your pants around your ankles.

But it's just so peppy! But Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her honda! My anaconda don't want none unless you got buns hun!

So peppy.

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

PAPERWASTER

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 1:09 PM

The song "the widowing field" by Jars of Clay always makes me think of Mal and Zoe at the Battle of Serenity and the moment when Mal lost his faith.

I'm sure I could never make it through the night without you here.
The fires in the sky
illuminate the demons closing in.
Have mercy on my soul if I am not the last to go.
As I crawl around these trails and fight upon these widowing fields the ground below is bare and burned at the places that I learned to trust you.
Have mercy on my soul if I am not the last to go.
When even silence sets my heart to racing
I will lift my eyes to you
please Father, find me
Have mercy on my soul if I am not the last to go.

It is very plaintive with a lot of violin, so maybe that's the country feel you were looking for.

FREMDFIRMA

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 1:15 PM

Mal - "Broken Wings." - Mr. Mister?

Zoe - "She walk softly but she carry a big gun." - Ice T, from Tank Girl soundtrack.

Wash - "The hallejua chorus" from Handels Messiah.

Book - "Gotta have faith" - George Michael.. picture Book *dancing* to this, then try not to laugh, you can't!

Kaylee - "Kiss Me" - Sixpence None the Richer? song just SOOO matches her spirit.

Simon - "Smooth Operator" - Artist Unknown.

River - "When you're strange" - The Doors.

Jayne - "Friend of the Devil" _ Grateful Dead.

Inara - "Witchy Woman" - Eagles.

"You can't take the sky from me."
Unless you're Fox networks

MELEE

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 1:44 PM

Hmmm, Long Time Gone by the Dixie Chicks! That's country, and it kinda reminds me of the whole feel of the show.

I'm a sillyass country music fan, though I'm more for the upbeat sappy variety (one of my little guilty pleasures is that I saw Sweet Home Alabama and enjoyed it... don't tell anyone :P)

SARAHETC

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 4:12 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Fremdfirma:

Wash - "The hallejua chorus" from Handels Messiah.

Yes! Yes yes yes yes yes!

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

SARAHETC

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 4:14 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Melee:
(one of my little guilty pleasures is that I saw Sweet Home Alabama and enjoyed it... don't tell anyone :P)

As if there were something wrong with Alabama!

Okay....

Don't the Dixie Chicks sing a song about a sin wagon? An Inara song maybe?

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

MELEE

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:27 PM

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Originally posted by Sarahetc:
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As if there were something wrong with Alabama!

Hee. Ya know, everyone up here seems to not like country music. Silly people. I love the stuff, and I've been down to Tennessee and Georgia and Indiana and loved it. The south is cool.

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SARAHETC

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 7:02 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Melee:
I've been down to Tennessee and Georgia and Indiana and loved it. The south is cool.

Would it be snotty of me to say that Indiana is not so much in the south?

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

MELEE

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 8:34 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Sarahetc:

Would it be snotty of me to say that Indiana is not so much in the south?

Sarah

Naw, I actually kinda thought of that after I posted, but what? You expect me to memorize the US map?

I'm not THAT smart.

KENWOOD

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 9:03 PM

Quote:
You're quite right about the mis-quoting... I was listening to the song and transcribing and got it wrong... As for being after Challenger, I think you're wrong there. I think this one was written in 1983 and, if you listen closely, then it references 'Capsule 12' and lots about dying in fire. I think it's referring to the three men who died in a fire in the Apollo program. I believe it was Apollo 12. The door jammed and the matting caught fire.

12 was one of the moon landings, the second I think. What your thinking of was one of the early ground tests of the Apollo capsule. Gus Grissim(sp) and two others died. America's only program losses till Challenger. After the fire NASA stopped useing pure O2.

Back to topic:

"Living on a Thin Line" by the Kinks for Mal

"Flowers on the Razor Wire" by Sisters of Mercy for River

Later,

ME.

Don't look back, som'thin' might be gainin' on ya.
Who let the pigs play poker?
Evo Shander was right!

MARK

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 10:40 PM

OK... I've been thinking on it, and now I have prepared the definative (in my head) Firefly song list...

Mal - "Veteran of the Psychic Wars" by Blue Oyster Cult
"You see me now a veteran,
Of a thousand psychic wars.
I've been living on the edge so long,
where the winds of limbo roar.
And I'm young enough to look at,
And far too old to see.
All the scars are on the outside.
I'm not sure that there's anything left of me."

That last line just seems to sum him up perfectly after Serenity Valley.

Zoe - "We all need some body to lean on" by Bill Withers
"Lean on me,
When you're not strong,
I'll be your friend,
I'll help you carry on."

Ever the faithful second in command. Always there for Mal.

Wash - "Rocketman" By Elton John
"I miss the Earth so much,
I miss my wife.
It's lonely out in space"

Well, Wash IS the pilot and I couldn't find a song about juggling geese. The only other option was "Girl all the bad guys want" by Bowling for Soup.

Kaylee - "Kaylee" by Venice.
"Kaylee!
You should be in love with somebody,
Somebody like me!"

Well, one of our boys and girls deserves a song named after them. Plus it's a peppy little thing, just like Kaylee.

Jayne - "Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood
"On the day I was born,
Nurses all gathered 'round,
to gaze in wide wonder,
at the joy they had found.
The head nurse spoke up,
said leave this one alone,
She could tell right away,
I was bad to the bone!"

Really? What else?

Innara - "Takin' care of Business" by Bachmann Turner Overdrive
"Well I'll be takin' care of business,
Ev'ry day.
Takin' care of Business,
Ev'ry way.
Takin' care of Business,
It's all mine.
Takin' care of Business,
and working overtime"

"Well, you know how wrapped up she gets in her work... Tell her to squeeze it dry, send it off." Oh I'm a bad, bad man.

Book - "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" by Various Artists
"Mine eyes have seen the Glory of the coming of the Lord,
He is trampling out the vintage where the Grapes of Wrath are stored,
He has loosed the fateful lightning from his terrible, swift sword,
His truth is marching on."

I think this song, aside from being really cool, captures the dichotomy of Book's Eclesiastical and Military personalities.

Simon - "Let's face the music and dance" by Frank Sinatra
"There may be trouble ahead.
But while there's moonlight,
And music,
And love,
And romance...
Let's face the music, and Dance"

Let's just hope that there really ISN'T any trouble ahead for Simon and Kaylee... And River.

River - "Phoenix" by Julia Ecklar
"My wings are made of tungsten,
My flesh of glass and steel,
I am the joy of Terra for,
the power that I wield.
Once upon a life-time,
I died a pioneer.
Now I sing within this vessel's heart,
does anybody hear."

I still think this is a hauntingly beautiful melody and perfect for River... Or rather, River as Serenity.

Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.

SARAHETC

Wednesday, April 23, 2003 11:24 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by KenWood:
12 was one of the moon landings, the second I think. What your thinking of was one of the early ground tests of the Apollo capsule. Gus Grissim(sp) and two others died. America's only program losses till Challenger. After the fire NASA stopped useing pure O2.

That was Apollo I. NASA also drastically changed the hatch design.

Two funky creepy things about the Apollo I tragedy: If Grissom hadn't got such a hard time for the Liberty Bell splashdown, he would have never insisted that the hatch for the Apollo I capsule be designed the way it was, trapping them all in with no explosive bolts.

Further, after the Russians started declassifying documents from the Soviet space program, it came to light that one of their early tests at Baikonur ended in almost the exact same way. Instead of it being faulty wiring tho, like Apollo, it was an alcohol swab and a an exposed electric element. The cosmonaut was swabbing a sensor stuck to his skin, threw the swab over his shoulder where it hit the element and whoosh! The pure O2 atmosphere exploded.

We've had some real space program tragedies, but the USSR has us waaaaay beat.

End thread hijack!

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

KAYTHRYN

Friday, April 25, 2003 12:47 AM

I have found THEE perfect song about River!!!

Here are the Riverest parts-

--Prayer by Disturbed--
a gift to add on to your pain and suffering
another truth you can never believe
has crippled you completely
all the cries you’re beginning to hear
trapped in your mind, and the sound is deafening

living just isn't hard enough
burn me alive, inside
living my life's not hard enough
take everything away

another nightmare about to come true
will manifest tomorrow
another love that I've taken from you
...
bring to life everything that you fear
live in the dark, and the world is threatening

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

TALRIUS

Friday, April 25, 2003 2:14 AM

"Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones.

This song is good for Mal.

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DOBSON: I'm supposed to be meeting my wife's sister. I've only got a few days to see her...

ZOE: I wish there was another way...

DOBSON: Oh, no, no. That woman is like a dragon. I mean, I believe she has a tail. If there's any other moons we need to visit, or if we could just
fly very slowly...

XENARC

Friday, April 25, 2003 5:17 AM

hhmmm... overall maybe Night Ranger's Restless Kind .

Off on your own, it's a lonely ride
Seein' the things only seen through your eyes.
Pick yourself up, gonna try it again
Knowin' that this time your reachin' the end.
Then a voice inside, made me feel that I could fly
And you'll be there by my side forever.

We're the restless kind,
Lay your broken dreams upon the world.
And we will rise, we're the restless kind
In the morning light, see the tears of joy fall from your eyes, and we will rise.
We're the restless kind.

Not all of it fits, but the parts that do are shiney.

XenArc

MARK

Friday, April 25, 2003 6:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Talrius:
"Paint it Black" by the Rolling Stones.

This song is good for Mal.

Ohh!!! Good choice!! But then, anything from the "When the Devil Dances" soundtrack is pretty good for people of a military background.

Heather Alexander's 'March of Cambreadth' would make an excellent theme song for Zoe, Mal and Jayne.
"How many of them can we make DIE!"

Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.

TALRIUS

Friday, April 25, 2003 9:23 PM

Okay I've got the best song for the whole show...

Select to view spoiler:

Take my love, take my land
Take me where I cannot stand
I don't care, I'm still free
You can't take the sky from me
Take me out to the black
Tell them I ain't comin' back
Burn the land and boil the sea
You can't take the sky from me
There's no place I can be
Since I found Serenity
But you can't take the sky from me

Main Title Theme Written by: Joss Whedon
Performed by: Sonny Rhodes

Hahahahaha....

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DOBSON: I'm supposed to be meeting my wife's sister. I've only got a few days to see her...

ZOE: I wish there was another way...

DOBSON: Oh, no, no. That woman is like a dragon. I mean, I believe she has a tail. If there's any other moons we need to visit, or if we could just
fly very slowly...

LERXST

Saturday, April 26, 2003 2:15 AM

Yeah, but they need to make an extended dance mix version.

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Cap'n, can I have money for a slinky dress?

SARAHETC

Saturday, April 26, 2003 4:35 AM

Okay. I really looove "Lovers in a Dangerous Time." And I often hate Barenaked Ladies songs. Anymore FF-ish recs in this general genre?

Sarah

I'm a dying breed who still believes, haunted by American dreams. ---Neko Case

MARK

Saturday, April 26, 2003 9:52 PM

Ha HA!!!

Jut had a brilliant thought of a song fitted to a moment... Perhaps I've been watching 'Once more with feeling' too often, but how about Mal and Saffron dancing, in Serenity's cargo hold, to the strains of "It's cold outside" by Tom Jones and Cerys?

Reverse the roles - She the preadtor, he the shy and retiring - and it fits the pair nicely... Particularly if you consider the line 'It's cold outside' what with them being in space and all... Or even when he found her on that ice-world 'Baby it's up to your knees out there!'

Twelve spheres of unendurable brightness spalled the velvety blackness of space.
The silence on Lester Tourville's flag bridge was absolute
And then the spell was broken as Shannon Foraker looked up from her console from where she had just sent a seemingly innocent command to the main computers of State Security's finest Superdreadnoughts.
"Oops." She said.

LERXST

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 1:46 AM

You know that part in "Top Gun" where they're having the mock dogfight over the Nevada desert and Kenny Loggin's "Danger Zone" is playing? Well, now whenever I watch the part in "Serenity" where they're trying to outmanuever the Reaver ship, I think of that song.

I heard Blondie's "Call Me" on the radio today. Made me think of Inara. Hummina hummina hummina...

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Cap'n, can I have money for a slinky dress?

CORPRUGA

Wednesday, April 30, 2003 2:15 AM

The song "Weather With You" by Crowded House always sort of reminds me of Mal. It's a bit odd, considering that Mal technically can just pack up and leave the weather behind moving from planet to planet. But whenever they get to the verse about, "Things ain't cookin' in my kitchen/strange affliction wash over me/Julius Caesar and the Roman empire/couldn't conquer the blue sky," I always think about Mal. And, you know, if you assume that weather means the general emotional climate of passengers and crew, he sort of does take the weather with him.

"It's a thingie! A fiendish thingie!" George Harrison, Help!

KENWOOD

Thursday, May 1, 2003 8:04 PM

Ok, one more.
Don Quixote by Gordon Lightfoot for Book.

Later,

ME.

Don't look back, som'thin' might be gainin' on ya.
Who let the pigs play poker?
Evo Shander was right!

LERXST

Thursday, May 1, 2003 10:10 PM

How 'bout another Rush tune? "Witch Hunt". Naturally, makes me think of "Safe".

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"Come on now or you will be late." "Late? What for?" "What is your name, human?" "Dent. Arthur Dent" "Late, as in the late DentArthurDent."

KAYTHRYN

Friday, May 2, 2003 12:48 AM

This is a song for all you fans dreaming about a firefly character.

Real Mc Coy - Another night

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

KOFFEE

Monday, May 5, 2003 2:35 PM

Here is a song for Mal that I figured someone would have mentioned by now, but since no one has....

Desperado

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
You been out ridin' fences for so long now
Oh, you're a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin' you
Can hurt you somehow

Don't you draw the queen of diamonds, boy
She'll beat you if she's able
You know the queen of heats is always your best bet

Now it seems to me, some fine things
Have been laid upon your table
But you only want the ones that you can't get

Desperado, oh, you ain't gettin' no youger
Your pain and your hunger, they're drivin' you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that's just some people talkin'
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Don't your feet get cold in the winter time?
The sky won't snow and the sun won't shine
It's hard to tell the night time from the day
You're loosin' all your highs and lows
Ain't it funny how the feeling goes away?

Desperado, why don't you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin', but there's a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you, before it's too late

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“It's a real burn, being right so often.”

LERXST

Sunday, May 11, 2003 12:03 AM

Queensryche's "Jet City Woman" made me think of Mal/Inara:

I see her face everywhere, can't get her out of my mind.
Whenever I'm alone I'm thinking, there's a part missing from my life.
Wonder where I'd be without your love holding me together.
Now I'm watching the time tick, tick away.
Face grows longer every day.
Fortunes are lost on the women I've seen, but without you I can't breathe.
You're the air to me!

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Raspberry! Only one man would dare give me the raspberry...LONESTAR!!

GINOBIFFARONI

Saturday, May 17, 2003 2:38 AM

Heard another song which really reminds me of the show, Santa Maria by Trooper. Here's the lyrics:

With only fear and good judgement
Holding us back
We sailed out on the Northern Sea
With a boat load of crazy people
Including the shotgun and me

Does somebody know how to drive this thing
Yelled the captain as he fell to his knees
I think I mighta had a little too much today
Take me to my cabin, please

Cruisin' on a sardine boat
Loaded with crazy people
And we shall be the Santa Maria
Looking for a brave new world

The first mate shouted from the crow's nest
I think I might see land out there
Nobody moved
From where they were laying
Cause nobody really cared

Does somebody know how to drive this thing
Yelled the captain as he fell to his knees
I think I mighta had a little too much today
Take me to my cabin, please

The first mate shouted from the crow's nest
I think I might see land out there
But nobody moved
From where they were laying
Cause nobody really cared

Cruisin' on a sardine boat
Loaded with crazy people
And we shall be the Santa Maria
Looking for a brave new world

Cruisin' on a sardine boat
Loaded with crazy people
And we shall be the Santa Maria
Looking for a brave new world

SIRENKAIN

Saturday, May 17, 2003 3:02 AM

Warren Zevon - Lawyers, Guns and Money for Mal

because nothin' ever goes smooth

Still thinking --I think

LERXST

Friday, May 23, 2003 2:16 AM

Heard this one today, made me think of Saffron:

This ain't the end, I saw you again
Today
I had to turn my heart away
You smiled like the sun
Kisses for everyone
And tales - it never fails
You're lying so low in the weeds
I bet you're gonna ambush me
You'd have me down, down, down, down
On my knees
Wouldn't you, Barracuda?

-- Heart, "Barracuda"

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Raspberry! Only one man would dare give me the raspberry...LONESTAR!!

ARCHER

Friday, May 23, 2003 4:49 AM

Pardon my late entry into the field, but since it's for Miss Kaythryn, well, I'm obligated to enter some verses.

For River, well, for a brief second in War Stories, she gives me a real Drowning Pool feel. "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" as it happens.

One, nothing wrong with me.
Two, nothing wrong with me.
Three, nothing wrong with me.
Four, nothing wrong with me.
One, something's got to give.
Two, something's got to give.
Three, something's got to give.
Nooooooooooooooooooooow.

For Inara and Mal, Firewater's She's the Mistake comes to mind.

"She's the mistake I've been dyin' to make, since I can remember..."

Bon Jovi's "Dead or Alive" gives me a Mal feel, along with Warren Zevon's "Renegade", as I mentioned in a thread a while back.

As for Veteran of the Psychic Wars, I always preferred the second verse.

"You ask me why I'm weary, why I can't speak to you. You blame me for my silence, say it's time I changed and grew. Well the war's still going on dear, and there's no end that I know, and I can't stand forever. I can't say if we're ever gonna be free."

For Jayne, there's no other song than Thirteen.

"Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back. I was born to bring trouble to wherever I'm at.

Got the number 13 tattooed on my neck.

When the ink starts to itch, then the black will turn to red.

I was born in the soul of misery, never had me a name. They just gave me the number when I was young.

Got a long line of heartache, I carry it well.

The list of lives I've broken reach from here to hell.

Bad luck wind been blowin' at my back, I pray you don't look at me, I pray I don't look back."

Days of the New, Die Born can be a Mal song, especially in relation to the Alliance. If you like that country/rock hybrid feel, that's one to look for.

I am cold and I don't know why
Said you got to keep me warm
You will run, run from my eyes
They stare you down and make you burn
I am the king, the king of the jungle
I'm the little dog
So the king of the jungle makes me humble

I will not die born
I will not go down
'cause this is not my home
For any fears at all, any fears at all

Keep me running, keep me running wild
Keep me innocent

The sand is hot, it burns my feet
and I'm a little tired,
don't know what I'm gonna do with this
I am gonna run
Make it worth, worth my while
Make it worth, worth my while

I will not die born
And I will not go down
'cause this is not my home
For any fears at all, fears at all

Keep me running, keep me running wild
I am wild dog
Said it gets me high it gets me around
Everybody's walls,
I don't feel no pain
Cause I am numb, numb from the fall

Yeah it's hard for me to make a little change
I don't have to change at all

I will not die born
And I will not go down
'cause this is not my home
For any fears at all, fears at all

Back to River... I was pondering (when I had more spare time on my hands) tinkering with the possibility of mixing music videos from Firefly scenes. So what comes up for River? Joy Division, She's Lost Control Again.

Confusion in her eyes that says it all -
She's lost control
And she's clinging to the nearest passer-by
She's lost control
And she gave away the secrets of her past
And said "I've lost control again."

And she turned to me
and took me by the hand
and said "I've lost control again"
and how I'll never know just why
or understand
She said "I've lost control again"
And she screamed out, kicking on her side
And seized up on the floor -
I thought she'd died
She said "I've lost control again"
She's lost control again -
she's lost control

Well I had to phone her friend
to state her case and say
she's lost control again
And she showed up all the errors
and mistakes
and said "I've lost control again"
But she expressed herself in many
different ways
until she'd control again
And walked upon the edge of no escape
and laughed "I've lost control again"
She's lost control again,
she's lost control (2)

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand. That's what s

KAYTHRYN

Thursday, May 29, 2003 7:55 PM

Parts of this song are just dead on River

Vertical Horizon- He’s everything you want

Somewhere there's speaking
It's already coming in
Oh and it's rising at the back of your mind
You never could get it
Unless you were fed it
Now you're here and you don't know why

You're waiting for someone
To put you together
You're waiting for someone to push you away
There's always another wound to discover
There's always something more you wish he'd say

But you'll just sit tight
And watch it unwind
It's only what you're asking for
And you'll be just fine
With all of your time
It's only what you're waiting for

And this is a perfect song for Mal and Inara

Alicia Keys- Fallin’

I keep on fallin’
In and out of love
With you
Sometimes I love ya
Sometimes u make me blue
Sometimes I feel good
At times I feel used
Lovin you darlin’
Makes me so confused

Oh, oh , I never felt this way
How do you give me so much pleasure
And cause me so much pain
Just when I think
I've taken more than would a fool
I start fallin’ back in love with you

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

WILDFLOWER

Friday, June 6, 2003 7:39 PM

How about Mark Lanegan's Little Sadie for Jayne:

Went out last night, take a little round
Met little Sadie and I blowed her down
Then I run right home and went to bed
With a forty-four smokeless under my head

The 44-smokeless always reminds me of Jayne.

KAYTHRYN

Friday, November 21, 2003 4:53 PM

Return to Serenity by Testament:

I'm gonna take you
To a place far from here...

...I'm so alone
My head's my home
I'll return to serenity

It's kinda twangy too, reminds me a bit of the theme song.

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle