If you don't know Sam (dawn of light), I have no idea where you've been because she's probably one of the most active people on the site. I got the chance to make a ficmix for her story Mercury Sells, which is really fantastic. It's only 5 chapters in and it's quite mysterious, but I would highly recommend it.
This ficmix was a bit difficult because of the mystery of the story, but I tried to capture the feeling and match up some lyrics. This mix has a ton of my favourite artists and might be one of my favourites because of that. I tried to organize it based off of the way that the story flows, so I hope it matches up as well as I think it does.
You can find the playlist on my 8tracks here.
One Headlight - The Wallflowers
I seen the sun comin' up at the funeral at dawn
The long broken arm of human law
Now it always seemed such a waste
She always had a pretty face
So I wondered how she hung around this place
Eye of the Needle - Sia
Take me down
I'm feeling now
And if I move on
I admit you're gone
And I ain't ready
Burning Gold - Christina Perri
I've had enough
I'm standing up
I need, I need a change
I've had enough of chasing luck
I need, I need a change
Team - Lorde
We live in cities you'll never see on screen
Not very pretty, but we sure know how to run things
North - Sleeping At Last
We will call this place our home
The dirt in which our roots may grow
Though the storms will push and pull
We will call this place our home
Budapest - George Ezra
And give me one good reason
Why I should never make a change
Baby if you hold me
Then all of this will go away
Riptide - Vance Joy
Lady, running down to the riptide
Taken away to the dark side
I wanna be your left hand man
I love you when you're singing that song and
I got a lump in my throat 'cause
You're gonna sing the words wrong
Jackie and Wilson - Hozier
'Cause with my mid-youth crisis all said and done
I need to be youthfully felt 'cause, God, I never felt young
Let it Out - Frances
Little did we know at the time
We had so much of us still to find
With our young and innocent minds
So beautifully blind
Lost - Kodaline
Is it all in my head cause it’s getting harder
But there’s something you said that I never thought of
Cause we are ordinary people beautiful as we are
We can still get lost, lost
Flaws - Bastille
When all of your flaws and all of my flaws are laid out one by one
A wonderful part of the mess that we made
We pick ourselves undone
Ones we’ve inherited, ones that we learn
They pass from man to man
There’s a hole in my soul
I can’t fill it, I can’t fill it
Another Story - The Head and the Heart
Every time I hear another story
Oh the poor boy lost his head
Everybody feels a little crazy
But we go on living with it