One Day Like This

playlist position: 104 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #31
artist: Elbow
album: The Seldom Seen Kid
track number: 10/12
year: 2008








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter 39
“Bella!” Edward whispered in shock.
I knew it was working then, so I concentrated even harder, dredging up the specific memories I’d saved for this moment, letting them flood my mind, and hopefully his as well.
Some of the memories were not clear—dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I’d seen his face… the way it felt when he’d held me in the meadow… the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he’d saved me from James… his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me… every precious moment from the island… his cold hands touching our baby through my skin… And the sharp memories, perfectly recalled: his face when I’d opened my eyes to my new life, to the endless dawn of immortality… that first kiss… that first night…

“I heard you,” he breathed. “How? How did you do that?”
“Zafrina’s idea. We practiced with it a few times.”
He was dazed. He blinked twice and shook his head.
“Now you know,” I said lightly, and shrugged. “No one’s ever loved anyone as much as I love you.”

_________________________

Drinking in the morning sun
Blinking in the morning sun
Shaking off a heavy one
Yeah, heavy like a loaded gun

What made me behave that way?
Using words I never say
I can only think it must be love
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

Someone tell me how I feel
It's silly wrong, but vivid right
Oh, kiss me like a final meal
Yeah, kiss me like we die tonight

'Cause, holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see the light
Yeah, lying with you half awake
Stumbling over what to say
Oh, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

When my face is chamois creased
If you think I wink, I did
Laugh politely at repeats
Yeah, kiss me when my lips are thin

'Cause, holy cow, I love your eyes
And only now I see the light
Yeah, lying with you half awake
Stumbling over what to say
Well, anyway, it's looking like a beautiful day

So throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right
Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right

Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right
Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right for life

Throw those curtains wide
'Cause, holy cow, I love your eyes
One day like this a year would see me right
And only now I see the light
Throw those curtains wide
'Cause, holy cow, I love your eyes
One day like this a year would see me right
And only now I see the light

Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right
Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right

Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right
Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right

Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right
Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right

Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right
Throw those curtains wide
One day like this a year would see me right

Invincible

playlist position: 102 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #29
artist: OK Go
album: Oh No
track number: 1/13
year: 2005








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter 38
I could taste it as soon as it touched my shield—it had a dense, sweet, cloying flavor. It made me remember dimly the numbness of Novocain on my tongue.
The mist curled upward, seeking a breach, a weakness. It found none. The fingers of searching haze twisted upward and around, trying to find a way in, and in the process illustrating the astonishing size of the protective screen.
There were gasps on both sides of Benjamin’s gorge.
“Well done, Bella!” Benjamin cheered in a low voice.
My smile returned.
I could see Alec’s narrowed eyes, doubt on his face for the first time as his mist swirled harmlessly around the edges of my shield.
And then I knew that I could do this. Obviously, I would be the number-one priority, the first one to die, but as long as I held, we were on more than equal footing with the Volturi. We still had Benjamin and Zafrina; they had no supernatural help at all. As long as I held.

_________________________

When they finally come to destroy the earth
They'll have to go through you first
I bet they won't be expecting that

When they finally come to destroy the earth
They'll have to deal with you first
And now my money says they won't know
About the thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes

Invincible
You're invincible
That crushing, crashing, atom-smashing, white-hot thing
It's invincible

When they finally come, what'll you do to them?
Gonna decimate them like you did to me?
Will you leave them stunned and stuttering?
When they finally come, how will you handle them?
Will you devastate them deliberately?

'Cause I'm gonna guess they won't be prepared
For thousand Fahrenheit hot metal lights behind your eyes

Invincible
You're invincible
That crushing, crashing, atom-smashing, white-hot thing
It's invincible

So, please use your powers for good
You're invincible

Safe

playlist position: 103 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #30
artist: Travis
album: The Invisible Band
track number: 7/12
year: 2001








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter 38
“Forever,” I promised her.
We had forever. And Nessie was going to be fine and healthy and strong. Like the half-human Nahuel, in a hundred and fifty years she would still be young. And we would all be together.
Happiness expanded like an explosion inside me—so extreme, so violent that I wasn’t sure I’d survive it.

_________________________

Take all the goods from all the bads
And tell the people that you've gone away
Now lift your head up to the sky
And now you can tell apart the black from the white

And you wish the time they treasure dear
And my only thought is that they could be right
Well look, there goes another year
About as distant as a satellite

And I feel safe, so safe
And I feel safe, so safe
And I feel safe, so safe
So safe

The world's a small child in the dark
And my mind's the same place that it's always been
The monsters seem to fade so fast
Upon the waking of another dream

And I feel safe, so safe
And I feel safe, so safe

And I feel safe, I feel so brave
I'm not afraid of anything they've got to say
If you're okay, because your tucked away
Don't go astray
You've got to be just who you are, who you are

When I was young things didnt last
My only cares went to the price of sweets
Now I'm more older I can laugh
A dolly mixed up man with problem teeth

Assassin

playlist position: 101 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #28
artist: Muse
album: Black Holes and Revelations
track number: 7/12
year: 2006








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter37 - Garrett's perspective
“We have the answer to all these questions. We heard it in Aro’s lying words—we have one with a gift of knowing such things for certain—and we see it now in Caius’s eager smile. Their guard is just a mindless weapon, a tool in their masters’ quest for domination.
“So now there are more questions, questions that you must answer. Who rules you, nomads? Do you answer to someone’s will besides your own? Are you free to choose your path, or will the Volturi decide how you will live?
“I came to witness. I stay to fight. The Volturi care nothing for the death of the child. They seek the death of our free will.”
He turned, then, to face the ancients. “So come, I say! Let’s hear no more lying rationalizations. Be honest in your intents as we will be honest in ours. We will defend our freedom. You will or will not attack it. Choose now, and let these witnesses see the true issue debated here.”

_________________________

War is overdue
The time has come for you
To shoot your leaders down
Join forces underground

Lose control in increasing pace
Warped and bewitched in time to erased
Whatever they say, these people are torn
Wild and bereft assassin is born, yeah

Appose and disagree
Destroy demonocracy

Lose control in increasing pace
Warped and bewitched in time to erased
Whatever they say, these people are torn
Wild and bereft assassin is born, yeah

Take a Bow

playlist position: 100 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #27
artist: Muse
album: Black Holes and Revelations
track number: 1/12
year: 2006








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter36
They came with pageantry, with a kind of beauty.
They came in a rigid, formal formation. They moved together, but it was not a march; they flowed in perfect synchronicity from the trees—a dark, unbroken shape that seemed to hover a few inches above the white snow, so smooth was the advance.
The outer perimeter was gray; the color darkened with each line of bodies until the heart of the formation was deepest black.
Every face was cowled, shadowed. The faint brushing sound of their feet was so regular it was like music, a complicated beat that never faltered.
At some sign I did not see—or perhaps there was no sign, only millennia of practice—the configuration folded outward. The motion was too stiff, too square to resemble the opening of a flower, though the color suggested that; it was the opening of a fan, graceful but very angular. The gray-cloaked figures spread to the flanks while the darker forms surged precisely forward in the center, each movement closely controlled.
Their progress was slow but deliberate, with no hurry, no tension, no anxiety. It was the pace of the invincible.

_________________________

Corrupt, you corrupt
And bring corruption to all that you touch
Hold, you'll behold
And behold and for all that you've done

And spell, cast a spell
And cast a spell on the country you run
And risk, you will risk
You will risk all their lives and their souls

And burn, you will burn
You will burn in Hell
Yeah, you'll burn in Hell
You'll burn in Hell
Yeah, you'll burn in Hell for your sins

Ooh, our freedom is consuming itself
What we've become is contrary to what we want
Take a bow

Death, you bring death
And destruction to all that you touch
Pay, you must pay
You must pay for your crimes against the earth

And Hex, feed the Hex
Feed the Hex on the country you love
And beg, you will beg
You will beg for their lives and their souls

Yeah, burn, you will burn
You will burn in Hell
Yeah, you'll burn in Hell
Burn in Hell
Yeah, you'll burn in Hell
Burn in Hell, yeah
You'll burn in Hell for your sins

I Will Follow You Into the Dark

playlist position: 98 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #25
artist: Death Cab for Cutie
album: Plans
track number: 5/11
year: 2005








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter35
Edward cocked one eyebrow as I approached, but otherwise did not remark on my accessory or Renesmee’s. He just put his arms tight around us both for one long moment and then, with a deep sigh, let us go. I couldn’t see a goodbye anywhere in his eyes. Maybe he had more hope for something after this life than he’d let on.

_________________________

Love of mine
Some day you will die
But I'll be close behind
I'll follow you into the dark

No blinding light or tunnels to gates of white
Just our hands clasped so tight
Waiting for the hint of a spark

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

In Catholic school as vicious as Roman rule
I got my knuckles bruised by a lady in black
And I held my tongue as she told me
"Son, fear is the heart of love"
So I never went back

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the no's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark

You and me have seen everything to see
From Bangkok to Calgary
And the soles of your shoes are all worn down
The time for sleep is now
It's nothing to cry about
Cause we'll hold each other soon
In the blackest of rooms

If Heaven and Hell decide
That they both are satisfied
Illuminate the No's on their vacancy signs
If there's no one beside you
When your soul embarks
Then I'll follow you into the dark
Then I'll follow you into the dark

Intro

playlist position: 99 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #26
artist: Muse
album: Absolution
track number: 1/15
year: 2003








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter 35
Another minute ticked by, and I found myself straining to hear some sound of approach.
And then Edward stiffened and hissed low between his clenched teeth. His eyes focused on the forest due north of where we stood.
We stared where he did, and waited as the last seconds passed.

Duck and Run

playlist position: 96 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #23
artist: 3 Doors Down
album: Another 700 Miles
track number: 1/7
year: 2003








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter 29
“I’m not going down without a fight,” Emmett snarled low under his breath. “Alice told us what to do. Let’s get it done.”
The others nodded with determined expressions, and I realized that they were banking on whatever chance Alice had given us. That they were not going to give in to hopelessness and wait to die.
Yes, we all would fight. What else was there? And apparently we would involve others, because Alice had said so before she’d left us. How could we not follow Alice’s last warning? The wolves, too, would fight with us for Renesmee.
We would fight, they would fight, and we all would die.

_________________________

To this world I'm unimportant
Just because I have nothing to give
So you call this your free country
Tell me why it cost so much to live
Tell me why

This world can turn me down
But I won’t turn away, oh no
I won’t turn around

All my work and endless measures
Never seem to get me very far
Walk a mile just to move an inch
Now even though I'm trying so damn hard
I'm trying so hard

This world can turn me down
But I won’t turn away
And I won’t duck and run
'Cause I'm not built that way

When everything is gone
There is nothing there to fear
This world cannot bring me down
No, 'cause I'm already here
Oh no

I am already here down on my knees
I am already here
Oh no
I am already here

I must have told you a thousand times
I am not running away
I won’t duck and run
I won’t duck and run
I won’t duck and run
No, pass away

This world can turn me down
But I won’t turn away
And I won’t duck and run
'Cause I'm not built that way

When everything is gone
There is nothing there to fear
This world cannot bring me down
No, 'cause I'm already here

This world can turn me down
But I won’t turn away
And I won’t duck and run
'Cause I'm not built that way

When everything is gone there
Is nothing there to fear
This world cannot bring me down
No, 'cause I'm already here

A Hazy Shade of Winter

playlist position: 97 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #24
artist: Simon & Garfunkel
album: Bookends
track number: 11/12
year: 1968








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter 33
And then my smile faded. Alice had sent me here for a reason, and I was sure it was to protect Renesmee. Her last gift to me. The one thing she would know I needed...

It was as I had suspected. We couldn’t win. But we must have a good shot at killing Demetri before we lost, giving Renesmee the chance to run.
My still heart felt like a boulder in my chest—a crushing weight. All my hope faded like fog in the sunshine. My eyes pricked.

_________________________

Time, time, time
See what's become of me
While I looked around for my possibilities
I was so hard to please

Look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hear the Salvation Army band
Down by the riverside
Bound to be a better ride
Than what you've got planned
Carry your cup in your hand

And look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Hang on to your hopes, my friend
That's an easy thing to say
But if your hopes should pass away
Simply pretend that you can build them again

Look around
The grass is high
The fields are ripe
It's the springtime of my life

Seasons change with the scenery
Weaving time in a tapestry
Won't you stop and remember me
At any convenient time?

Funny how my memory skips
Looking over manuscripts
Of unpublished rhyme
Drinking my vodka and lime

I look around
Leaves are brown
And the sky is a hazy shade of winter

Sweet Disposition

playlist position: 94 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #21
artist: The Temper Trap
album: Conditions
track number: 3/10
year: 2009








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter 27
And I was euphoric the vast majority of the time. The days were not long enough for me to get my fill of adoring my daughter; the nights did not have enough hours to satisfy my need for Edward.

_________________________

Sweet disposition
Never too soon
Oh, reckless abandon
Like no one's watching you
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh
A kiss
A cry
Our rights
Our wrongs
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh

So stay there
'Cause I'll be coming over
While our blood's still young
It's so young, it runs
We won't stop 'til it's over
Won't stop to surrender

Songs of desperation
I played them for you
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh
A kiss
A cry
Our rights
Our wrongs
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh
A moment of love
A dream
A laugh

Stay there
'Cause I'll be coming over
While our blood's still young
It's so young, it runs
We won't stop 'til it's over
Won't stop to surrender

Won't stop 'til it's over
Won't stop 'til it's over
Won't stop 'til it's over
Won't stop to surrender

Pts.Of.Athrty

playlist position: 95 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #22
                        155 - Midnight Sun Draft Version (1.5b) #15
artist: Linkin Park
album: Reanimation
track number: 2/20
year: 2002
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Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter 28
“The Volturi,” Alice moaned.
“All of them,” Edward groaned at the same time.
“Why?” Alice whispered to herself. “How?”
“When?” Edward whispered.
“Why?” Esme echoed.
“When?” Jasper repeated in a voice like splintering ice.
Alice’s eyes didn’t blink, but it was as if a veil covered them; they became perfectly blank. Only her mouth held on to her expression of horror.
“Not long,” she and Edward said together. Then she spoke alone. “There’s snow on the forest, snow on the town. Little more than a month.”

_________________________

Yo, yo
Forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame
Puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
You can’t run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won’t last

You love the way I look at you
While taking pleasure in the awful things you put me through
You take away if I give in
My life, my pride is broken

You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
(You live what you’ve learned)

You love the things I say I’ll do
The way I’ll hurt myself again just to get back at you
You take away when I give in
My life, my pride is broken

You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
You live what you’ve learned

Yo, yo
Forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame
Puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
You can’t run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won’t last

Forfeit the game
Before somebody else
Takes you out of the frame (frame)
Puts your name to shame
Cover up your face
(You) You can’t run the race
The pace is too fast
You just won’t last

You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
You like to think you’re never wrong
(You like to think you’re never wrong)
You have to act like you’re someone
(You have to act like you’re someone)
You want someone to hurt like you
(You want someone to hurt like you)
You want to share what you’ve been through
You live what you’ve learned

I'm Too Sexy

playlist position:  93 - Breaking Dawn Book Three (6) #20
artist: Right Said Fred
album: Up
track number: 3/10
year: 1991








Breaking Dawn: Book Three – Chapter20
My first reaction was an unthinking pleasure. The alien creature in the glass was indisputably beautiful, every bit as beautiful as Alice or Esme. She was fluid even in stillness, and her flawless face was pale as the moon against the frame of her dark, heavy hair. Her limbs were smooth and strong, skin glistening subtly, luminous as a pearl.

_________________________

I'm too sexy for my love
I'm too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me

I'm too sexy for my shirt
Too sexy for my shirt
So sexy it hurts and I'm
Too sexy for Milan
Too sexy for Milan, New York and Japan

And I'm too sexy for your party
Too sexy for your party
No way I'm disco dancing

I'm a model
You know what I mean and
I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk
Yeah I do my little turn on the catwalk

I'm too sexy for my car
I'm too sexy for my car
Too sexy by far
And I'm too sexy for my hat
Too sexy for my hat
What do you think about that

I'm a model
You know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk
Yeah I shake my little touche on the catwalk

I'm too sexy for my
I'm too sexy for my
I'm too sexy for my

'Cause I'm a model
You know what I mean
And I do my little turn on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk
Yeah on the catwalk
Yeah I shake my little touche on the catwalk

I'm too sexy for my cat
I'm too sexy for my cat
Poor pussy
Poor pussy cat

I'm too sexy for my love
I'm too sexy for my love
Love's going to leave me

And I'm too sexy for this song