Crooked Ways

playlist position: 118 - Midnight Sun (1.5) #0 - Official Midnight Sun Theme Song
artist: Motion City Soundtrack
album: single
year: 2020
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You came and washed the night away

I haven't felt this way in ages

Are you haunting me or have I finally gone to sleep?

I course electric through these veins

Whose evil plan has made you smell like poison ivy

How I like the taste of IV

I can't explain myself today

I'll have to scare you into hating me with every breath

And wishing me an early death

You flood this empty heart of mine

I haven't felt this way in ages

I'll be surely sick if push to shove comes clearly to this

I'm married to the dark

All echoes of an ancient heart

I am daggers and knives

And when the seasons change

I creep back to my crooked ways

Run if you think you can

I feel the worst is yet to come

I'll suffocate these pangs of hunger

For your pretty head

And blanket red of pure regret

You plea to learn the awful truth

I wouldn't wish this waking life upon my enemies

All thoughts are black and actions blacker

I'm married to the dark

All echoes of an ancient heart

I am daggers and knives

And when the seasons change

I creep back to my crooked ways

Run if you think you can

I believe we can both get what we need

And if they're not with us they're against us

You came and washed the night away

I haven't felt this way in ages

Are you haunting me or have I finally gone to sleep?

I course electric through these veins

Whose evil plan has made you smell like poison ivy

How I like the taste of IV

We're married to the dark

All echoes of these ancient hearts

We are daggers and knives

And when the seasons change

We creep back to our crooked ways

Run if you think you can

I believe we can both get what we need

If they decide we are darkness worse than evil

Then they're not with us, they're against us

Point of Extinction

playlist position: 88 - Breaking Dawn Book Two (5) #15
artist: Motion City Soundtrack
album: Even If It Kills Me
track number: 11/13
year: 2007
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Breaking Dawn: Book Two – Chapter 15
“It feels… complete when you’re here, Jacob. Like all my family is together. I mean, I guess that’s what it’s like—I’ve never had a big family before now. It’s nice.” She smiled for half a second. “But it’s just not whole unless you’re here.”
“I’ll never be part of your family, Bella.”
I could have been. I would have been good there. But that was just a distant future that died long before it had a chance to live.
“You’ve always been a part of my family,” she disagreed.
My teeth made a grinding sound. “That’s a crap answer.”
“What’s a good one?”
“How about, ‘Jacob, I get a kick out of your pain.’”
I felt her flinch.
“You’d like that better?” she whispered.
“It’s easier, at least. I could wrap my head around it. I could deal with it.”

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Are you listening, Javelina?
Every corner of the coast is still clear
All dressed up with some medicine for luck
How I hope that you're still here when I return

Burning bridges is a form of suicide
I saw the fires as the ghost of my life
Passed me by and there's nowhere you can hide
From the lessons or the lies that bind them

I'm so tired
I've had enough
If there's one thing I've learned
You'll always get burned
But you'll never give it up

Can we count on our conversations
to restore us like energon cubes
Made one wish for a permanent kiss
That would echo through these bones like arsenic
I can figure out the point of anything
Just not as quick as I can mess up my life
With all my dreams hooked to hospital machines
I think, "let's try redefining beautiful."

I'm so tired
I've had enough
If there's one thing I've learned
You'll always get burned
But you'll never give it up

This is the best that it will get
(Yeah yeah yeah, give it up, give it up)
This is the best that it will get
(Yeah yeah yeah, give it up)

I can figure out the point of anything
I can figure out the point of anything
I can figure out the point of anything
I can figure out the point of anything
I can figure out the point of anything
I can figure out the point of it

I'm so tired
I've had enough
If there's one thing I've learned
You'll always get burned
But you'll never give it up

I'm so tired
I've had enough
If there's one thing I've learned
You'll always get burned
But you'll never give it up