Tramps Like Us: D+T Fanmix

Whee, fanmix. The picture I used for this is nikkiZorra's "The Duo--Colour", used with her permission. She also suggested the inclusion of the Coldplay song "The Scientist" - actually, she also suggested "Fix You", but I didn't want to use two songs by the same group for the mix. Sorry about that

Anyway, this is meant to be a CD cover for a compilation of songs which remind me of a certain two stoats of whom I am fond. Obviously it would have to be rearranged for printing purposes since the front would end up on the back if it was printed and folded this way, but I arranged it this way for ease of viewing onscreen. I'm not sure why I picked the cloud motif, but I think it looks okay. Text on the "spine" is Royal House of Riftgard font, downloadable here: [link]

I think I've got a nice balance of sad and funny for the songs. I tried to arrange the songs in a vague order which fits the events of their lives which reminded me of those songs, but I stuck "Born to Run" on the end, because that's so "their" song and I felt I should save the best for last, hence the album title. Parts of the lyrics included so hopefully you can tell what each one is referring to.

Some of these songs have decidedly slashy interpretations in context, but this is me, so you knew that. Bad language censored just in case so I don't get yelled at by the mods.
Songs listed here:

1) Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go,
Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me

2) Scissor Sisters: Filthy/Gorgeous
You gotta keep your s*** together
With your feet on the ground
There ain't no-one gonna listen
If you haven't made a sound
You're an acid junkie college flunky dirty puppy daddy b******
'Cause you're filthy, Oooh and I'm gorgeous
'Cause you're filthy, Oooh and I'm gorgeous
You're disgusting, Oooh and you're nasty
And you can grab me, Oooh 'cause you're nasty
(Cruel joke on the poor guys, I know.)

3) TATU: Not Gonna Get Us
Starting from here, let's make a promise
You and me, let's just be honest
We're gonna run, nothing can stop us
Even the night that falls all around us

4) The Decemberists: On The Bus Mall
And here in our hovel
We fuse like a family
But I will not mourn for you
So take up your make up
And pocket your pills away
We're kings among runaways
On the bus mall

5) Oliver! Soundtrack: Food Glorious Food
Food, glorious food!
What is there more handsome?
Gulped, swallowed or chewed --
Still worth a king's ransom.
What is it we dream about?
What brings on a sigh?
Piled peaches and cream, about
Six feet high!
(How could I not include this one?)

6) Steve Miller: Take the Money and Run
They got the money, hey
You know they got away
They headed down south and they're still running today
Singin' go on take the money and run

7) Nine Inch Nails: Piggy
Hey pig, yeah you
Hey pig piggy pig pig pig
All of my fears came true
Black and blue and broken bones, you left me here I'm all alone
My little piggy needed something new
Nothing can stop me now
I don't care anymore

8) Flogging Molly: Selfish Man
And life leads me here
It shows me I have never really loved no one but me
Like the time you slipped through my hands
And I`ll never understand
Why I`m such a selfish man

9) Jake Owen: Places to Run
I’ve lived all my life, with no ties that bind,
There wasn’t anything or anyone that I couldn’t leave behind,
I could always find a getaway from what I was hiding from,
It’s looking like I’ve run out of places to run.

10) Tom Robinson: You Tattooed Me (piano version)
We wrecked the bed and went, and never paid a cent
I drank the fare and never made the train
Till I was thirty-five I was only half alive
And I hardly knew what hit me when you came
And tattooed me... tattooed me
No, I hardly knew what hit me when you came
We shacked up in a basement after breaking down the door
With bedbugs in the blankets, broken bottles on the floor
We were penniless and hungry, having arguments and fights
I was coughing blood all winter but I'd never been more alive
(Fairly obscure, can be found at [link] Has to be the piano tango version, though - the original's rather too swoopy and lovey-dovey for them.)

11) Coldplay: The Scientist
Tell me your secrets, and nurse me your questions
Oh lets go back to the start
Running in circles, coming in tails
Heads on a science apart
Nobody said it was easy
It's such a shame for us to part
Nobody said it was easy
No one ever said it would be this hard
Oh take me back to the start
(Once again, thanks to nikkiZorra for suggesting this one.)

12) Bruce Springsteen: Born to Run
Baby this town rips the bones from your back
It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap
We gotta get out while we're young
`Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run
~~~

Hope you like. May do sketches for the inside pages of the lyrics booklet or something sometime when I have less stuff I already have to do.

Dingeye and Thura and the Royal House of Riftgard alphabet (c) Brian Jacques.
Cover art (c) nikkiZorra.
Design (c) me.
Songs (c) respective owners credited above.