Topic: Inspired

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-07-04 14:12 EST

This thread is purely for the sharing of music, literature, film and art that either reflects Madison's world, the GT Setting and the locations within GT.

If you couldn't already tell, I'm big on using music, especially with an important scene. I'll list artists which compliment my stories as well as some favourites of mine with the hope they engage somebody for the better too. You're welcome to make additions too folks.

Nothing further, just enjoy!

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-07-06 08:48 EST

This song came to mind as I was thinking of writing.

Works well when it comes to all the unusual people and occurances around the gunslinger at the moment.

Besides that, it's an awesomely moody track.

http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/results/125829649

"Yes I know. But is this real?"

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-07-17 06:47 EST

http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/results/231186193

Just something you might find being played by Dethree at The Orpheum.

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-07-23 08:17 EST

http://www.playlist.com/searchbeta/results/675210513

A very pretty song. The music and lyrics just make me smile.

From the moment I first heard it I encountered a strong feeling of de ja vu - reminiscing on places, feelings that conjure to me this story, and Madi's world.

This song in all its makings is a perfect compliment to many elements of the rain dancer's tale.

Enjoy it, regardless; it's a sweet piece of music. Very 90's though, forgive me! ;-)

Dragon Flies

this is the first you spoke of it
in your black magic house
in a cold damp attic
two windows stare at us like eyes
behind them
december's dark
early morning sky
and a couple of
dead trees
with their ornamental stars
I thought by now that I
figured your head out
until now I thought I
figured your body out
so please help me to understand
because I love you
more than anyone
I wonder in what fields today
you're chasing dragonflies at play
my little lost girl
so far away

Bashara · Date: 2009-08-03 14:26 EST

Well I just found this far too amusing given one of Ba'shara's threads is titled 'Midnight Sun' and I started getting into this band... and lo and behold the lyrics actually fit for the Egyptian's life recently ::grin:: Check it out people. Lyrics also included below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRcP1j0vrFM

Waking up, with sunbeams in my eyes
And the world outside, seems to pass me by
Embrace the land, where the ocean meets the sand
And emotion fades away, until you take my hand

I will be coming with you, tonight
You're all that I want, you're all I have, you're all I need
Oh, oh you will be shining on me
Like a midnight sun you're the only one who can set me free
You will set me free

Still so young and anxious to be free
But now I'm trapped inside, with all these memories
There's more than this, if you open up your eyes
And then soon you will realize, those days are all gone

We need to find a way to live
There's more to take, there's more to give
We try so hard, we try so hard and this time
we're on our way

Like a midnight sun you're the only one who can set me free
Like a midnight sun
Like a midnight sun
Like a midnight sun

Tavarius · Date: 2009-08-03 17:53 EST

Shoretown Serenade

Don't know what it is really, but it's become a favorite of mine, this "Shoretown Serenade" and can find several ways to link it in with Tav's current situation, predicament, etcetera.

Drink 'em down boys
You sons of bitches
I guess this next round's on me
All I ask of you now
Is my shot at redemption
Or a head-start on my hasty retreat

From this sandy beach town
This boardwalk saloon
Where the gypsies meet the sea
The jukebox is busted
The band sounds too tired to carry a tune
But outside the carnival music swells
Like a symphony

Then the clock on the wall
Drunkenly smiles last call
The waitress kicks out the stragglers that remain
She takes tequila
She takes beer
She takes their dreams and their fears
And one by one, pours them all down the drain

Say goodbye shoretown, baby
Shoretown serenade
For the poets the dreamers
The unspoken true believes
The boardwalk's littered with promises delayed

Stay with me and drink with me
It's the last one the band's gonna play
So dance with me, dance with me
The shoretown serenade

The old men doing time down here
Die slower than a ten year memory
For the lack of repentance
They'll give you the life sentence
Your jail sail's a barstool
Desperation's the key
That opens the door
To your secret world
Of shattered glass up on old 33

It's one for the road
Hey Bill be sure to take those turns kinda a slow now, ya hear
Your punishment
Is living long enough
To be secure in the knowledge
That they'll never let you leave
You'll never be paroled from this place

With your hungover eyes
I mean christ, why even try
You're a pathetic barfly
Another nameless face

Say good by shoretown, baby
Shoretown serenade
For the poets the dreamers
The unspoken true believers
The boardwalk's littered with promises delayed

Stay with me and drink with me
It's the last one the band's gonna play
So dance with me, dance with me
The shoretown, serenade

Dance with me and drink with me
It's the last one the band's gonna play
So dance with me, dance with me
The shoretown, serenade

Dance with me, drink with me
It's the last one th eband's gonna play
Dance with me, drink with me
The shoretown serenade

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-03 19:58 EST

Loving the lyrics!!!!!

Tavarius · Date: 2009-08-03 22:12 EST

I think it's appropriate to the scene of Ghost Town too.::Grin.:: Glad you enjoy.

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-06 08:57 EST

I am tired
I am weary
I could sleep for a thousand years
A thousand dreams that would awake me
Different colours made of tears

Venus in Furs - The Velvet Underground

Tavarius · Date: 2009-08-08 05:43 EST

Link it to the world
Link it to yourself
Stretch it like it's a birth squeeze
And the love for what you hide
And the bitterness inside
Is growing like the new born

Part of Newborn - By Muse

Bashara · Date: 2009-08-08 06:49 EST

You caught me lingering
in another girl's paradise
the way she paints the world --
I want that in my life
emeralds,
You should know,
are renting in her meadow
With a stroke beauty lives
how could i resist
you are desire
when it all is said said and done
who can love you and still be standing
Tori Amos- Another Girl's Paradise

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-08 07:23 EST

Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

In starlit nights I saw you
So cruelly you kissed me
Your lips a magic world
Your sky all hung with jewels
The killing moon
Will come too soon

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Under blue moon I saw you
So soon you'll take me
Up in your arms
Too late to beg you or cancel it
Though I know it must be the killing time
Unwillingly mine

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him

Fate
Up against your will
Through the thick and thin
He will wait until
You give yourself to him
You give yourself to him

Lani Valendria · Date: 2009-08-08 12:08 EST

Might Tell You Tonight- Scissor Sisters

When you're quiet, but your eyes
Are saying everything I need to know
I want to burrow like a sparrow
Dodging alley cats and whiskers
Why do we talk in whispers?
Is it painful hearing voices ring
So early in the morning?

I've been waiting for the day
When I can throw away these numbers
That line my dresser drawers and cupboards
Start me over
Life seems so much slower
With your toothbrush by the mirror
Can I make it any clearer?

And I just might say it tonight
I just might say it tonight
I just might tell you tonight
That I love you
And you should stay all my life

They'll tell you that you'll maybe make it
If you just cut your clothes and change your hair
But I won't fuss and moan
'bout what you wear
I feel so much better
When I read your dirty letters
Just wear your sweaters in the winter
'Cause I wonuldn't want you to get cold
I hope that we're togethre when we're old
I would have sold all my possessions
Never took piano lessons
But baby you're a grand
And I will learn to play the good notes
And tune you up the best I can

And I just might say it tonight
I just might say it tonight
I just might tell you tonight
That I love you
And you should stay all my life

Bashara · Date: 2009-08-09 00:53 EST

Never is a Promise- Fiona Apple

Youll never see the courage I know
Its colors richness wont appear within your view
Ill never glow - the way that you glow
Your presence dominates the judgements made on you

But as the scenery grows, I see in different lights
The shades and shadows undulate in my perception
My feelings swell and stretch; I see from greater heights
I understand what I am still too proud to mention - to you

Youll say you understand, but you dont understand
Youll say youd never give up seeing eye to eye
But never is a promise, and you cant afford to lie

Youll never touch - these things that I hold
The skin of my emotions lies beneath my own
Youll never feel the heat of this soul
My fever burns me deeper than Ive ever shown - to you

Youll say, dont fear your dreams, its easier than it seems
Youll say youd never let me fall from hopes so high
But never is a promise and you cant afford to lie

Youll never live the life that I live
Ill never live the life that wakes me in the night
Youll never hear the message I give
Youll say it looks as though I might give up this fight

But as the scenery grows, I see in different lights
The shades and shadows undulate in my perception
My feelings swell and stretch, I see from greater heights
I realize what I am now too smart to mention - to you

Youll say you understand, youll never understand
Ill say Ill never wake up knowing how or why
I dont know what to believe in, you dont know who I am
Youll say I need appeasing when I start to cry
But never is a promise and Ill never need a lie

Krysanthe · Date: 2009-08-09 17:22 EST

(It seems natural that I'd ever be soul bound and drawn to poetry ::soft smile:: This one I've ever held dear... it's lingered with me for years. Enjoy)

Secrecy Protested- Thomas Carew

Fear not, dear love, that I'll reveal
Those hours of pleasure we two steal.
No eye shall see, nor yet the sun Descry
What thou and I have done; No ear shall
hear our love, but we silent as the night will be.

The god of love himself, whose dart did first wound mine
and then thy heart, shall never know that we can tell
What sweets in stolen embraces dwell.

This only means may find it out: If, when I die,
physicians doubt what caused my death, and,
there to view of all their judgements which was true,
Rip up my heart-
Oh then, I fear,
The world will see thy picture there

Bashara · Date: 2009-08-09 17:29 EST

(( Just a lovely poem I've ever been drawn to and have had before kept written. I happened to find one of my notebooks where I wrote it down before... and felt it was appropriate. ))

The Black Panther- John Hall Wheelock

There is a panther caged within my breast,
But what his name, there is no breast shall know,
save mine, nor what it is that drives him so,
Backword and foward, in relentless quest-

That silent rage, baffled but unsuppressed,
The soft pad of those stealthy feet that go over
my body's prison to and fro,

Trying the walls forever without rest.
All day I feed him with my living heart,
but when the night puts forth her dreams and stars,

The inexorable frenzy reawakes:
His wrath is hurled upon the trembling bars,
The eternal passion stretches me apart,
and I lie silent-but my body shakes.

Tavarius · Date: 2009-08-09 17:56 EST

I feel it my knees
Every time I breathe
My skin, it turns to ink
And my soul drips on the page

I feel it in my heart
Every time it starts
My eyes, they turn to dreams
As my body stays asleep

Her body is adrift in an abject hurricane
Once inane, it never really develops again
Again, and again

Her lips were made of glass
And my heart was made of flame
And when our bodies touched
Neither of us were the same

My home is made of flies
And they're all full of disease
My life is made of shit
And mostly pretty things

My body is awake but I'm feeling like a migraine
Feeling like I'm in pain
To the tune of chaos
I'm boring
As much as I'm bored

It's evident in all the ways I fall
If I never stand back up, how
Fast do you think I'd grow

I feel it my knees
Every time I breathe
My skin, it turns to ink
And my soul drips on the page

I feel it in my heart
Every time it starts
My eyes, they turn to dreams
As my body stays asleep

Her body is adrift in an abject hurricane
Once inane, it never really develops again
Again, and again

Her body is adrift in an abject hurricane
Once inane, it never really develops again
Again, and again

Her Body Was Adrift - Wren

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-09 19:21 EST

Keep the songs coming!!!

You people rock.

Tavarius · Date: 2009-08-10 02:31 EST

Leaves are falling all around,
It's time I was on my way.
Thanks to you, I'm much obliged
For such a pleasant stay.

But now it's time for me to go,
The autumn moon lights my way.
For now I smell the rain,
And with it pain,
And its headed my way.
Ah, sometimes I grow so tired,
But I know Ive got one thing I got to do,

Ramble on,
And now's the time, the time is now
To sing my song.
I'm goin' round the world,
I got to find my girl, on my way.
Ive been this way ten years to the day, ramble on,
Gotta find the queen of all my dreams.

Part of: Ramble On - Led Zeppelin

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-10 02:52 EST

Oh my broken lamb
I worry when you cry
Baby's gonna fetch ya
Horses in the sky

And these are violent times
And violence brings more violence
And liars bring more lies

A Silver Mt Zion.

Tavarius · Date: 2009-08-11 06:34 EST

Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
Now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I'll be giving it my bestest
And nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon it's again my turn to win some or learn some

I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment babay sing with me
I love peace for melody
And It's our God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love loved

So I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

Jason Mraz - I'm Yours

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-11 07:56 EST

When she walks down the street
She knows there?s people watching
The building fronts are just fronts
To hide the people watching her
She once fell through the street
Down the manhole in a that bad way

She was alright
But she can't come out tonight

There's some things you can't hide

Lani Valendria · Date: 2009-08-11 22:33 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imzkwkgUF4E

Fisher- I will love you

'Til my body is dust
'til my soul is no more
I will love you, love you
'Til the sun starts to cry
and the moon turns to rust
I will love you, love you

Chorus:
But I need to know - will you stay for all
time...forever and a day
Then I'll give my heart 'til the end of all
time...forever and a day

'Til the storms fill my eyes
and we touch the last time
I will love you, love you
I will love you, love you...

Krysanthe · Date: 2009-08-13 06:23 EST

You are the one
you'll never be alone again
you're more then in my head - you're more

(Lyrics taken from Shiny Toy Guns -"You are the One" )

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-13 20:19 EST

I'm waist deep, waist deep in the mist
It's almost like, almost like I don't exist
I'm twenty miles out of town, in cold irons bound

The walls of pride are high and wide
Can't see over to the other side
It's such a sad thing to see beauty decay
It's sadder still, to feel your heart torn away

One look at you and I'm out of control
Like the universe has swallowed me whole
I'm twenty miles out of town in Cold irons bound

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-14 13:44 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QjQlBTGgT8

Madi's new theme song. Just another one for the GT soundtrack. :cool:
Great song anyway! Go on. Clickety click. ::Jives::

Bashara · Date: 2009-08-14 21:44 EST

((shoving off my irish I am but alas, it still suits ::coy grin:: ))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWliE_EV3jk

"Death Valley Queen"-Flogging Molly

Death valley queen where have you been
Since they crowned you in glory
Filled your head with dreams
But it still goes to show in every desert
There's a rose that's blooming for all to be seen
I remember you well from that town
You did dwell with the face of an angel
In a dump hot as hell
When I asked for a kiss
You kindly dismissed
So i lead my poor heart to the slaughter
Tell me dear what did you fear
I'd do you no wrong though no stranger to sin
So death valley queen go marry your king
Or an old maid you'll end up for certain

Off I did set on my trail of regret
Where I thought of you now in your castle and crown
So I found me a whore with a face just like yours
After several gallons of porter
When I awoke, she had scarpered I was broke
Laying cold in the bed with a whale for a head
So death valley queen go marry your king
Or an old maid you'll end up for certain

Then the ball dropped why everything fell by the way
As your teardrops were falling I forgot to say
That I have always loved you
Yeah I have always loved you
Yeah I
Yeah I
I have always loved you

When I returned downtrodden and burned
There were billy goats grazing
Where once you'd be found
So I hung out to dry
On this limb for a lie
Take me back for I'm cursed on the mainland
Tell me dear what did you fear
I'd do you no wrong though no stranger to sin
So death valley queen go marry your king
Or an old maid you'll end up for certain
I said death valley queen go marry your king
And a-roving I'll end up for certain

Clayton Sheridan · Date: 2009-08-14 22:08 EST

I'm no fan of this band, but I love this song...and here recently it seems to strike a chord with me.

Nickelback - 'Far Away'

This time, This place
Misused, Mistakes
Too long, Too late
Who was I to make you wait
Just one chance
Just one breath
Just in case there's just one left
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
I keep dreaming you'll be with me
and you'll never go
Stop breathing if
I don't see you anymore

On my knees, I'll ask
Last chance for one last dance
'Cause with you, I'd withstand
All of hell to hold your hand
I'd give it all
I'd give for us
Give anything but I won't give up
'Cause you know,
you know, you know

So far away
Been far away for far too long
So far away
Been far away for far too long
But you know, you know, you know

I wanted
I wanted you to stay
'Cause I needed
I need to hear you say
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I forgive you
For being away for far too long
So keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go

Krysanthe · Date: 2009-08-15 19:32 EST

Peace- Depeche Mode

Peace will come to me
Peace will come to me

I'm leaving bitterness behind
This time I'm cleaning up my mind
There is no space for the regrets
I will remember to forget

Just look at me
I am walking of incoming
Look at the frequencies of which I vibrate
I'm going to light up the world

Peace will come to me
Peace will come to me

I'm leaving anger in the past
With all the shadows that it caused
There is radar in my heart
I should have trusted from the start

Just look at me
I am a living act of holiness
Giving all the positive virtues that I possess
I'm going to light up the world

Peace will come to me
Just wait and see
Peace will come to me
It's meant to be

Peace will come to me
Just wait and see
Peace will come to me
It's inevitability

Krysanthe · Date: 2009-08-16 07:58 EST

Figured I'd include the lyrics and link to the recent song in Krysanthe's post. Armour Love by La Roux. Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAKmfO3v8ew

You pull on your Armour
And put up defences
Why do you want to?
Because I'm here to protect you
So take it easy
I'll make it so easy
You can lay your head down
And we'll leave it til tomorrow
You seem to believe you belong to somebody else
When you leave me alone in this world
You know that I'm in hell
When you know what it's like
To be lonely and by yourself

When your life is tangled
You wear your disguises
But why do you need to
When I'm standing here beside you?

You can lay your head down
And we'll leave it til tomorrow

You seem to believe you belong to somebody else
When you leave me alone in this world
You know that I'm in hell
When you know what it's like
To be lonely and by yourself

Slipping through my fingers
And into another's
Tell me why won't you turn back?

You seem to believe you belong to somebody else
(You know what it's like you shouldn't have to be told)
When you leave me alone in this world
You know that I'm in hell
(It's hard enough when you're alone in the world)
When you know what it's like
To be lonely and by yourself

Krysanthe · Date: 2009-08-18 21:05 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRaNwgLqMCI

Depeche Mode- I want you now

I want you now
Tomorrow won't do
There's a yearning inside
And it's showing through
Reach out your hands
And accept my love
We've waited for too long
Enough is enough
I want you now
My heart is aching
My body is burning
My hands are shaking
My head is turning
You understand
It's so easy to choose
We've got time to kill
We got nothing to lose
I want you now
And I don't mean to sound
Like one of the boys
That's not what I'm trying to do
I don't want to be
Like one of the boys
I just what you now
Because I've got a love
A love that won't wait
A love that is growing
And it's getting late
Do you know what it means
To be left this way
When everyone's gone
And the feelings they stay
I want you now

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-19 06:39 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XDI-bLuw0c

Slow Rain · Date: 2009-08-19 16:26 EST

Eclipsed - Evan's Blue

We love our tragedies.
We're both broken in our own little ways
We're broken, but we fit together just right
You know I saw the black inside your eyes
I saw they were eclipsed by mine and they looked just right.

When our lights meet, will you know me then
And will you want to know it?
It feels like I've known you for so long.
When our lights meet, will you love me then
and will you ever know it?
It seems like you've known me for so long.

I love your analogies.
We're both crazy in our own little ways
We talk about the future and our past lives.
I know I loved you then.
I know I'd love you now.
I know I'll love you then.
I know I love you now.

When our lights meet, will you know me then
And will you want to know it?
It feels like I've known you for so long.
When our lights meet, will you love me then
and will you ever know it?
It seems like you've known me for so long.

But you can't have everything you want when you want it.
I will be everything you want, when you want it.

Wait for me. Trust for me.
Fall for me. Even when you don't know you're falling for me.
Will you fall for it? If it should, it'll come around again.
But don't wait for me. And don't trust in me. Don't fall me.
Even when you know you're falling for me.

When our lights meet, will you know me then
And will you want to know it?
It feels like I've known you for so long.
When our lights meet, will you love me then
and will you ever know it?
It seems like you've known me for so long.

When our hearts meet, will we make it then.
Will we even notice that they are eclipsed?

Tavarius · Date: 2009-08-19 21:43 EST

Uprising - Muse

The paranoia is in bloom, the PR
The transmissions will resume
They'll try to push drugs
Keep us all dumbed down and hope that
We will never see the truth around

Another promise, another scene, another
A package not to keep us trapped in greed
With all the green belts wrapped around our minds
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious

Interchanging mind control
Come let the revolution take it's toll if you could
Flick the switch and open your third eye, you'd see that
We should never be afraid to die

Rise up and take the power back, it's time that
The fat cats had a heart attack, you know that
Their time is coming to an end
We have to unify and watch our flag ascend

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious

They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious

Bashara · Date: 2009-08-22 23:33 EST

You think I'll cry?
I won't cry
My heart will break before I cry.
I will go mad.

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-08-26 08:16 EST

"Everytime we choose safety, we reinforce fear."

Because this single quote from Salvador to Madison has echoed throughout different parts of her story, and been so very apt. Was then, even more so now.

Krysanthe · Date: 2009-08-26 22:48 EST

Tori Amos- Raspberry Swirl

I am not you senorita
I am not from your tribe
In the garden I did no crime

I am not your senorita
I am not from your tribe
If you want inside her
Well,
Boy you better make her raspberry swirl

Things are getting desperate
When all the boys can't be men
Everybody knows
I'm her friend
Everybody knows
I'm her man

Things are getting desperate
When all the boys can't be men
Everybody knows
I'm her friend
Everybody knows
I'm her man

I am not your senorita
I don't aim so high
IM my heart I did no crime
If you want inside her well,
Boy you better make her raspberry swirl

Things are getting desperate
When all the boys can't be men
Everybody knows
I'm her friend
Everybody knows
I'm her man

Things are getting desperate
When all the boys can't be men
Everybody knows
I'm her friend
Everybody knows
I'm her man
Raspberry swirl

Bashara · Date: 2009-08-31 21:53 EST

And now I stand here
alone in the dark
Without you
There's nothing more
that I would like
Than be with you
I close my eyes
but I can't stop
Thinking of you
And now I stand here alone
in the dark
Without you

Bashara · Date: 2009-09-01 06:44 EST

~Coldplay -Warning Sign~

A warning sign,
I missed the good part then I realized,
I started looking and the bubble burst.
I started looking for excuses.

Come on in,
I've gotta tell you what a state I'm in,
I've gotta tell you in my loudest tones,
That I started looking for a warning sign.

When the truth is,
I miss you.
Yeah the truth is,
That I miss you so.

A warning sign,
You came back to haunt me and I realized
you were an island and I passed you by,
You were an island to discover.

Come on in,
I've gotta tell you what state I'm in,
I've gotta tell you in my loudest tones,
That I started looking for a warning sign.

When the truth is,
I miss you.
Yeah the truth is,
That I miss you so.

And I'm tired,
I should not have let you go.

So I crawl back into your open arms.
Yes, I crawl back into your open arms.
And I crawl back into your open arms.
Yes, I crawl back into your open arms...

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-02 05:35 EST

LOL.

Makes me think of Madi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_P9B2ZdNC6o

With a rebel yell!

But don't tell her I said so.

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-04 02:31 EST

A bit darker in tone, but it suits some new feelings in Madi.

Or perhaps those that were always there and have only just been uncovered. Blessings in Disguise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDNnmooHqjw

Lani Valendria · Date: 2009-09-05 15:59 EST

This is Love- PJ Harvey

I can't believe life's so complex
When I just wanna' sit here and watch you undress
This is love that I'm feeling
Does it have to be a life full of dread?
I wanna' chase you round the table, I wanna' touch your head
This is love that I'm feeling
I can't believe that the axis turns on suffering
When you taste so good
I can't believe that the axis turns on suffering
While my head burns
This is love that I'm feeling
Even in the summer, even in the spring
You can never get too much of a wonderful thing

You're the only story that I never told
You're my dirty little secret, wanna' keep you so
Come on out, come on over, help me forget
Keep the walls from falling on me, tumbling in
- This is love that I'm feeling

Beoraxas · Date: 2009-09-05 16:24 EST

Garbage - #1 Crush

I would die for you
I would die for you
I've been dying just to feel you by my side
To know that you're mine

I will cry for you
I will cry for you
I will wash away your pain with all my tears
And drown your fear

I will pray for you
I will pray for you
I will sell my soul for something pure and true
Someone like you

See your face every place that I walk in
Hear your voice every time I am talking
You will believe in me
And I will never be ignored

I will burn for you
Feel pain for you
I will twist the knife and bleed my aching heart
And tear it apart

I will lie for you
Beg and steal for you
I will crawl on hands and knees until you see
You're just like me

Violate all The love that I'm missing
Throw away all the pain that I'm living
You will believe in me
And I can never be ignored

I would die for you
I would kill for you
I will steal for you
I'd do time for you
I would wait for you
I'd make room for you
I'd sail ships for you
To be close to you
To be a part of you
'Cause I believe in you
I believe in you
I would die for you.

((Thought this was appropriate, considering the...darker nature of Kaleb and Lani's relationship. ;-) And other reasons.))

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-07 01:24 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBmVpp7aqI8

Apart from the fact this entire song is heaven, it's really the last couple minutes where he sings:

"You're looking alright tonight
I think we should go."

That really get me. Grab your shirt and heave you close.

Oh, hell. ::Dreamy smile::

I think Madi's footprints are being found..

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-11 08:45 EST

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;
thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,
risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.
I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;
so I love you because I know no other way

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-14 08:10 EST

"I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."

"She can hear the lie in his voice, though. Hell, she can feel that other reality pressing in on her, trying to push through. Smoke and mirrors. There?s no smoke without fire, and there?s another world through the looking glass.

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-14 21:22 EST

In tune with what I said about characters stepping out of the screen..

http://books.google.com/books?id=MKf1GgAACAAJ&dq=western+men+songs+of+the...

And in all of this thread and everything that has not been said in it so far, I can hear a voice say, in my dreams of the desert of the real, that are reminders of the life of my timelines - "He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. "

And an echo of another voice whispering -

"Do not call, asking what The Object of The Game is, figuring that out is - The Object, of The Game. "

http://www.temporarysite.org/Scan/Scan_Flatpack.htm

Someone I know left me that as a message on a forum I sometimes visit, for a browse. I thought it was very apt. Yes, it's a bit vague at first. Look closer.

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-15 20:56 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaamZLKRul0

Throwing the Knife

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-16 07:01 EST

I got the compulsion to listen to Nico and her Desertshore.

This is what happened:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xd9fQp9qh3Y

"All that is my own"

Your winding winds stood so
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed

Every child will be able to weep
Every wise man spoke of him
Every keeper will be sleeper
And a guide to ways unsure

Your winding winds did sow
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul
I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed

He who knows may pass on
The word unknown
And meet me on the desertshore
Meet me on the desertshore

Your winding winds did sow
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul
I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed

He who knows may pass on
The word unknown
And meet me on the desertshore
Meet me on the desertshore
Meet me on the desertshore

Your winding winds stood so
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul
I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed

He who knows may pass on the word I know
And meet me on the desertshore
Meet me on the desertshore

Your winding winds did sow
All that is my own
Where land and water meet
Where on my soul
I sit upon my bed
Your ways have led me to bleed

TheMaskedMan · Date: 2009-09-17 09:47 EST

It's bugging me, grating me
And twisting me around
Yeah I'm endlessly caving in
And turning inside out

'Cause I want it now
I want it now
Give me your heart and your soul
And I'm breaking out
I'm breaking out
Last chance to lose control

Yeah it's holding me, morphing me
And forcing me to strive
To be endlessly cold within
And dreaming I'm alive

'Cause I want it now
I want it now
Give me your heart and your soul
I'm not breaking down
I'm breaking out
Last chance to lose control

And I want you now
I want you now
I feel my heart implode
And I'm breaking out
Escaping now
Feeling my faith erode

Muse - Hysteria

Jissin · Date: 2009-09-17 10:14 EST

Don't know... something makes me think of this.

Breaking the Silence - Firewind w/Tara Theresa

I hear voices screaming, haunted by demons
This willful crime has done it's last crime

I see my dirty face smiling through the tears
Silent voices telling me to treason

All my tears, all my tears turn into rage, into rage
Now all that's tuned my fears
All my fears turned into strength
It built my strength

Breaking ? breaking the silence
Hiding ? I'm tired of hiding
I know ? I'll make my way out of this mess

Breaking ? breaking the silence
Fighting ? I will die fighting
I know ? my courage will last forever

My heart is aching, my love is fading
So tired of living in fear

Oh, there's nowhere to run
My shade has taken all my pride
Need to step out, can't rely on other prayers

All my tears, all my tears turn into rage, into rage
Now all that's tuned my fears
All my fears turned into strength
I don't want to fall

Breaking ? breaking the silence
Hiding ? I'm tired of hiding
I know ? I'll make my way out of this mess

Breaking ? breaking the silence
Fighting ? I will die fighting
I know ? my courage will last forever

Firewind - Breaking The Silence Lyrics @ LyricsTime.com

You Tube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68kRO4ql_LM

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-09-18 19:44 EST

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ8N1JUnw-8

Bashara · Date: 2009-09-18 20:13 EST

There's something about this man's voice that just speaks to me. His voice is an obsession in any other song but the raw emotion he offers in this song move me. Like he just took part of my soul and threw it out there on the table and wrote out lyrics that I might relate to. Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYM4B4R3wmI

Blue October- Weight of the World

I blackout in the room again
A busted lip and broken skin.
I wake up in the bathroom
and dare not bother asking
why the mirror's cracked and all I see
are shards of glass inside of me.

There's voices there to dare me
my father's here to scare me.
My mother sits beyond the door
she's curled up crying on the floor,
look at what her son's done.

(chorus)
When the weight of all the world's gone wrong.
It's gone wrong again.
Gone fvcking wrong.
It's gone wrong again.

Well liars, they leave a guilty trail.
And let me tell you something people,
I've been lying for fvcking years.
That must be why I'm standing in this space.
Disregarding that I've created these monsters
they're on fvcking both of my sides.
So I wipe the blood from both of their eyes,
from all four of their eyes.

And while I wait for wounds to heal
I see you by the window sill,
your heart's torn out
a plastic spoon
when honesty lit up that room
so I stole the pillow case to clean
this mess I've made of someone's dream.
Now you've seen what I've done

(chorus)

This room is old and wise.
I fall onto the bed and wonder,
"How did I get here?"
The little boy who would argue with a tree
just fvcking thump his head
and he'll turn back to normal.

Now why is that what I see?
Don't bother trusting.
Don't bother waiting.
Don't bother changing things that won't give into changing.
Just let me go away.
I'm packed.
Whenever.
I'm down.
Whenever.
Let's go.
Yes, let's go.

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-10-17 06:22 EST

Holy Names (PGMG)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2_zTAAJ1FQ

night time's our security
the stars watch us like guardian angels
skeletons of lives to come
just frames to fill with living and dying
signatures in permanent
we write our names like claiming a part of time
layers of paint and fiberglass cover our words
we're in the foundations

this is what i give you
rooftops with secret views
fire escapes lead us to heaven
train yards where we hide together

night time's our security
the stars watch us like guardian angels
take these letters from an old sign
now you've got your initials

Bashara · Date: 2009-10-26 20:16 EST

It almost seemed appropriate ::grin:: The Translation is included below in the lyrics...but given Ba'shara hails from Egypt... the video was perfect that I had to go with the nontranslated version ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMTVEN-fFF8&feature=related

Eyes Like Yours- Shakira

Oh, you know I have seen
A sky without sun
A man with no nation
Saints captive in chains
A song with no name
For lack of imagination

Ya he ya he ya la he
And I have seen
Darker than ebony
Ya he ya he ya la he
And now it seems that i
With out your eyes could never be

My one desire
All I aspire is in your eyes
Forever to live
Travelled all over the seven oceans
There is nothing that I wouldnt give
Came from bahrein
Got to beriut
Looking for someone
Comparing to you
Tearing down windows and doors
And I could not find eyes like yours

Oh, you know I have seen
A woman of means in rags
And begging for pleasure
Cross the river of salt
Just after I rode a ship that
Sunk in the desert

Ya he ya he ya la he
And I have seen darker than ebony
Ya he ya he ya la he
And now it seems that I without your eyes
Could never be
My one desire all I espire
Is in your eyes forever to live
Travelled all over
The seven oceans
There is nothing that I wouldnt give
Came from bahrein got to beirut
Looking for some one comparing to you
Tearing down windows and doors and I could
Not find eyes like yours

Rabboussamai fikarrajaii
Fi ainaiha aralhayati
Ati ilaika min haza ikaaouni
Arjouka labbi labbi nidai

Looking for some one comparing to you
Tearing down windows and doors
And I could not find eyes like yours

Bashara · Date: 2009-11-15 08:32 EST

Given recent masquerades...and moments... this song just seemed to fit. And I just shamelessly love the video and lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46ku3rWCcvw

All the Right Moves- One Republic

All the right friends in all the wrong places
So yeah, we're going down
They've got all the right moves in all the right faces
So yeah, we're going down

Just paint the picture of a perfect place
They've got it better than what anyone's told you
They'll be the King of Hearts, and you're the Queen of Spades
And we'll fight for you like we were your soldiers

I know we've got it good
But they've got it made
And the grass is getting greener each day
I know things are looking up
But soon they'll take us down
before anybody's knowing our name.

They've got all the right friends in all the right places
So yeah, we're going down
We've got all the right moves and all the wrong faces
So yeah, we're going down
They said, everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down
They said, everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down

Do you think I'm special?
Do you think I'm nice?
Am I bright enough to shine in your spaces?
Between the noise you hear
And the sound you like
Are we just sinking in an ocean of faces?

It can be possible that rain can fall,
Only when it's over our heads
The sun is shining everyday, but it's far away
All the world is dead.

They've got,
They've got all the right friends in all the wrong places
So yeah, we're going down
We've got all the right moves and and all the wrong faces
So yeah, we're going down

They said, everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
Yeah, we're going down
They said, everybody knows, everybody knows where we're going
http://www.elyricsworld.com/all_the_right_moves_ly rics_one_republic.html
Yeah, we're going down

It doesn't matter what you see.
I know i could never be
Someone that looks like you.
It doesn't matter what you say
I know i could never face
someone that could sound like you.

All the right friends in all the wrong places
So yeah, we're going down
We've got all the right moves and all the wrong faces
So yeah, we're going down

All the right friends in all the wrong places
So yeah, we're going down
We've got all the right moves and all the wrong faces
So yeah, we're going down

They said, everybody knows everybody knows where we're going
Yeah we're going down
They said, everybody knows everybody knows where we're going
Yeah we're going down

Yeah we're going down
Yeah we're going down

All the right moves, hey
Yeah, we're going down
All the right moves, hey
Yeah, we're going down

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-11-29 06:05 EST

You want to see Madison and her world?

I just saw this video and had to share. The last scene is perfect. Even the "walk".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjyTLugBImc

Bashara · Date: 2009-11-29 06:40 EST

Yep. I agree. Hands down that is Madi's world

Sulissurn · Date: 2009-12-14 09:40 EST

Just wanted to drop by and thank you for being the first person I get to play with after several months hiatus.

<3 I hope all of my future endeavors go as awesome as they have with you.

Sulissurn · Date: 2009-12-16 22:23 EST

Ghost rider is absolutely, positively, @(@#ing fantastic to read. Just thought you should know.

And now I'm off. Laters :D

Madison Rye · Date: 2009-12-17 07:45 EST

Tell me about it!!!!

Madison Rye · Date: 2010-06-15 06:57 EST

So I surrendered to this Polyvore thing. It was actually pretty fun. I don't know that I'll regularly update it, but I thought I'd give people an idea of the kind of outfits you'd find the gunslinger in. To me, it's always been an Era Twist, somewhere between 1800's, 20's, 50's and contemporary times, so I tried to capture this time travelled sense of fashion and convey it through some shirts you'd find her in.

The cameo is kept close to her heart, figuratively and literally, as a gift wishing her well when she first left for the open road, by her Mother, Ada Rye.

I have some more items I'll try to find that distinguish her, but for now, what's there is a good start.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1291/4702410477_3622b1094e.jpg

Madison Rye · Date: 2010-06-17 07:20 EST

More.

The bustle and blue bustle-dress are the kinds of things she might have worn for some formal occasion out West (Lofton) and might even wear in Rhy'Din, though rare, even then.

The rest screamed Madi so I added them too.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4012/4708301165_0b1fe519f3.jpg

Riley ORourke · Date: 2010-06-17 13:03 EST

You know that there's a Rhy'Din group on Polyvore? You should join. C'mon, be a joiner! ;)

Madison Rye · Date: 2010-06-17 21:02 EST

Thanks, Riley! I'll have to visit. Uh oh to more Polyvore... Oh, and are you able to send me the info for that writer's group Ewan initiated? I'd like to be a part of that. I think it's a swell idea.

Glenn Douglas · Date: 2012-07-15 03:24 EST

A wonderful part of the soundtrack to the highly underrated Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

Song for Jesse

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis are simply talented.

Madison Rye · Date: 2012-07-16 05:40 EST

Snake and Annie do battle

Music to read with.

Glenn Douglas · Date: 2012-07-17 05:53 EST

Infantree - Forgive Me First

Maybe I'm reaching, but all I ever hear now corellates to you and me
Don't call it preaching, babe if you're the choir maybe you can set me free
Sing far from churches, though I've never been I know what they all want to say
"When this life hurts it's a sin to try and fight," you'll thank them on a distant day
But we know better, working for no man if he doesn't promise pay
Rapture and then Glory, when you get to Heaven maybe you won't want to stay
'Cause it's difficult to live with - perfect in every way

I'll admit the holy ghost is not a part of me
'Cause I split, now I know he don't want no part of me
And I know he won't forgive me first
So "I'm sorry and I never meant to hurt
I'm sorry and I never meant one word."

I take up serpents and drinking my salvation, waiting for the blessed to come
I don't think it's Jesus, a worldly companion will show me that my life has begun
But she ain't surfaced so I'll be a little fisherman, live where the salmon run
I know my purpose - I make friends with the moon 'cause someone's got to welcome the sun
Say it's difficult to live with, hoping it will soon be done

Madison Rye · Date: 2012-07-18 21:11 EST

Their story

I have to add this one to the soundtrack. It's one of those songs that captures, at least for me, a lot of the feeling and evokes images that capture the narrative. It would be one of those songs that would reprise throughout were it a film. (I wish)

Madison Rye · Date: 2012-07-19 07:38 EST

Strange Color Blue

Glenn Douglas · Date: 2012-08-19 21:20 EST

Ballad for Beelzebub

It just sticks with me and has the right sort of forlorn feeling that goes with where Glenn is in his story at the moment.

Glenn Douglas · Date: 2013-01-28 20:42 EST

When I Hear My Name

Tag Sentry · Date: 2015-06-11 17:31 EST

Music is always a very inspiring thing for writing. One of the songs that has always inspired me for this character has been the song by Incubus, "Aqueous Transmissions."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQK7KSTQfaw

Madison Rye · Date: 2015-06-11 19:23 EST

*fangirls right out*

Listening... now! :) Thank you for sharing. Just last night I was on spotify trying to find songs/bands that loan a mood for this writing. Even found a wicked cool band which I'll likely have going while writing.

Tag Sentry · Date: 2015-07-06 08:06 EST

Found this lovely picture. I think it's Tag's tree.

http://40.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l04ckjhdfT1qa4s0qo1_1280.jpg

Madison Rye · Date: 2015-07-06 18:01 EST

I LOVE this. Every time I look at it, I see something new.

It could be a card he'd pressed between the folds of his wallet as a keepsake, a postcard over time, a photo for sale at the market that took him, the tree that should be painted somewhere in that Bar :)

Good find.

Madison Rye · Date: 2015-07-07 19:43 EST

Thinking of Sara Road....and a younger Madi, before she left Lofton.

These lyrics, this song. The feels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xcq1pQ1XnSY

Widow in White

Married at twenty.
At twenty-one I was a widow
At twenty-two I cried into my pillow
But I never thought about
what my life should've been
I don't think about that now
I just keep on living
And as so often that it can become the case
The path you've set upon has suddenly changed
Where once the trail was so clear and so prime
The brush now overgrown and
track troublesome to find
The trees entangle
their limbs are bound to ensnare
Yet a beam or two illuminates the wooded walk
I talk of here

In lily white light
In lily white light

The ivory lace was woven as a crawler's web
The dress be bone though my sash was rose-ed red
White Henry in my hair and
Sapporo lily in my hand
At twenty and one hope is plenty
- unrest hard to fathom
And as so often that it can become the case
Where Love had presided Freedom now takes her place

In lily white light
In lily white light

Upon a time the trail had been so clear and so prime
The brush is overgrown and
more cumbersome to find
The trees entangle their limbs overlap
and sight is less clear
Yet in Lilium light shall I be bathed
- on the day that I've gone away from here

Madison Rye · Date: 2015-07-09 05:05 EST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sm3-i8i5FHI

Fire in my Bones <3 <3

you?re a burning in my heart
a fire in my bones
a whisper on my lips
a secret on my tongue

you?re a lamplight street
scent of magnolia blooms
the wind before a storm
a white harvest moon

i always dream of you
when i?m awake
words leave my head
when i see your face

you dance in my mind
like waves of summer heat
rising from a road
whose end you never reach

you?re a burning in my heart
a fire in my bones
a whisper on my lips
a secret on my tongue

you?re my midnight song
my body?s heat
my sweet perfume
a storm on my sea

Madison Rye · Date: 2015-07-10 00:15 EST

http://youtu.be/CBfwnKsHBGI

This, this, this.

Ada Black Kettle: What did the First Warrior say to the Great Spirit?

Henry Standing Bear: The first warrior looked out on the land that his home. He saw the hills and the stars and he was happy. For giving him his home, the first warrior told the Great Spirit that he would fight and win many battles in His honor. But the Great Spirit said, "No, do not fight for me. Fight for your tribe, fight for the family born to you, fight for the brothers you find. Fight for them," the Great Spirit said, "for they are your home."

Madison Rye · Date: 2015-07-14 08:10 EST

Something that always brings to mind the roads to Lofton, to the West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmdaNqEJd1Y

Red Bird

Red Bird, Red Bird
So Blue up in your tree
Red Bird, Red Bird
Saddest song I've ever heard
On my way home
I heard your morning song
On my way home
I saw you all alone

Red Bird, Red Bird
So Blue up in your tree
Red Bird, Red Bird
Saddest song I've ever heard
On my way home
I heard an engine song
On my way home
The rising fog
It burned, it turned
The air is black and gone
Red Bird, Red Bird
Saddest song I've ever heard

Tag Sentry · Date: 2016-09-04 11:17 EST

Saw this in the store the other day and it caused a little smile.

http://i466.photobucket.com/albums/rr28/CorrenLaine/MRye.jpg

Tag Sentry · Date: 2016-11-29 12:28 EST

That feeling you have when you hide things from your daughter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZgmj5ay5Bk

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Madison Rye

Madison Rye

Madison Rye

Madison Rye