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malachiical) wrote2024-09-05 05:43 pm
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Better Run, Better Hide [Scarecrow Fanmix]
This is specifically a fanmix for "my own version" of the Scarecrow, inspired by several of the comics runs combined with a couple cartoon versions. The specific issues, episodes, and movie I'm drawing on can be found here.
Some songs are also Scriddler songs, because of course.
Better Run, Better Hide
1. The Airborne Toxic Event - The Graveyard Near the House
The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house
You asked me if I thought we would ever die
And if life and love both fade so predictably, we've made ourselves
A kind of predictable lie
And so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces
In some dark and lonely plot under a bough
We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half turned to dust in tattered clothes
Though we probably look just as silly now
...And then the letters all passed through my head with the words that I was told
About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold
I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will
And I'll defy every one and love you still
I will carry you with me up every hill
2. The Airborne Toxic Event - Poor Isaac
Oh and God, just go and leave me all alone
I'm not your son, I'm not your son, everybody dies alone
Was this world just not quite hard enough for you?
I guess like anyone, you've got your own scores to settle too
And I'm so pissed tonight, I feel just like the last remaining Canaanite
And I don't think that I will be returning
And if you wanna see the irony, and the savage price of piety
There's a lot of us who are going to be burning
How does it feel?
...And that child was my friend, I spent a long time with his curse
I can feel him trembling beneath his plea
I don't know if there is water, all I know is there's a thirst
And it might be for the best
But I'm not quite sure if Isaac would agree
3. Akira Yamaoka (feat. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) - Acceptance
(x)
Night falls, strange-colored walls
My eyes deceive
What is wrong with me?
Deep in the night you think everything's right
Tell it to yourself: Say it's just a nightmare
Something is telling you nothing can change where you are
Again
Why should it matter, your dreams of a child?
Innocence is gone, only fear to play with
Faces are changing, but nothing is changing the pain
Too late
4. Amber Run - I Found
And I'll use you as a makeshift gauge
Of how much to give and how much to take
Oh, I'll use you as a warning sign
That if you talk enough sense then you'll lose your mind
Oh, and I found love where it wasn't supposed to be
Right in front of me, talk some sense to me
And I found love where it wasn't supposed to be
Right in front of me, talk some sense to me
5. Au/Ra - Dance in the Dark
You're hurting, hurting
Closing the curtains
Wanna keep it a secret
Can't keep it bottled
Pain is hard to swallow
You cross your heart without bleeding
Hide away where you're safe
Where your heart doesn't break
You're afraid, it's okay, it's okay
...Everybody's scared so dance in the dark
Ma-make it an art, da-dance in the dark
Party with your fears, da-dance in the dark
Da-dance with the dark, da-dance in the dark
6. AURORA - Running With The Wolves
Go row the boat to safer grounds
But don't you know we're stronger now?
My heart still beats and my skin still feels
My lungs still breathe, my mind still fears
But we're runnin' out of time (time, ah)
All the echoes in my mind cry
There's blood on your lies, the skies open wide
There is nowhere for you to hide, the hunter's moon is shining
I'm running with the wolves tonight, I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the wolves tonight, I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the...
...A gift, a curse, they track and hurt
Say, can you dream, in nightmares seems?
A million voices, silent dreams
Where hope is left so incomplete
7. Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You
It's looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just taken apart
A-reelin' through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
...But someone, they should've warned you
If things start splittin' at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumblin' down
Things start splittin' at the seams and now
If things start splittin' at the seams and now
It's tumblin' down hard
8. Caravan Palace - Supersonics
You don't really know what goes on
That's why all this looks like a perfect mess
Freaks come out until the lights go on
And it feels so good when I lose my head
...It's so easy; won't you come along?
Just lose yourself with the side effects
Freaks come out until the lights go on
Would you be my guest till there's nothing left?
What a bad habit
It's hard to scrap
Knockin' at my door
It can't be stopped no more
9. Charming Disaster - Monsters
We live in the black
We eat when we can
Pulled in by your heart
Pumping in the dark
...Monsters, what we want's unspeakable
Your body: bloody, visceral
Don't we belong here in this world?
Gonna make you mine (gonna make you mine)
Gonna make you mine (gonna make you mine)
10. Chonny Jash - Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)
Say, doesn't it pain you to know our fate?
A hundred trillion years all piled up in one brain
And now, hey, what do you say we sneak on out of this place, babe?
Free will is best enjoyed with a familiar face
Victor made a monster, Heaven made The Beast
Judas made a friend and stabbed his back post-feast
So posthaste! We must escape! Your creator'll leave you disgraced, babe
Laplace will not rest until you are erased!
So if you wash your hands of where you've been until you flood the second floor
Neatly fold your skeletons but still can't shut the closet door
The only ones in need of love are those who don't receive enough
So evil ones should get a little more
You! Could you take a look at me?
(Man no more than animal is made of moral chemicals)
Am I bad? Am I bad? Am I bad?
(Any form, mechanical)
Am I really that bad?
(Thank you, God, you fool)
11. The Crane Wives - Curses
This house says my name like an elegy
Oh my, oh my
Echoing where my ghosts all used to be
Oh my, oh my
...All my aching bones are trembling
And I may yet fall apart
Won't you stay with me, my darling
When the war starts in my heart?
When the war starts in my heart?
Oh ashes, ashes, dust to dust
The devil's after both of us
Oh, lay my curses out to rest
Make a mercy out of me
12. The Crane Wives - The Wolf
I am not a tempest
I light torches in my sleep
I have gasoline in my veins
I am always burning, burning, burning
Can it be, can it be easy for once?
'Cause I'm no good at being kind to myself
Or anyone
I am a falling axe
I am a sharpened knife
I am a poison asp
I am a risk to your life
My love
My love
13. Dirt Poor Robins - Enchanté
And I will not be concerned
Or ignore the things I yearn
My hunger is the rule I cannot overturn
Alas, the virtues through their glasses
Hid themselves from our madness
All we have within
Is our animal skins
Enchanté, enchanté, enchanté, enchanté
Greet your beast and let 'em streak into the fray
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay
If we can't raise the dead
We're gonna raise, we're gonna raise, we're gonna raise hell instead
14. Dodie - Monster
Look, we know that I've seen this before
High and mighty, at the top of your list
Adoring every move, now my rank is sinking
But we're both guilty of black or white thinking
And through my red eyes, you look pale
All of your scars are looking more like scales
Two ugly creatures, two sinister preachers
Blind to the past, like a couple of monsters
Just a couple of monsters
So maybe I will talk to you
The only way I know how to
Mhm, you've said your speech
Mhm, through sharpened teeth
You break the rules and spikes grow from your skin
Oh, I think it might be worth a try
Oh, am I ready to let this die?
Mhm, a monster's here
Mhm, you plug your ears
But hey, you might just listen to it sing
Please let the devil in
15. Duran Duran - Danse Macabre
Halloween girl, seize the fray
Brothers and sisters, lead the way
Shackled to the rhythm, your soul is weighed
So you better get down on your knees and pray
Coming out for the Hawsker Mad Bull
Jumping on the hot seat, lying in the dead pool
Delivery quake, expensive mistake
The damage, the damage, the damage, the damage
Hey, no way, some ghosts jive in a AC Cobra
Auto-da-fé, get dirty up on the danse macabre
...Heaven's sake, don't blow your karma
Liberate your danse macabre
16. Ghost and Pals - Scapegoat
I've got a cutthroat delight (up on a high)
As we carouse while you writhe (caught by my eye)
I'll put your fear in my drink tonight, tonight
I'm chewing up and spitting out your pride
...I know infinity
She howls with the past as they gouge each other's eyes
I know duplicity
Who once was a child born in villainy
I know infinity
She howls with the past as they gouge each other's eyes
I know what hides in me
If only you knew the same
Now do you hate me? Are you afraid of me?
Are you able to feel culpability?
Come forth and kill me, bow down and worship me
Take your time, all we have is eternity
Now with a new start, broken and torn apart
Nothing in me resembles a human heart
17. Glenn Gatsby & Ashley Slater - Spooky Scary Skeletons (Electro Swing Mix)
Spooky scary skeletons send shivers down your spine
Shrieking skulls will shock your soul and seal your doom tonight
Spooky scary skeletons speak with such a screech
You'll shake and shudder in surprise when you hear these zombies shriek
...Spirits, supernatural are shy, what's all the fuss?
But bags of bones seem so unsafe - it's semi-serious!
Spooky, scary skeletons are silly all the same
They'll smile and scrabble slowly by and drive you so insane
Sticks and stones will break your bones, they seldom let you snooze
Spooky, scary skeletons will wake you with a boo!
Spooky scary skeletons
(Who's that, who's that ghost?)
Spooky scary skeletons
(Who's that, who's that ghost?)
18. Goblin Cock - Haint
Weathered church and weathered paint
All the priests and apostles
Every tactic is a haint
Couldn't be any wronger
I'm about to faint
I'm grabbed by the ankles
How long can he breathe?
How deep is he strangled?
Undead boys don't need protection
And they can hold their breath all night long
Ghost boys don't need no hassles
And they can grow back what they have lost
19. Halestorm - Black Vultures (Stripped)
Feels like the end of the world
But it's only the beginning of it all
Forget the things that you've earned
I've been a survivor since I began to crawl
I've fallen down, but I'm not out
The devil's at my door
I don't give in, I don't give up
I won't ever let it break me
I'm on fire, I'm a fighter
I'll forever be the last one standing
Black vultures circling the sky
Pick at the pieces
Scavengers wait for me to die
But I'm not defeated
20. Hozier - NFWMB
When I first saw you, the end was soon
To Bethlehem it slouched and then
Must've caught a good look at you
...Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves?
Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes?
Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay?
Ain't you my baby, ain't you my baby?
Nothing fucks with my baby
Nothing can get a look in on my baby
Nothing fucks with my baby
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing
21. IAMX - Bernadette
You and me in our playhouse
Living in a veil, we never need to go without
Memories bring no joy or peace
We are alone, and all we need
Tuning out of the poison
Every waking day, intolerance to overcome
Fortunes won by the boys with the guns
We are alone, nowhere to run
Bernadette, you are my liberty
I celebrate the day that you changed my history of
Life and death will always lead you into love and regret
But you have answers, and I have the key
For the door to Bernadette
22. Jekyll & Hyde - Façade
There are preachers who kill, there are killers who preach
There are teachers who lie, there are liars who teach
Take your pick, dear, 'cause it's all a façade
If we're not one but two, are we evil or good?
Do we walk the fine line that we'd cross if we could?
Are we waiting to break through the façade?
One or two
Might look kinda well-to-do
Ha! They're as bad as me and you
Right down to their boots
Right down to their boots
I'm inclined to think half mankind
Thinks the other half is blind
Wouldn't be surprised to find
They're all in cahoots
Man is not one but two, he is evil and good
And he walks the fine line we'd all cross if we could
It's a nightmare we can never discard
So, we stay on our guard
Though we love the façade
What's behind the façade?
Look behind the façade
23. Kay Starr - Headless Horseman
I'm a-tellin' you brother, it's a fearful sight
Just to see what goes on in the night
When the spooks have a midnight jamboree
They break it up with a fiendish glee
Ghosts are bad, but the one that's cursеd
Is the Headless Horsеman, he's the worst
...'Cause you can't be a haint if you ain't...
Kinda crazed, I guess you'd say
Take our word, we know what we're talking about
Now this is a pretty spooky thing we're doing here
You don't mind if I turn on another light, do you? Hmm?
24. Lesbian Bed Death - Béla Lugosi's Back
Do you know why you fear the dark?
He's the thing nightmares are made of
No mortal form can hold him back
Evil lives forever
It's been such a long time, and time can be so cruel
The horror you feel is about to go old school
Under a full moon's wicked spell
A coffin shakes and cracks
It's a long cold day in Hell now
Béla Lugosi's back
The creatures of the night
What music they make
We'll remember how to scream now
Béla Lugosi's back
25. Maiden Names - Your Suffering
(x)
Religion left you in the dust of Georgia in the summer months
Shrieking calls of murderous crows would rouse you from your slumber
Fresh hay stacking, burlap sacking scratched against your skin
She locked you in that place again and filled you up with sin
...Night comes down, make your poison
Starve your muscles down to your skeleton
They're all fatted cows slated for slaughtering
Dig deep down and kill
You're suffering, kill
Your suffering, kill
You're suffering, kill
Your suffering, kill
26. The Marshmallow Ghosts (feat. The Casket Girls) - S.o.s.
I'd be better off dead than in your arms
But in your arms is where I wanna be
So I pretend it's a mystery
When I know you are a ghost of my past
When I know you are a ghost
...Good witches, bad witches, SOS
Life givers, death kisses, SOS
Good witches, bad witches, SOS
Life givers, death kisses, SOS
When death is at your doorstep (SOS)
Skipping beats and sweating bullets (SOS)
Bedknobs and broomsticks (SOS)
Is this the final moment? (SOS)
"Do you hear that organ? It's the Phantom. Why, he's gone mad! We'd better not interrupt his practicing,
or he might start playing a funeral march."
27. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
Climb the boxcars to the engine, through the smoke and to the sky
Your rails have always outrun mine, so I
Picked them up and crashed them down, in a moment close to now
Cause I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss
I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss
How you'd sigh yourself to sleep
When I'd rake the springtime across your sheets
My love, I am the speed of sound
I left them motherless, fatherless
Their souls dangling inside-out from their mouths
But it's never enough
My love, I'm an owl on the sill in the evening
But morning finds you still warm and breathing
This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
This tornado loves you
What will make you believe me?
28. Neoni - Haunted House
Lights they flicker and the candles glitter
Like you're in a thriller, heart goes pound-pound-pound
Ghostly figures, they can get so bitter
Sure you want to enter? You can turn back now
You don't, you don't know where I've been
What's going on inside
Where the monsters like to come alive, come alive
Do you really wanna know me?
I'm really not that cozy
It's up to you so you decide, you decide
Could you love me at my worst
Till the coffin's in the dirt?
Or try to break me like a curse?
You know that will never work
I'm a little bit absurd
I like dancing on the verge
Anyone can love a pretty little mansion
But could you love a
A haunted, haunted house?
29. The Oh Hellos - Danse Macabre
[INSTRUMENTAL]
30. Olivier Bibeau (feat. Jemma Lou) - Better Run, Better Hide
Holding on, lose your grip
Giving up, start to slip
Can you feel all the eyes
Looking at you?
...Holding on like that only breaks your back
When demons attack, they'll shatter you like glass
Playing with your fate like it's just a game
Watching you burn, 'cause you'll never learn
You better run, you better hide
This ain't gonna be fine
Cut the strings, cut the ties
Goodbye and now you'll move on
31. The Pierces - Sticks and Stones
Sun in the sky: I am stopping you from burning
All we need is stars and moon
Clock on the wall: I will keep your hands from turning
Or this night will end too soon
...Well, sticks and stones will break your bones
And leave you lying in the mud
But you get scared when we're alone
Like I might suck your blood
And I could tell you a witch's spell
But it just might blow your top
Then you start to run just as I'm having fun
And it's awfully hard to stop
It's awfully hard to stop
It's just too hard to stop
32. Portishead - Sour Times
To pretend no one can find
The fallacies of morning rose
Forbidden fruit, hidden eyes
Courtesies that I despise in me
Take a ride, take a shot now
'Cause nobody loves me, it's true
Not like you do
...Who am I, what and why?
'Cause all I have left
Is my memories of yesterday
Oh, these sour times
33. Purity Ring - Stillness in Woe
Meet me in the blue bed, I'll be drawing out your flaws
And clawing at what's caused my knees to tremble
Meet me in the back shed, I'll be hanging up the knives
Humming melodies that rhyme, building castles out of shovels
Hang my head about as if we never had the time
To draw it on the walls, what's all the trouble?
Push my mind around as if it's warming up your hand
As if it's softer than the land, all soaked and supple
Don't be afraid if it's a little bit close
I built a kingdom of your throes, I'm seeing double
Don't be afraid if there's no wind in my hair
There's a stillness left in there, I'm seeing double
34. Rabbitology - Preybirds (Watcher Song)
So while you think you're alone, you cast two shadows down the road
Where you have buried all your past lives' bones
The two red suns in the sky blink, my pity-filled eyes
Hoping the heartlines will change this time
But the birds on my shoulders prepare for a feast
You can taste it in the air, the soon-to-be dead meat
Eye in the sun, you're all I see
Why don't you look at me?
My breath heaves down your nape, wrestlin' you 'way, but I'm too late, a body rests
Dagger in chest
The heart in your hands drips as its soul crawls from splintered ribs to eclipse my head
And beg again
For revenge
Oh, you may think you're alone if you hide from the shadows
You can bury bones but not the souls
And two red suns in the sky will be the light to build your pyre
They're my blank and pitiless eyes
Every death births a bird to this wretched flock
Forever tethered to your life but cursed to only watch
Catastrophe, repeat until
You look at me
35. R3HAB - The Chase
Move until my eyes are red
You're here in my head again
Push it harder, pull me close
You're the high I need the most
I like the music loud, hit me now
Hear it call in the distance
I like the rhythm sound, freak me out
I came here for the chase
I like the music loud, hit me now
We don't need no resistance
I like the rhythm sound
I came here for the chase
36. The Scary Jokes - No Leverage / No Pleasure
I can be a person if you give me the chance
Yes, I am ascending to a new low
Yes, I feel it spiraling out into everyone
Can you feel me gnawing away at your heart?
And can you hear me when I scream?
Oh, oh!
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
37. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Halloween
The night is still
And the frost, it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
And murmur like a ghost
Trick or treat, trick or treat
The bitter and the sweet
Trick or treat, trick or treat
The bitter and the sweet
...I wander through your sadness
Gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween, Halloween
38. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rawhead and Bloodybones
Bad word or bad deed
Unpunished invites grief
Here's Rawhead and Bloodybones
Reaching from dark cupboard
Crouching under stair
Lurking in chimney, pond or well
We're down here, held here
Dragged here and drowned here
By Rawhead and Bloodybones
39. To Kill A King - Bloody Shirt
"What you want to do tonight? I've got wounds to lick in life," oh, you've said
Standing like a stick, this tie could invert to be a noose instead
Oh, you lie next to me, heart is beating heavily
Blood in your ear though, and blood on your shirt
It's too late to say you're sorry, say you're sorry still
And I stepped out with heavy heart to bail you out again
Oh, those things you do
And, oh, those things you do
Get out and get gone, this town is only gonna get worse
Get out, get gone, this town is only gonna eat you
40. Twenty One Pilots - The Line
Take a seat
But I'd rather you not be here for
What could be my final form
Stay your pretty eyes on course
Keep the memories of who I was before
...Honestly
I thought I was fully prepared for
The threshold in store
Stay your pretty eyes on course
I guess I never really faced my fears before
So stay with me because
My body's on the line now
Pull the blanket tight now
I can feel the light shine on my face
Did I disappoint you?
Will they still let me over
If I cross the line?
41. VoicePlay (feat. J.None) - Thriller
It's close to midnight
And something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that'll almost - your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it, ooh
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed
...This is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer thriller
Killer thriller
Killer thriller tonight
42. We Are Scientists - Lethal Enforcer
You're never gonna understand what you're seeing
Though later you'll pretend you did and you'll mean it
You might think it's all in your head but you're not certain anymore
You might think it's all in your head but you're not certain anymore
I wouldn't put much stock in fact, 'cause the fact is
It doesn't matter what you ask, it's who you're asking
Well, I'd say don't throw it away if it's not working anymore
Well, I'd say don't throw it away if it's not working anymore
I promise this is not a test, it's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense, I guess that's what you're looking for
43. We Are Scientists - Tonight
I want you to stay and I guess I could give you a line
It's always the same but it works better every time
Just don't walk away from me
Just don't walk away from me
Tonight, oh tonight
I promise to remember that making promises
Is always a mistake
...So let's down another dose; understanding is the last thing I want
So let's down another dose; understanding is the last thing I want
44. Will Wood - Yes, to Err is Human, So Don't Be One.
I could take your life if you're done with it, sweetheart
You still picking at that? Only ate the good parts
Hey, whatever works, I'm a cheap date
(Check, please!)
Falling off the bone, I'm awful glad we met
We only ever notice what's in front of us
Read over my shoulder, breathing down my neck
Are we on the same page yet? I'm getting old here
Come on, don't you get it? What the heck?
Oh, I could drink your blood if you let me, baby
Drain you of your love until you hate me
...I will drink your blood 'till your lips turn blue
Drain you of your love if you want me to
Some songs are also Scriddler songs, because of course.
1. The Airborne Toxic Event - The Graveyard Near the House
The other day when we were walking by the graveyard near the house
You asked me if I thought we would ever die
And if life and love both fade so predictably, we've made ourselves
A kind of predictable lie
And so I pictured us like corpses, lying side by side in pieces
In some dark and lonely plot under a bough
We looked so silly there, all decomposed, half turned to dust in tattered clothes
Though we probably look just as silly now
...And then the letters all passed through my head with the words that I was told
About the fading flesh of life and love, the failures of the bold
I can list each crippling fear like I'm reading from a will
And I'll defy every one and love you still
I will carry you with me up every hill
2. The Airborne Toxic Event - Poor Isaac
Oh and God, just go and leave me all alone
I'm not your son, I'm not your son, everybody dies alone
Was this world just not quite hard enough for you?
I guess like anyone, you've got your own scores to settle too
And I'm so pissed tonight, I feel just like the last remaining Canaanite
And I don't think that I will be returning
And if you wanna see the irony, and the savage price of piety
There's a lot of us who are going to be burning
How does it feel?
...And that child was my friend, I spent a long time with his curse
I can feel him trembling beneath his plea
I don't know if there is water, all I know is there's a thirst
And it might be for the best
But I'm not quite sure if Isaac would agree
3. Akira Yamaoka (feat. Mary Elizabeth McGlynn) - Acceptance
(x)
Night falls, strange-colored walls
My eyes deceive
What is wrong with me?
Deep in the night you think everything's right
Tell it to yourself: Say it's just a nightmare
Something is telling you nothing can change where you are
Again
Why should it matter, your dreams of a child?
Innocence is gone, only fear to play with
Faces are changing, but nothing is changing the pain
Too late
4. Amber Run - I Found
And I'll use you as a makeshift gauge
Of how much to give and how much to take
Oh, I'll use you as a warning sign
That if you talk enough sense then you'll lose your mind
Oh, and I found love where it wasn't supposed to be
Right in front of me, talk some sense to me
And I found love where it wasn't supposed to be
Right in front of me, talk some sense to me
5. Au/Ra - Dance in the Dark
You're hurting, hurting
Closing the curtains
Wanna keep it a secret
Can't keep it bottled
Pain is hard to swallow
You cross your heart without bleeding
Hide away where you're safe
Where your heart doesn't break
You're afraid, it's okay, it's okay
...Everybody's scared so dance in the dark
Ma-make it an art, da-dance in the dark
Party with your fears, da-dance in the dark
Da-dance with the dark, da-dance in the dark
6. AURORA - Running With The Wolves
Go row the boat to safer grounds
But don't you know we're stronger now?
My heart still beats and my skin still feels
My lungs still breathe, my mind still fears
But we're runnin' out of time (time, ah)
All the echoes in my mind cry
There's blood on your lies, the skies open wide
There is nowhere for you to hide, the hunter's moon is shining
I'm running with the wolves tonight, I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the wolves tonight, I'm running with the wolves
I'm running with the...
...A gift, a curse, they track and hurt
Say, can you dream, in nightmares seems?
A million voices, silent dreams
Where hope is left so incomplete
7. Band of Horses - No One's Gonna Love You
It's looking like a limb torn off
Or altogether just taken apart
A-reelin' through an endless fall
We are the ever-living ghost of what once was
But no one is ever gonna love you more than I do
No one's gonna love you more than I do
...But someone, they should've warned you
If things start splittin' at the seams and now
The whole thing's tumblin' down
Things start splittin' at the seams and now
If things start splittin' at the seams and now
It's tumblin' down hard
8. Caravan Palace - Supersonics
You don't really know what goes on
That's why all this looks like a perfect mess
Freaks come out until the lights go on
And it feels so good when I lose my head
...It's so easy; won't you come along?
Just lose yourself with the side effects
Freaks come out until the lights go on
Would you be my guest till there's nothing left?
What a bad habit
It's hard to scrap
Knockin' at my door
It can't be stopped no more
9. Charming Disaster - Monsters
We live in the black
We eat when we can
Pulled in by your heart
Pumping in the dark
...Monsters, what we want's unspeakable
Your body: bloody, visceral
Don't we belong here in this world?
Gonna make you mine (gonna make you mine)
Gonna make you mine (gonna make you mine)
10. Chonny Jash - Laplace's Angel (Hurt People? Hurt People!)
Say, doesn't it pain you to know our fate?
A hundred trillion years all piled up in one brain
And now, hey, what do you say we sneak on out of this place, babe?
Free will is best enjoyed with a familiar face
Victor made a monster, Heaven made The Beast
Judas made a friend and stabbed his back post-feast
So posthaste! We must escape! Your creator'll leave you disgraced, babe
Laplace will not rest until you are erased!
So if you wash your hands of where you've been until you flood the second floor
Neatly fold your skeletons but still can't shut the closet door
The only ones in need of love are those who don't receive enough
So evil ones should get a little more
You! Could you take a look at me?
(Man no more than animal is made of moral chemicals)
Am I bad? Am I bad? Am I bad?
(Any form, mechanical)
Am I really that bad?
(Thank you, God, you fool)
11. The Crane Wives - Curses
This house says my name like an elegy
Oh my, oh my
Echoing where my ghosts all used to be
Oh my, oh my
...All my aching bones are trembling
And I may yet fall apart
Won't you stay with me, my darling
When the war starts in my heart?
When the war starts in my heart?
Oh ashes, ashes, dust to dust
The devil's after both of us
Oh, lay my curses out to rest
Make a mercy out of me
12. The Crane Wives - The Wolf
I am not a tempest
I light torches in my sleep
I have gasoline in my veins
I am always burning, burning, burning
Can it be, can it be easy for once?
'Cause I'm no good at being kind to myself
Or anyone
I am a falling axe
I am a sharpened knife
I am a poison asp
I am a risk to your life
My love
My love
13. Dirt Poor Robins - Enchanté
And I will not be concerned
Or ignore the things I yearn
My hunger is the rule I cannot overturn
Alas, the virtues through their glasses
Hid themselves from our madness
All we have within
Is our animal skins
Enchanté, enchanté, enchanté, enchanté
Greet your beast and let 'em streak into the fray
It's okay, it's okay, it's okay
If we can't raise the dead
We're gonna raise, we're gonna raise, we're gonna raise hell instead
14. Dodie - Monster
Look, we know that I've seen this before
High and mighty, at the top of your list
Adoring every move, now my rank is sinking
But we're both guilty of black or white thinking
And through my red eyes, you look pale
All of your scars are looking more like scales
Two ugly creatures, two sinister preachers
Blind to the past, like a couple of monsters
Just a couple of monsters
So maybe I will talk to you
The only way I know how to
Mhm, you've said your speech
Mhm, through sharpened teeth
You break the rules and spikes grow from your skin
Oh, I think it might be worth a try
Oh, am I ready to let this die?
Mhm, a monster's here
Mhm, you plug your ears
But hey, you might just listen to it sing
Please let the devil in
15. Duran Duran - Danse Macabre
Halloween girl, seize the fray
Brothers and sisters, lead the way
Shackled to the rhythm, your soul is weighed
So you better get down on your knees and pray
Coming out for the Hawsker Mad Bull
Jumping on the hot seat, lying in the dead pool
Delivery quake, expensive mistake
The damage, the damage, the damage, the damage
Hey, no way, some ghosts jive in a AC Cobra
Auto-da-fé, get dirty up on the danse macabre
...Heaven's sake, don't blow your karma
Liberate your danse macabre
16. Ghost and Pals - Scapegoat
I've got a cutthroat delight (up on a high)
As we carouse while you writhe (caught by my eye)
I'll put your fear in my drink tonight, tonight
I'm chewing up and spitting out your pride
...I know infinity
She howls with the past as they gouge each other's eyes
I know duplicity
Who once was a child born in villainy
I know infinity
She howls with the past as they gouge each other's eyes
I know what hides in me
If only you knew the same
Now do you hate me? Are you afraid of me?
Are you able to feel culpability?
Come forth and kill me, bow down and worship me
Take your time, all we have is eternity
Now with a new start, broken and torn apart
Nothing in me resembles a human heart
17. Glenn Gatsby & Ashley Slater - Spooky Scary Skeletons (Electro Swing Mix)
Spooky scary skeletons send shivers down your spine
Shrieking skulls will shock your soul and seal your doom tonight
Spooky scary skeletons speak with such a screech
You'll shake and shudder in surprise when you hear these zombies shriek
...Spirits, supernatural are shy, what's all the fuss?
But bags of bones seem so unsafe - it's semi-serious!
Spooky, scary skeletons are silly all the same
They'll smile and scrabble slowly by and drive you so insane
Sticks and stones will break your bones, they seldom let you snooze
Spooky, scary skeletons will wake you with a boo!
Spooky scary skeletons
(Who's that, who's that ghost?)
Spooky scary skeletons
(Who's that, who's that ghost?)
18. Goblin Cock - Haint
Weathered church and weathered paint
All the priests and apostles
Every tactic is a haint
Couldn't be any wronger
I'm about to faint
I'm grabbed by the ankles
How long can he breathe?
How deep is he strangled?
Undead boys don't need protection
And they can hold their breath all night long
Ghost boys don't need no hassles
And they can grow back what they have lost
19. Halestorm - Black Vultures (Stripped)
Feels like the end of the world
But it's only the beginning of it all
Forget the things that you've earned
I've been a survivor since I began to crawl
I've fallen down, but I'm not out
The devil's at my door
I don't give in, I don't give up
I won't ever let it break me
I'm on fire, I'm a fighter
I'll forever be the last one standing
Black vultures circling the sky
Pick at the pieces
Scavengers wait for me to die
But I'm not defeated
20. Hozier - NFWMB
When I first saw you, the end was soon
To Bethlehem it slouched and then
Must've caught a good look at you
...Ain't it a gentle sound, the rolling in the graves?
Ain't it like thunder under earth, the sound it makes?
Ain't it exciting you, the rumble where you lay?
Ain't you my baby, ain't you my baby?
Nothing fucks with my baby
Nothing can get a look in on my baby
Nothing fucks with my baby
Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing
21. IAMX - Bernadette
You and me in our playhouse
Living in a veil, we never need to go without
Memories bring no joy or peace
We are alone, and all we need
Tuning out of the poison
Every waking day, intolerance to overcome
Fortunes won by the boys with the guns
We are alone, nowhere to run
Bernadette, you are my liberty
I celebrate the day that you changed my history of
Life and death will always lead you into love and regret
But you have answers, and I have the key
For the door to Bernadette
22. Jekyll & Hyde - Façade
There are preachers who kill, there are killers who preach
There are teachers who lie, there are liars who teach
Take your pick, dear, 'cause it's all a façade
If we're not one but two, are we evil or good?
Do we walk the fine line that we'd cross if we could?
Are we waiting to break through the façade?
One or two
Might look kinda well-to-do
Ha! They're as bad as me and you
Right down to their boots
Right down to their boots
I'm inclined to think half mankind
Thinks the other half is blind
Wouldn't be surprised to find
They're all in cahoots
Man is not one but two, he is evil and good
And he walks the fine line we'd all cross if we could
It's a nightmare we can never discard
So, we stay on our guard
Though we love the façade
What's behind the façade?
Look behind the façade
23. Kay Starr - Headless Horseman
I'm a-tellin' you brother, it's a fearful sight
Just to see what goes on in the night
When the spooks have a midnight jamboree
They break it up with a fiendish glee
Ghosts are bad, but the one that's cursеd
Is the Headless Horsеman, he's the worst
...'Cause you can't be a haint if you ain't...
Kinda crazed, I guess you'd say
Take our word, we know what we're talking about
Now this is a pretty spooky thing we're doing here
You don't mind if I turn on another light, do you? Hmm?
24. Lesbian Bed Death - Béla Lugosi's Back
Do you know why you fear the dark?
He's the thing nightmares are made of
No mortal form can hold him back
Evil lives forever
It's been such a long time, and time can be so cruel
The horror you feel is about to go old school
Under a full moon's wicked spell
A coffin shakes and cracks
It's a long cold day in Hell now
Béla Lugosi's back
The creatures of the night
What music they make
We'll remember how to scream now
Béla Lugosi's back
25. Maiden Names - Your Suffering
(x)
Religion left you in the dust of Georgia in the summer months
Shrieking calls of murderous crows would rouse you from your slumber
Fresh hay stacking, burlap sacking scratched against your skin
She locked you in that place again and filled you up with sin
...Night comes down, make your poison
Starve your muscles down to your skeleton
They're all fatted cows slated for slaughtering
Dig deep down and kill
You're suffering, kill
Your suffering, kill
You're suffering, kill
Your suffering, kill
26. The Marshmallow Ghosts (feat. The Casket Girls) - S.o.s.
I'd be better off dead than in your arms
But in your arms is where I wanna be
So I pretend it's a mystery
When I know you are a ghost of my past
When I know you are a ghost
...Good witches, bad witches, SOS
Life givers, death kisses, SOS
Good witches, bad witches, SOS
Life givers, death kisses, SOS
When death is at your doorstep (SOS)
Skipping beats and sweating bullets (SOS)
Bedknobs and broomsticks (SOS)
Is this the final moment? (SOS)
"Do you hear that organ? It's the Phantom. Why, he's gone mad! We'd better not interrupt his practicing,
or he might start playing a funeral march."
27. Neko Case - This Tornado Loves You
Climb the boxcars to the engine, through the smoke and to the sky
Your rails have always outrun mine, so I
Picked them up and crashed them down, in a moment close to now
Cause I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss
I miss, I miss, I miss, I miss
How you'd sigh yourself to sleep
When I'd rake the springtime across your sheets
My love, I am the speed of sound
I left them motherless, fatherless
Their souls dangling inside-out from their mouths
But it's never enough
My love, I'm an owl on the sill in the evening
But morning finds you still warm and breathing
This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
This tornado loves you, this tornado loves you
This tornado loves you
What will make you believe me?
28. Neoni - Haunted House
Lights they flicker and the candles glitter
Like you're in a thriller, heart goes pound-pound-pound
Ghostly figures, they can get so bitter
Sure you want to enter? You can turn back now
You don't, you don't know where I've been
What's going on inside
Where the monsters like to come alive, come alive
Do you really wanna know me?
I'm really not that cozy
It's up to you so you decide, you decide
Could you love me at my worst
Till the coffin's in the dirt?
Or try to break me like a curse?
You know that will never work
I'm a little bit absurd
I like dancing on the verge
Anyone can love a pretty little mansion
But could you love a
A haunted, haunted house?
29. The Oh Hellos - Danse Macabre
[INSTRUMENTAL]
30. Olivier Bibeau (feat. Jemma Lou) - Better Run, Better Hide
Holding on, lose your grip
Giving up, start to slip
Can you feel all the eyes
Looking at you?
...Holding on like that only breaks your back
When demons attack, they'll shatter you like glass
Playing with your fate like it's just a game
Watching you burn, 'cause you'll never learn
You better run, you better hide
This ain't gonna be fine
Cut the strings, cut the ties
Goodbye and now you'll move on
31. The Pierces - Sticks and Stones
Sun in the sky: I am stopping you from burning
All we need is stars and moon
Clock on the wall: I will keep your hands from turning
Or this night will end too soon
...Well, sticks and stones will break your bones
And leave you lying in the mud
But you get scared when we're alone
Like I might suck your blood
And I could tell you a witch's spell
But it just might blow your top
Then you start to run just as I'm having fun
And it's awfully hard to stop
It's awfully hard to stop
It's just too hard to stop
32. Portishead - Sour Times
To pretend no one can find
The fallacies of morning rose
Forbidden fruit, hidden eyes
Courtesies that I despise in me
Take a ride, take a shot now
'Cause nobody loves me, it's true
Not like you do
...Who am I, what and why?
'Cause all I have left
Is my memories of yesterday
Oh, these sour times
33. Purity Ring - Stillness in Woe
Meet me in the blue bed, I'll be drawing out your flaws
And clawing at what's caused my knees to tremble
Meet me in the back shed, I'll be hanging up the knives
Humming melodies that rhyme, building castles out of shovels
Hang my head about as if we never had the time
To draw it on the walls, what's all the trouble?
Push my mind around as if it's warming up your hand
As if it's softer than the land, all soaked and supple
Don't be afraid if it's a little bit close
I built a kingdom of your throes, I'm seeing double
Don't be afraid if there's no wind in my hair
There's a stillness left in there, I'm seeing double
34. Rabbitology - Preybirds (Watcher Song)
So while you think you're alone, you cast two shadows down the road
Where you have buried all your past lives' bones
The two red suns in the sky blink, my pity-filled eyes
Hoping the heartlines will change this time
But the birds on my shoulders prepare for a feast
You can taste it in the air, the soon-to-be dead meat
Eye in the sun, you're all I see
Why don't you look at me?
My breath heaves down your nape, wrestlin' you 'way, but I'm too late, a body rests
Dagger in chest
The heart in your hands drips as its soul crawls from splintered ribs to eclipse my head
And beg again
For revenge
Oh, you may think you're alone if you hide from the shadows
You can bury bones but not the souls
And two red suns in the sky will be the light to build your pyre
They're my blank and pitiless eyes
Every death births a bird to this wretched flock
Forever tethered to your life but cursed to only watch
Catastrophe, repeat until
You look at me
35. R3HAB - The Chase
Move until my eyes are red
You're here in my head again
Push it harder, pull me close
You're the high I need the most
I like the music loud, hit me now
Hear it call in the distance
I like the rhythm sound, freak me out
I came here for the chase
I like the music loud, hit me now
We don't need no resistance
I like the rhythm sound
I came here for the chase
36. The Scary Jokes - No Leverage / No Pleasure
I can be a person if you give me the chance
Yes, I am ascending to a new low
Yes, I feel it spiraling out into everyone
Can you feel me gnawing away at your heart?
And can you hear me when I scream?
Oh, oh!
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
I love you, I love you
37. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Halloween
The night is still
And the frost, it bites my face
I wear my silence like a mask
And murmur like a ghost
Trick or treat, trick or treat
The bitter and the sweet
Trick or treat, trick or treat
The bitter and the sweet
...I wander through your sadness
Gazing at you with scorpion eyes
Halloween, Halloween
38. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Rawhead and Bloodybones
Bad word or bad deed
Unpunished invites grief
Here's Rawhead and Bloodybones
Reaching from dark cupboard
Crouching under stair
Lurking in chimney, pond or well
We're down here, held here
Dragged here and drowned here
By Rawhead and Bloodybones
39. To Kill A King - Bloody Shirt
"What you want to do tonight? I've got wounds to lick in life," oh, you've said
Standing like a stick, this tie could invert to be a noose instead
Oh, you lie next to me, heart is beating heavily
Blood in your ear though, and blood on your shirt
It's too late to say you're sorry, say you're sorry still
And I stepped out with heavy heart to bail you out again
Oh, those things you do
And, oh, those things you do
Get out and get gone, this town is only gonna get worse
Get out, get gone, this town is only gonna eat you
40. Twenty One Pilots - The Line
Take a seat
But I'd rather you not be here for
What could be my final form
Stay your pretty eyes on course
Keep the memories of who I was before
...Honestly
I thought I was fully prepared for
The threshold in store
Stay your pretty eyes on course
I guess I never really faced my fears before
So stay with me because
My body's on the line now
Pull the blanket tight now
I can feel the light shine on my face
Did I disappoint you?
Will they still let me over
If I cross the line?
41. VoicePlay (feat. J.None) - Thriller
It's close to midnight
And something evil's lurking in the dark
Under the moonlight
You see a sight that'll almost - your heart
You try to scream
But terror takes the sound before you make it, ooh
You start to freeze
As horror looks you right between the eyes
You're paralyzed
...This is thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghoul would ever dare try
Thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer thriller
Killer thriller
Killer thriller tonight
42. We Are Scientists - Lethal Enforcer
You're never gonna understand what you're seeing
Though later you'll pretend you did and you'll mean it
You might think it's all in your head but you're not certain anymore
You might think it's all in your head but you're not certain anymore
I wouldn't put much stock in fact, 'cause the fact is
It doesn't matter what you ask, it's who you're asking
Well, I'd say don't throw it away if it's not working anymore
Well, I'd say don't throw it away if it's not working anymore
I promise this is not a test, it's just I want you to be sure
It all comes back to common sense, I guess that's what you're looking for
43. We Are Scientists - Tonight
I want you to stay and I guess I could give you a line
It's always the same but it works better every time
Just don't walk away from me
Just don't walk away from me
Tonight, oh tonight
I promise to remember that making promises
Is always a mistake
...So let's down another dose; understanding is the last thing I want
So let's down another dose; understanding is the last thing I want
44. Will Wood - Yes, to Err is Human, So Don't Be One.
I could take your life if you're done with it, sweetheart
You still picking at that? Only ate the good parts
Hey, whatever works, I'm a cheap date
(Check, please!)
Falling off the bone, I'm awful glad we met
We only ever notice what's in front of us
Read over my shoulder, breathing down my neck
Are we on the same page yet? I'm getting old here
Come on, don't you get it? What the heck?
Oh, I could drink your blood if you let me, baby
Drain you of your love until you hate me
...I will drink your blood 'till your lips turn blue
Drain you of your love if you want me to