{Playlist} I Could Not Stop For Death

[superiorspectre]

This is the pared-down version of the Suzie playlist I developed RPing on LJ, now tweaked to be compliant with Torchwood S1 canon, instead of its earlier pre-canon state.

Yes, I am slightly obsessive when it comes to character playlists.

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Bad Wisdom - Suzanne Vega (Lyrics)

Mother the doctor knows something is wrong
Cause my body has strange information
He's looked in my eyes and knows I'm not a child
But he doesn't dare ask the right question

Mother my friends are no longer my friends
And the games we once played have no meaning
I've gone serious and shy and they can't figure why
So they've left me to my own daydreaming

The Big Issue - Chumbawamba (YouTube)

She's been born into the wrong time
She keeps nonsense on her mind
She's a poet, she's a builder
She's as bored as bored can be
She's a have-not, she's a know-all
She knows just how to say yes
She's skating frozen chaos
Till the no-good gods are dead

But sometimes in the dead of night
Woken by the city lights
She wonders how she keeps alive...

Big Space - Suzanne Vega (YouTube)

Beyond the duty and the discipline
I know there's anger in a cold place
All feelings fall into the big space
Swept up like garbage on the week-end

Between the pen and the paperwork
There must be passion in the language
Between the muscle and the brain work
There must be feeling in the pipeline

Blind Faith - Beverly Craven (YouTube - Live)

He told me I was a fool and another dreamer
I nearly believed him for a while
He'd give an opinion with such conviction
I assumed that he was right
Now I know, I'm in control
But I could have been taken over
I was all mixed up about love
Now I've taken back my trust

Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure (YouTube)

On that bleak track
(See the sun is gone again)
The tears were pouring down her face
She was crying and crying for a girl
Who died so many years before...

Code Red - Tori Amos (YouTube - Live)

Some say that I will and some say I won't
Victory is an elusive whore
She is as easily mine
As she is yours

Slip and slide my way through this charade
I know all the players and I must say
Do this long enough
You get a taste for it

Control - Poe (YouTube)

Don't you mess with a little girl's dream
'Cause she's liable to grow up mean

Surprised you to find that I'm laughing?
You thought that you'd find me in tears
You thought I'd be crawling the walls
Like a tiny mosquito and trembling in fear

Dancing Dirt Into the Snow - Missy Higgins (YouTube)

The more you push through broken glass,
The thicker it becomes.
And the more you turn on broken worlds,
The sooner you will need
A gun.

Dead is the New Alive - Emilie Autumn (YouTube)

Dead is the new alive
Despair's the new survival
A pointless point of view
Give in, give in, give in, give in
You play the game
You'll never win

Duende - Delerium (YouTube)

Desperate panicked calls
[The wind can't hear me]
Muffled weak and small
[The sand can't hear me]
Pleading, groping hands
[The truth can't hear me]
Bleeding in the sand
[Your heart can't hear me]

Effigy - Natalie Merchant (YouTube - unrelated fanvid)

I'm an effigy
A parody of
Who I appear to be
Put your flaming torches under me

Endless so far in myself, follow me

Fierce Flawless - Ani Difranco (YouTube - Unrelated Fanvid)

She was cuffed to the truth like the truth was a chair
With a bright interrogation light in her eyes.
And her conscience with a cigarette just stood there,
Waiting for her to crack, waiting for her to cry.
His face scampered through the room like a roach across a wall.
Yeah, they made her skin sore. yeah, they made her skin crawl.
They said, "we got this confession. we just need for you to sign.
Why don't you just cooperate? make this easier on us all?"

Gravity - The Dresden Dolls (YouTube)

Gravity plays favorites, I know it cause I saw
Honest to god, Officer, it's awful
Down at work I'm getting too familiar with the floor
Showing off my talents by the mouthful

Hate to break it to you but it's out of my control
Forces go to work while we are sleeping
If I could attack with a more sensible approach
Obviously that's what I'd be doing

Have You Got It In You? - Imogen Heap (YouTube)

It takes a lot...to be always on form...
It takes a lot.
I maybe not... all the time, all I've got...
Maybe not.

Been one of those days...
Safety first, don't push... what's the hurry?
One nerve remaining, waiting on one look... have you got it?
Have you got it in you?

Hollow Like My Soul - Emilie Autumn (YouTube)

You think that you'll get by
You will die
You will cry
When you think that you'll survive
Just don't try
Run and hide
My eyes are hollow like my soul

I Want My Innocence Back - Emilie Autumn (YouTube)

I want my innocence back
And if you can't give it to me
I will cut you down
And I will run you through
With the dagger you sharpened
On my body and soul
Before you slit me in two
And then devoured me whole

If I Survive - Hybrid (YouTube)

I'll find a new life and hide, if I survive
I'll find my own place in time, if I survive
I'll learn to forget the crime, if I survive
But I swear you're going down if I survive

Invasion - Eisley (YouTube - Live)

Ooh, something's not right
I can feel it inside
Something's not right
You would take the breath from my throat
And you would take the cherished people that I hold

Larissa's Lagoon - Idina Menzel (YouTube)

Down in Larissa's lagoon
Her guests; they sleep in separate rooms
But her father comes to tuck her into bed
She's lost her mind
Got no control
And there's nowhere else to go
When her father comes to tuck her into bed

Looking for Something - Era (YouTube)

Looking for something
I wanna share something
I wanna feel
Something won
Something real
Something exciting...

Metal Heart - Garbage (YouTube)

I wish I had a metal heart
I could cross the line
I wish that I was half as good
As you think I am

Now that we know for sure
They're telling lies when they say
No one gets hurt
And therefore nobody dies

Mindcircus - Way Out West (YouTube)

So come along within,
I think it's time to let me in,
I'm tipping my foot very close to the edge,
And just a few more of your seconds,
And I need for me to repair
To neatly stand and spin it around in my head,

Oh can I please have some silence,
How about some space?
Can I have some space?

No Good, No More - Eleni Mandell (Yahoo! Music)

I won't be good anymore
I'll tramp around successfully
I'll bare my teeth, dear, hungrily
Until I find you pity me
Much stronger, I will lock my jaws
And tear myself a hole
I can't go on, unbutton my coat
I won't be good anymore

Ophelia - Tori Amos (YouTube)

Ophelia your secret is safe
Ophelia you must break the chain
Some girls will get their way
Some fathers will control from the grave
Ophelia you must remember

Perfect - Alanis Morrissette (YouTube - Still Photos)

How long before you screw it up?
How many times do I have to tell you to hurry up?
With everything I do for you
The least you can do is keep quiet

Be a good girl
You've gotta try a little harder
That simply wasn't good enough
To make us proud

Perfect Enemy - t.A.T.u. (YouTube - Unrelated Fanvid)

Why should I welcome
Your domination?
Why should I listen
To explanations?
I'm not pretending
To make it simple
Try to be something
Experimental

Professional Widow - Tori Amos (YouTube - Tori Video Montage)

Starfucker just like my Daddy
Just like my Daddy selling his baby
Just like my Daddy
Gonna strike a deal made him feel
Like a congressman
It runs in the family

Rest your shoulder Peaches and Cream
Everywhere a Judas as far as you can see

Room of Angel - Akira Yamaoka with Mary Elizabeth McGlynn

If I had died I would have never felt sad at all,
You will not hear me say 'I'm sorry'
where is the light, wonder if it's weeping somewhere?

Here's a lullaby to close your eyes,
(Goodbye)
It was always you I despised.
I don't feel enough for you to cry, oh no,
Here's a lullaby to close your eyes,
Goodbye

Running Up That Hill - Faith and the Muse (Kate Bush cover) (YouTube)

It doesn't hurt me.
Do you want to feel how it feels?
Do you want to know, know that it doesn't hurt me?
Do you want to hear about the deal that I'm making?

Runs in the Family - Amanda Palmer (YouTube)

All day I’ve been wondering what is inside of me, who can I blame for it

I say:

It runs in the family, this famine that carries me
To such great lengths to open my legs
Up to anyone who’ll have me
It runs in the family, I come by it honestly
Do what you want ‘cause who knows it might fill me up

S.O.S. (Anything But Love) - Apocalyptica feat. Cristina Scabbia

So go on infect me
Go on and scare me to death
I’ll be the victim
You’ll be the voice in my head
You could give me anything but love

Shut Your Mouth - Garbage (YouTube)

I hear you say it
Play it smart girl
Win the game love
Give 'em what they want
What they want to see and you could be a big star
You could go far
Make a landmark
What have you been reading, you smart girl?

Sie - Herbert Grönemeyer (YouTube)

Sie sieht in ihm den Filmriß
das Leben aprupt gestoppt
kann mit niemandem darüber reden
das macht sie bekloppt

Es liegt Ewigkeiten zurück
gelähmt
panisch als passiert es ihr jetzt
gegenwärtig sein stierer Blick

[he ripped the film for her
her life stopped in its tracks
and there's no-one she can talk to about it...
it's driving her mad

a lifetime ago, but the panic
and paralysis are still gripping her now
the mad stare, clenched-up fists, panting stale breath
are still here, and she's still in his power]

Smalltown - Chumbawamba (YouTube)

All your nights are sleepless
Poison arrows
To ruin your tomorrows
Below suspicion
Cafes full of people dressed as spies
And all I know
Is guilt for being different

It's always raining stones
There's a killer in the home

Solitary Ground - Epica (YouTube)

Living at different places
Evading into various spaces
My compass has broken
I'm losing the way
An ongoing madness has led me astray

My past breathes down my neck
And it seems now that all I can do is
Go back to beginnings when all lay ahead
A fading illusion now plagues me instead

Solitude Standing - Suzanne Vega (YouTube)

Solitude stands in the doorway
And I'm struck once again by her black silhouette
By her long cool stare and her silence
I suddenly remember each time we've met

And she turns to me with her hand extended
Her palm is split with a flower with a flame

And she says "I've come to set a twisted thing straight"
And she says "I've come to lighten this dark heart"
And she takes my wrist, I feel her imprint of fear
And I say "I've never thought of finding you here"

Straight Lines - Suzanne Vega (YouTube)

But there's a sound
Across the alley
Of cold metal
Too close to the bone

And you can see
If you look in her window
The face of a woman
Finally alone

Studying Stones - Ani Difranco (YouTube)

I am out here studying stones
Trying to learn to be less alive
Using all of my will
To keep very still
Still even on the inside
I've cut all of the pertinent wires
So my eyes can't make that connection
I am holding my breath
I am feigning my death
When I'm looking in your direction

Suicide Note - Johnette Napolitano (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

I wanted to believe
As I watched your world
Crumble in your hands
I wanted to believe
As you raised your glass
To your last stand
And I wanted to believe
You would win
The war in your head
That I did not understand

Swallow - Emilie Autumn (YouTube)

I don't want to be a legend
Oh well that's a god damned lie - I do
To say I do this for the people
I admit is hardly true
You tell me everything's all right
As though it's something you've been through
You think this torment is romantic
Well it's not except to you
Twenty years
Sinking slowly
Can I trust you?
But I don't want to

Swan Dive - Ani Difranco (YouTube - Live)

I teeter between tired
And really, really tired
I'm wiped and I'm wired
But I guess that's just as well
Cuz I've built my own empire
Out of car tires and chicken wire
And now I'm queen of my own compost heap
And I'm getting used to the smell

Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - Eurythmics (YouTube)

Sweet dreams are made of this
Who am I to disagree?
I travel the world and the seven seas
Everybody's looking for somethin'

Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

Synapse - Bush (YouTube - Live)

Razorblade suitcase
All the tricks of the trade
Favourite ways you can lose
Favourite ways you can hate

Hell is where the heart is
Synapse again
Nothing more I can do
I haven't done again

Untouchable - Garbage (YouTube - Unrelated Fanvid)

This is nothing new to me
It takes more than what you've got
To frighten me
I'm not scared of you
There's nothing you can do
Or take from me

Virginia Woolf - Indigo Girls (Lyrics)

They published your diary
And that's how I got to know you
The key to the room of your own and a mind without end
And here's a young girl
On a kind of a telephone line through time
And the voice at the other end comes like a long lost friend

What if No One's Watching - Ani Difranco (YouTube)

I mean what
What if no one's watching?
What if when we're dead
We're just dead?
What if it's just us down here?
What if God is just an idea
Someone put in your head?