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moonwiseBecause I've been shipping this couple for a ridiculously long time, and they need some FST love. Kinda vintage, for you FF8 fans out there. (Also, it was time to get this damn thing off my hard drive.)
Right-click to save files - they are hosted on my webspace.
Zip is here.
Sometimes, the ending isn't happy.
Sarah Fimm - Story of Us
No one knows who started the war
No one knows what we've been fighting for
Watch our history unravel thread by thread
Watch us all go down in the end
What will become of what never was
It's the story of us
Laguna: everyone's favorite FF8 doofus. He's an army grunt who spends his time getting lost, drinking with his pals Kiros and Ward, and pining over lounge piano players. He's the last guy you'd expect to settle down for any length of time in any one place. Then he falls down a cliff (after throwing his friends off first.)
Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway
Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
Raine: The complete opposite. She's one of the only young people left in the town of Winhill, a nowhere place that unfortunately attracted the attention of Esthar soldiers looking for a successor to their governing sorceress. She cares for the orphaned Ellone, and she reluctantly adds Laguna to her little family after patching him up.
Mushaboom - Feist
How many acres how much light
Tucked in the woods and out of sight
Talk to the neighbours and tip my cap
On a little road barely on the map
Raine doesn't even like him at first. But they fall in love, anyway. You know how these stories go.
Gypsy - Suzanne Vega
You have hands of rain and water, and that earring in your ear
The wisdom on your face denies the number of your years
With the fingers of the potter, and the laughing tale of the fool
The arranger of disorder, with your strange and simple rules
Getting married was his idea. Definitely not hers, even if she did think they should all be together. Anything to make Ellone happy, right?
Monday Morning - Death Cab for Cutie
I cry out love keep your arms around me
I am a bird that's in need of grounding
I'm built to fly away
I never learned how to stay
All is well until Esthar returns and Ellone is kidnapped. Laguna leaves his new wife not long afterwards.
Baby I Will Leave You in the Morning - Marissa Nadler
Baby will you love me when I return
Promise I will hold you in my palm
Every night I dream you sleeping next to me
Sing a song and keep you like a balm
Meanwhile, Raine waits at home, and waits, while their child grows in her.
Rain - Concrete Blonde
These kinds of days (I really miss you now)
Seasons are changed again (I really miss you now)
I search in vain
I wonder where you are
Watching the rain
And it makes me remember
Things I tried to say
But he doesn't come home. Ever.
Come Home Safely - Let's Go Sailing
Come home safely tonight
I will not sleep until I hear you counting steps
We still have time left, don't we now?
Don't we, now?
And Raine dies in childbirth.
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking
Of all the things I should've said, that I never said.
All the things we should've done, that we never did.
All the things I should've given, but I didn't.
Oh, darling, make it go, make it go away.
All For a Woman - Airborne Toxic Event*
What is more important, the fate of a nation or going home to your wife?
Ten thousand miles from where we began
Falling asleep with a picture in hand.
It was all for a woman.
You say that you're grateful for the time alone
Two years away, and I don't miss home
And someone asks you if you ever think of her
And you smile politely and you demur
On such seemingly small decisions, an entire fate rests. You wonder whether he would have chosen differently, given the chance.
Please Just Take These Photo From My Hands - Snow Patrol
I read your name under words in your elegant hand you probably don't mean now
I fold the letter and think of a million and one things that I could have done different
When all this actual life played out
Where the hell on Earth was I?
I rack my brains but it won't come
*Author's note: This song is absolutely perfect for post-Winhill Laguna. If you don't download any of the others, download this one.
Right-click to save files - they are hosted on my webspace.
Zip is here.
Prologue: Not All Stories End Well
Sometimes, the ending isn't happy.
Sarah Fimm - Story of Us
No one knows who started the war
No one knows what we've been fighting for
Watch our history unravel thread by thread
Watch us all go down in the end
What will become of what never was
It's the story of us
A Boy, a Girl, and a Machine Gun
Laguna: everyone's favorite FF8 doofus. He's an army grunt who spends his time getting lost, drinking with his pals Kiros and Ward, and pining over lounge piano players. He's the last guy you'd expect to settle down for any length of time in any one place. Then he falls down a cliff (after throwing his friends off first.)
Tom Cochrane - Life is a Highway
Life's like a road that you travel on
When there's one day here and the next day gone
Sometimes you bend sometimes you stand
Sometimes you turn your back to the wind
Raine: The complete opposite. She's one of the only young people left in the town of Winhill, a nowhere place that unfortunately attracted the attention of Esthar soldiers looking for a successor to their governing sorceress. She cares for the orphaned Ellone, and she reluctantly adds Laguna to her little family after patching him up.
Mushaboom - Feist
How many acres how much light
Tucked in the woods and out of sight
Talk to the neighbours and tip my cap
On a little road barely on the map
Raine doesn't even like him at first. But they fall in love, anyway. You know how these stories go.
Gypsy - Suzanne Vega
You have hands of rain and water, and that earring in your ear
The wisdom on your face denies the number of your years
With the fingers of the potter, and the laughing tale of the fool
The arranger of disorder, with your strange and simple rules
Getting married was his idea. Definitely not hers, even if she did think they should all be together. Anything to make Ellone happy, right?
Monday Morning - Death Cab for Cutie
I cry out love keep your arms around me
I am a bird that's in need of grounding
I'm built to fly away
I never learned how to stay
All is well until Esthar returns and Ellone is kidnapped. Laguna leaves his new wife not long afterwards.
Baby I Will Leave You in the Morning - Marissa Nadler
Baby will you love me when I return
Promise I will hold you in my palm
Every night I dream you sleeping next to me
Sing a song and keep you like a balm
Meanwhile, Raine waits at home, and waits, while their child grows in her.
Rain - Concrete Blonde
These kinds of days (I really miss you now)
Seasons are changed again (I really miss you now)
I search in vain
I wonder where you are
Watching the rain
And it makes me remember
Things I tried to say
But he doesn't come home. Ever.
Come Home Safely - Let's Go Sailing
Come home safely tonight
I will not sleep until I hear you counting steps
We still have time left, don't we now?
Don't we, now?
And Raine dies in childbirth.
This Woman's Work - Kate Bush
I should be crying, but I just can't let it show.
I should be hoping, but I can't stop thinking
Of all the things I should've said, that I never said.
All the things we should've done, that we never did.
All the things I should've given, but I didn't.
Oh, darling, make it go, make it go away.
Epilogue - Mr. President
All For a Woman - Airborne Toxic Event*
What is more important, the fate of a nation or going home to your wife?
Ten thousand miles from where we began
Falling asleep with a picture in hand.
It was all for a woman.
You say that you're grateful for the time alone
Two years away, and I don't miss home
And someone asks you if you ever think of her
And you smile politely and you demur
On such seemingly small decisions, an entire fate rests. You wonder whether he would have chosen differently, given the chance.
Please Just Take These Photo From My Hands - Snow Patrol
I read your name under words in your elegant hand you probably don't mean now
I fold the letter and think of a million and one things that I could have done different
When all this actual life played out
Where the hell on Earth was I?
I rack my brains but it won't come
*Author's note: This song is absolutely perfect for post-Winhill Laguna. If you don't download any of the others, download this one.
