Daily Pilots Post: And one time, at band camp...

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Pilots love music.  Or maybe music loves Pilots?  I wouldn't blame it for a second if that were the case.  Anyways, taragel  discussed General Pilot Songs with us a while ago.

It got me thinking...  There are some songs that make me think of Pilots, but don't really fit for the entirety of their story.  I call them “Snapshot Songs.”  They fit for a particular story arc, or maybe even just for one moment.

For example:

"Life After You" by Daughtry
All that I'm after is a life full of laughter
As long as I'm laughing with you
I'm thinkin' that all that still matters is love ever after
After the life we've been through
'Cause I know there's no life after you

This is Lee, that night on New Caprica, or in Eye of Jupiter while he's trying to convince her to leave Sam.  It's Kara in Taking a Break From All Your Worries (though she can't come right out and say it because it scares her so), or maybe in Maelstrom.  Somewhere in that arc.  They've realized that it's not worth pretending, and running away won't work.  They want something simple and fabulous.  Or as simple as it could ever get for Pilots.


"Aurora" by Veruca Salt
See you up ahead,
but I don't know if I can go as far as you go
Everything keeps happening
And it's happening to me
I'm losing sight of its meaning
You blew away the meaning
I had it in my hand
Now where did it go, Aurora?

Lee, in the Son Also Rises.  He felt so much guilt over her death, which makes his inability to let himself just grieve her that much more painful.

So, let's make a game of this.  You provide some lyrics and/or a song title and artist, we try to figure out the arc or moment that it applies to.  Here are a couple to get us started:

"Break Even" by The Script
I'm still alive but I'm barely breathing,
Just prayed to a god that I don't believe in,
'Coz I got time while she got freedom,
'Coz when a heart breaks
no it don't break even.

...

What am I supposed to do when the best part of me was always you
What am I supposed to say when I'm all choked up and you're ok
I'm falling to pieces


"Hanging by a Moment" by Lifehouse
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
I'm closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held onto
I'm standing here until you make me move
I'm hanging by a moment here with you 

Comments

[shah-of-blah.livejournal.com]

"Break Even" sounds like Lee around The Captain's Hand, or arguably The Son Also Rises.

[muddlingalong.livejournal.com]

I read those words and I think of the godsawful poof. But then, I've never actually heard the song and I'm in a really bad mood tonight, so it might not have much to do with the song.

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Oh, jeeze. I'm sorry the day is so horrible! I wasn't thinking of the poof, myself, but I can see it, now that you mention it.

[rdave1.livejournal.com]

I had mentioned this song on another DPP but I associate it more with the finale and Lee being alone on Earth all by himself.

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

This one works for a few places, I think, and those two are a couple of them. I think it even works for Kara at one particular point/over one particular arc.