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

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Actually, one came up in my car radio on the way home today... Savage Garden's 'Crash and Burn'

Let me be the one you call
If you jump, I'll break your fall
Lift you up and fly away with you into the night

If you need to fall apart
I can mend a broken heart
If you need to crash, then crash and burn you're not alone

[silanah.livejournal.com]

That one would fit with the scene after Baltar has outted Starbuck and Lee just says he believes in her.

N

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

*nods*

It's brig scene for me a little too.

[thegreenkitty.livejournal.com]

This one could also be Lee to Kara under the wing in Maelstrom.

[lotus79.livejournal.com]

Aww, yes you're right.

I like it as a general buddycops "I got your back" song too :)