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

[rachelindeed.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, I should say what the lyrics are from...the first is from Sting's "Into the Labyrinth" album, and I've always considered it the perfect song for Scar ~ Lee's frustrated with Kara for always going back and forth, giving her trust and then snatching it back, but ultimately that stormy, thundering, bright and mercurial quality in her is what keeps him coming back :)

The second is Avril Lavigne's "Who Knows," just the lyrics without the chorus. I agree that it's an early getting-to-know-you song about Kara's perspective on Lee ~ what she likes, and what she notices, and the way that she knows he hasn't figured himself out yet.

The last is Dashboard Confessional's "Brilliant Dance." I think of it as Kara reacting to Zak's death and being aware of Lee awkwardly skating around her, both of them carefully sidestepping and Kara just feeling very burned out on the prospect of loving anyone ever again.

But UB could fit well, too, especially with the dance reference!

Thanks :)