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A great video to a very dark song… #itgetsbetter
Featured on Glee

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Life’s too short to even care at all oh
I’m coming up now coming up now out of the blue
These zombies in the park they’re looking for my heart
Oh oh oh oh
A dark world aches for a splash of the sun oh oh

If I could find a way to see this straight
I’d run away
To some fortune that I should have found by now

And so I run now to the things they said could restore me
Restore life the way it should be
I’m waiting for this cough syrup to come down

”Cough Syrup” by Young The Giant

Hold on, what did you say that for?
Hold on, what do you take me for?

”Hold On” by Angus & Julia Stone

Don’t wanna keep on sharing my bed,
With someone that I have to love less and less
Every time I try to make you smile
You say that I’m being a child
Well I tried my best

Say that I need therapy,
Well my darling so do you
Don’t need for you to tell me
What is wrong in all I say or do

”Concrete Wall” by Zee Avi
as heard on Gossip Girl

Please, remember me
Happily
By the rosebush laughing
With bruises on my chin
The time when
We counted every black car passing
Your house beneath the hill
And up until
Someone caught us in the kitchen
With maps, a mountain range and a piggy bank
A vision too removed to mention

But please, remember me
Fondly
I heard from someone you’re still pretty
And then
They went on to say
That the pearly gates
Had such eloquent graffiti
Like ‘We’ll meet again’
And ‘Fuck the man’
And ‘Tell my mother not to worry’
And angels with their great
Handshakes
Were always done in such a hurry
…
And please, remember me
As in the dream
We had as rug-burned babies
Among the fallen trees
And fast asleep
Beside the lions and the ladies
That call you what you like
And even might
Give a gift for your behavior
A fleeting chance to see
A trapeze
Swinger as high as any savior

But please, remember me
My misery
And how it lost me all I wanted
Those dogs that love the rain
And chasing trains
The colored birds above there running
In circles round the well
To where it spills
On the wall behind St. Peter’s
So bright with cinder gray
And spray paint
‘Who the hell can see forever?’

And please, remember me
Seldomly
In the car behind the carnival
My hand between your knees
You turn from me
And said ‘The trapeze act was wonderful
But never meant to last’
The clown that passed
Saw me just come up with anger
When it filled with circus dogs
The parking lot
Had an element of danger

And please, remember me
Finally
And all my uphill clawing
My dear
If I make
The pearly gates
Do my best to make a drawing
Of God and Lucifer
A boy and girl
An angel kissin on a sinner
A monkey and a man
A marching band
All around the frightened trapeze swingers

”Trapeze Swinger” by Iron & Wine

& in the movies TiMER and In Good Company

Song: “Here Comes The Sun Again” by M.Ward

Song: “Generator ^ 1st Floor” by Freelance Whales

We getup early just to start cranking the generator
Our limbs have been asleep we need to get the blood back in ‘em
We’re finding every day several ways that we could be friends

We keep on churning and the lights inside the house turned on
And in our native language we are chanting ancient songs
And when we quiet down the house chants on without us

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*check out another song of theirs, “Ghosting”

Song: “Sweet Disposition” by The Temper Trap

Sweet disposition
Never too soon
Oh, reckless abandon
Like no one’s watching you

A moment, a love
A dream aloud
A kiss, a cry
Our rights, our wrongs
A moment, a love
A dream aloud
A moment, a love
A dream aloud

So stay there
Because I’ll be coming over
And while our blood’s still young
It’s so young
It runs
And we won’t stop until it’s over
Won’t stop to surrender

Songs of desperation
I played them for you
A moment, a love
A dream aloud
A kiss, a cry
Our rights, our wrongs
A moment, a love
A dream, aloud

It’s a new dawn
It’s a new day
It’s a new life
For me
And I’m feeling good

”Feeling Good” by Muse
Virgin-Atlantic Airlines commercial

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for the daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere

Their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I wanna drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very, very
Mad world, mad world

Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy birthday, happy birthday
And I feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen

Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me, what’s my lesson?
Look right through me, look right through me

And I find it kind of funny, I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you, I find it hard to take
When people run in circles its a very, very
Mad world, mad world, enlarging your world
Mad world

”Mad World” cover by Gary Jules of the Tears for Fears song;
as seen in the ending scene of Donnie Darko
(#musicsupervision by Michael Andrews)

Honey honey up in the trees
Fields of flowers deep in his dreams
Lead them out to sea by the east
Honey honey food for the bees

Honey honey out on the sea
In the doldrums thinking of me
Me on dry land thinking of he
[Honey honey not next to me

Even if he wanted to
Even if he wanted to
Even if he wanted to
Do you think he’d come back
Would he come back

Oh no..

Honey honey out on the sea
In the doldrums waiting for me
Me in my boat searching for he
Honey honey food for the bees]

”Honey Honey” by Feist
promo for Fashion Cares’ AIDS benefit fashion show in Toronto

Probably the most memorable example of music supervision ever. Everytime I hear this song, I think of this movie and picture Reese Witherspoon driving the little convertible.

“Bittersweet Symphony” by The Verve, as seen in Cruel Intentions


Lyrics:

‘Cause it’s a bittersweet symphony, this life
Trying to make ends meet
You’re a slave to money then you die
I’ll take you down the only road I’ve ever been down
You know the one that takes you to the places
Where all the veins meet yeah

No change, I can’t change
I can’t change, I can’t change
But I’m here in my mind
I am here in my mind
But I’m a million different people
from one day to the next
I can’t change my mind
No, no, no, no, no…

Well I never pray
But tonight I’m on my knees yeah
I need to hear some sounds that recognize the pain in me, yeah
I let the melody shine, let it cleanse my mind, I feel free now
But the airways are clean and there’s nobody singing to me now
…

There’s a fire starting in my heart,
Reaching a fever pitch and it’s bring me out the dark

Finally, I can see you crystal clear,
Go ahead and sell me out and I’ll lay your sheet bare,
See how I’ll leave with every piece of you,
Don’t underestimate the things that I will do
…
The scars of your love remind me of us,
They keep me thinking that we almost had it all,
The scars of your love, they leave me breathless,
I can’t help feeling

We could have had it all,
You’re gonna wish you never had met me
Rolling in the deep,
Tears are gonna fall, rolling in the deep
You had my heart inside of your hands,
And you played it to the beat

Baby, I have no story to be told,
But I’ve heard one on you and I’m gonna make your head burn,
Think of me in the depths of your despair,
Make a home down there as mine sure won’t be shared
…
Throw your soul through every open door,
Count your blessings to find what you look for,
Turn my sorrow into treasured gold,
You’ll pay me back in kind and reap just what you’ve sown

”Rolling In The Deep” by Adele
as heard on the trailer for I Am Number Four

And we walked out of the castle
And we held our head up high
Well we once were the Jesters
In your Kingdom by the sea
And now we’re out to be the masters
For to set our spirits free – set free

“Janglin” by Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros

As heard on a 2011 Ford Fiesta commercial.
(Click here to watch said commercial)

When you were here before,
Couldn’t look you in the eye
You’re just like an angel,
Your skin makes me cry

You float like a feather
In a beautiful world
I wish I was special
You’re so fucking special

But I’m a creep,
I’m a weirdo
What the hell am I doing here?
I don’t belong here

I don’t care if it hurts,
I wanna have control
I want a perfect body
I want a perfect soul

”Creep” originally by Radiohead/Thom Yorke

Performed by Vega Choir in the video above.
Also: The Social Network trailer.
And: Lady Gaga & Andy Warhol.