In The Arms of the Angels - a Cloud, Sephiroth, Zack, and Aeris fanmix

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Username: virago_queen
Class: Black Mage
Description: This is a fanmix that I got the idea for a long time ago, but never got around to making. Finally, after all this time, it's done. The mix focuses on Sephiroth, Zack, Cloud, and Aeris (mostly gen, with a slight pairing bias in one or two songs). Hope you guys enjoy it!

Side A: The Master and The Puppet

• Breakaway || Kelly Clarkson - ("grew up in a small town, and when the rain would fall down, I just stared out my window; dreaming of what could be, and if I'd end up happy"..."trying hard to reach out, but when I'd try to speak out, felt like no one could hear me - wanted to belong here, but something felt so wrong here; so I pray I could breakaway")
• Through Glass || Stone Sour - ("I'm looking at you through the glass...don't know how much time has passed, oh god it feels like forever - but no one ever tells you that forever feels like home, sitting all alone inside your head")
• My Hometown || The Perishers - (”I´ll take you back to my home town, back to where they broke me down. I´ll take you through the streets where rage grew, through the streets I thought I knew”...”I´ll take you back to my home town, the place I wanna leave behind - I´ll take you through the streets where I grew up to be the man you once knew”)
• Perfect Enemy || t.A.T.u - (“Why should I welcome your domination? Why should I listen to explanations? I'm not pretending to make it simple. Try to be something experimental. You don't turn me off, I will never fail. Things I loved before, are now for sale. Keep yourself away, far away from me. I'll forever stay your perfect enemy”)
• Anthem of the Angels || Breaking Benjamin - (“Cold light above us - hope fills the heart and fades away. Skin white as winter, as the sky returns to grey. Days go on forever, but I have not left your side. We can chase the dark together - if you go, then so will I. There is nothing left of you, I can see it in your eyes...Sing the anthem of the angels, and say the last goodbye. I keep holding onto you, but I can't bring you back to life. Sing the anthem of the angels, then say the last goodbye”)

 

• Hand of Sorrow || Within Temptation – (“The child without a name grew up to be the hand - to watch you, to shield you or kill on demand; the choice he’d made he could not comprehend, his blood a grim secret they had to command”)
• Pet || A Perfect Circle - (“Pay no mind what other voices say. They don't care about you, like I do, like I do. Safe from pain and truth and choice and other poison devils, see, they don't give a fuck about you, like I do.”)
• Whisper || Evanescence - ("This truth drives me into madness - I know I can stop the pain, if I will it all away")
• Master of Puppets || Metallica - ("Master of Puppets, I'm pulling your strings, twisting your mind and smashing your dreams - blinded by me, you can't see a thing, just call my name, 'cause I'll hear you scream")
• Carry On My Wayward Son || Kansas - ("Once I rose above the noise and confusion, just to get a glimpse beyond the illusion - I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high...though my eyes could see I still was a blind man, though my mind could think I still was a madman; I hear the voices when I'm dreamin', I can hear them say: 'Carry on my wayward son, for there'll be peace when you are done, lay your weary head to rest - don't you cry no more")

 

Side B: The SOLDIER and The Cetra

• Everyday Superhero || Smash Mouth - ("Just a day job that's someone's gotta do - It's kinda hard when everyone looks up to you; try to make it look easy, gonna make it look good, like anybody would"..."I'm just your average ordinary everyday superhero")
• Rise Today || Alter Bridge - ("Seems to me that we've got each other wrong - was the enemy just your brother all along?"..."The wind is blowing cold - have we lost our way tonight? Have we lost our hope to sorrow? Feels like we're all alone, running further from what's right - and there are no more heroes to follow"..."I want to rise today and change this world")
• Travelin' Soldier || Dixie Chicks - ("Two days past eighteen, he was waiting for the bus in his army greens; sat down at a booth at a cafe there, gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair"..."too young for him they told her, waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier - our love will never end, waitin' for the soldier to come back again; never more to be alone when the letter said the soldier's comin' home")
• Escape from Hellview || CKY - ("I'm on the loose with my neck in the noose but hey...I enjoy the intense"..."if it's the last thing I will do, I'll be the one that will escape from hellview")
• Shot || The Rasmus - ("Tonight we escape, just you and me - we'll find our peace somewhere across the seas; enough of the fight, enough of the fuss, I'll be awake if he finds us - needless to say, I'll stand in your way, I will protect you and I...I'll take the shot for you, I'll be the shield for you, needless to say, I'll stand in your way; I'll take the shot for you, I'll give my life for you - I'll make it stop, I'll take the shot for you, for you")

• Green-Eyed Lady || Sugarloaf - ("Green eyed lady, ocean lady, child of nature, friend of man"..."Green eyed lady, passions lady, dressed in love she lives for life to be")
• Stand My Ground || Within Temptation - (“Though this just might be the ending of the life that I've held so dear – but I won't run, there's no turning back from here. Stand my ground, I won't give in – no more denying, I've got to face it. Won't close my eyes and hide the truth inside – If I don't make it, someone else will, stand my ground”)
• Hands || Jewel - ("If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all okay, and not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful and useless in times like these - I won't be made useless, I won't be idle with despair, I will gather myself around my faith - for light does the darkness most fear...my hands are small, I know, but they're not yours, they are my own - and I am never broken."..."I will get down on my knees, and I will pray")
• Meadows of Heaven || Nightwish - (“I close my eyes, the lantern dies. The scent of awakening, wild honey and dew. Childhood games, woods and lakes, streams of silver, toys of olden days. Meadows of heaven.”)
• Angel || Sarah McLachlan - ("you're in the arms of the angel, may you find some comfort here"..."you keep on building the lie, that you make up for all that you lack; it don't make no difference, escaping one last time; it's easier to believe in this sweet madness - oh, this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees")

Download Links: Mediafire || Sendspace

Let me know if these don't work/you'd like this uploaded elsewhere/you want the tracks uploaded individually.

I also have some really shippy bonus tracks that I'm working on, will probably post those up in the next couple days.

Comments

[virago-queen.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, Angel is seriously sad. The last line that I quoted up there is one of my favorite lines from any song ever. It's just so powerfully written and sung.

Angel gets me, and so does My Immortal by Evanescence (which I almost included, but ultimately stuck in the bonus tracks, since Anthem of the Angels fits a little better).

Thanks! I've always thought that Aeris is really a tough chick at her core - that song seemed to kind of perfectly illustrate that.