Shipping Songs

[tardis_stowaway]

Meme time!  This one is swiped from the_redjay:  at the moment, what songs remind you of your OTPs? Since usually one of the first signs that I'm going to intensely ship a couple is that I start mentally compiling a playlist, I couldn't resist this meme.  I'm forcing myself to stick to one song per ship.  Links go to some way to listen to the song, either on YouTube or a website with streaming player.  For each, I'm including some lyrics that exemplify why I think this song suits this ship.

Doctor Who

Doctor/Rose/Jack-"Forces of the Unseen," Cloud Cult.  (This song is begging for a "Parting of the Ways"-centric fanvid.)

It's not impossible, you'll see.
You've never been inside my head:
Ten billion burning suns and belief in a strength that can raise the dead.
It's the warmth when you're next to me.
It's the bright white light of a fevered dream.
It's the storm in your eyes.
It's in the roots of the tree:
The underestimated power of the forces of the unseen.

Doctor/Rose- "Run," Snow Patrol (This was so hard to choose!  I have approximately a zillon songs that make me think of Doctor/Rose, some specific to Nine or Ten or TenToo, some associated with particular fics.  "Run" is perhaps my favorite for their relationship as a whole.)

Louder, louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say...

Doctor/Jack- "The Mercy of the Fallen," Dar Williams (Yeah, I wrote a Doctor/Jack fic that shares this song's title.)

There's the weak and the strong
And the many stars that guide us
We have some of them inside us

Sherlock

Sherlock/John/Mary- "Little Talks," Of Monsters and Men (This song even mentions an empty house.)

'Cause though the truth may vary
This ship will carry
our bodies safe to shore

Sherlock/John- "Save Me," Aimee Mann

But can you save me?
Come on and save me...
If you could save me,
From the ranks of the freaks,
Who suspect they could never love anyone.

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Steve/Bucky- "Feel Again," OneRepublic

I'm feeling better ever since you know me
I was a lonely soul but that's the old me
It's been a long time coming since I've seen your face
I've been everywhere and back trying to replace
Everything that I broke 'til my feet went numb
Praying like a fool just shot the gun

Natasha/Clint- "Chasing Twisters," Delta Rae

So kiss me now
This whiskey on my breath
Feel the lives that I have taken
What little soul that I have left.
And oh, my god
I'll take you to the grave
The only love I've ever known
The only soul I've ever saved.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy/Spike- "Ghost," Indigo Girls

And I guess that's how you started
Like a pinprick to my heart
But at this point you rush right through me
And I start to drown
And there's not enough room
In this world for my pain
Signals cross and love gets lost
And time passed makes it plain
Of all my demon spirits
I need you the most

Willow/Tara- "Blood and Fire," Indigo Girls (This is a S6 Willow/Tara song.  Also, it's amusing that the peaks of my obsessions with BtVS and the Indigo Girls happened at the same period of high school and early college, so that I have a lot of Indigo Girls songs mentally associated with various characters and plotlines of this show.)

You have spent nights, thinking of me
Missing my arms, but you needed to leave.
Leaving the cuts, leaving my burns,
Hoping I'd learn.
Blood and Fire
Are too much for these restless arms to hold.
And my nights of desire are calling me,
Back to your fold.

X-Files
Mulder/Scully - "Head Over Feet," Alanis Morissette (Ah, my first OTP!  Back in high school I made an actual casette mixed tape to express my feelings about their UST and ultimate true love.  This is one of the songs that was on there.)

You're the best listener that I've ever met
You're my best friend
Best friend with benefits
What took me so long?

Comments

[katemacetak.livejournal.com]

Making fanmixes is fun. Do you have an 8tracks account or do you just make up the playlists in your head?

I really love your choice for Natasha and Clint. Delta Rae. <3
Also, the feels I got listening to Run...

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

I make my playlists in iTunes. I've thought about making fanmixes, but most people tend to produce covers to go with fanmixes and I have no photoshop skills. I don't really know how 8tracks works. Mostly when I follow a link there I just get annoyed that it doesn't seem to display the tracks that are coming up.

Thank you! Delta Rae is so good. Their music is indeed full of Feels.

[luckweaver.livejournal.com]

The Mulder/Scully and the Doctor/Rose/Jack ones are perfect.

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[joking.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, I can't believe I never thought to apply "Save Me" to Sherlock/John! It's so apt! And now I need to go listen to "Forces of the Unseen."

[tardis-stowaway.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I'm glad you agree that "Save Me" suits Sherlock/John so well. :) I hope you like "Forces of the Unseen." If you like the music, there's also a really great multi-companion fanvid for another song from the same Cloud Cult album, "You'll Be Bright."