The World in Your Arms - A 9Rose Fanmix

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The World in Your Arms - A Ninth Doctor/Rose Fan Soundtrack

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1. Ask D.N.A. – Kanno Yoko |DOWNLOAD|

Gummed up, brain dead and can't decide
you can't pray enough, you can't hide
You can be cool or you can cry
Do it wrong
Not it all
Or do it right

No one owes you, no one's to blame
Save for bad genes or DNA
Ask your conscience the why and how
Do it then
Do it when
But, do it now

What's up sweet cakes?
Who's hip anyway?
Earthgirls are easy
What you gonna do lil' buckaroo?
(Hey you, you better ask her nice!)
All you gotta do, happy fool, is ask your mom

Why? - I don't know why this quirky, random song makes me think of the Doctor. Maybe because it's quirky and random? Plus, the line "Earth girls are easy" slays me.

2. Tomorrow Never Comes – Dot Allison |DOWNLOAD|

You’re sailing away to another shore
I heard it today
I can’t tell you anymore
And I thought I saw your shadow in the street today
But that was yesterday
Oh, that was yesterday
With a little courage and time
You might forgive me

Why? - A very sad song. And no matter how much I enjoy warm fluffy thoughts about 9Rose, I still come back to the knowledge that their relationship is transitory, and parting is inevitable.

3. No Reply – Kanno Yoko |DOWNLOAD|

Like the perfect ending
It won’t be long
Till everything I’ve ruined has seen me gone
In time I’ll pray you’ll forgive
Now you know the man I am
Can you forgive me?
I fall like the sands of time
Like some broken rhyme
At feet no longer there

Why? - This is my Ninth Doctor angst anthem. It hits one all the themes of guilt and love and death and the passage of time.


4. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day |DOWNLOAD|

It's something unpredictable, but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

Why? - I think the above is self explanatory.

5. Lullaby – Lamb |DOWNLOAD|

Always and forever
You will see
Always and forever
Just be with me
We’ll have love aplenty
We’ll have joys outnumbered
We’ll share perfect moments
You and me

Why? - A damn good love song. Reminds me of all those great 9rose moments through the beginning of the first season.

6. Never is a Promise – Fiona Apple |DOWNLOAD|

You’ll never live the life that I live
I’ll never live the life that wakes me in the night
You’ll never hear the message I give
You’ll say it looks as though I might give up this fight

Why? - I would have to consider this my Rose theme. I had no doubt from the first couple episodes of the series that she was head-over-heels for the Doctor. But he's emotionally aloof and unnaproachable, at least at first.

7. In My Life – The Beatles |DOWNLOAD|

Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more

Why? - I thought this song was an obvious choice. As a total sap for 9Rose, I like to think that she holds a special place apart from the Doctor's parade of prior companions.

8. Fix You – Coldplay |DOWNLOAD|

And the tears come streaming down your face
When you loose something you can’t replace
When you love someone but it goes to waste
Could it be worse?
Lights will guide you home
And ignite your bones
And I will try to fix you

Why? - This is a modern theme song for loss, angst and redemption. Probably included in more fanmixes in more fandoms that can be counted. With good reason.

9. Survive – David Bowie |DOWNLOAD|

You alone across a floor
You and me and nothing more
You're the great mistake I never made

Why? - The themes of loss and missed opportunity made me think this was a good choice. But I'm beginning to think this fanmix is getting a little too depressing. So lets take a break from all the angst in favor of ...

10. B-Line – Lamb |DOWNLOAD|

If I could just compose myself
I could radiate just the right amount of cool and peace
So then you’d never know
How I tremble to touch you

Why? - ... sex. A big dose of UST set to music with a pretty good beat. This song always makes me think of two people sizing each other up before a really good shag. I suppose that explains why I included it *g*

11. Is Jesus your pal? – GusGus |DOWNLOAD|

Do you need someone too?
Just like those people who
Find peace in someone’s promises
You sure don’t need my promises
So come and sit on my box
Enjoy the view of this water
Where my lifeboat is sinking

Why? - I think it was clear to Rose from the very beginning the huge amount of pain and guilt and baggage her Doctor carries around. I can imagine how it hurt her, watching his suffering, but not having any ability to ease it.

12. Re:Re: - Asian Kung-Fu Generation |DOWNLOAD|

There were times when we connected
Brought together emotions that wouldn’t untangle
it meant everything to me
And I lost it all, just now

Learnt my lesson that things change shape with the passing of time
I’ve been tearing up inside, bitterly reproaching this suffocating day

Wanted to tell you to hold on to
Times spent under the overpass, passing days
That I have such regrets - words I couldn’t voice that day
Full English Lyrics

Why? - One of the two songs in this list sung in Japanese. Added partly because I wanted to add another upbeat song to this angstfest. But I really thought the lyrics, as translated above, were very appropriate. Although the tempo is upbeat, the lyrics are still depressing. More lost love, missed opportunity and angst. *sigh*


13. Nakushita Kotoba (Lost Words) - No Regret Life |DOWNLOAD|

The meaning your words release
An unquestionable love, a feeling that has no answers
If only we could convey all that just by looking at each other
I'm holding drops of time in my hands
I quietly grip the forgotten memories, the lost words
I'll keep this love in my heart
I've lost you...
Full English Lyrics

Why? - Time, love, loss, missed opportunity. Although I should probably be shot for having a Naruto theme song on this list.

14. Your Rain – Yamaoka Akira |DOWNLOAD|

Dancing alone again, again
The rain falling
Only the scent of you remains to dance with me
Nobody showed me how to return the love you give to me
Mom never hugged me
Dad loves a stranger more than me

I never wanted to ever bring you down
All that I need are some simple loving words

You touched my body once, it burns me still softly
Never forget never again we'll be. I cried

Why? - I heard this song and a picture of a Rose-less Doctor bumming around the Tardis immediately came to mind. She left him, and now he's alone again.

15. Call Me Call Me - Steve Conte |DOWNLOAD|

I close my eyes and I keep seeing things
Rainbow waterfalls
Sunny liquid dreams
Confusion creeps inside me raining doubt
Gotta get to you
But I don't know how

Call me call me
Let me know it's alright
Call me call me
Don't you think it's 'bout time
Please won't you call and
Ease my mind
Reasons for me to find you
Peace of mind
What can I do
To get me to you

Why? - Reminds me of The Doctor worrying about Rose. Or perhaps at the very end of season one, when Rose is worried about him.

16. You’re Not Here – Yamaoka Akira |DOWNLOAD|

Blue sky to forever,
The green grass blows in the wind, dancing
It would be much better a sight with you, with me,
If you hadn't met me, I'd be fine on my own, baby,
I never felt so lonely, then you came along,

So now what should I do, I'm strung out, addicted to you,
My body it aches, now that you're gone,
My supply fell through,

You gladly gave me everything you had and more,
You craved my happiness,
When you made me feel joy it made you smile,
But now I feel your stress,
Love was never meant to be such a crazy affair, no
And who has time for tears,
Never thought I'd sit around and cry for your love,
'till now.

Why? - I had no idea music from Silent Hill would be so applicable to a Doctor Who OTP, but I stand corrected. Again, makes me think of the Doctor flying solo through the universe after Rose has left him, and realizing it's not the same.

17. Gotta Knock a little Harder - Kanno Yoko |DOWNLOAD|

Happiness is just a word to me
And it might have meant a thing or two
If I'd known the difference

Emptiness, a lonely parody
And my life, another smokin' gun
A sign of my indifference

Always keepin' safe inside
Where no one ever had a chance
To penetrate a break in

Let me tell you some have tried
But I would slam the door so tight
That they could never get in

Why? - A Ninth Doctor theme. Pain and guilt and bottled up feelings.

18. I Know – Fiona Apple |DOWNLOAD|

And when the crowd becomes your burden
And you've early closed your curtains,
I'll wait by the backstage door
While you try to find the lines to speak your mind
And pry it open, hoping for an encore
And if it gets too late, for me to wait
For you to find you love me, and tell me so
It's ok, don’t need to say it

Why? - More one sided love from Rose's corner. This song reminds me that, even if she never gets what she really wants from the Doctor, I don't think she could ever bring herself to leave him because of it.

19. Bittersweet – Miz |DOWNLOAD|

All this time I've been beside you
Oh, all this time I've been around

I'm cryin', I'm dyin' for you
It's violent yet tasteful
So hard but it's true
Over and over is the promise we make
My bittersweet mistake

Why? - A good Rose song, I thought. It makes me think of unrequited love, or perhaps requited love that ends badly.

20. You Held the World in Your Arms – Idlewild |DOWNLOAD|

Every face
Even the one you saw yesterday
It looks different today
Cos everything's changed since yesterday
In every possible way
Things seem different today
Not like yesterday
Is consideration
More like an exception - of consideration?

Cos you have the world in your arms tonight
And what if you held the world in your arms?

Why - I have a hard time identifying why I put this in here, but it really did strike me as good 9Rose song. Perhaps it's just the feeling I get when I listen to it. I'm curious to see if anyone else agrees.