Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

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Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by [Eden] » Sun Oct 30, 2011 2:01 pm

I'm sure everybody has his own personal list.

This is a song included in the OST of the anime 'Noir'.
It's called 'Secret Game' and I think both the lyrics and the melody fits O&E love story almost perfectly.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SosTVDZzhzw



Lyrics :

come to me
we never be apart
the sun you see is me

no more pain
no memories remain
now you can play with me

so love me now you are the one
I give you all the stars I see
the rain is gone no pain is here
my heart I beg you all your love

come to me
we never be apart
the sun you see is me

no more pain
no memories remain
now you can play
all the games with me
Outsiders love best.

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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by snaps » Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:02 pm

Nice One. 8-)

For me, so many songs by MUSE: right through from Unintended, via Micro Cuts, Dark Shines, Map of the Problematique, Starlight, Invincible, Sing for Absolution, Stockholm Syndrome (of course!), right up to Undisclosed Desires, just to name a few. You could almost do a LTROI Musical based on their songs. :D

I want to reconcile the violence in your heart
I want to recognise your beauty's not just a mask
I want to exorcise the demons from your past
I want to satisfy the undisclosed desires in your heart

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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by Dragonclaws » Tue Nov 01, 2011 2:11 am

"I Love the Night" by Blue Oyster Cult.

Some lyrics:

No mortal was meant to know such wonder
One look in the mirror told me so
Come darkness I'll see her again
Yes I'm gonna go
'cause now I know

I love the night
The day is ok and the sun can be fun but I live
To see those rays slip away
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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by Bustedstuff15 » Tue Nov 01, 2011 5:11 am

The opening verses of Pink Floyd's "Hey You" always make me think of the isolation and calling out from both Eli and Oskars perspective.

Hey you, out there in the cold
Getting lonely, getting old
Can you feel me?
Hey you, standing in the aisles
With itchy feet and fading smiles
Can you feel me?
Hey you, dont help them to bury the light
Don't give in without a fight.

Hey you, out there on your own
Sitting naked by the phone
Would you touch me?
Hey you, with you ear against the wall
Waiting for someone to call out
Would you touch me?
Hey you, would you help me to carry the stone?
Open your heart, I'm coming home.
There’s a darkness upon me that’s flooded in light

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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by [Eden] » Wed Nov 02, 2011 2:29 pm

Kent - Hjärta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAj9DlWrJ4U



No one left behind
We'll pick you up from behind enemy lines
No one left behind
We'll protect you with all the power we have against the pigs
And yes, we direct the ending
Silence
Action

You know you've become old when your youth
Starts to glitter like Allen's Manhattan
The day before the date

Like the rays from your heart
Like a highway of light
Through the hole in my heart
The rescue comes at last
Through the hole in my heart


Do you still have the map?
Or any idea where we are headed? So lead us
No one left behind
We sabotage all we cannot take with us
And when you open the window a spring wind blows
Change

And behind the walls by the river I leave traces
I wrote my name in the water
So you know where I am

When the rays from my heart
Like a highway of light
Through the hole in my heart
The rescue comes at last
Through the hole in my heart

Like the rays from my heart
Like a highway of light
Through the hole in my heart
The rescue comes at last
Through the hole in my heart
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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by EEA » Wed Nov 02, 2011 6:16 pm

It is a song in spanish called 'Marcas de ayer' Here are someof the lyrics in English. I feel that I know you from long ago/ From another millenium, another heaven/ Tell me if you still remember me/ When I touch your hands/ I can reveal my soul. Also some of the songs from the Flames of Ambition Soundtrack.
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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by DMt. » Wed Nov 02, 2011 6:23 pm

EEA wrote:It is a song in spanish called 'Marcas de ayer' Here are someof the lyrics in English. I feel that I know you from long ago/ From another millenium, another heaven/ Tell me if you still remember me/ When I touch your hands/ I can reveal my soul.
Nice...this is it, right?

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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by intrige » Wed Nov 02, 2011 10:17 pm

This is so Elu surrendering for oskar's love, in a way. I guess in the start she faught it :D I want to make a fanvid with this one one day, when I can. It will be awsome! 8-)
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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by [Eden] » Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:57 am

Flyleaf - Again

(Lacey, the singer (and my dream date) looks like Lina in a lot of pictures - not in this video because of the heavy make-up. She's also very tiny (4'10''))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbdCeWoE ... re=related


"(...)Here you are down on your knees again
trying to find air to breathe again
And only surrender will help you now
I love you please see and believe again

I love that you’re never satisfied
with face value wisdom and happy lies
you take what they say and go back and cry
you’re so close to me that you nearly died


Here you are down on your knees again
trying to find air to breathe again
And only surrender will help you now
I love you please see and believe again

they don’t have to understand you
be strong
wait and know I understand you

be strong
be strong

Here you are down on your knees again
trying to find air to breathe again
Only surrender will help you now
The floodgates are breaking
they're pouring out (...)"
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Re: Songs that make you think of Oskar & Eli

Post by CaptEnder » Tue Nov 22, 2011 3:18 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwiTPOzPJu4


Goes with my interpretation that Eli is the Angel of Death.
“But then, it's probably different when you're young.” -Let The Right One In
"I refuse to feel weak." - Ender's Game
“There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.”―Wicked

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