Fanmix: Roadtrip - the Gaang

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Notes: This mix has a kind of AU-ish feel to it. Aang traverses Europe, Toph and Sokka have an assignation in a darkened theatre, and the Gaang at large bounces between California highways and Oregon hillsides ablaze, between shining cities and cheap apartment buildings. It's the sort of journey they would have taken had they resided in our world.

LYRIC SAMPLING

Everybody - The Employment Pages

We spread out and occupy the cracks in the urban streets.
Idle now: I rearrange the furniture as you sleep. as you sleep, as you sleep...

It's so appropriate: the way we amplify the sound,
and then the neighbors drop by and they ask to turn it down again...


Aang - Dusseldorf

In Corsica I floated away, all the way to Marseilles
I should have held an after party for all the thoughts I didn't say
In Dusseldorf I met a dwarf
With bad breath and a really good tan
In Gelterkinden I remembered how to laugh
And I never ever forgot it again


Katara - The Lighthouse

It's the place that's said to break
It's just as safe from the outside tonight

And I want that
I face the storms at the tides
From the lighthouse

And I want that
Unleash the storm and the night

Oh...

What do the waves have to say now?
What do the waves have to say now?


Sokka - When I'm Not Near the Girl I Love

Oh my heart is beating wildly
And it's all because you're here.
When I'm not near the girl I love,
I love the girl I'm near.

Ev'ry femme that flutters by me
Is a flame that must be fanned.
When I can't fondle the hand I'm fond of,
I fondle the hand at hand.


Toph - Warrior

Well, trouble at home
Travel the way you say
“The road don’t like me”
Travel away
Travel it all away
“The road’s gonna end on me”

Men, they like me
‘Cause I’m a warrior, a warrior
Stand on my feet
Dance the warrior, the warrior
Where would I be?
I’d be a warrior, a warrior


Everybody - California One/Youth and Beauty Brigade

Take a long drive with me
On California one, California one
Take a long drive with me
On California one, California one...

And the road a-winding goes
From golden gate to roaring cliff-side
And the light is softly low as our hearts become sweetly untied
Beneath the sun of California one

...

We're lining up the light-loafers
And the bored bench warmers
Castaways and cutouts, fill it up
Come join the youth and beauty brigade
Nothing will stand in our way


Aang, to Katara - Shiver

So I look in your direction
But you pay me no attention, do you?
I know you don't listen to me
'Cos you say you see straight through me, don't you?

On and on
From the moment I wake, to the moment I sleep
I'll be there by your side; just you try and stop me
I'll be waiting in line, just to see if you care


Toph, to Sokka - Maps

Made off
Don’t stray
Well, my kind's your kind
I’ll stay the same
Pack up
Don’t stray
Oh say, say, say
Oh say, say, say

Wait! They don’t love you like I love you
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you
Ma-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aps
Wait! They don’t love you like I love you


Katara, to Aang - Personal Jesus

Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone who cares
Your own personal jesus
Someone to hear your prayers
Someone whos there

Feeling unknown
And you're all alone
Flesh and bone
By the telephone
Lift up the receiver
I'll make you a believer


Sokka, to Toph - The Dark of the Matinee

You take your white finger
Slide the nail under the top and bottom buttons of my blazer
Relax the fraying wool, slacken ties
And I'm not to look at you in the shoe, but the eyes, find the eyes

Find me and follow me through corridors, refectories and files
You must follow, leave this academic factory
You will find me in the matinee
The dark of the matinee
It's better in the matinee
The dark of the matinee is mine
Yes it's mine


Everybody - Grapevine Fires

We bought some wine and some paper cups
Near your daughter's school and we picked her up
And drove to the cemetery on a hill
On a hill

And we watched the plumes paint the sky gray
As she laughed and danced through the field of gray
And there I knew it would be alright
That everything would be alright
Would be alright
Would be alright
Would be alright

And the news reports on the radio
Said it was getting worse
As the ocean air fanned the flames
But I couldn't think of anywhere I would have rather been
To watch it all burn away
To burn away


Everybody - Fake Empire

Stay out super late tonight
picking apples, making pies
put a little something in our lemonade and take it with us
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
we’re half-awake in a fake empire

Tiptoe through our shiny city
with our diamond slippers on
do our gay ballet on ice
bluebirds on our shoulders
we’re half-awake in a fake empire
we’re half-awake in a fake empire


Everybody - All My Friends

When I was young I did the Ricky Vaughn twice in one summer
We raised in soft surroundings needed to be harder somehow
I found the sweetest angel, years went by before I broke down her front
Before she left, that angel beat me so bad, I swore it was Altamont
And now your stories will not fill what I led slip through my hands
I will not drink a drop, but raise a glass to all of my friends

I found a way to remain 19/ My name is Jonathan I've just kissed a dream
Bred since birth to be chief Primate/ My name is Levi I'm leading the apes
These doctors put me in such a rut/ My name is Michael all the chicks hate my guts
I've learned just about everything/ I am Ignatius, all your friends call me king