TGWTG Reverse Big Bang '14 - Lost In A Dream mix

[alien_snipe]

Mix Title: Lost In A Dream
Mixer: alien_snipe
Mix link: http://grooveshark.com/playlist/Lost+In+A+Dream/98640209
  [My intended track 3 was pulled by GrooveShark, but you can find it here: http://youtu.be/1IOYD9AkqHE ]
Mix theme: Slow loss of control and free will. Dreamlike, ethereal beauty gives way to crushing darkness.
Musical genres: Progressive rock, alternative rock, industrial
Warnings: Mental illness, behavior modification, sexual assault, childhood abuse, gaslighting.

Genesis - “Entangled”

Yes - “To Be Over”

King Crimson - “In the Court of the Crimson King”

Keane - “A Bad Dream”

Astronaut Wife - “Superpowers”

Porcupine Tree - “Dark Matter”

Radiohead - “Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders)”

Roger Waters - “Comfortably Numb”

Tool - “H”

Nine Inch Nails - “Every Day Is Exactly the Same”

Gary Numan - “Here in the Black”

Radiohead - “Fitter Happier”

Oingo Boingo - “Insanity”

The Dresden Dolls - “Coin-Operated Boy”

The Smashing Pumpkins - “Eye”

Genesis - “Entangled”

When you're asleep they may show you

Aerial views of the ground,

Freudian slumber empty of sound.

Over the rooftops and houses,

Lost as it tries to be seen

Fields of incentive covered with green.

Mesmerised children are playing,

Meant to be seen but not heard,

"Stop me from dreaming!"

"Don't be absurd!"

"Well if we can help you we will,

You're looking tired and ill.

As I count backwards

Your eyes become heavier still.

Sleep, won't you allow yourself fall?

Nothing can hurt you at all.

With your consent

I can experiment further still."

Madrigal music is playing,

Voices can faintly be heard,

"Please leave this patient undisturbed."

Sentenced to drift far away now,

Nothing is quite what it seems,

Sometimes entangled in your own dreams.

"Well, if we can help you we will,

Soon as you're tired and ill.

With your consent

We can experiment further still.

Well, thanks to our kindness and skill

You'll have no trouble until

You catch your breath

And the nurse will present you the bill!"

Yes - “To Be Over”

We go sailing down the calming streams

Drifting endlessly by the bridge

To be over, we will see, to be over

Do not suffer through the game of chance that plays

Always doors to lock away your dreams

Think it over, time will heal your fear, think it over

Balance the thoughts that release within you

Childlike soul dreamer

One journey, one to seek and see in every light

Do open true pathways away

Carrying closer

Go gently, holding doors will open every way

You wander true pathways away

After all your soul will still surrender

After all don't doubt your part

Be ready to be loved

King Crimson - “In the Court of the Crimson King”

[Mixer's note: this song got yanked from Grooveshark RIGHT before I submitted the mix. Very sad!]

The rusted chains of prison moons

Are shattered by the sun

I walk a road, horizons change

The tournament's begun

The purple piper plays his tune

The choir softly sing

Three lullabies in an ancient tongue

For the court of the crimson king

The keeper of the city keys

Put shutters on the dreams

I wait outside the pilgrims' door

With insufficient schemes

The black queen chants the funeral march

The cracked brass bells will ring

To summon back the fire witch

To the court of the crimson king

The gardener plants an evergreen

Whilst trampling on a flower

I chase the wind of a prism ship

To taste the sweet and sour

The pattern juggler lifts his hand

The orchestra begin

As slowly turns the grinding wheel

In the court of the crimson king

On soft grey mornings widows cry

The wise men share a joke

I run to grasp divining signs

To satisfy the hoax

The yellow jester does not play

But gently pulls the strings

And smiles as the puppets dance

In the court of the crimson king

Keane - “A Bad Dream”

Why do I have to fly

Over every town up and down the line?

I'll die in the clouds above

And you that I defend I do not love

I wake up, it's a bad dream, no one on my side

I was fighting, but I just feel too tired to be fighting

Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Where will I meet my fate?

Baby, I'm a man I was born to hate

And when will I meet my end?

In a better time you could be my friend

I wake up, it's a bad dream, no one on my side

I was fighting, but I just feel too tired to be fighting

Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Wouldn't mind it if you were by my side

But you're long gone, yeah you're long gone now

Yeah

Where do we go?

I don't even know my strange old face

And I'm thinking about those days

And I'm thinking about those days

I wake up, it's a bad dream, no one on my side

I was fighting, but I just feel too tired to be fighting

Guess I'm not the fighting kind

Wouldn't mind it if you were by my side

But you're long gone, yeah you're long gone now

Yeah

Astronaut Wife - “Superpowers”

If you don't believe me now I know you will

I'm gonna make us both a little pill to

Give us everything we ever wanted

We don't have to sit yet another day

We'll be a million miles away from

Everyone that gets to us

I think I've found a way to make us both invisible

Fly up high in the sky like supermen

No one will ever see us again

And would you walk with me beyond the moon

One cloudy Monday afternoon

We could stay lost for hours

Showing each other our superpowers

See, I told you I could make us disappear

I hope the message that I'm giving you is

Loud and clear enough

It's everything we've been dreaming of

When you wanna go back home just let me know

But I can't think of any reason why we'd

Ever go back now we're gone

I think I've found a way to make us both invisible

Fly up high in the sky like supermen

No one will ever see us again

And would you walk with me beyond the moon

One cloudy Monday afternoon

We could stay lost for hours

Showing each other our superpowers

And would you walk with me beyond the moon

One cloudy Monday afternoon

We could stay lost for hours

Showing each other our superpowers

Porcupine Tree - “Dark Matter”

Inside the vehicle the cold is extreme

Smoke in my throat kicks me out of my dream

I try to relax but its warmer outside

I fail to connect, it's a tragic divide

This has become a full time career

To die young would take only 21 years

Gun down a school or blow up a car

The media circus will make you a star

Crushed like a rose

In the river flow

I am I know

Dark matter flowing out on to a tape

Is only as loud as the silence it breaks

Most things decay in a matter of days

The product is sold the memory fades

Crushed like a rose

In the river flow

I am I know

“You've just had a heavy session of electroshock therapy, and you're more relaxed than you've been in weeks. All those childhood traumas wiped away, along with most of your personality...”

Radiohead - “Sit Down. Stand Up. (Snakes & Ladders)”

Sit down, stand up

Sit down, stand up

Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)

Walk into the jaws of hell (sit down, stand up)

Anytime (sit down)

Anytime (stand up)

Sit down, stand up

Sit down, stand up

We can wipe you out anytime (sit down, stand up)

We can wipe you out (sit down, stand up)

Anytime

Anytime

Stand up (the rain drops the rain drops)

Sit down (the rain drops the rain drops)

Oh

The rain drops [x46]

Roger Waters - “Comfortably Numb”

[Mixer's note: I very much prefer the version of this song off “The Wall”, but it isn't available on Grooveshark. It's a funny Internet.]

Hello?

Is there anybody in there?

Just nod if you can hear me.

Is there anyone home?

Come on, now,

I hear you're feeling down.

Well I can ease your pain

Get you on your feet again.

Relax.

I'll need some information first.

Just the basic facts.

Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.

You are only coming through in waves.

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.

When I was a child I had a fever

My hands felt just like two balloons.

Now I've got that feeling once again

I can't explain you would not understand

This is not how I am.

I have become comfortably numb.

O.K.

Just a little pinprick.

There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!

But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?

I do believe it's working, good.

That'll keep you going through the show

Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding

A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.

You are only coming through in waves.

Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.

When I was a child

I caught a fleeting glimpse

Out of the corner of my eye.

I turned to look but it was gone

I cannot put my finger on it now

The child is grown,

The dream is gone.

I have become comfortably numb.

Tool - “H”

What's coming through is alive.

What's holding up is a mirror.

But what's singing songs is a snake

Looking to turn this piss to wine.

They're both totally void of hate,

But killing me just the same.

The snake behind me hisses what my damage could have been.

My blood before me begs me open up my heart again.

And I feel this coming over like a storm again.

Considerately.

Venomous voice, tempts me, drains me, bleeds me,

Leaves me cracked and empty, drags me down like some sweet gravity.

The snake behind me hisses what my damage could have been.

My blood before me begs me open up my heart again.

And I feel this coming over like a storm again.

I am too connected to you to slip away, to fade away.

Days away I still feel you touching me, changing me

And considerately killing me.

Without the skin,

Beneath the storm,

Under these tears

The walls came down.

And the snake is drowned and

As I look in his eyes,

My fear begins to fade

Recalling all of those times.

I could have cried then.

I should have cried then.

And as the walls come down and

As I look in your eyes

My fear begins to fade

Recalling all of the times

I have died

and will die.

It's all right.

I don't mind.

I am too connected to you to slip away, to fade away.

Days away I still feel you touching me, changing me,

And considerately killing me.

Nine Inch Nails - “Every Day Is Exactly the Same”

I believe I can see the future

'Cause I repeat the same routine

I think I used to have a purpose

But then again, it might have been a dream

I think I used to have a voice

Now I never make a sound

I just do what I've been told

I really don't want them to come around, oh no

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

I can feel their eyes are watching

In case I lose myself again

Sometimes I think I'm happy here

Sometimes, yet I still pretend

I can't remember how this got started

But I can tell you exactly how it will end

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

I'm writing on a little piece of paper

I'm hoping someday you might find

Well I'll hide it behind something

They won't look behind

I am still inside you

A little bit comes bleeding through

I wish this could have been any other way

But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

Gary Numan - “Here in the Black”

Here in the black there's a feeling of loss but it's hungry and restless and it's

Looking, desperate for something and it feels like a child but not screaming or helpless and it's

Absent of mercy, it's alive and it feels with not a shred of compassion or love

It comes like a pouring of evil, it's a stain when the ground is a desolate shadow of fear

It's dark and I'm lost, there's a breath in the wind and the breath is malicious and I

Don't know whether to run or should I drop to my knees and pretend I'm religious because

It's cold and I'm scared and the whispers are a madness that voices the question to God:

Is this real or imagined, because if I'm asleep well then I don't need to scream for long

Here in the black, it comes

Here in the black, it comes

Here in the black, it comes for me

Here in the black, I'm lost

It's here and I'm feeling like a thought in the mind but it's beautifully vicious and I

Can't hide, not sure if I want to, it crawls in the mist like a vision of Judas and it's

So close I can feel it and I'm chilled to the bone, I'm a statue in ice but it's

Unsure if it's enough so it waits like a ghost for the demon assassin of God

Here in the black, it comes

Here in the black, it comes

Here in the black, it comes for me

Here in the black, I'm lost

And all you see is dark and vague

And all you feel is life unmade

And all your hopes just bleed away

And all you are is lost and fades

Here in the black, it comes

Here in the black, it comes

Here in the black, it comes for me

Here in the black, I'm lost

Radiohead - “Fitter Happier”

Fitter, happier, more productive,

Comfortable,

Not drinking too much,

Regular exercise at the gym

(Three days a week),

Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries,

At ease,

Eating well

(No more microwave dinners and saturated fats),

A patient better driver, a safer car

(Baby smiling in back seat),

Sleeping well (No bad dreams),

No paranoia,

Careful to all animals

(Never washing spiders down the plughole),

Keep in contact with old friends

(Enjoy a drink now and then),

Will frequently check credit at (moral) bank (hole in the wall),

Favors for favors,

Fond but not in love,

Charity standing orders,

On Sundays ring road supermarket

(No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants),

Car wash (Also on Sundays),

No longer afraid of the dark or midday shadows

Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate,

Nothing so childish, at a better pace,

Slower and more calculated,

No chance of escape,

Now self-employed,

Concerned (but powerless),

An empowered and informed member of society

(Pragmatism not idealism),

Will not cry in public,

Less chance of illness,

Tires that grip in the wet

(Shot of baby strapped in back seat),

A good memory,

Still cries at a good film,

Still kisses with saliva,

No longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,

That's driven into frozen winter shit

(The ability to laugh at weakness),

Calm,

Fitter,

Healthier and more productive

A pig in a cage on antibiotics.

Oingo Boingo - “Insanity”

I'm so sorry, please forgive me

Who do I pray to to straighten out this problem?

Straighten out this problem, straighten out my mind

Straighten out this crooked tongue (this crooked tongue, this crooked tongue)

My mind has wandered, from the straight and narrow

My mind has wandered from the flock, you see?

My mind has wandered, the man just said so

My mind has wandered, I heard it on TV

And the flock has wandered away from me now

All around the world now like a big bright cherry cloud

Traveling from home to home, TV sets and telephones

Here it comes just like a storm, bathe in it and be reborn

Time to let the world know, welcome madness say hello, say hello, say hello

Like a wave we cannot see washing over you and me

Hiding here and hiding there, madness hiding everywhere

Such a curiosity, here it comes to set us free

Plenty left for you and me, say hello insanity

I am the virus, are you the cure?

I am morally, I'm morally impure

I am a disease and I am unclean

I am not part of God's well oiled machine

Christian nation, assimilate me, take me in your arms and set me free

I am part of a degenerate elite, dragging our society into the street, yeah

Into the abyss and to the sewer don't you see

The man just told me, he told me on TV

Do you think you're better than me

Do you want to kill me or befriend me

And the alcoholic bastard waved his finger at me

And his voice was filled with evangelical glee now

Sipping down his gin and tonics

While preaching about the evils of narcotics

And the evils of sex, and the wages of sin

While he mentally fondles his next of kin

Cause my mind has wandered from the flock you see

And the flock has wandered away from me

And he waved his hypnotizing finger at me

Let's imitate reality

Let's strive for mediocrity

Let's make believe we're all the same

Let's sanitize our little brains

I'd love to take you home with me and tuck you into bed

I'd love to see what makes you tick inside your pretty head

I'd love to hear you laugh tonight, I'd love to hear you weep

I'd love to listen to you while you're screaming in your sleep

Christian sons, Christian daughters

Lead me along like a lamb to the slaughter

Purify my brain and hose down my soul

White perfection, perfection is my goal

Do you think you're better than me

Do you want to kill me or befriend me

Christian nation, make us alright

Put us through the filter and make us pure and white

My mind has wandered from the flock you see

And the flock has wandered away from me

Let's talk of family values while we sit and watch the slaughter

Hypothetical abortions on imaginary daughters

The white folks think they're on the top ask any proud white male

A million years of evolution, we get Danny Quayle

All around the world now like a big bright cherry cloud

Traveling from home to home, TV sets and telephones

Here it comes just like a storm, bathe in it and be reborn

Time to let the world know, welcome madness say hello

Let's imitate reality (insanity)

Let's strive for mediocrity (insanity)

Let's make believe we're all the same (now that's for me)

Let's sanitize our little brains (insanity)

I'd love to take you home with me, I'd love to tuck you in

I wish I could protect you from the wages of our sin

I'd love to hear you scream tonight, I'd love to hear you cry

Protect you from the madness that is raining from the sky

Let's imitate reality (insanity)

Let's strive for mediocrity (insanity)

Let's make believe we're all the same (now that's for me)

Let's sanitize our little brains (insanity)

I'd love to take you home with me and tuck you into bed

I'd love to see what makes you tick inside your pretty head

I wish that I could keep you in a precious Chinese box

On Sundays I would pray for you so it would never stop

I'd love to hear you laugh tonight, I'd love to hear you weep

I'd love to listen to you while you're screaming in your sleep

I'd love to soothe you with my voice and take your hand in mine

I'd love to take you past the stars and out of reach of time

I'd love to see inside your mind and tear it all apart

To cut you open with a knife and find your sacred heart

I'd love to take your satin dolls and tear them all to shreds

I'd love to mess your pretty hair, I'd love to see you dead

The Dresden Dolls - “Coin-Operated Boy”

coin operated boy

sitting on the shelf he is just a toy

but i turn him on and he comes to life

automatic joy

that is why i want a coin operated boy

made of plastic and elastic

he is rugged and long-lasting

who could ever ever ask for more

love without complications galore

many shapes and weights to choose from

i will never leave my bedroom

i will never cry at night again

wrap my arms around him and pretend....

coin operated boy

all the other real ones that i destroy

cannot hold a candle to my new boy and i'll

never let him go and i'll never be alone

not with my coin operated boy......

this bridge was written to make you feel smittener

with my sad picture of girl getting bitterer

can you extract me from my plastic fantasy

i didnt think so but im still convinceable

will you persist even after i bet you

a billion dollars that i'll never love you

will you persist even after i kiss you

goodbye for the last time

will you keep on trying to prove it?

i'm dying to lose it...

to lose it

i'm losing

my confidence

i want it

i want you

i want a coin operated boy.

and if i had a star to wish on

for my life i cant imagine

any flesh and blood could be his match

i can even take him in the bath

coin operated boy

he may not be real experienced with girls

but i know he feels like a boy should feel

isnt that the point that is why i want a

coin operated boy

with his pretty coin operated voice

saying that he loves me that hes thinking of me

straight and to the point

that is why i want

a coin operated boy.

The Smashing Pumpkins - “Eye”

I lie, I wait

I stop, I hesitate

I am, I breathe

I meant, I think of me

Is it any wonder I can't sleep?

All I have is all you gave to me

Is it any wonder I found peace through you?

Turn to the gates of heaven, to myself be damned

Turn away from light

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough

I taste, I love

I come, I bleed enough

I hate, I'm not

I was, I want too much

Is it any wonder I can't sleep?

All I have is all you gave to me

Is it any wonder I found peace through you?

Turn to the gates of heaven, to myself be damned

Turn away from light

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch

It's not enough, just a touch