Songs that make you think of... HDM

[Lolua]

This song sort of reminds me of Will and Lyra and their plans at the end.

Song: "World"
Artist: Five for Fighting
Album: Two Lights
Official video: youtube.com/watch?v=K-kpR32B-Uk


Got a package full of wishes
A time machine, a magic wand
A globe made out of gold

No instructions or commandments
Laws of gravity or
Indecisions to uphold

Printed on the box I see
A.C.M.E.'s Build-a-World-To-Be
Take a chance, grab a piece
Help me to believe it

What kind of world do you want?
Think anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now

Should there be people or peoples
Money, funny pedestals for fools who never pay
Raise your army, choose your steeple
Don't be shy, the satellites can look the other way

Lose the earthquakes
Keep the faults
Fill the oceans without the salt
Let every man own his own hand
Can you dig it, baby?

What kind of world do you want
Think anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece
Be careful what you wish for
History starts now

Sunlight's on the bridge
Sunlight's on the way
Tomorrow's calling
There's more to this than Love

What kind of world do you want
What kind of world do you want

What kind of world do you want
Think anything
Let's start at the start
Build a masterpiece

History starts now
Starts now

Be careful what you wish for
Start now
Now

[Big Brother]

Song: Silent Legacy
Artist: Melissa Etheridge
Album: Yes I Am
The song can be heard on this video clip (ignore the slideshow of somebody's pics they snapped at some zoo):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww4AKiOsLtA

Why did you steal the matches
From the one room motel
Once they gave you answers
Now they give you hell
They will never understand
They wonder where did they go wrong
How could you be so selfish
Why can't you get along

And as you pray in your darkness
For wings to set you free
You are bound to your silent legacy

You've seen it in the movies
And you've heard it on the street
Craving the affection
Your blood is full of heat
They don't listen to your reasons
As original as sin
Deny all that you feel
And they will bring you home again

And as you pray in your darkness
For wings to set you free
You are bound to your silent legacy

Your body is alive
But no one told you what you'd feel
The empty aching hours
Trying to conceal
The natural progression
Is the coming of your age
But they cover it with shame
And turn it into rage

And as you pray in your darkness
For wings to set you free
You are bound to your silent legacy

You are digging for the answers
Until your fingers bleed
To satisfy the hunger
To satiate the need
They feed you on the guilt
To keep you humble keep you low
Some man and myth they made up
A thousand years ago

And as you pray in your darkness
For wings to set you free
You are bound to your silent legacy

Mothers tell your children
Be quick you must be strong
Life is full of wonder
Love is never wrong
Remember how they taught you
How much of it was fear
Refuse to hand it down
The legacy stops here

Oh my child
Oh my child
Hush
Hush, my child
Oh my child
Oh my child
Oh my child, ohhhhhhh...


Okay, the first verse and a half don't fit well, but I think the second half of the song fits perfectly, eh?

[Big Brother]

Song: Elysian Fields
Artist: Megadeth
Album: Youthanasia
The song is available on this video (ignore the clips of some idiots playing some incredibly juvenile video game about penguin golf or somesuch):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiDHxz-b_go

Uneasy feeling, Burning out my eyes
I hope the end is less painful than my life
I stand on trial before the gods
On Judgement day
A blink of an eye between
The cradle and the grave

One last look at visions of flesh
The last, best hope of man on earth
Pontius Pilate still washing his hands
The world don't want to be saved
Only left alone

(Elysian Fields...)
We are storming the heavens
(Elysian Fields...)
To raise the swords and shields
(Elysian Fields...)
We ascend to our destiny
(Elysian Fields...)
To the Elysian fields

Soaring to the sun
With blood upon their wings
Superstitious dust left twisting in the wind
Mankind still has one belief
One decree that stands alone
The laying down of arms
Is like cancer to their bones

One last look at visions of flesh
The last, best hope of man on earth
Pontius Pilate still washing his hands
The world don't want to be saved
Only left alone

(Elysian Fields...)
We are storming the heavens
(Elysian Fields...)
To raise the swords and shields
(Elysian Fields...)
We ascend to our destiny
(Elysian Fields...)
To the Elysian fields

(Elysian Fields...)
We are storming the heavens
(Elysian Fields...)
To raise the swords and shields
(Elysian Fields...)
We ascend to our destiny
(Elysian Fields...)
To the Elysian fields

Okay, it fits the later books better, but it even mentions Dust, and it has the most HDM-esque album title so far (although "Two Lights" is pretty good too)

[Big Brother]

Song: All This Time
Artist: Sting
Album: The Soul Cages
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6Ewh6Bk-Qo

I looked out across
The river today
I saw a city in the fog and an old church tower
Where the seagulls play
I saw the sad shire horses walking home
In the sodium light
I saw two priests on the ferry
October geese on a cold winter's night

And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea

Two priests came round our house tonight
One young, one old, to offer prayers for the dying
To serve the final rite
One to learn, one to teach
Which was the cold wind blows
Fussing and flapping in priestly black
Like a murder of crows

And all this time, the river flowed
Endlessly to the sea
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
And I'd bury the old man,
I'd bury him at sea

Blessed are the poor, for they shall inherit the earth
Better to be poor than a fat man in the eye of a needle
And as these words were spoken I swore I hear
The old man laughing
'What good is a used up world and how could it be
Worth having'

And all this time the river flowed
Endlessly like a silent tear
And all this time the river flowed
Father, if Jesus exists,
Then how come he never lived here

The teachers told us, the Romans built this place
They built a wall and a temple, an edge of the empire
Garrison town,
They lived and they died, they prayed to their gods
But the stone gods did not make a sound
And their empire crumbled, 'til all that was left
Were the stones the workmen found

And all this time the river flowed
In the falling light of a northern sun
If I had my way I'd take a boat from the river
Men go crazy in congregations
But they only get better
One by one
One by one...

[Big Brother]

Song: Two Worlds Collide
Artist: Inspiral Carpets
Album: Revenge of the Goldfish
Video: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=t_dE4rZimZY

I steal to feed, I fight to breathe, through hunger not greed
I find these days it's the only way I can survive
WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE ?
IS THIS THE END, WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE ?
Ooh, in this dusty city with all the gods on the hill
Will not one of them help us ?
The temple which they built is an empty shell
The people who I see, scurrying on the streets, oblivious to our needs
I wonder sometimes how so many could be so blind ?
WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE ?
IS THIS THE END, WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE ?
WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE ?
IS THIS THE END, WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE ?
Today I stole the sun from the sky, the color from the heart of a rose
Today I took food from the hand of a starving child
WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE ?
IS THIS THE END, WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE ?
WHAT HAVE I DONE WITH MY LIFE ?
IS THIS THE END, WHEN TWO WORLDS COLLIDE ?
(I guess that makes me a bad man)
(I guess that makes me a bad man)
(I guess that makes me a bad man)

[Big Brother]

Posting that previous one reminded me of this one, not as good musically but even better lyrically (although the chorus doesn't work all that well...)

Song: When Worlds Collide
Artist: Powerman 5000
Album: Tonight The Stars Revolt!
Video: uk.youtube.com/watch?v=81aJmjUK08s

What is it really
That's going on here
You've got your system for total control
So is there really anybody out there
Now watch us suffer cause we can't go
What is it really that is in your head
What little life that you had just died
I'm gonna be the one that's takin over
Now this is what it's like when worlds collide

Are you ready to go
Cause I'm ready to go
What you gonna do baby baby
Are you going with me
Cause I'm going with you
It's the end of all time

What is it really that motivates you
The need to fly or this fear to stop
I'll go along for the ride but surprise
When we get there I say 9 of 10 drop
Now who's the light and who is the devil
You can't decide so I'll be your guide
And one by one they will be hand chosen
Now this is what it's like when worlds collide

[chorus]

What is it really when they're fallin over
Everything that you thought was denied
I'm gonna be the one that's takin over
Now this is what it's like when worlds collide