...So I'm jumping on the fanmix bandwagon with some Tibetan chanting, showtunes, and more Peter Gabriel than you can shake a stick at. (Because you know Adrian Veidt is a total Peter Gabriel fan.) This is a long mix, but I hope you'll bear with me...
The stag in the forest runs free.
But gather together to greet the storm...
Tomorrow belongs to me.
The Rhine gives its gold to the sea.
Tomorrow belongs...
President - IAMX (The Alternative)They pull our strings
The animals
They blind, they breed the hate
Under their wing
We're scientists
We swallow what they think
For all you lonely boys
I will be president
In all you sons of men
I can be accident
Most fall in line
They do the dance
And salute the safest thing
Bought with their lives
Cry and socialize
And throw all the beauty away
For all you lonely boys
I will be president
In all you sons of men
I can be accident
Chapter 2 - AwakeningFree from the cocoon of his worldly ties, he sets out on a voyage of self-discovery. His quest culminates in a solitary journey into the desert, from which he returns, transformed and purified, ready to take on a new form -- the phoenix rising from ashes -- and return to the world he left behind.Padmakara - Choying Drolma and Steve Tibbetts (Selwa)
(instrumental)
Of These, Hope / Lazarus Raised - Peter Gabriel (Passion)(instrumental)
Chapter 3 - The Birth of OzymandiasHe returns as a conqueror to the city he left, joining the ranks of its new heroes, a cadre of masked adventurers. (The fact that the city does not recognize its conqueror yet is only a minor obstacle.) In the towering skyline, the blinding lights, the street-level cacophony, he sees only how the city can be purified, transformed.
in future years, while recognizing his naivete, he will still remember it fondly.Oh Jungleland - Simple Minds (Once Upon a Time)
Oh Jungleland
They call you home sweet home
You make me feel so sad, to leave here all alone
But there is a kid called Hope
And he's holding out his hand
He sees the Northern Lights
above this highrise land
Don't look back, never look back
Don't look back, never look back
Oh Jungleland
City of Blinding Lights - U2 (How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb)The more you see the less you know
The less you find out as you go
I knew much more then than I do now
Neon heart, dayglo eyes
A city lit by fireflies
They’re advertising in the skies
For people like us
And I miss you when you’re not around
I’m getting ready to leave the ground….
Oh you look so beautiful tonight
In the city of blinding lights
Chapter 4 - DisillusionmentThe abortive Crimebusters meeting in 1969 brings his dreams to a crashing halt; in the ashes of the map, he sees the ashes of his grand ambitions, at least in their original form. Schoolboy heroics, he now admits, are not enough. There must be another way, something more...Spiralling - Keane (Perfect Symmetry)Cos now I only see my dreams, in everything I touch
Feel their cold hands on, everything that I love
Cold like some magnificent skyline
Out of my reach, but always in my eyeline now
We're tumbling down
We're spiralling
Tied up to the ground
We're spiralling
I fashioned you from jewels and stone
I made you in the image of myself
I gave you everything you wanted
So you would never know anything else
But every time I reach for you, you slip through my fingers
Into cold sunlight, laughing at the things that
I had planned, the map of my world gets
Smaller as I sit here, pulling at the loose threads now
When we fall in love
We're just falling
In love with ourselves
We're spiralling
More Than This - Peter Gabriel (Up)
Now we're busy making all our busy plans
On foundations built to last
But nothing fades as fast as the future
And nothing clings like the past, until we can see
More than this
More than this
Much more than this
Way beyond imagination
Much more than this
Beyond the stars
With my head so full
So full of fractured pictures
And I'm all there
Right next to you
So much more than this
There is something else there
When all that you had has all gone
And more than this
I'm alone
Feeling so connected
And I'm all there right next to you
Chapter 5 - The Golden Touch
In 1975, he sheds his skin yet again, revealing himself to the world as a a captain of industry. Ironically, his fame and influence only increase faster. He is called the New Midas, the man with the "golden touch": every new business venture succeeds beyond the critics' wildest expectations. He devotes himself tirelessly to humanitarian efforts, single-mindedly bent on saving the world (that much, at least, hasn't changed, he acknowledges with humor). He is also amused by the reputation he seems to be gaining as a playboy...
The Big Money - Rush
Sometimes pushing people around
Sometimes pulling out the rug
Sometimes pushing all the buttons
Sometimes pulling out the plug
It's the power and the glory
It's a war in paradise
It's a Cinderella story
On a tumble of the dice
Big money goes around the world
Big money give and take
Big money done a power of good
Big money make mistakes
Big money got a heavy hand
Big money take control
Big money got a mean streak
Big money got no soul...
Save the Children - Bono (Marvin Gaye)
I just want to ask a question
Who really cares?
To save a world in despair
There'll come a time, when the world won't be singin'
Flowers won't grow, bells won't be ringin'
Who really cares?
Who's willing to try
To save a world
That's destined to die?
After Every Party I Die - IAMX (The Alternative)
You're living but you've got no soul
You captivate but you hold no weight at all
So watch as I start to smile
You're duller than you think you're deep
You aggravate but you always start to speak
So watch as I start to smile
After every party I die
After every party I die
Chapter 6 - The Clock Ticks Down
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. The unthinkable encroaches more and more on the conversation of daily life. The other unthinkable, the implications of which he cannot afford to stop to feel, moves closer and closer to fruition...
Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Are we living in a land
Where sex and horror are the new Gods?
Yeah
When two tribes go to war
A point is all you can score
Race Against Time - U2 (The Joshua Tree [Bonus Disc])
(instrumental)
Chapter 7 - Culmination
Revenge - Peter Gabriel (Ovo)
(instrumental)
Signal to Noise - Peter Gabriel (Up)
You know the way that things go
When what you fight for starts to fall
And in that fuzzy picture
The writing stands out on the wall
So clearly on the wall
Send out the signals deep and loud
And in this place, can you reassure me
With a touch, a smile - while the cradle's burning
All the while the world is turning to noise
Oh the more that it's surrounding us
The more that it destroys
Turn up the signal
Wipe out the noise
Send out the signals deep and loud
Man I'm losing sound and sight
Of all those who can tell me wrong from right
When all things beautiful and bright
Sink in the night
Yet there's still something in my heart
That can find a way
To make a start
To turn up the signal
Wipe out the noise
Receive and transmit
Epilogue
Prospekt's March/Poppyfields - Coldplay (Viva La Vida)
Smoke is rising from the houses
People burying their dead
I ask somebody what the time is
But time doesn't matter to them yet
People talking without speaking
Trying to take what they can get
I ask you if you remember
Prospekt, how could I forget?
But here I lie
On my own in a separate sky...
All Of Your Children Are Addicts - Hammock (Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow)(instrumental)
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