[Playlist] Velveteen Boy

[yantoe]

This playlist is slightly ridiculous, both in its angst and its absurdity. But then, it is Ianto's playlist, so there you go.


All the Same - Sick Puppies (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

I don't mind where you come from
As long as you come to me
But I don't like illusions
I can't see them clearly
I don't care, no I wouldn't dare
To fix the twist in you
You've shown me eventually what you'll do
I don't mind
I don't care
As long as you're here
[...]
And I'll take you for who you are
If you take me for everything

Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning) - Vertical Horizon (YouTube)

So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring

Nothing's quite the same now
I just say your name now

But it's not so bad
You're only the best I ever had
You don't want me back
You're just the best I ever had

Boy on a String - Jars of Clay (YouTube)

The marionetter has your number
Pulling your arms and legs till you can't stand on your own
Dragging your conscience on the stage
And your heart gets rearranged
And you cannot tell your mentor from your maker
Look at the crowds bleeding with laughter
Over the way you entertain at beck and call
They don't see behind the lights, or the painted backgrounds
They just like to see you fall

Boys of Summer - The Ataris (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

Out on the road today, I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac
A little voice Inside my head said, "Don't look back. You can never look back."
I thought I knew what love was
What did I know?
Those days are gone forever
I should just let them go, but...

Broken - Lifehouse (YouTube)

The broken clock is a comfort
It helps me sleep tonight
Maybe it can stop tomorrow
From stealing all my time
And I am here still waiting
Though I still have my doubts
I am damaged at best
Like you've already figured out

I'm falling apart
I'm barely breathing
With a broken heart
That's still beating
In the pain
There is healing
In your name
I find meaning
So I'm holding on (I'm holdin on)(I'm holdin on)
I'm barely holding on to you

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol (YouTube - Torchwood)

Forget what we're told
Before we get too old
Show me a garden that's bursting into life

Let's waste time
Chasing cars
Around our heads

I need your grace
To remind me
To find my own

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world?

Coin Operated Boy - The Dresden Dolls (YouTube - unrelated fanvid)

Coin operated boy
He may not be real experienced with girls
But I know he feels like a boy should feel
Isn't that the point that is why I want a
Coin operated boy
With his pretty coin operated voice
Saying that he loves me that he's thinking of me
Straight and to the point
That is why I want
A coin operated boy.

Crashed - Chris Daughtry (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

From your face, your eyes
Are burning to me.
You saved me, you gave me
Just what I need.
Oh, just what I need.

And then I crashed into you,
And I went up in flames.
Could've been the death of me,
But then you breathed your breath in me.
And I crashed into you,
Like a runaway train.
You will consume me,
But I can't walk away.

Dissolved Girl - Massive Attack (YouTube)

I've been here before
You're not my saviour
But I still don't go

Feels like something
That I've done before
I could fake it
But I'd still want more...

Dolphin's Cry - Live (YouTube)

Oh yeah, we meet again
It's like we never left
Time in between was just a dream
Did we leave this place?
This crazy fog surrounds me
You wrap your legs around me
All I can do to try and breathe

Everything in its Right Place - Radiohead (YouTube)

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon
Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Everything, everything, everything..
In its right place
In its right place
In its right place
Right place

Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid, cuts off. Full version here)

Out of the island
Into the highway
Past the places where you might have turned
You never did notice
But you still hide away
The anger of angels who won't return

I am everything you want
I am everything you need
I am everything inside of you
That you wish you could be
I say all the right things
At exactly the right time
But I mean nothing to you and I don't know why

Happy Ending - Mika (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

This is the way you left me
I'm not pretending
No hope, no love, no glory
No happy ending
This is the way that we love
Like it's forever
Then live the rest of our life
But not together

Wake up in the morning, stumble on my life
Can't get no love without sacrifice
If anything should happen, I guess I wish you well
A little bit of heaven, but a little bit of hell

Have You Ever - The Offspring (YouTube)

Have you ever walked through a room
But it was more like the room passed around you
Like there was a leash around your neck that pulled you through

Have you ever been at some place
Recognizing everybody's face
Until you realized that there was no one there you knew
Well I know
[...]
When the truth walks away, everybody stays
Cause the truth about the world is that crime does pay

So if you walk away
Who is gonna stay
Cause I'd like to make the world be a better place

I'm Not Okay (I Promise) - My Chemical Romance (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

But you really need to listen to me
Because I'm telling you the truth
I mean this, I'm okay!
(Trust Me)

I'm not okay
I'm not okay
Well, I'm not okay
I'm not o-fucking-kay
I'm not okay
I'm not okay
(Okay)

I Wish I Was James Bond - Scouting for Girls (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

I've seen you walk the screen, it's you that I adore.
Since I was a boy I've wanted to be like Roger Moore.
A girl in every port, and gadgets up my sleeve.
The world is not enough for the both of us it seems.
So I wish I was James Bond, just for the day.
Kissing all the girls, blow the bad guys away.

Just Abuse Me - Air Traffic (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

I never knew you
But now I'm haunted by your past,
How long will this last?

I thought you loved me,
You say you love me,
Life's just a shadow that you cast.

And all my dreams come round in threes always
I'm independent but I'm tied to you
You lied to me, I'd die for you
But I can't read your mind.

King of Fools - Poets of the Fall (YouTube)

Could you hold us up if I would drag us down?
Resurrect emotions from our past
N' if they had a king for fools would you wear the crown?
Build us up again and make us last

Cos what I feel is the only truth for me
And I get by on this naivete of youth

Magic - Ben Folds Five (YouTube, wonderful a capella version here)

From the back of your big brown eyes
I knew you'd be gone as soon as you could
And I hoped you would
We could see that you weren't yourself
And the lines on your face did tell
It's just as well
You'd never be yourself again

Mr. Brightside - The Killers (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid, spiffy a capella version here)

Jealousy, turning saints into the sea
Turning through sick lullabies
Choking on your alibis
But it’s just the price I pay
Destiny is calling me
Open up my eager eyes
‘Cause I’m Mr. Brightside

Numb - U2 (YouTube)

Don't borrow (Too much is not enough)
Don't break (I feel numb)
Don't fence
Don't steal
Don't pass
Don't press
Don't pry
Don't feel
(Gimme some more)
Don't touch (I feel numb)
Don't dive
Don't suffer
Don't rhyme
Don't fantasize
Don't rise
Don't lie
(I feel numb)
Don't project
Don't connect
Protect (I feel numb)
Don't expect
Suggest

One Great City - The Weakerthans (YouTube)

Late afternoon, another day is nearly done
A darker grey is breaking through a lighter one
A thousand sharpened elbows in the underground
That hollow hurried sound, feet on polished floor
And in the dollar store, the clerk is closing up
And counting loonies trying not to say

I hate Winnipeg

A Praise Chorus - Jimmy Eat World (YouTube)

Are you gonna live your life wonderin' standing in the back lookin' around?
Are you gonna waste your time thinkin' how you've grown up or how you missed out?
Things are never gonna be the way you want;
Where's it gonna get you acting serious?

Private Man - Powderfinger (YouTube - live, low quality)

I tell you he's a private man
In a public circumstance
He's eyeing up an old door frame
Looking for a tragic change
It's such a shame this has to end
But things are out of his command
There's no more problems to defend
Now he falls, so far

Prozak (Be Like Me) - Dexter Freebish (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

I'm gonna spend another night all by myself
Like a loser on the outside looking in
No one cares if I disappear and don't come back
Cause the only friends I have are in my head
And I know that I'm alive but I feel dead

Rockstar - Hannah Montana (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

I’m unusual,
Not so typical,
Way too smart to be waiting around,
Tai chi practicing,
Snowboard champion,
I could fix the flat on your car,
I might even be a rock star...

The Sex Has Made Me Stupid - Robots in Disguise (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

The sex has made me stupid
The sex has made me stupid
The sex has made me stupid
The sex has made me stupid
Forever's made me stupid
The weather's made me stupid
Whatever's made me stupid
Your love has made me stupid
Stupid

Subterranean Homesick Alien - Radiohead (YouTube)

The breath of the morning
I keep forgetting the smell of the warm summer air
I live in a town where you can't smell a thing
You watch your feet for cracks in the pavement

High up above aliens hover
Making home movies for the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures who lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets

Sympathy - Goo Goo Dolls (YouTube)

I wish for things that I don't need
(All I wanted)
And what I chase won't set me free
(All I wanted)
And I get scared but I'm not crawling on my knees

Oh yeah everything's all wrong yeah
Everything's all wrong yeah
Where the hell did I think I was?

Stranger than your sympathy
I take these things so I don't feel
I'm killing myself from the inside out
Now my head's been filled with doubt

Tea & Sympathy - Jars of Clay (YouTube)

Fare thee well
Trade in all our words for tea and sympathy
Wonder why we tried, for things that could never be
Play our hearts lament, like an unrehearsed symphony

Not intend
To leave this castle full of empty rooms
Our love the captive in the tower never rescued
And all the victory songs
Seem to be playing out of tune

We Can't Rewind - Feeder (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

Stop taking me for a fool now
Yeah, I've got this feeling inside me
But I guess you knew
We can work it out
We can find some place new
We can't rewind
We can't rewind

What Do I Have to Do? - Stabbing Westward (YouTube)

What do I have to do to make you happy?
What do I have to do to make you understand?
What do I have to do to make you want me?
But if I can't make you want me
Just tell me, tell me.

Can I, how can I, how can we?

What do I have to do to make you want me?
What do I have to do to make you understand?
What do I have to do to make you love me?
But if I can't make you love me
Just tell me, what do I have to do?

To forget about you...

What Hurts the Most - Rascal Flatts (YouTube - Torchwood fanvid)

It’s hard to deal with the pain of losing you everywhere I go
But I’m doin’ it
It’s hard to force that smile when I see our old friends and I’m alone
Still harder
Getting up, getting dressed, livin’ with this regret
But I know if I could do it over
I would trade give away all the words that I saved in my heart
That I left unspoken

What hurts the most
Is being so close
And having so much to say
And watching you walk away
And never knowing
What could have been
And not seeing that loving you
Is what I was trying to do

Whisper - Evanescence (YouTube - unrelated fanvid)

Catch me as I fall
Say you're here and it's all over now
Speaking to the atmosphere
No one's here and I fall into myself
This truth drives me
Into madness
I know I can stop the pain
If I will it all away

Don't turn away
(Don't give in to the pain)
Don't try to hide
(Though they're screaming your name)
Don't close your eyes
(God knows what lies behind them)
Don't turn out the light
(Never sleep never die)

Your Ex-Lover is Dead - Stars (YouTube)

This scar is a fleck on my porcelain skin
Tried to reach deep but you couldn't get in
Now you're outside me
You see all the beauty
Repent all your sin

It's nothing but time and a face that you lose
I chose to feel it and you couldn't choose
I'll write you a postcard
I'll send you the news
From a house down the road from real love...