Inverted Compass: A Mix for Sam's The Something

So this is a companion compilation to Sam's The Something Beneath the Stairs.

Read The Something Beneath the Stairs.

All the songs are on box.net or mediafire, or you can download the full zip from mediafire. If there are any problems or questions shout out or PM me.

Also there is another mix I did for "The Something", you can find it here: Albatross.

Enjoy,

Cal

Inverted Compass: A Mix for The Something Beneath the Stairs

Side A

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1. To The Lighthouse by Patrick Wolf [box.net link]

The day our house collapsed

I went down stream.

I followed the swans

Like I follow my dreams.

2. Someday Some Morning Sometime by Billy Bragg & Wilco [box.net link]

Someday, some morning sometime, sometime

I'd like to hold your hand in mine,

Someday, some morning, sometime

3. Song to the Siren by the Czars [box.net link]

here I am, here I am, waiting to hold you

4. The Gyspy King by Patrick Wolf [box.net link]

But how do I follow?

What road to be choosing?

Do I follow the star

Or the gypsy king?

5. Auntie Alice by Okkervil River [box.net link]

Auntie Alice, look out for us

who think we know where we are going.

For the aunts.

6. Set Me Free by Velvet Revolver [box.net link]

So set me free, set me free

'Cause I think you need my soul

Set me free, set me free

7. Honey and the Moon by Joseph Arthur [box.net link]

Don't know why I'm still afraid

If you weren't real I would make you up, now

I wish that I could follow through

I know that your love is true

And deep as the sea

8. Telephone Wires by Mirah [box.net link]

And I will be here and you'll come down and speak to me low

Speak to me low

And I'll pretend that it's ok

We'll just be friends so the wires say

9. Shrinking Violet by Bishop Allen [box.net link]

Oh, my shrinking violet

I left my basket of impatience at your door

I brought my tulips for your two lips

But, the bulb don't burn anymore

10. Riptide by Laura Veirs [box.net link]

Oh starry night, come and chart a course

Or send me a boat with an anchor set

I’ll pull myself ashore

11. Sleepy Head by Fisher [box.net link]

Angels have filled the sky with fiery tails

-they flash like cameras in the night

and fall into the grass to live again

as they turn into fire flies

12. Have a Little Faith in Me by The BellRays [box.net link]

I fell upon a dream last night.

We were together.

Hey baby, have a little faith in me.

13. Houdini's Box by Jill Sobule [box.net link]

I've done this show a thousand times,

This trick's so easy.

14. The Lady in the Lake by Elysian Fields [box.net link]

But it doesn't matter anyway

I'm on the wrong side of the water

Oh, won't you listen to the lady in the lake

15. A Charming Spell by Splashdown [box.net link]

Don't try your magic spells on me

I know you've been crystal gazing

You say your boots are seven league

Where 'er you go, I'll be waiting!

16. Penelope's Song by Loreena McKennitt [box.net link]

Long as the day in the summer time

Deep as the wine-dark sea

I'll keep your heart with mine

Till you come to me

17. War On Sound by Moonbabies [box.net link]

Sunday rest, still a mess

put me in your arms.

18. Fishing the Sky by The Appleseed Cast [box.net link]

the falling skyline. is washing away.

the empty notion. you are mine.

fishing the sky

19. Climbing Up the Walls by Sarah Slean [box.net link]

I am the key to the lock in your house,

that keeps your toys in the basement

20. Lady Margret by Cassie Franklin [box.net link]

Sweet William said "I'm troubled in my head by the dreams

that I dreamed last night. Such dreams, such dreams as these

I know they mean no good. For I dreamed that my bower

was full of red swine and my bride's bed full of blood."

For the Captain and Annabelle.

21. Ocean by Antje Duvekot [box.net link]

we are infants, you are old, we've been bottling mountains

now we will do as we are told, we have been fighting this no-win war

we will not fight anymore for we have come to your shore

to lay down our swords

Side B

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1. Breeze Black Night by the Ditty Bops [box.net link]

Sleepy eyes half awake

In the morning shovel rake

In the evening hearts will ache

Still I'm sleepy

Heart it aches

2. Human Remains by Tom McRae [box.net link]

We look the same, your eyes and mine

Looking away, too scared to see

Human remains

3. Sleep by The Dandy Warhols [box.net link]

If I could sleep forever, I could forget about everything.[/b]

4. Air by Ben Folds Five [box.net link]

[i]I'm coming up for air.

5. Sink or Swim by the Delgados [box.net link]

You're a single survivor.

Found an ocean between

you and those that you lost…

6. Sea Legs by the Shins [box.net link]

Of all the intersecting lines in the sand

I routed a labyrinth to your lap.

I never used a map sliding off the land

On an incidental tide

7. Man Overboard by Polytechnic [box.net link]

You filled your ears with your fingers

Just laid there and hummed.

When you give up on love and happiness

Do you deny that these things can really exist?

I was man overboard.

8. Nausea by Beck [box.net link]

Well I'm a sea-sick sailor on a ship of noise

I got my maps all backwards and my instincts poisoned

In a truth-blown gutter full of wasted years

Like blown-out speakers ringin' in my ears

A song for Captain Daniel Followay.

9. Still Standing by Veda [box.net link]

When you call us out, giving us freedom again.

Won't you call us out, giving us freedom again.

10. The Ship Song by Nick Cave [box.net link]

Come sail your ships around me

And burn your bridges down

We make a little history, baby

Every time you come around

11. For the Captain by Okkervil River [mediafire.com link]

all these spirits brushing past me

brushing past me in the ether

say "all this is window dressing

all you are is flimsy curtains

you will flame up with a word from us

and won't know that you're burning."

A song for Captain Daniel Followay.

12. Electrical Storm by U2 [mediafire.com link]

On rainy days we'd go swimming out,

On rainy days swimming in the sound.

On rainy days we'd go swimming out.

13. Get Lonely by The Mountain Goats [mediafire.com link]

And I will get lonely

And gasp for air

And send your name off from my lips

Like a signal flare

14. Wind in the Wires by Patrick Wolf [mediafire.com link]

But here comes a gale

A crippling anger

Sea birds are blown

Into the rocks

Grace is lost to thunder

15. Black Wave by The Shins [mediafire.com link]

Can you hear a subtle, aching tone?

Through the water, through the Earth, trimmed up bone…

16. The Mist Covered Mountains/Hush Hush by Laura Cortese [mediafire.com link]

Hush, Hush it’s time tae be sleeping’

Hush, Hush dreams come a creepin’

Dreams of peace and freedom

So smile in your sleep bonny baby.

17. Harbor by Vienna Teng [mediafire.com link]

You've got a journey to make

There's your horizon to chase

So go far beyond where we stand

No matter the distance

I'm holding your hand

18. Archipelago by Mirah [mediafire.com link]

I'm in the Archipelago and I'm waiting to arrive.

I'm in the Archipelago and I know I'm still alive.

You finally told me where you had been thinking for so long.

19. When the World Ends by Dave Matthews Band [mediafire.com link]

When the world ends

Collect your things

You're coming with me

20. Journey's End by The Montgolfier Brothers [mediafire.com link]

You can't stop time

Enjoy!

Cal.