The Hunger Games -- What Good Does It Do To Sing Helplessness Blues

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What Good Does It Do To Sing Helplessness Blues 01. Anaïs Mitchell - He Did But you grew up straight and you grew up true And he kept a blue-gray eye on you Until the day he closed his eyes and left them closed Your daddy didn't leave a will He left a shovel and a hole to fill And how it feels, how it feels How it feels to be a child of his How it feels to be alive like this But who gave you an axe to grind? Who gave you a path to find? 02. Nickel Creek - Speak Young and with no clue I still wanna love you Give credit where it's due I've got good taste It's not like I wanna get married I never asked you to kiss me Just don't want you to be sorry you didn't try 03. Helplessness Blues* And now after some thinking, I'd say I'd rather be A functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me But I don't, I don't know what that will be I'll get back to you someday soon you will see What's my name, what's my station, oh, just tell me what I should do I don't need to be kind to the armies of night that would do such injustice to you Or bow down and be grateful and say "sure, take all that you see" To the men who move only in dimly-lit halls and determine my future for me 04. Iron & Wine - Promise What You Will I said, "Love is waiting And better days" She smiled and placed a kiss On my waiting face Promise what you will Something good for me Time will take it all And it will, you'll see 05. St. Vincent - Landmines I'm crawling through landmines Just to know where you are There's smoke in my eyes Cause you're burning the ground I'm crawling through landmines Just to feel where you are Under cover of night I put a pearl in the ground 06. Kimbra - Withdraw Now I can't spend a minute Now I can't steal the time I've lost all my friends like money I've lost all my men to the sky I can't keep your loving from my mind It's worth more than gold, crystals and pride Ready to shake these stars from me Oh, I can't withdraw your heart from mine You're the one thing that sticks right onto my side No, I can't withdraw your heart from mine How'd I get so stuck, so stuck to your side? 07. The New Pornographers - Mutiny, I Promise You What's the weight of the world worth to you, kid Go write down what you see And see how far it can go What's the weight of the world worth to your side Here is where you got lost And here is how you got by And here's the mutiny I promised you 08. Inara George - Bomb Drop the bomb on everyone Oh so the feeling's gone How can i dance and sing? I don't know where you've gone for good I'm breaking up my house for firewood 09. Anaïs Mitchell - Coming Down I never felt so high I never felt so high I never felt so high I think I'm coming down Please Please don't leave Easy feeling Don't leave me like that Not yet Don't set me Free, free, free, free, free 10. Neko Case - Vengeance Built Me Hastily All I had was my invention And my love invented on you Oh, look what thoughts can do What thoughts can do If you're not by now dead and buried You're most certifiably married Oh, married I'm not the man you thought I was My love has never lived indoors I had to drag it home by force Hired hounds at both my wrists Damp and bruised by stranger's kisses on my lips But you're the one that I still miss You're the one that I still miss And the truth is that it comes as no surprise 11. Alison Krauss - Lie Awake How do I lie awake now when I know I've got to be moving on? How do I lie awake now when nothing's right and nothing's wrong? 12. Avett Brothers - Tear Down the House Bulldoze the woods that I ran through Carry the pictures of me and you I have no memory of who I once was and I don’t remember your name I remember crying over you and I don’t mean like a couple of tears and I’m blue I’m talking about collapsing and screaming at the moon but I’m a better man for having gone through it Yes, I’m a better man for having gone through -- Notes: So basically this chronicles Gale Hawthorne's long and tumultuous life from childhood with his father, through falling in love with Katniss (there is a lot of being in love with Katniss), through the growth of his revolutionary feelings, through the destruction of District 12, through joining up with District 13 and making his bomb, through fighting the war, through Prim's death (this is the Neko Case song and features a lot of self-loathing; I want to be clear that Gale blaming himself for Prim's death does not mean that I blame him for Prim's death. I don't, and neither should you, but Gale absolutely would blame himself because he's a good person who loved Prim okay fandom thanks but we don't blame the inventors of AK-47s for their use in civil wars now do we no we don't thanks), and concludes with him starting to pick up the pieces of his life after the war. Helplessness Blues has been starred because if you could take Gale and put him into a five minute folk song, it would be that song and I'm obsessed. Hope you like it. If you have any questions about song choices or Gale feelings, I'm happy to help. Should you like, this mix on tumblr.