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I made this mix for Thea, for a ghost story she's working on set right after Twice Shy. I was thinking about tenuous beginnings, about finding yourself at Goal when you didn't think Goal even existed and you're still not quite convinced, about being haunted in a bunch of ways, and about the chasm of disconnect the comes with addiction and withdrawal, fighting your way back to yourself as well as to others.

Colin Hay - Overkill
I can't get to sleep
I think about the implications
of diving in too deep
possibly the complications

Warren Zevon - Hasten Down the Wind
She's so many women
he can't find the one who was his friend

The Nields - Snowman
I'm a snowman
cold is all I understand
I'm a snowman
If you can't hurt me, no one can

The Eels - Novocaine for the Soul
Novocaine
for the soul
you better give me something
to fill the hole

Rollins Band - Disconnect
I wanna disconnect myself
pull my brainstem out and unplug myself
I want nothing right now

The White Stripes - Girl, You Have No Faith in Medicine
Strip the bark right off the tree and just hand it this way
Don't even need a drink of water to make the headache go away
Give me a sugar pill and watch me just rattle down the street

The Dandy Warhols - Heroin Is So Passe
If you think that I don't know
about depression and emotional pain
you're insane
you're a fool who hasn't paid attention
to a word that I say

David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
They got a message from the Action Man
I'm happy, hope you're happy to
I've loved all I've needed love
sordid details following

Elvis Costello - Pump It Up
She said that's that
I don't want to chitter-chat
turn it down a little bit or turn it down flat

NIN - The Big Come Down
There is a game I play
Try to make myself okay
Try so hard to make the pieces all fit
smash it apart, just for the fuck of it

Avalanche - Frontier Psychiatrist
That boy needs therapy...
--psychosomatic
That boy needs therapy...
--purely psychosomatic

Snow Patrol - Grazed Knees
I'm broken and I'm colder than her
I should have said I'd not come back here

Frou Frou - Shh
Sunbeam, stop tugging me,
pull that door shut quiety
Darling, what are you doing?
We don't have time for this

John Lennon - Cold Turkey
My feet are so heavy
so is my head
I wish I was a baby
I wish I was dead

The Von Bondies - Crawl Through the Darkness
Crawl through the darkness
fear all that don't
fate is a gift

Concrete Blonde - Angel
What if I said I'd seen a miracle,
What if I said that dreams come true?
Would you believe
I have seen these thing with my own eyes
and watched the world go dark and dead
and then go green and blue again?

The Shins - Pink Bullets
When our kite lines first crossed
we tied them into knots
to finally fly apart
we had to cut them off

NIN - We're In This Together, Now
The two of us are used and beaten up
Watching fate, as it flows
down the path, we have chosen
You and me, we're in this together now
None of them can stop us now
We will make it through somehow