Mix: The Good and the Dead (Generation Kill)

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Medium: Television
Fandom: Generation Kill
Subject: General
Title: The Good and the Dead
Warnings: None.
Disclaimer: This is based on the depiction of the characters in the HBO miniseries Generation Kill. No offence is meant to the real men.
Notes: Zip contains the music and 400x400 cover art.

       

Sgt. Antonio Espera: I've learned there's two types of people in Iraq. Those who are very good. And those who are dead. I'm very good. I've lost 20 pounds, shaved my head, started smoking, my feet have half rotted off and I move from filthy hole to filthy hole every night. I see dead children and people everywhere, I function in a void of indifference. I keep you and our daughter locked away deep inside and I try not to look there.


01. Black Rebel Motorcycle Gang – Shuffle Your Feet

One for the so named dreamers
One for the wicked man
One for the peaceful protests
That keeps the war in demand

Who knows if I'll see you again
Who knows if I'll see you again

Time won't save our souls
Time won't save my soul
Time won't save our souls
Time won't save my soul

02. Filter – Hey Man, Nice Shot

A man, has gun -
Hey man, have fun.
Nice shot!

Now that the smokes gone,
and the air is all clear:
those who were right there
had a new kind of fear.
You'd fight and you were right -
but, they were just too strong.
They'd stick it in your face
and let you smell what they consider wrong.

03. Smashing Pumpkins – The End is the Beginning is the End

Is it bright where you are
And have the people changed
Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour
I hold secrets flame
We can watch the world devoured in its pain

Time has stopped before us
The sky cannot ignore us
No one can separate us
For we are all that is left
The echo bounces off me
The shadow lost beside me
There's no more need to pretend
Cause now I can begin again

04. Arcade Fire – Suburban War

Let's go for a drive
See the town tonight
There's nothing to do but I'll unwind when I'm with you

This town's so strange
They built it to change
And while we're sleeping all the streets, they rearrange

And my old friends, we were so different then
Before your war against the suburbs began
Before it began

...

You started a war
That you can't win
They keep erasing all the streets we grew up in

...

All my old friends, they don't know me now
Oh-oh
All my old friends, are staring through me now
Oh-oh
All my old friends, they don't know me now
All my old friends, they don't know me now

05. Bloc Party – Pioneers

If it can be broke then it can be fixed, if it can be fused then it can be split
It's all under control
If it can be lost then it can be won, if it can be touched then it can be turned
All you need is time

We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?

06. Block Party – Plans

Wake up dreamer
It's happening without you
Cut your hair and shave your beard
You squandered your chances
I'll give you a thousand pounds
To show me how you do it
Stop being so laissez-faire
We're all scared of the future

...

I've got a taste for blood
Leave the weak, leave the young
I've got a taste for blood
I'm walking out without you
You will kill or be killed
It's about progress
I've got a taste for blood

07. Tracy Chapman – Bang Bang Bang

What you go and do
You go and give the boy a gun
Now there ain't place to run to
Ain't no place to run to

When he hold it in his hand
He feel mighty he feel strong
Now there ain't no place to run to
Ain't no place to run

...

Give him drugs and give him candy
Anything to make him think he's happy
And he won't ever come for us
He won't ever come

But if he does
And if there's no one else around
Bang bang bang
We'll shoot him down

08. Emily Haines – Our Hell

First one's room is hard to find
We're paralyzed, we apologize
Our hell is a good life

Last one's won, where's my prize
Under the lights
Can we call it in
We're on the road

Can we stop
When we stop my back will turn
Your face towards the fence

What if what it was it isn't now
What if what it was it isn't now

...

Can we stop
When we stop my hands will shake
My eyes will burn
My throat will ache

...

There's a pattern in the system
There's a bullet in the gun
That's why I tried to save you
But it can't be done
It can't be done

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