Album: Songs for Doomed Timelines Date: June 5, 2015 12:00:01 Date Added: April 13, 2024 Additional Names: - Name: >- Songs for a Doomed Timeline Annotation: >- [Bandcamp](https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-a-doomed-timeline) URLs: - https://open.spotify.com/album/01HJpmHADn0OHhVdBwdXVH - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/album/songs-for-a-doomed-timeline - https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtJ3XTmKZunW6zRWtq7VngG9cia9WYGgg Artists: - PhemieC Cover Artists: - PhemieC Default Track Cover Artists: - PhemieC Art Tags: - Dave Color: '#FFC7C8' Groups: - Fandom Commentary: |- PhemieC: Twelve songs about plot holes and side quests and ships that never sailed. PhemieC: (Bandcamp album art) Jebb: (Wiki editor) All of the track art for this album has been taken from the SoundCloud uploads of the tracks. --- Track: Sweet Directory: sweet-songs-for-doomed-timelines Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '3:57' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/sweet - https://open.spotify.com/track/55kfNeWruZVoXhXeh5vXh5 - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/sweet - https://youtu.be/Tc4UgI-nY_4 Art Tags: - Jane Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/sweet)) An update fansong. Trickster Jane's POV. Enjoy! :) Lyrics: |- Hello, my candy coated darling, it's your vanilla baby I've come to say I love you and I always have I find it so amusing, I used to be confused and Afraid that you would never love me Back but now I see that we were always meant to be You and me forever planting lots of family trees Counting out our children, half a zillion at least We'll name the boys for you and we will name the girls for me Haa haa haa Haa haa haa Hello, the sour peach of my skin, the sweetest poison icing So tasty it could rot your teeth and brain The chaotic consumption, the diabetic gumption To do a thing like make me go insane And leave this plane of reality completely Float among the clouds of pink and blue cotton candy Let's blast into space and race around like aeroplanes Spreading multicolored chemtrails, soda pop, and acid rain Feels so neat Never wanna be myself again I just wanna be sweet (sweet) Feels so fun Never wanna come back down Feels so neat Never wanna be myself again I just wanna be sweet (sweet) Feels so fun Never wanna come back down Come back down Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) Goodbye to heartbreak on my birthday, annoying boys who hurt me With all the stupid things they do and say I can't even remember what I was so upset for Spun sugar melts in water anyway So no more crying, dry those tears, I'll end your pain Soon you'll feel the cherry syrup running through your veins Heaven is a grinning face with not a trace of shame Take a taste of every flavour, favor anything but plain Feels so neat Never wanna be myself again I just wanna be sweet (sweet) Feels so fun Never wanna come back down Feels so neat Never wanna be myself again I just wanna be sweet (sweet) Feels so fun Never wanna come back down Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) Haa (haa) haa (haa) haa (haa) --- Track: Fool Directory: fool-songs-for-doomed-timelines Originally Released As: track:fool Duration: '5:19' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/fool - https://open.spotify.com/track/6oQ9EdXsAsLu48bAjjlzen - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/fool - https://youtu.be/-z50bAtPWHE Art Tags: - Gamzee - 'cw: blood (abstract)' Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/fool)) A GamTav song, written for a Valentines Day contest. Veeeery angsty, Also there's a swear word! :0 --- Track: Sylph Set On Fire Duration: '2:46' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/sylph-set-on-fire - https://open.spotify.com/track/30mLYev0YIb0OsuDxCM71Q - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/sylph-set-on-fire - https://youtu.be/EKwoFpGcAYg Art Tags: - Kanaya - Rose Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/sylph-set-on-fire)) Homestuck Filk, for the Rose/Kanaya pairing. Lyrics: |- You've got a new dress, you're a quick change actress Your lipstick slides out of its sheath You're my neon-veined day-glow dame, how do you speak With your tongue pressed so tight to your teeth? You've got a lot of dead friends on this rock where we're floating There's darkness ahead, but I think it's worth noting We're candles, we're matches, we're lights on a wire So come with me, please be my Sylph set on fire In all honesty, I expected to be Exceptionally unimpressed I do not trust kindness, in kindnesses lies are hid And oft topped with makeup, and winningly dressed But you've got a mind, and if you don't mind me saying It resides in a beauty not slightly betraying Your luminesce, I confess, I guess you're no liar So come with me, please be my Sylph set on fire --- Track: My Nightmare Duration: '3:33' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/my-nightmare - https://open.spotify.com/track/2QFcpU3An4snNEKf4NVuAj - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/my-nightmare - https://youtu.be/3Q1J6WqfGJ8 Art Tags: - Tavros - Vriska Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/my-nightmare)) Quick on the draw! Tavrisprite Filk, more metaphorical than my fansongs usually are... Lyrics: |- I’m gonna have a nightmare tonight I’m gonna be my nightmare tonight You’re pretty picky, you’re a clique of one I’m right though, surely I’m not the only gun you’ve got loaded? How do you keep from gloating? You’re pretty tricky, did you pick that shade Just to distract from the flash of the shining blade you’ve got hidden? Deep wounds overwritten I had so many new friends to see So many possibilities Now I couldn’t possibly feel worse I had so many fires left to nurse In my nightmare tonight I’ll see giant leviathans Breaking the water in half with their shining skin riding them laughing you’ll be in my nightmare tonight In my nightmare tonight I’ll see beasts all stampeding Your signia burned onto haunches still healing And leading the pack on their backs in my nightmare tonight You’ll be in my nightmare tonight, tonight… You’re pretty ugly when you get down to it, Combined, I’ve half a mind to just say screw it and break completely, Or surrender so sweetly I thought I’d have a chance to be my own, Free from the tyranny of your tarnished throne. Now I see that kingdom belongs to me, oh no… I had so many irons in the fire So many brands and swords To their backsides I had even more So many plans on what they’re for In my nightmare tonight, there’s volcanoes erupting A red hot web veining the land, it’s disgusting Cracked mountains of madness, your hand in my nightmare tonight In my nightmare tonight I’ll see me all consumed, And attempting to sing disharmonious tunes with you. Asynchronicity, I am in misery. I am in misery! What has been done to me? In my nightmare tonight (X4) In my nightmare tonight I’ll see giant leviathans Breaking the water in half with their shining skin Riding them laughing you’ll be in my nightmare tonight You’ll be in my nightmare tonight --- Track: Our Aftermath Duration: '3:32' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/our-aftermath - https://open.spotify.com/track/6Tro5uUj0EaJZJi7X15lin - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/our-aftermath - https://youtu.be/SOTX-ZRcld0 Art Tags: - Davesprite Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/our-aftermath)) Simple, sleepy Davesprite filk. Just to get the idea out of my head... Lyrics: |- You were called like a curtain, split like a second, broken like a sword stuck in a rock Forged for a hero, birthed forth for a heart much purer than his/mine/ours It's uncertain when the tables turned, but when all of your brothers have given their lives For the strife you earned, you will get burned and it won't get better when put on ice And I wasn't going anywhere fast, and my sister said she'd seen the end of my path The direction that I fly, straight through the eye of our aftermath And you have to ignore it, don't think about before, you've got enough fight inside to fill five world wars It's just a game, just another cause, you're a switch and I'm a cog And the last thing we need is another broken clock So forget about your ghost limbs and all those things that scared you most as a child of twelve You see I'm thirteen now, and if I die for the thousandth time, I'm unafraid, for I outnumber hell And I wasn't going anywhere good, so I straightened my glasses and I did what I could What I had to but damn it's hard not to look back at the time But I wasn't going anywhere fast, so I said goodbye to walking my own path The direction that I fly, straight through the eye of our aftermath What makes us who we are, is it our bones? Wrapped in all our scars, they're ours alone They outweigh tails and talons, feathers, foam Unless they're not, unless they don't You were called like a curtain, split like a second, broken like a sword stuck in a rock --- Track: I Am An Island Duration: '4:49' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/i-am-an-island - https://open.spotify.com/track/0QuP779OMdnky9NAAVaBiW - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/i-am-an-island - https://youtu.be/LGZnTC9kTLw Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/i-am-an-island)) Some experimental, relaxing filk about the Post-Scratch Alpha Kids. :) Lyrics: |- I am an island, no man is an island but me I reach out my leaves, and skillfully touch them to sea I ship out a boat made of hope on the waves and watch as it slips below I am an island, a island that nobody knows (...I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) I am an island, no man is an island but I'm not a man (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) I was raised by an ocean of creatures and brands (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) I give what I can of, the fruits and flowers that bloom on my skin (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) But when loneliness knocks, she lets herself in (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) Islands don't sink, the water just rises around us Just think, someone out there is watching the stars But they're not the same as ours, some say they're already dead And the light's only on in your head I am an island, no man is an island but me (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) I warm all my sands by the pyre of my family tree (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) I took to the tundra, I climb every mountain and fight every monster I can (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) To run from that long burning fire, my friend (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) I am an island, no man is an island but I'm not a man (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) And messages in bottles feel like battering rams (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) In my head I'm a beacon (In my head I'm a beacon), a pinprick of potential birthed out of nothing but blue (I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island, I am an island) And the light that I signal, it's shining for you (I am an island, I am an island, oh, oh, oh) Islands of love, we just want somebody to touch us Just 'cause we are distant doesn't mean we are lost We are where we are, and whenever a visitor docks And is stranded, it means we are not You and I have something in common, I will try to share my island (You and I are islands) You and I are sinking in tandem, miles apart in every direction (You and I are islands) You and I are treading this current, both of us are doomed for certain (You and I are islands) You and I are our own now, maybe we'll wash up on solid ground (You and I are islands) You and I are islands You and I are islands You and I are islands You and I are islands Islands of fate, lately I feel the tides shifting They're bringing us closer together to stay The waters are rippling, a new world is taking it's shape And tonight, our Pangaea awaits --- Track: Thin Lines Duration: '4:28' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/thin-lines - https://open.spotify.com/track/2dhiYLNwWMY0ly8sOukG3l - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/thin-lines - https://youtu.be/vIJMJOVuWWs Cover Artists: - Nicholanton Cover Art File Extension: png Art Tags: - Kurloz - Meulin Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/thin-lines)) Kurloz/Meulin filk. Track art by the incredibly talented Nicholanton Lyrics: |- I said a word But, it got caught in my throat, and it burned Slipped off my tongue and I choked, You were concerned for a second Then cries echoed into the night Lesson learned Because you heard a word That I said, and this word how it rang In your head, it was loud and glorious, yes And from where you lay on my chest, well You heard it best But you held me closely while I screamed And I watched the thinnest trails of green Run down your neck, and drip from your chin Thin trails of green, thin lines, on gray skin Thin lines on gray skin Thin lines on gray skin Where the world ends, that’s were we begin My thin line, my thin line I said a word Was it a blessing or curse? Nobody knows the whole story, Nobody hears me but you And you would have heard more if you could have, I’m sure Because you heard my word, You still do with your hands, eyes and rest of you too Little stray on my lap, zealot, hellcat Can’t forgive what I did to my dream-maker, Has thou forsaken her? And if you knew what I knew, would you object? Are we madmen or soothsayers? Truthfully, sweet heretic? I bit off the bit that silenced the world for you, sewed up my sin With thin threads of black Thin lines on gray skin Thin lines on gray skin Thin lines on gray skin Where the world ends, that’s where our work begins My thin line, my thin line --- Track: Nobodies Directory: nobodies-songs-for-doomed-timelines Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '4:07' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/nobodies - https://open.spotify.com/track/3JCjSLQnby8Yx0JIWqRAuD - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/nobodies - https://youtu.be/9f2J-12tSck Art Tags: - Rufioh - Horuss Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/nobodies)) A simple fansong for the pairing Rufioh/Koruss for Homestuck. I can't help it, I'm a serial overthinker. Lyrics: |- Do you remember being nobodies Discovering nothing was not that bad When shared as a pair, both lost and long suffering Hiding in a frightening land And do you remember feeling that anger Yet so much love and "for what?" you wondered And now there's no wondering, the wrong nervous muttering No magic left at all But I remember leaning against a backwards bent wing And awaking to feel that your touch didn't sting When everything was wrong, I made so many mistakes And you helped me make them, but with presence and patience All those wrong, awful, wild, amazingly childish decisions I take a breath, and I know I've got to Turn the final page But is our story really done yet? I guess I'm still afraid But do you remember, just being honest Little bright moments of peace in the trees Now it takes so much work to be with you I'd say that I miss you, but for that you'd have to leave But I remember once forever seemed too short a time Though not long enough for me to make up my mind I would've thought eternity would eventually make me wise Enough to choose a side, not just linger undecided Why do I feel changed when we both have stayed the same It feels like something's different, some ache too big to name When everything is endless and you're nineteen yet again And you're never flawed enough but you keep on pretending Wanting that desperate, "forget me not/do you love me yet?" ending But there's no ending. There's nobody. Just two nobodies --- Track: Leviathan, The Girl Duration: '3:13' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/leviathan-the-girl - https://open.spotify.com/track/4pV3dxcvGJEvxfsXvpnmtC - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/leviathan-the-girl - https://youtu.be/tPKrt7kWphg Art Tags: - Rose Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/leviathan-the-girl)) Some short Rose filk for a friend. :) Lyrics: |- What a vision of darkness, creeps in with desperate sharpness, lecherous grafting of knowledge to my young mortal subconscious Words writ by breath of the ancients, wiser than even the pagans, or the wizened old men with wands and white beards that once were ensconced in my pages Obfuscated by doom, and laden with arduous tasks are the pathways laid out for the lot of us Mages and witches and princes and maids, pages with inches of space for mistakes I am the beast, I am the light, I am the blighted being cursed with sight I am the god who created a world, I am leviathan, the girl I can do it on my own, but you're a hero after all, and we may think our sacrifice is just but pride comes right before the fall The cascade of rain on my needles, a hand grasping tight to the bottle, of a woman with untapped potential, the ennui of too late and too little Our failures have made, a bridge for success, if our game is half played, then who's played the rest of it? Heroes we were in a universe doomed, soldiers in battles best left un-exhumed I am the beast, I am the light, I am the blighted being cursed with sight I am the god who created a world, I am leviathan, the girl. And- I can do it on my own We can do it on our own Aut viam inveniam aut faciam Aut viam inveniam aut faciam I am Leviathan, the girl... --- Track: The Gods Must Be Lying Duration: '5:38' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/the-gods-must-be-lying - https://open.spotify.com/track/6azMd9slEHE3sny7eHDTMS - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/the-gods-must-be-lying - https://youtu.be/0op3EN9fBtY Cover Artists: - Shelby Cragg Art Tags: - Karkat - Gamzee - Terezi - 'cw: blood' Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/the-gods-must-be-lying)) A KarGamRezi fansong on charango. Heavily inspired by the fanfic "[The Serenditpity Gospels](https://archiveofourown.org/works/335176)" by [[artist:shelby-cragg|duedlyfirearms]] and [urbanAnchorite](https://archiveofourown.org/users/t_ZM/pseuds/urbanAnchorite). Track art by duedlyfirearms Lyrics: |- There’s a boy here lying quiet in my shadow like a prayer He drips from every angle into colours that I wear He wanders like a saint on predatory pilgrimage With a grimace and a limp he puts his wrist against my cartilage And I could separate these bones, I could pack them into prose Or I could hold a cancer in my soul until it overflows But there is only boy and breath Gentle handprints on my chest Mouthing little darling, deepest, loveliest of sacrilege This boy of filth, he’s born of Gods He clutches at my flaws, he drags me from my holocaust He takes my limbs, he wraps them around him He takes my shake and takes my sick and feeds me bread and then These violent wall eyed dreams that mite their way into my fear of me and mine These wines and sugars in my blood, they mutter “Take your claws and climb The inch of every pale moon love, you once swore you’d pay nevermind” When I am on the side of you, I’d say my gods were always lying Lying There’s a girl pacing around me, proselytizing parasite Her sick, acidic logic ridicules the ancient rite And when her teeth break up on me like tiny cliffs of chalk I crash into her canyon, lick the injuries she likes to mock And I could cut her down to size, it’s half as hard as compromise Or I could watch a blind sleepwalker creep all sweet and none-the-wise But there is only girl and grin, curling up under my skin Picture you and I forgetting why we let the other in This judge of what, she’s born of mud She answers to no blood, she will not let me chew the cud She spits and swells, she wears her wretched well She holds my soul with taxes, tolls, and takes it straight to hell These violent wall eyed dreams that mite their way into my fear of me and mine These wines and sugars in my blood, they mutter “Take your claws and climb The inch of every rotten hate, I once swore I’d pay nevermind!” When I am on the side of you, you’d say your law was always lying Your law, it must be lying My Gods, they must be lying Lying --- Track: Home Directory: home-songs-for-doomed-timelines Always Reference By Directory: true Duration: '2:47' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/home - https://open.spotify.com/track/6KLgoc793Fzu5N4blZY2V8 - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/home - https://youtu.be/DAVT-uBYPdg Art Tags: - Gate Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/home)) A Beta Kids Christmas song, each stanza is a different kid. Happy Holidays folks! Lyrics: |- You call me down for Christmas cake Although that's not a thing, I sigh But I take a plate, I take a bite And the look that you give me is heavy with pride You bring me sticks that you find in the wild And I count every one and then hang them Over the fire with patterns of wire and bow Then we roll on the carpet and howl in the snow There is a place that I'm home In condos, apartments, in suburbs and islands There is a face that I know And wherever it is I find that my Christmas isn't cold You wake me up by dumping presents On my bed and forcing my head Into a hat that's red and white Then it's up to the roof for a snowball fight You get the brandy and offer me some Although we both know I'm too young And when I refuse you're amused then pass out So I turn on the reruns and watch them with you on the couch There is a place that I'm home In condos, apartments, in suburbs and islands There is a face that I know And wherever it is I find that my Christmas isn't cold That my Christmas isn't cold It's the end of the day and it's way too late But I log in just to say "Hi!" What's up? What did you get? What was your Christmas like? There is a place that I'm home In condos, apartments, in suburbs and islands There is a face that I know And wherever it is I find that my Christmas isn't cold My Christmas isn't cold My Christmas isn't cold My Christmas isn't cold My Christmas isn't cold My Christmas isn't cold My Christmas isn't cold Ho, ho, ho...home --- Track: The Path Duration: '2:57' URLs: - https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/the-path - https://open.spotify.com/track/6MOivxXi6PnUXYWu11M004 - https://phemiec.bandcamp.com/track/the-path - https://youtu.be/YnsLq_bIycU Cover Artists: - Faun-songs Art Tags: - Dave - Rose Commentary: |- PhemieC: ([SoundCloud commentary](https://soundcloud.com/hamsters/the-path)) A short, dark, lullaby about Alpha Rose and Dave. Gorgeous track art by Faun-songs Lyrics: |- I'll leave you my bottles, babe I'll wrap them in wool and Lay them down in your crib I'll miss what might have been I'll leave you my swords and shades I'll put all my good into one place And irony's aftertaste Will rock to you sleep, my babe When you watch what we made for you When you see what we gave for you When you read between the lines, you'll find We waited our lives for you But in seconds my time will end I count every breath my friend And when space invades again We'll light the way, my baby So when thе light catches blade When thе time comes, do not be afraid Follow the path we've made Follow the path we've made