Album: Songs for Doomed Timelines
Date: June 5, 2015 12:00:01
Date Added: April 13, 2024
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.
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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)
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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
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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