bakerstreet | the decemberists lyrics au meme

From Castaways and Cutouts to declaring The King is Dead, Decemberists lyrics are full of incredibly rich storylines ripe for the taking. Whether you want to rob a mogul, fight in a civil war, see an incredibly long revenge plot reach fruition or simply embrace your lover and engage in some good old fashioned smut, there is an au for you in these lyrics!

How to play:

comment with your character with their name in the header! include any strong feelings you have about lyrics you do or do not want to use!
reply to someone and use a rng or pick your favorite song from the list below!
shout your love out to the stars and party

historical & war
1. O Valencia! - You belong to the gang and you say you can't break away / But I'm here with my hands on my heart / And our families can't agree, I'm your brother's sworn enemy / But I shout out my love to the stars

2. Yankee Bayonet: I Will Be Home Then - But when the sun breaks / To no more bullets in Battle Creek /Then will you make a grave / For I will be home then I will be home then /I will be home then, I will be home then, then

3. Calamity Song - Had a dream / You and me and the war of the end-times / And I believe / California succumbed to the fault line

4. Sixteen Military Wives - Seventeen company men / Out of which only twelve will make it back again / Sergeant sends a letter to five / Military wives whose tears drip down from ten little eyes

murder & crime
5. The Perfect Crime #2 - The bagman's quaking at the fingers / The hand-off, glance a little lingers / A well-dressed man in the cross-hairs / A shot rings out from somewhere upstairs

6. The Island: Come and See / The Landlord's Daughter / You'll Not Feel the Drowning - There's an island hidden in the sound / Lapping currents lay your boat aground /Affix your barb and bayonet, the curlews carve their arabesques / And sorrow fills the silence all around/ Come and see

7. The Rake's Song - Charlotte I buried after feeding her foxglove / Dawn was easy, she was drowned in the bath / Isaiah fought but was easily bested / Burned his body for incurring my wrath

8. Shankill Butchers - They used to be just like me and you / They used to be sweet little boys / But something went horribly askew / Now killing is their only source of joy

9. July, July! - And I say your uncle was a crooked French Canadian / And he was gut shot running gin / And how his guts were all suspended in his fingers /A nd how he held them, how he held them, held them in

10. The Mariner's Revenge Song - You may not remember me, / I was a child of three / And you a lad of eighteen / But I remember you, / And I will relate to you /How our histories interweave

love & loss
11. The Wanting Comes in Waves/Repaid - Mother hear this proposition, right: / Grant me freedom to enjoy this night / And I'll return to you at break of light /For the wanting comes in waves

12. Philomena - So I'll be your candle / And I'll be your statuette / And I'll be your lashing loop of leatherette / And oh Philomena, if only you'd let me go down

13. Carolina Low - What is sealed with a handshake is spoiled with a kiss / You got an ugly little mouth, boy, and it's come to this / I'm bound for the hilltop, gonna make it bleed / And Carolina low I will carry thee

wildcard!
14. pick any other song and go from there!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

[I'm mostly interested in Yankee Bayonet: I Will Be Home Then and Calamity Song for Steve, but still open to anything with the right pitch.]

( it's not on the list, but it's honestly the ultimate for wanda and her mcu family (blood and otherwise): red right ankle. it's also how the player fell in love with the decemberists a million years ago. for your ears. just volunteering all this. if something else strikes you, go for it. ♥ )

[ooc: down for pretty much anything. muses from any era, cross-canon, AUs, whatever. hit me up and we'll make it work! m/m for anything shippy, please.]

Edited 2016-06-12 06:10 (UTC)

[Oh my god what a neat idea for a meme - whether you're looking at a song on or off the list, I'd be happy to take anything you'd be up for having a medieval zombie pageboy AU'd into, so long as it's got less sauce to it than Philomena. (That said, my favorite song, period, is On the Bus Mall - if anyone out there would want to use that, then ha, say the word and I'm game for working something out, whether that involves nailing down particulars and/or making slight-to-heavy tweaks to what's going on in the song, offering up other muses, both, or anything else that might do the trick.)]