jonquille:

“A Tragic Cost” (Theon Greyjoy requested by iwhospeakawkwardly and anonymous)

1. Buried In Water Dead Man’s Bones

They don’t bury bodies from the drowned but they drowned our little town.
We’re lambs to its slaughter, buried in water.

2. Cruel St. Vincent

They could take or leave you, so they took you and they left you.
How can they be casually cruel?
…
Can’t you see what everybody wants from you?
If you could want that too then you’d be happy.

3. Godrevy Point Patrick Wolf

Good lord, it was a beautiful day for untangling, unraveling my heavy heart away.
To forgive and forget myself and my enemies, my bruises washed away.
Today was the first day I said “I belong,” here in the ghost region all alone upon the shore.
This changing line between land and sea, between a cease-fire and a war.

4. What The Water Gave Me Florence + The Machine

They took your loved ones, and returned them in exchange for you,
but would you have it any other way?

5. Black Water Timber Timbre

All I need is some sunshine, all I need.
…
You’ve fallen barefoot past the tree line, beaten, bone-eyed, butchered, swayed.
A thousand whitefish floating belly up, in that spirit that I crave.