Girl With A Pearl Earrings

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the dead poets as folklore songs

i think i’ve seen this film before, and i didn’t like the ending. - taylor swift.

songs from taylor swift's album “folklore" that i associate the poets with! expect some of these be turned to edits or fics ~ will do another post but with ships and another for evermore (ships and characters) <3

neil.

cardigan: youth, memories, longing, melancholy, departure, the creeks of the wooden floor boards, discarded dreams, lingering like the smell of an old cardigan that still bears the scent of loss years later, the past, and the end.

“i knew everything when i was young."

“you drew stars around my scars, but now i'm bleeding.”

“i knew you / tried to change the ending / peter losing wendy.”

“i knew you / leaving like a father / running like water.”

“but i knew you'd linger like a tattoo kiss /  knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs."

“when you are young, they assume you know nothing.”

todd.

the lakes: romance, escapism, solitude, writing poems on afternoons, reading whitman before classes, writing about him, leaving poems in his books, reciting shakespeare by the lakes with your lover.

“take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die / i don't belong, and my beloved, neither do you.”

“i've come too far to watch some namedropping sleaze / tell me what are my words worth.”

“i want auroras and sad prose.”

“with my calamitous love and insurmountable grief.”

“i'm setting off, but not without my muse / no, not without you.”

charlie.

mirrorball: laughter, always joking, dancing, euphoria, failure, acceptance, hiding, changing, glass breaking, forced smiles, crying at midnight, attention or lack there of, larger than life, crumbling in close doors.

“i'll show you every version of yourself tonight.”

“shining just for you."

“and when i break it's in a million pieces.”

“and they called off the circus / burned the disco down / when they sent home the horses / and the rodeo clowns / i'm still on that tightrope / i'm still trying everything to get you laughing at me.”

“i'm still a believer but i don't know why / i've never been a natural / all i do is try, try, try / i'm still on that trapeze / i'm still trying everything / to keep you looking at me.”

knox.

(fannon + cannon)

betty: flowers, letters, pining, starry-eyed, foolishness, ideocracy, bicycle rides, stolen glances, doing the wrong thing, apology in forms of poetry, yearning at midnight.

“when i passed your house / it's like i couldn't breathe.”

“but if i just showed up at your party / would you have me? would you want me? would you tell me to go fuck myself?” (cannon)

“will you have me? / will you love me?”

“if you kiss me, will it be just like i dreamed it?”

“i'm only seventeen / i don't know anything / but i know i miss you.”

meeks.

seven: warmth, trust, understanding, closeness, dancing, warm tea, conversations of grand dreams, borrowed pens, smeared inks, the smell of books, barefoot on the grass, studying under a tree.

“are there still beautiful things?”

“sweet tea in the summer / cross your heart, won't tell no other.”

“love you to the moon and to saturn.”

“pack your dolls and a sweater / we'll move to India forever.”

“passed down like folk songs / our love lasts so long.”

pitts.

peace: radio static, warm breezes, running in hallways, inside jokes, familiarity, belonging, certainty, friendship, making other people laugh, that someone you can depend on always.

“our coming-of-age has come and gone.”

“and you know that i'd swing with you for the fences / sit with you in the trenches.”

“give you the silence that only comes when two people understand each other.”

“i'd give you my sunshine, give you my best.”

“the devil's in the details, but you got a friend in me.”

cameron.

the 1: nostalgia, piano music while studying, writing letters instead of taking notes, loneliness, regrets, the loss of friendship, longing in secret, old memories of the good old days, head full of what-ifs?, growth, maturity, empathy, apologies, forgiveness.

“and if you never bleed, you're never gonna grow / and it's alright now.”

“but we were something, don't you think so? / roaring 20s, tossing pennies in the pool.”

“i guess you never know, never know / and it's another day waking up alone.”

“in my defense, i have none / for never leaving well enough alone.”

“i persist and resist the temptation to ask you / if one thing had been different / would everything be different today?”

BONUS.

solider!meeks.

epiphany: radios, softness, comfort, strength, unity, remembering, clouds, memories of school rooftops, fading light, goodbye love letters, wasting a life for something that was wrong, thinking what you did was right.

“keep your helmet, keep your life, son / just a flesh wound, here's your rifle.”

“with you, i serve / with you, i fall down, down.”

“just one single glimpse of relief / to make some sense of what you've seen.”

ghost! neil.

my tears ricochet: rain, petrichor, regrets, blame, the weight of your coffin, a weeping mother, a group of friends singing alms, hauntings, madness, sadness, he knows it isn't his fault, but why does he feel guilty? an embittered tormentor showing up at the funeral of his fallen object of obsession.

“even on my worst day, did i deserve, babe / all the hell you gave me? / 'cause i loved you, i swear i loved you / 'til my dying day.”

“i didn't have it in myself to go with grace.”

“and if i'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?”

“cursing my name, wishing i stayed.”

“you know i didn't want to have to haunt you / but what a ghostly scene.”

“you had to kill me, but it killed you just the same.”

“and i can go anywhere i want / anywhere i want, just not home.”

“and you can aim for my heart, go for blood / but you would still miss me in your bones.”

“cursing my name, wishing i stayed / you turned into your worst fears.”

“and you're tossing out blame / drunk on this pain / crossing out the good years.”

“look at how my tears ricochet.”

“you know the hero died so what's that movie for?"

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