fairy skeletons.: Music Monday [9]: Lyric Medley Tag

For this week's Music Monday, I'm hitting two birds with one stone and completing the Lyric Medley Tag on my Monday feature—for which I was tagged by Alyssa (I'm obviously running out of laudatory adjectives to describe her). 

Anyway, into the mess that is my music taste!

Here are the tag rules:

• Thank and link back to the person who tagged you.
• Make a collage that represents your taste in music to go along with your tag post.
• List a song for each of the 10 questions below (or make up your own!) and include your favorite lyrics from that song, if you'd like. If you want to explain why you chose that song, that's cool too - go crazy with it!
• Tag at least 5 bloggers

Since Alyssa's tag post didn't have any questions (it was a Thranduil playlist because she's just that cool) and I'm not sure if the original questions are a good fit for me, I'll make up my own! It won't be frighteningly random or anything, I promise. *nervous smile*

my collage (summing up my music taste? impossible!)

one: a song that makes me feel positively wicked

"Glory and Gore" by Lorde

We gladiate but I guess we're really fighting ourselves

Roughing up our minds so we're ready when the kill time comes

Wide awake in bed, words in my brain, 

"Secretly you love this—do you even wanna go free?"

Let me in the ring, I'll show you what that big word means

two: a song that makes me feel like a fairy-tale character

"Storm Song" by Phildel

I'll send a storm

to capture your heart

and bring you home.

Oh, carried on the breeze

you'll never find me, gone.

Oh, faster than the post train,

burning like a slow flame on,

I'll send a storm

to capture your heart

and bring you home.

three: a song that gives me chills every time i hear it

"Icarus" by Paola Bennet

so i'll remember this 

as i stretch my wings: 

for birds like me, 

every beat's a reckoning 

and i'll take a breath 

think i'm gaining ground 

but so did icarus before he came tearing down

four: a song that doubles as a love story

"Chasing All the Stars" by Fleurie

There's a silence staring me down

If I could see you I bet I'd break in half

But there's a disconnect, I can see it's tearing us apart

There's a promise I made that I can't keep

All my regret testifies that I am

Far from flawless always reckless, can I borrow your forgiveness

I say I need some space but all we've got are

Whoa, oceans between us

Whoa, separating

five: a song that completely carves out my chest with aching

"Still" by Daughter

Two feet standing on a principle

Two hands digging in each others wounds

Cold smoke seeping out of colder throats

Darkness falling, leaves nowhere to move

six: a song with a very special urban magic

"Smokestacks" by LAYLA

You got eyes so azure

You got blood orange skin

Are there's a spark in your centre that's piercing me in

I got a night-time shudder and a lion within

I got a brain-tricked hunger and you're pulling me in

seven: a song that is the stuff of legend

"King and Lionheart" by Of Monsters and Men

Howling ghosts – they reappear

In mountains that are stacked with fear

But you're a king and I'm a lionheart.

And in the sea that's painted black,

Creatures lurk below the deck

But you're a king and I'm a lionheart.

eight: a song that would play during the apocalypse

"No Light No Light" by Florence + the Machine

No light, no light in your bright blue eyes

I never knew daylight could be so violent

A revelation in the light of day

You can't choose what stays and what fades away

nine: a song that makes me smile, pure and simple

"Winter Song" by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson

My voice—a beacon in the night

My words will be your light

To carry you to me

ten: a song that would be perfect for a modern gatsby

The power of youth is on my mind,

Sunsets, small town, I'm out of time.

Will you still love me when I shine,

From words but not from beauty?

I TAG: Cait @ Paper Fury / MorningTime4 @ The Ups and Downs of My Not-So-Average Life / Paola @ Charming Comforts / Sky @ Further Up and Further In / I couldn't think of a fifth person, so anyone should feel free to do it if they'd like to! (Just say I tagged you. I totally did.)

(Don't feel obliged to do it; I'm just really curious about your music tastes! If you do end up doing it, have fun!)

So, dear readers, is your music taste anything like mine or am I just an odd little platypus (as usual)? Were there any songs in particular you enjoyed? Do share your thoughts!