[mix] to sweet impossible blossom

[rhodochrosite]

another playlist from a couple months ago... songs about rediscovering joy and passion in the midst of a quarter-life crisis far from home, thanks to a serendipitous encounter with one of your old high school rivals, who was never your primary rival, nor were you his, but was a signpost on your journey nonetheless, and didn't you both share this experience so incredible it was near-mythic... the epic highs and lows of high school volleyball. the epic highs and lows of professional volleyball (pending)

this is an oihina brazil arc playlist but i am not sure that it is applicable to hypothetical akaryo brazil arc even though that's obviously modelled off the oihina one because it's kind of... not fraught enough lol this mix is just like world of light. akaryo brazil arc would need some shades of lingering captain complexes i think. nonetheless i persist in making everything about tennis...


to sweet impossible blossom

every time i forget, something comes along and reminds me again

i. the shade - metric
with eternal love, the stars above / all there is and ever was / i want it all / a blade of grass, a grain of sand / the moonlit sea, to hold your hand / i want it all

ii. logic of colour - wye oak

give to me and i'll give back / let's lock eyes here in real time / your illogical device / my illegible command

iii. feel it all around - washed out
you feel it all around yourself / you know it's yours and no one else

iv. union stone - phildel
remember the way to the old town // i'll ask you for more of what you've found // and i join you in your walls

v. now that i found you - carly rae jepsen
don't give it up, don't say it hurts // it's just like a miracle / say nothing's impossible / now that i found you

vi. breathless - small black
i'm standing in tomorrow's way / future's fine / least it seems okay // i can't explain / just how could i be standing here / across divides / unhurt, unfazed / it didn't feel impossible

vii. golden haze - wild nothing
i wanna know what you are // i wanna go where you are // what does it take to be like you?

viii. i wanna go - summer heart
i had nothing to lose / and i had no one to trust / and you were calling my name

ix. walk with me - memoryhouse
i rest my head on your shoulder / and dreamt we were gone, but our names remained / felt the pulse of the water / and left behind all my old ways

x. the nothing pt ii - lady lamb
choose to use your heart / if even towards the harshest fate // lay me down, lay me low / let go your crown, disarm me // we'll know what we want

xi. atlantic - sleeping at last
[instrumental]

xii. balance - future islands
you can clean around the wound / but if you want it to heal / it just takes time // and i can sit and talk / because i was just like you

xiii. under the sun - diiv

big breath that you can’t fake / once you’ve begun / press my face to the back / all the pillars that stack / and hold up the sun

xiv. level up - vienna teng

call it any name you need / call it your 2.0, your rebirth, whatever / so long as you can feel it all // let your faith die / bring your wonder // this is the day, no other