Folly's Unofficial House of Cards Soundtrack


Pregaming

1. Last Trump To Amber: Apocalypse Please, Muse

Declare this an emergency
Come on and spread a sense of urgency
And pull us through....
2. The Sundering: A Day Called Zero, The Sugarcubes
Mountains will tumble with a long and heavy thump
Dust spreads on the sky so the sun will grow pale
3. Rumour and Truth: Oo-Aa, Boo!
I heard a rustle and the wind whispered 'it's over'
And that the light about it was a supernova
I'm getting nervous 'bout the state of my position
Is it a worry or is it an intuition?
4. Folly: Bachelorette, Björk
I'm a tree that grows hearts, one for each that you take
You're the intruder's hand
I'm the branch that you break
5. Hard Times Dockside: The Downeaster 'Alexa', Billy Joel
I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
I know there's fish out there, but where, God only knows
6. Vialle: Are You Experienced? Jimi Hendrix
Who in your little world are you trying to prove to
That you're made out of gold
And can't be sold
7. Solange: Short Skirt, Long Jacket, Cake
I want a girl with smooth liquidation
I want a girl with the right dividends
8. Vere: Nature Boy, Nat King Cole
A little shy, and sad of eye
But very wise was he
9. Martin: Hidden Place, Björk
Through the warmthest cord of care
Your love was given to me
I'm not sure what to do with it
Or where to put it
10. Jerod: Of Course, Jane's Addiction
When I was a boy, my big brother held onto my hands
And he made me slap my own face
I looked up to him and still do
He was trying to teach me something
11. Gerard: Ruttlin' Reel, Virgil Alfrey
instrumental
12. The Pickled Grouse: Come All Ye, Fairport Convention
Those that dance will start to dance
And those who don't will sway
In time to this our merry tune
That we play for you today
13. Army Of Good Works: Change, Fishbone
Youth cry out for today
Strength to cry for a change
14. The Ladies' Guides: Shaking the Tree, Peter Gabriel
You don't want to do what your mother has done
This is your life, this new life has begun
15. Ossian: Venus As A Boy, Björk
He believes in beauty
He's Venus as a boy
16. Cambina: Zak and Sara, Ben Folds
Often Sara would have spells where she lost time
She saw the future, she heard voices from inside
17. Lucas: This Charming Man, The Smiths
He said, "Return the ring---"
He knows so much about these things
18. Brita: Cold Wind To Valhalla, Jethro Tull
Sword snap fright-white pale goodbyes
In the desolation of Valhalla
And join with us please
19. Paige: There There, Radiohead
There's always a siren singing you to shipwreck
20. The Breakup: Smoke, Ben Folds Five
Leaf by leaf and page by page
Throw this book away
All the sadness, all the rage
Throw this book away
21. Adventures in Livestock I: Llama, Phish
Llama! (t'boot t'boot)
22. Adventures in Livestock II: Sheep Go To Heaven, Cake
Sheep go to heaven, goats go to hell

The Return

1. Dawn, Day One: Morning Bell/Amnesiac, Radiohead
The morning bell, the morning bell
Light another candle and release me
Release me
2. New King: Julius, Phish
You gave it to me but I really don't want it
I came out on top by the luck of the draw
3. New Queen: Long Way Down (Look What The Cat Drug In), Michael Penn
Oh, what use is it to pretend I have the strength for this anymore?
This is all in the world that she lives for.
4. Foreign Sailors: Ach Adani, Rachid Taha
Arabic; trans. "The Rogue"
5. Little Furry Guys: A Spoonful Weighs A Ton, The Flaming Lips
Giving more than they had
The process had begun
A million came from one
The limits now were none
6. Tir na Nog'th: Mountains of the Moon, Grateful Dead
Twenty degrees of solitude, twenty degrees in all
All the dancing kings and wives assembled in the hall
Lost is the long and loneliest time
Faery sybil flying
All along the, all along the mountains of the moon
7. Jewel Of Judgement/Tales Of Chaos: Hold Back The Rain, Duran Duran
We're miles away from nowhere
And the wind doesn't have a name
8. Adonis: Take On Me, Reel Big Fish
I'll be gone in a day or two
9. Merlin: Human Behaviour, Björk
If you ever get close to a human
And human behaviour
You better be ready to get confused
10. Marius: Bouncing Around The Room, Phish
The woman was a dream I had though rather hard to keep
For when my eyes were watching hers, they closed, and I was still asleep
For when my hand was holding hers, she whispered words and I awoke
And faintly bouncing around the room the echo of whomever spoke
11. Lilly: Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots, The Flaming Lips
She's a black belt in karate
Working for the city
12. Dannan Raid: Getting Even, Guster
We'll be shielded up above
And the screams will not reach us
13. Jovian: Got The Time, Anthrax
If I tell you what I'm doing today
Will you shut up and get outta my way?
14. Robin: The Sky Is Falling, Owsley
Well, I guess I should get an umbrella
The kind that can stop more than rain
Yeah, I'm always in a hard-hat zone
15. Paige and Adonis: First Aid, Unun
This was love at first-aid
And a love like that can never wait
16. New Digs: Little Room, The White Stripes
Well you're in your little room
And you're working on something good
But if it's realy good
You're gonna need a bigger room
17. Martin: Hit, Sugarcubes
I lie in my bed totally still
My eyes wide open -- I'm in rapture!
I don't believe this, I'm in love again
This wasn't supposed to happen

The Masque

1. Folly: The Swan, Camille Saint-Saens
instrumental
2. Martin and Paige: One, U2
Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth?
You act like you never had love
And you want me to go without
CHAOS SUITE:
3. Schemers: Southbound Pachyderm, Primus
Watching the majesty blow past
Speculating which will be last
4. Dara: Climbing Up The Walls, Radiohead
I am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
5. Aisling: Shadows On Your Side Duran Duran
Promises made with a distant friend
Truth should be known
It can only bend to a tune of its own
Yeah, you'll never hear that voice again
6. Death and the Raven: Danse Macabre, Camille Saint-Saens
instrumental
7. Cards: Ballroom Blitz, Tia Carrere
I see a man at the back
As a matter of fact his eyes are as red as the sun
And the girl in the corner let no one ignore her
'Cause she thinks she's the passionate one

The Road to Texorami

1. Swim: Aquarium, Camille Saint-Saens
instrumental
2. Greatest Band In The World: Everlong, Foo Fighters
And I wonder when I sing along with you
If anything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again
3. Mother: Freshmint, Regurgitator
B-b-b-baby I could be your superstar
And we could boot champagne and snort caviar
S-s-s-stick with me honey and you'll go far
As we watch the world burning from a heated spa
4. Home: Fake Plastic Trees, Radiohead
A green plastic watering can
For a fake plastic rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth
5. Soren: Thirty-Three, Smashing Pumpkins
I've journeyed here and there and back again
But in the same old haunts I still find my friends
6. Terrible Plan: Nightmares By The Sea, Jeff Buckley
All young lovers know why
Nightmares blind their mind's eye
Your rube is young and handsome, so new to your bedroom floor
You know damn well where you'll go
7. Confrontation: Shoot Doris Day, Super Furry Animals
People never stay the same
It's a fight between the wild and tame
I've these feelings that I can't get through
But those feelings never bothered you
8. Slap: How To Disappear Completely, Radiohead
I'm not here
This isn't happening
9. Tour: Road Trippin', Red Hot Chili Peppers
Road-trippin' with my two favorite allies
Fully loaded we got snacks and supplies
It's time to leave this town
It's time to get away

Xanadu Patternwalk

1. New Beginnings: Hosanna, Boo
Hosanna, who's coming with us
Hosanna, up on the airbus?
Hallelujah, this is a farewell to the humdrum
Hallelujah, we're going back to where we come from
2. Random: Jóga, Björk
All these accidents that happen, follow the dot
Coincidence makes sense only with you
You don't have to speak, I feel
Emotional landscapes
3. Confession: Here I Stand And Face The Rain, a-ha
We're nothing apart
Let's stay friends forever
Here I stand and face the rain
I know that nothing's gonna be the same again
4. Pattern: Grace, Jeff Buckley
Wait in the fire....
5. Fourth Veil: Opened Once, Jeff Buckley
And in the half-light where we both stand
This is the half-light, see me as I am
Just like the ocean, always in love with the moon
6. Child: Lorelei, Cocteau Twins
We're covered by the sacred fire
When you come to me
7. Xanadu: Muzzle, Smashing Pumpkins
And the world is drawn into your hands
And the world is etched upon your heart
And the world so hard to understand
Is the world you can't live without

Return To Amber

1. Martin: Cocoon, Björk
Who would have known that a boy like him
After sharing my core would stay going nowhere
2. Aisling's Fate: Seven Nation Army, The White Stripes
And I'm bleeding and I'm bleeding and I'm bleeding
Right before the lord
All the words are gonna bleed from me
And I will think no more
And the stains coming from my blood
Tell me to go back home
3. Amber's Fate: The End Of The Tour, They Might Be Giants
At the end of the tour
When the road disappears
If there's any more people around
When the tour runs aground
And if you're still around
Then we'll meet at the end of the tour
The engagements are booked through the end of the world
So we'll meet at the end of the tour
4. Garrett: The Squirming Coil, Phish
The muscles flex the mother's ring
She fastens children to her king
And sends him down the crooked street
When he returns, the birth's complete
5. Celina and Khela: Water, The Sugarcubes
Wait for me underneath the water
Wait for me - I have to go now
Into the big city
She pulls me firmly towards her
6. Gerard: Bones, Radiohead
Now I can't climb the stairs
Pieces missing everywhere
Prozac painkillers
7. Random: This Mess We're In, P.J. Harvey with Thom Yorke
No need for words now
We sit in silence
You look me in the eye directly
8. Celina: Normal Days, Denali
Innocence drifts away passing through pains
9. Heirs: Caspian Can Wait, The Velvet Teen
He waits for the reign of his tyrants
To tire of their games, god save him
He'll be the one to fracture their fractus castles
And scatter their tiers on the pavement

You've got so much love locked up inside you
Bursting at the seams
You'll kill the world in spite of itself
And make a better one
You say you're a veteran

Adventures In Xanadu and Shadow

1. Xanadu: The Stars, Biff Rose
As positive, negative flow into one proper outcome
Whose outflow is source of a hundred new worlds
All tripping clumsily downhill
And waywardly meet with their water source
Blend and collide in one final effort of power and will
2. Jam Sessions: The Egg and I, Cowboy Bebop Soundtrack
instrumental
3. Random: Come to Me, Björk
You know I adore you
You know I love you
But don't make me say it
It might burst the bubble
Break the charm
4. The Paresh: Children of Light, Biff Rose
The man who's afraid will have all kinds of answers
To problems within his own head
The threat from the outside
Is now and forever a lie
And the children of light will be given a means of escpae From a world wrapped in flame
The children of light know each other
Truth is always the same
5. Edan/Race to the Tree: Desert Rose, Sting
I dream of fire
Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
And in the flames
The shadows play in the shape of a man's desire
6. The Twins: Born Yesterday, Blindman's Holiday
All I know is what I don't know
Which is a lot
Why I am the am I am
'Cause I ain't the am I am not
You don't have to worry about me
You know I'm gonna be all right
I might've been born yesterday
But I stayed up all night
7. Doctor's Visit: Blood Makes Noise, Suzanne Vega
I think that you might want to know the details and the facts
But there's something in my blood denies the memory of the acts
So just forget it, doc, it's really cool that you're concerned
But we'll have to try again after the silence has returned
'Cause blood makes noise, it's a ringing in my ear
Blood makes noise, and I can't really hear you in the thickening of fear
8. Hospital Chase: On the Run, Pink Floyd
Instrumental
9. Healing Gerard: Race for the Prize, The Flaming Lips
Two scientists were racing for the good of all mankind
Both of them side by side
So determined
Locked in heated battle for the cure that is their prize
It is so dangerous but they're determined
10. Return of the Children of Ysabeau: When in Rome, Nickel Creek
Grab a blanket, sister, we'll make smoke signals
Bring some new blood, it feels like we're alone
Grab a blanket, brother, so we don't catch cold from one another
I wonder if we're stuck in Rome

Where can a dead man go
The question with an answer only dead men know
But I'm gonna bet they never really feel at home
If they spent a lifetime learning how to live in Rome

11. Huon: Set It Off, Audioslave
He was standing at the rock
Gathering the fog
Getting there with no directions
And underneath the arch
Turned into a march
And there he found a spot to set this fucker on
12. Sihouette: Robot, stellastarr*
By design
You're gonna hurt yourself
13. Celina: I Come from the Water, Toadies
I come from the water,
That weren't no easy thing
It's more than nature
It's like my destiny
I stood upon these legs
And held my head up high
Emerged beneath the sun
To start a new life
14. Moire: The Sea, Morcheeba
Left my soul there
Down by the sea
Lost control here
I'm living free
15. Funerals: The Great Gig In The Sky, Pink Floyd
Why should I be frightened of dying?
There's no reason for it, you've gotta go sometime....
16. Silhouette and Brennan: What I Am, Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians
I'm not aware of too many things
I know what I know if you know what I mean
17. Cneve's Tomb: Suboceana, Tom Tom Club
We are your future
From out of your past
We'll be here tomorrow
Pick up the pieces
As fragile as glass
We will hear your sorrow
18. Martin: The Secret Marriage, Sting
No debt was paid no dowry to be gained
No treaty over border land or power
No semblance of the world outside remained
To stain the beauty of this nuptial hour

The secret marriage vow is never spoken
The secret marriage never can be broken

19. Trusted Advisor: I Know, Fiona Apple
Baby I can't help you out while she's still around
So for the time being I'm being patient
And amidst this bitterness
If you'll consider this
Even if it don't make sense
All the time, give it time
And when the crowd becomes your burden
And you've early closed your curtains
I'll wait by the backstage door

Misc

1. Corwin: A Rush of Blood to the Head, Coldplay
He said oh I'm gonna buy a gun and start a war
If you can tell me something worth fighting for
Oh and I'm gonna buy this place, that's what I said
Blame it upon a rush of blood to the head
2. Fiona: She's Actual Size, They Might Be Giants
She's actual size
But she seems much bigger to me
3. Bleys: Extra Savoir-Faire, They Might Be Giants
What's a man like me supposed to do
With all this extra savoir-faire?
4. Clarissa: Reba, Phish
Coconuts and chloroform, some wicker and some cork
Toxic waste, some purple paste she hoped was not explosive
Reba dip a ladle for a taste of her creation
And she knew that what she make
Would be the finest in the nation
5. Reid: TBD
6. Conner: TBD
7. Julian: TBD

Other Tracks, TBD

Hyper-Ballad, Björk (Brodsky Quartet remix)
Born Cross-Eyed, Grateful Dead
Life Is Grand, Camper Van Beethoven

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Last modified: 19 December 2004