Here is a song for you

[schmerica]

Regina Spektor, That Time.

Hey remember the time when I found a human tooth down on Delancey
Hey remember that time we decided to kiss anywhere except the mouth
Hey remember that time when my favorite colors were pink and green
Hey remember that month when I only ate boxes of tangerines
So cheap and juicy, tangerines

Hey remember that time when I would only read Shakespeare
Hey remember that other time when I would only read the backs of cereal boxes
Hey remember that time I tried to save a pigeon with a broken wing
A street cat got him by morning and I had to bury pieces of his body in my building's playground
I thought I was going to be sick, I thought I was going to be sick

Hey remember that time when I would only smoke Parliaments
Hey remember that time when I would only smoke Marlboros
Hey remember that time when I would only smoke Camels
Hey remember that time when I was broke
I didn't care I just bummed from my friends
Bum, bum, bum, bum, bum...

Hey remember that time when you od'ed
Hey remember that other time when you od'ed for the second time
Well in the waiting room while waiting for news of you I hallucinated I could read your mind
And I was on a lot of shit too but what I saw, man, I tell you it was freaky, freaky

This song makes me desperately want some sort of Gerard AU. Gerard and Bert? Gerard and Frank? Gerard and Mikey? I don't know. But Geraaaaaaaaaaard. The quirkiness and total fucked-up-edness all mixed together! Sitting on the fire escape to a crappy apartment and smoking in the middle of the night, when you have to go off to your crappy minimum wage job in three hours. Going to the same tiny diner every weekend to eat vegan pancakes and drink too much coffee. Sleeping on a mattress on the floor because you never bothered to get a bed and figure out how to actually put it together. Etc, etc, etc.

Comments

[onneonlights.livejournal.com]

i love that song so much! also, this is vaguely relevant to those sort of ideas, i guess: it's not about gerard so much, but i'm writing an AU where mikey moves to london and gets a shitty job and a shitty apartment and it's some sort of night job, where he finishes at arse o' clock in the morning, and always ends up at this open all night cafe, where pete works nights because he can't sleep and always ends up serving mikey his coffee! and mikey calls gerard back in jersey from a payphone there everytime he has enough money.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

OH MIKEYWAY. *big eyes* I sort of adore stories where is alone in this wholly different place, far from their home, you know? Just adapting and living in exile. And Peeeeeeete. And calling Gerard! OH. <3

[dsudis.livejournal.com]

Sleeping on a mattress on the floor because you never bothered to get a bed and figure out how to actually put it together.

*eyes air mattress which has been my only bed for the last five months*

What, is that weird?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Of course not! There is nothing suggestive about that at all.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

What's wrong with a mattress on the floor? D:

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING WAS WRONG WITH IT, JEEZ. I was sketching out a description of the lifestyle that happened to include that! I did not realize MATTRESS FLOOR SLEEPERS WERE SO SENSITIVE.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

THERE WAS AN IMPLICATION THAT A CERTAIN KIND OF PEOPLE DIDN'T BOTHER WITH FANCY SHMANCY BEDS.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

I AM SORRY I IMPLIED YOU EAT VEGAN PANCAKES, OKAY.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

ARE THEY STILL VEGAN IF I SLATHER BUTTER ALL OVER THEM?

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

YOU CAN GET THE WEIRD FAKE VEGAN BUTTER THAT DOESN'T ACTUALLY HAVE ANY BUTTER IN IT I THINK

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

VEGAN PRODUCTS + DAIRY TASTE SO MUCH BETTER.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

YOU REBEL!

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

I HAVE PURPLE HAIR NOW, I'M ALL ABOUT BUCKING THE SYSTEM, YO.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE REST OF THE POST WHATSOEVER BUT I DON'T FEEL LIKE MAKING A NEW ENTRY, SO. I KIND OF REALLY WANT A GERARD VID TO "YOU'RE NEVER FULLY DRESSED WITHOUT A SMILE."

IT WOULD BE BAD-ASS. BECAUSE ANNIE IS BAD-ASS. GERARD SAID SO.

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

I CAN JUST PICTURE HIS JAZZ HANDS AS HE SINGS IT.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

RAY AND FRANK CAN LINE UP BEHIND HIM AND DO THE LITTLE KICKS

[shoemaster.livejournal.com]

GERARD WOULD HAVE SOME AWESOME HIGH KICKS OF HIS OWN.

[saturnalia.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, I adore that song so much- I almost died when they played it in a local club once. *g*

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It is pretty awesome!

[kiki-miserychic.livejournal.com]

Awesome idea.

I'd had always thought of it as a Veronica Mars vid, but ypur idea is a hundred times better. :) Vegan Pancakes!

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

It makes me bizarrely happy!