Hunger Games Playlist

This blog is dedicated to reunite songs that remind us of the Hunger Games books and its characters. Suggestions are always welcome.

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We’ve Got A Big Mess On Our Hands, by The Academy Is…

I’ve got that lefty curse
Where everything I do is flipped
And awkwardly reversed
You’re seldom known and barely missed
I always put myself
In destructive situations
I need oxygen
To be exposed where no one goes, where no one’s been
When it all comes crashing…
 
Now we’ve got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it
Now we’ve got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.

Somebody get my phone
So I can throw it in a public
Pool and watch it float
And as it slowly sinking down,
Become a social ghost
Inside a box, cut at the top
To let some light shine in
To remind me what I’ve done and where I’ve been
When it all comes crashing…
 
Now we’ve got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight
Sing it
Now we’ve got a big, big, big, big
Mess on our hands, on our hands.

Don’t give in, don’t give up,
I’ll be gone.
You don’t look innocent enough.
We’re too young to be critics
We won’t miss anything at all
Don’t give in, don’t give up
I don’t look innocent with this big, big mess on,
I’ll say something else.

We’ve got a big, big mess
Oh, we’ve got a big, big mess
Oh, we’ve got a big, big mess
A big, big mess
Now we’ve got a big, big mess
A big, big mess
Now come on
 
Now we’ve got a big, big
Mess on our hands tonight.
Sing it
Now we’ve got a big, big, big, big
Mess on our hands, on our hands

Don’t give in, don’t give up (we’ve got a big, big mess)
I’ll be gone. (a big, big mess)
I don’t look innocent enough
We’re too young to be cynics (we’ve got a big, big mess on our hands)
We won’t wish any harm at all
Don’t give in, don’t give up (we’ve got a big, big mess)
No one looks innocent with this big big mess on our hands tonight.


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This is Why We Fight by The Decemberists

Come the war
Come the avarice
Come the war
Come hell

Come attrition
Come the reek of bones
Come attrition
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
And this is why
This is why we fight

When we die
We will die
With our arms unbound

And this is why
This is why
Why we fight
Come hell

Bride of quiet
Bride of all unquiet things
Bride of quiet
Bride of hell

Come the archers
Come the infantry
Come the archers
Of hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight

And when we die
We will die
With our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight
Come hell
Come hell

This is why
Why we fight
Why we lie awake
This is why
This is why we fight

When we die
We will die with our arms unbound
And this is why
This is why we fight

So come to me
Come to me now
Lay your arms around me
And this is why
This is why
We fight
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell
Come hell

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Edge of the Earth — 30 Seconds to Mars

You know enough to know the way
Six billion people just one name (I found)
I found tomorrow in today
Apocalyptic and insane, my dreams will never change
You wanna be the one in control
You wanna be the one who’s alive
You wanna be the one who gets old
It’s not a matter of luck, it’s just a matter of time

Stand out on the edge of the earth

Stand out on the edge of the earth
Dive into the center of fate
Walk right in the sight of a gun
Look into the new future’s face

I know you know enough to say
I know you know enough to play a game

You wanna be the one in control
You wanna be the one who’s alive
You wanna be the one who gets old
It’s not a matter of luck, it’s just a matter of time

Stand out on the edge of the earth
Dive into the center of fate
Walk right in the sight of a gun
Look into this new future’s face

Stand out on the edge of the earth
Dive into the center of fate
Walk right inside of the gun
Look into the new future’s face

(Stand out on the edge of the earth)

Stand out on the edge of the earth
Stand out on the edge of the earth
(Look into the new future’s face)
Stand out on the edge of the earth
Dive into the center of fate
Walk right in the sight of a gun
Look into the new future’s face


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“People, Turn Around” - Delta Spirit

Eighteen and jaded with guns in their hands
They were fighting for freedom, and just what is that?
Bills to the banks and food for the kids
Money for college, but couldn’t get in
Made all the grades, but got taken to task
By a man in an alley wearing a mask
Screamed and she begged as the people walked by
The man he just laughed and the woman she cried

Well it’s time all you people turn around
For the life we’ve been living, messing around
The blood we’ve been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we’ve been killing is the life like mine

The needle is sweet and the snow it is pure
The pain I’ve been hiding from, I’m finding a cure
The night it is warm, well the light it is cold
The family I’m robbing, I’m calling them home

It’s time all you people turn around
For the life we’ve been living, messing around
The blood we’ve been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we’ve been killing is the life like mine

My heart it is thumping the veins they’ve been blue
The blood that’s been pumping still hasn’t met you
The beard that I’m growing, not fully grown
The years are not coming the way I thought they would
I’m hoping and waiting for something to sing
Like the angels in heaven, the bones on the street
Hoping for love to find a new voice
The song that’s needs singing has already been sung before

It’s time all you people turn around
For the life we’ve been living, messing around
The blood we’ve been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we’ve been killing is the life like mine.

It’s time all you people turn around
For the life we’ve been living, messing around
The blood we’ve been spilling will bleed us dry
The life we’ve been killing is the life like mine.


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Avenged Sevenfold - Seize The Day.

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost 
It’s empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over 

I see my vision burns, I feel my memories fade with time 
But I’m too young to worry 
These streets we travel on will undergo our same lost past

I found you here, now please just stay for a while 
I can move on with you around 
I hand you my mortal life, but will it be forever? 
I’d do anything for a smile, holding you ‘til our time is done 
We both know the day will come, but I don’t want to leave you 

I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time 
But I’m too young to worry 
(a melody, a memory, or just one picture) 

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost 
It’s empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over 

Newborn life replacing all of us, changing this fable we live in 
No longer needed here so where should we go? 
Will you take a journey tonight, follow me past the walls of death?
But girl, what if there is no eternal life? 

I see my vision burn, I feel my memories fade with time 
But I’m too young to worry 
(a melody, a memory, or just one picture) 

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost 
Its empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over 
Trails in life, questions of us existing here, don’t wanna die alone without you here 
Please tell me what we have is real 

So, what if I never hold you, or kiss your lips again? 
So I never want to leave you and the memories for us to see 
I beg don’t leave me 

Seize the day or die regretting the time you lost 
Its empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over 
Trails in life, questions of us existing here, don’t wanna die alone without you here 
Please tell me what we have is real 

(Silence you lost me, no chance for one more day) 
I stand here alone 
Falling away from you, no chance to get back home


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John Mayer - Heartbreak Warfare.
(Gale to Katniss, after Mockingjay)

Lightning strikes
Inside, a chance to keep me up at night
Dream of ways
To make you understand my pain

Clouds of sulfur in the air
Bombs are falling everywhere
It’s heartbreak warfare
Once you want it to begin,
No one really ever wins
In heartbreak warfare

If you want more love,
why don’t you say so?
If you want more love,
why don’t you say so?

Drop his name
Push it in and twist the knife again
Watch my face
As I pretend to feel no pain

Clouds of sulfur in the air
Bombs are falling everywhere
It’s heartbreak warfare
Once you want it to begin,
No one really ever wins
In heartbreak warfare.

If you want more love,
why don’t you say so?
If you want more love,
why don’t you say so?

Just say so…

How come the only way to know how high you get me
is to see how far I fall
God only knows how much I’d love you if you let me
but I can’t break through it all.

It’s a heartbreak…

I don’t care if we don’t sleep at all tonight
Let’s just fix this whole thing now
I swear to God we’re gonna get it right
If you leave your weapons down

Red wine and ambien
You’re talking shit again, it’s heartbreak warfare
Good to know it’s all a game
Disappointment has a name, it’s heartbreak warfare 


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Run — Snow Patrol

(Finnick and Annie)

I’ll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You’ve been the only thing that’s right
In all I’ve done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we’ll make it anywhere
Away from here

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we’ll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can’t raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we’ll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can’t raise your voice to say

Slower slower
We don’t have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We’re bound to be afraid
Even if it’s just for a few days
Making up for all this mess

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I’ll be right beside you dear


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Lykke Li - Tonight

Watch my back so I’ll make sure
You’re right behind me as before
Yesterday the night before tomorrow

Dry my eyes so you won’t know
Dry my eyes so I won’t show
I know you’re right behind me

And don’t you let me go, let me go tonight
don’t you let me go, let me go tonight
don’t you let me go, let me go tonight

You walk the surface of this town
The high heels above the ground
And high horses that we know
Keep us safe until the night

You know them all, I know it all
Stay put and play along
‘cause I’m looking for my friend
Now I got you, got you

Don’t you let me go, let me go tonight
don’t you let me go, let me go tonight
don’t you let me go, let me go tonight

Don’t you let me go, let me go tonight
don’t you let me go, let me go tonight
don’t you let me go, let me go tonight

I dry my eye, dry my eye
Falling deeper by the hour
Dry my eye
Dry my eye, dry my eye
Don’t let me fall deeper now
Dry my eye…


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Pet — A Perfect Circle

(Snow’s control over the capitol)

Don’t fret precious I’m here, 
step away from the window
and go back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won’t let the boogeyman come
Countin’ bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind what other voices say
They don’t care about you, like I do, (like I do)
Safe from pain, and truth, and choice, and other poison devils,
See, they don’t give a fuck about you, like I do.

Just stay with me, 
safe and ignorant, go,
back to sleep, go
back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won’t let the boogeyman come
Countin’ bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

I’ll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I’ll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason
I’ll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
They’re one and the same
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself

Swayin’ to the rhythm of the new world order and
Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
The boogeymen are coming
The boogeymen are coming
Keep your head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
I’ll hold you and protect you from the other ones,
The evil ones, don’t love you son,
Go back to sleep.


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Woodkid - Iron.
(tributes in the arena)

Deep in the ocean, dead and cast away
Where innocence’s burn in flames
A million mile from home, I’m walking ahead
I’m frozen to the bones, I am…

A soldier on my own, I don’t know the way
I’m riding up the heights of shame
I’m waiting for the call, the hand on the chest
I’m ready for the fight, and fate

The sound of iron shocks is stuck in my head,
The thunder of the drums dictates
The rhythm of the falls, the number of dead’s
The rising of the horns, ahead

From the dawn of time to the end of days
I will have to run, away
I want to feel the pain and the bitter taste
Of the blood on my lips, again

This deadly burst of snow is burning my hands,
I’m frozen to the bones, I am
A million mile from home, I’m walking away

I can’t remind your eyes, your face