...and racing toward the finish...

[silentdescant]

The races were so much fun. Kind of hot out, but that's okay. I stayed in the shade. The betting didn't do much for us because only a couple of the bets won and we were only doing $2 anyway, but still, without betting on a horse, you really don't care who wins so it gives you someone to root for. So, very fun. Except now I feel a bit sick because I ate two slices of pizza and then had a *small* ice cream that made me afraid to see even the medium.

Also, I've noticed that a few songs fit in with my Runaway fic. I haven't uploaded the songs or anything, but here's the verses that stand out to me. PS: this could be considered spoilers for future chapters.

This whole song, but especially this bit:

And you can't fight the tears that ain't comming
Or the moment of truth in your lies
When everything feels like the movies
Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive
And I don't want the world to see me
'Cause I don't think that they'd understand
When everything's made to be broken
I just want you to know who I am 

     ~Iris, Goo Goo Dolls


I’ll get out of California
I’m tired of the weather
I think I’ll get a lover
I’ll fly ‘em out to Spain

I think I’ll go to Boston
I think that I was tired
I think I need a new town
To leave this all behind

I think I need a sunrise
I’m tired of a sunset
Here it’s nice in the summer
Some snow would be nice, oh yeah...

Boston
Where no one knows my name
Yeah...no one knows my name
No one knows my name... 

     ~Boston, Augustana


Again, the whole song, really, but I'll cut it down to this:

To think I might not see those eyes
It makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbyes
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 

     ~Run, Snow Patrol


The lyrics for this song don't quite fit as well, but the mood fits.

All that I am
All that I ever was
Is here in your perfect eyes, they're all I can see

I don't know where
Confused about how as well
Just know that these things will never change for us at all

If I lay here
If I just lay here
Would you lie with me and just forget the world? 

     ~Chasing Cars, Snow Patrol


This whole song too, but here's two seperate bits of it:

Come lay down at the edge
Come lay down at the broken edge
Come lay down at the feet of angels
Eyeing you in a northern sky

Come lay down at the end
Come lay down where the times suspended
Come lay down and hear the voices
Calling you from a northern sky 

and

Don't look down
Keep your eyes off the ground
So afraid
These days will fall
Like tears down your face

Fallow me and don't look down
You're alright
Come with me forget you're high
It's alright
And alright

     ~Come Lay Down, Howie Day


I love this song, but not much of it fit the fic:

I've seen your flag on the marble arch
love is not a victory march
Its a cold and its a broken hallelujah 

     ~Hallelujah, Rufus Wainwright

Okay, that's enought for now, but I'm sure I'll add more to this list later.