Title: Smarter Than You
Fandom: Sherlock (BBC)
Content Note: My first ever fanmix. Hope I did this right.
Fanmixer notes: A Mycroft fanmix. Done for fan_flashworks challenge: Music and land_deduction challenge: My Favorite
Summary: Mycroft is well...Mycroft.

The Crooked Kind- Radical Face

The thunder plays it's drum
The air is heavy with the smell of storms
And I sit beside my brother and I feel him shake
As he laughs himself right back to sleep
And I'm laughin' with him




War at Home- Josh Groban

Innocence behind his broken expression
He's a child of mercy
He's an unlearned lesson
And he's trying to wake up
From this wilderness his world has now become



My Way- Frank Sinatra

Regrets I've had a few
But then again too few to mention
I did what I had to do
And saw it through without exemption

I planned each chartered course
Each careful step along the by-way
And more, much more than this
I did it my way



True Colors- Phil Collins

If this world makes you crazy

And you've taken all you can bear

You call me up

Because you know I'll be there


And I'll see your true colors

Shining through
I see your true colors



I Go To Extremes- Billy Joel

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes

Too high or too low there ain't no in-betweens

And if I stand or I fall

It's all or nothing at all

Darling I don't know why I go to extremes



Hidden Away- Josh Groban

You’re a wonder, how bright you shine

A flickering candle in a short lifetime

A secret dreamer that never shows

If no one sees you then nobody knows

And all these words you were meant to say

Held in silence day after day



Gone, Gone, Gone- Phillip Phillips

When life leaves you high and dry

I'll be at your door tonight
If you need help, if you need help.

I'll shut down the city lights,

I'll lie, cheat, I'll beg and bribe

To make you well, to make you well.


Big Shot- Billy Joel

Because you had to be a big shot, didn't you

You had to open up your mouth

You had to be a big shot, didn't you

All your friends were so knocked out

You had to have the last word, last night

You know what everything's about
You had to have a white hot spotlight

You had to be a big shot last night


Bad For Good- Meatloaf

The sea is whippin' the sky

The sky is whippin' the sea

You can hide away forever from the storm

But you'll never hide away from me
The icy cold will cut us like a knife in the dark

And we may lose everything in the wind

But the Northern Lights are burnin' and they're giving off sparks




The King And All of His Men- Wolf Pack

How to be sure that what you say is the truth


When I see flaws in everything that you do?


And if I’m passing a sentence on you


I would give you the crown for a fool


And now you’ve lost, there’s nothing left to defend


You came so close to the King and all of his men


And if you’re dealing in a trick of the light