Title: The Land of Lost Content Soundtrack
Creator: desireearmfeldt
Fandom: Due South
Characters: Benton Fraser, Ray Kowalski, Ray Vecchio, Stella Vecchio
Fanmixer Notes: This fanmix is a soundtrack for The Land of Lost Content, an epistlatory Fraser/Kowalski love story I wrote in collaboration with the lovely and talented Sock_Marionette. Contains spoilers for the fic, after a fashion.  Thanks to SM for giving it her blessing and adding a song to the collection.
Summary: A collection of songs about love and friendship.  With plot!

After the Quest, Fraser takes a new, remote posting in the Northwest Territories. He corresponds with Ray Kowalski (in Chicago) and Ray Vecchio (in Florida); meanwhile Ray Kowalski gets in touch with Stella Vecchio.

Many letters are exchanged; information is withheld, misconstrued, and accidentally revealed; many miscommunications and misunderstandings are perpetrated; but our heroes eventually stumble their way to a happy ending.




Full playlist available at Grooveshark.


July 1999

1. Why Don’t You Write Me (Simon & Garfunkel, Bridge over Troubled Water)

  Why don't you write me,
  A letter would brighten
  My loneliest evening.
  Mail it today
  If it's only to say
  That you're leaving me.

2. So Far Away (Dire Straights, Brothers in Arms)

  And I get so tired when I have to explain
  When you're so far away from me
  See, you been in the sun and I've been in the rain
  And you're so far away from me

August 1999

3. I Still Believe In My Friends (The Nields, If You Lived Here You’d Be Home Now)

  I don't know whether I believe in me
  But I still believe in my friends

4. American Woman (Guess Who, American Woman)

  Colored lights can hypnotize
  Sparkle someone else's eyes
  Now woman, get away from me
  American woman, mama let me be

September 1999

5. Solitary Man (Neil Diamond; Johnny Cash cover, American II: Solitary Man)

  Don't know that I will
  But until I can find me
  The girl who'll stay
  And won't play games behind me
  I'll be what I am
  A solitary man

6. If You Were Gay (Marx, Lopez, Tartaglia & D’Abruzzo, Avenue Q)

  If you were gay,
  That'd be OK
  I mean, 'cause hey!
  I'd like you anyway,
  And I know that you
  Would respect me too
  If I told you today
  Guess what? I'm gay!
  (But I'm not gay.)

7. [Bonus Track: I couldn't get this one on Grooveshark]  She Loves Me Not (Shire & Maltby, Closer Than Ever)

  He loves me not, he doesn't love me
  He thinks not highly of me. . .
  If I love him, how can he love me not?


8. Love Will Come to You (Indigo Girls, Rites of Passage)

  Guess I wasn't the best one to ask
  Me myself with my face pressed
  Up against love's glass
  To see the shiny toy I've been hoping for
  The one I never can afford. . . .


October 1999

9. There’s a Fine, Fine Line (Marx, Lopez, Tartaglia & D’Abruzzo, Avenue Q)

  There's a fine, fine line
  Between a lover and a friend
  And there's a fine, fine line
  Between reality and pretend
  I guess if someone doesn't love you back
  That isn't such a crime
  But there's a fine, fine line between love
  And a waste of time

10. You Want To Be My Friend? (Shire & Maltby, Closer Than Ever)

  You want to be my friend?
  You want to be my friend?
  Well, I'm touched
  You want to be my friend
  I want a lover and a husband
  And a partner and a spouse
  I want someone to split expenses with me
  On a summer house. . . .

  I need someone I can fight with
  Learn to cook with, love to feed
  Come to think of it, there's only one thing
  That I do not need:
  I don't need another friend


November 1999

11. Friends Will Be Friends (Queen, Platinum Collection)

  It's not easy love, but you've got friends you can trust,
  Friends will be friends,
  When you're in need of love they give you care and attention,
  Friends will be friends,
  When you're through with life and all hope is lost,
  Hold out your hand cos friends will be friends right till the end


December 1999

12. Thank You For The Music (ABBA, Gold: Greatest Hits)

  Thank you for the music, the songs I'm singing
  Thanks for all the joy they're bringing
  Who can live without it, I ask in all honesty
  What would life be?
  Without a song or a dance what are we?
  So I say thank you for the music
  For giving it to me

13. Christmas Carol (Nerissa & Katryna Nields, Love and China)

  The sky is gray, the night comes early
  I'm heading towards my brother's place
  His baby greets me smiling curly
  I kiss her rosy little face
  They don't ask me where you're staying
  They give me "Fear not, for behold" to read
  A glass of wine, their daughter playing
  Tonight that's everything I need

January 2000

14. Wie Stark Ist Nicht Dein Zauberton (Mozart, The Magic Flute)

Wie stark is nicht dein Zauberton,
Weil, holde Floete, durch dein Spielen
Selbst wilde Tiere Freude Fuelen.
Doch nur Pamina bleibt davon!
Pamina! Hoere, hoere mich!

15. The Way Old Friends Do (ABBA, Gold: Greatest Hits)

  You and I can share the silence
  Finding comfort together
  The way old friends do
  And after fights and words of violence
  We make up with each other
  The way old friends do
  Times of joy and times of sorrow
  We will always see it through
  Oh I don't care what comes tomorrow
  We can face it together
  The way old friends do

16. I Don’t Want To Get Over You (The Magnetic Fields, 69 Love Songs: CD1)

  I don't want to get over love
  I could listen to my therapist,
  Pretend you don't exist
  And not have to dream of what I dream of;
  I could listen to all my friends
  And go out again
  And pretend it's enough,
  Or I could make a career of being blue
  I could dress in black and read Camus,
  Smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth
  Like I was 17
  That would be a scream
  But I don't want to get over you

17. And So It Goes (Billy Joel: Storm Front) (I think Grooveshark has the attribution wrong)

  But if my silence made you leave
  Then that would be my worst mistake
  So I will share this room with you
  And you can have this heart to break

February 2000

18. Love Isn’t Easy (ABBA, Greatest Hits)

  We gotta have patience
  Love isn't just a sensation
  Some of the time it gets rough
  Love isn't easy but it sure is hard enough
  (sweet sweet, our love is bitter-sweet)
  Giving love is a reason for living
  But a few things can be tough
  Love isn't easy but it sure is hard enough

March 2000

19. With a Little Help From My Friends (The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)

  (Would you believe in a love at first sight?)
  Yes I'm certain that it happens all the time.
  (What do you see when you turn out the light?)
  I can't tell you, but I know it's mine.

  Oh I get by with a little help from my friends
  I get high with a little help from my friends
  I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends
 
  (Do you need anybody?)
  I just need somebody to love,
  (Could it be anybody?)
  I want somebody to love.

  I get by with a little help from my friends


Epilogue

20. Power of Two (Indigo Girls, 1200 Curfews)

  So we're okay
  We're fine
  Baby I'm here to stop your crying
  Chase all the ghosts from your head
  I'm stronger than the monster beneath your bed
  Smarter than the tricks played on your heart
  We'll look at them together then we'll take them apart
  Adding up the total of a love that's true
  Multiply life by the power of two