"A House Built, and Other Royal Fuckups" playlists by callmearcturus mashup: 1. a house of cards all suited hearts (informal playlist), 2. a house built/a spark a flame a fire, 3. ASAFAF playlist | we all want something to hold in the night, don’t care if it hurts or we’re holding too tight [for treaties]
we fear rejection, prize attention, crave attention, dreamy dream dream of perfection [the royal family]
please don’t go please don’t go, i love you so, i’ll lead you home, i’ll eat you whole [for the Ambassador]
I broke my bones playing games with you | how much do you want it too? what are you prepared to do? | tell me what it is you want [The Prince has stopped touching you.]
I’m shakin’ from the withdrawal, baby [for that chasm of distance]
oh he called the whole thing just a wild mistake, he said he didn’t mean no harm | but oh, the mirrored sea, you’re waves are haunting me [for secrets and stalemates]
and here come the waves [for that strange mania]
oh the queen of peace always does her best to please, is it any use? somebody’s got to lose [for politics and machinations]
the black bird dips its beak in blood and writes its thoughts in cursive/the words were all of his and none of mine [for the crow in the courtyard]
I’ll be the one who reaches out when you’re gone, I need the salt in the wound for another song, I’ll be the one who gets us both out of this, I tell it like it is and you call it arrogance [for the Prince of Derse]
and now you've lost, there's nothing left to defend, you came so close to the king and all of his men [for the three pieces on the board]
hold back the river so I can stop for a minute and be by your side [for an intimate sigh of relief]
your heart is the only place that I call home, I cannot be returned [for the Prince of Prospit]

The Decemberists - A Record Year For Rainfall
alt-J - Breezeblocks
James Bay - Hold Back The River
Years & Years - Real
Passion Pit - Mirrored Sea
The Decemberists - The Wanting Comes in Waves (Reprise)
Los Campesinos! - The Black Bird, the Dark Slope
Cold War Kids - Flower Drum Song
Florence + The Machine - Queen Of Peace
MS MR - Painted
Joywave; KOPPS - Tongues
Foster The People - Helena Beat
MS MR - Salty Sweet
Wolf Gang - The King and All of His Men
Lorde - Yellow Flicker Beat
Milky Chance - Stolen Dance
Max Frost - Withdrawal
MisterWives - Riptide
Cold War Kids - Love Is Mystical
Florence + The Machine - Hardest Of Hearts
OneRepublic - Counting Stars
MisterWives - Best I Can Do
MisterWives - Vagabond
Katy Perry; Juicy J - Dark Horse
OneRepublic - All The Right Moves
Wolf Gang - The King and All of His Men