Rage, My Darling! Rage! - A Duncan Kane Fanmix

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Rage, My Darling! Rage - A Duncan Kane Fanmix

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1. Red Right Ankle - The Decemberists

And how it whispered “Oh, adhere to me
For we are bound by symmetry
And whatever differences our lives have been
We together make a limb.”
This is the story of your red right ankle.

Like a story, once upon a time lived the Fab Four (Duncan, Lilly, Logan and Veronica). They had a connection like no other and amidst the champagne limo parties, laughter and love things crumbled around them but nothing shook them until Duncan's sister, Lilly, was tragically murder. The glue that kept them all together began to fall apart when all once lived completing each other.


2. Lie In The Sound - Trespassers William

I love you more than I should
So much more than is good for me
More than is good

Oh the timing is cruel
Oh I need and don't want to need
More than I should

Before Lilly's death, Duncan is told that Veronica - his first and only love - is his sister and as a instant reaction he ceases communication with her and the people around him.


3. Chemical, Chemical - Pretty Girls Make Graves

'Cause his eyes are always red, can't sleep at night
Doesn't feel like being positive all the time
Doesn't sit still, doesn't look well
Give him something, make it chemical

You'll feel better when you cannot feel

Medicated, Duncan deals with Lilly's death and still being in love with Veronica. Or not.


4. Reason To Believe - Dashboard Confessional

Steady lungs don't fail me now
I feel you bursting, but you wont let me die
Fill me up with every step, I'm feeling sick
But I'm leaving it behind

Duncan looks for reasons just to survive. He finds Meg.


5. Haligh, Haligh, A Lie, Haligh - Bright Eyes

You said you hate my suffering
And you understood
And you'd take care of me
You'd always be there
Well where are you now?

Inevitably - even being his best of friends - Logan abandons him to deal with his own crumbling situation. In his silence and inability to process the situation around him, he runs away.


6. Duncan - Sarah Slean

Oh, you fool! You fool!
Don't give in to fate
If this is all we've got to fight for
Rage, my darling! Rage!
Duncan good for you!
Sad but on your way
Well the army never turned his crank
But love sure made him brave

And the song that clearly inspired this fanmix. In the climax of it all, Duncan is just surviving and not living. He's just found out that Logan and Veronica are together and, more than just betrayed, what is there left for him? Love - one he feels is unrequited or wrong - is all he has left. He loved so deeply and madly he nearly lost his mind, indeed.


7. Lucky - Bif Naked

The first time we made love, I, I wasn't sober.
And you told me you loved me over and over.
How could I ever, love another.
And I miss you everyday...

The events of Shelly Pomroy's End of the Year party are revealed. Both young lovers drugged, Duncan slept with Veronica. In the realization of thinking he had slept with his sister he ran away leaving Veronica, with no memory of the night they had spent together, thinking she had been raped the morning after.


8. Mr. Brightside - The Killers

It started out with a kiss
How did it end up like this?
It was only a kiss
It was only a kiss

He wonders how things fell apart so quickly.


9. Reunion - Stars

All I want is one more chance to be young and wild and free
All I want is one more chance to show you,
You were right for me
You were right for me

During the summer, he starts to rebuild his life starting with his relationship with Veronica.


10. Lust - Tori Amos

She prays for a prankster
and lust in the marriage bed
and he waits till she can give
and he waits and he waits

Things are finally starting to come together for him. He's with Veronica, but then again he fears he's not really with Veronica.


11. How To Save A Life - The Fray

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
And you begin to wonder why you came

Again with having relationships that are just not complete. After Logan's house is burnt to the ground, Duncan invites him to live with him. Things aren't the same. They just coexist.


12. Make This Go On Forever - Snow Patrol

The last girl and the last reason to make this last for as long as I could
First kiss and the first time that I felt connected to anything
The weight of water, the way you told me to look past everything I have ever learned
The final word in the final sentence you ever uttered to me was love

He learns his ex-girlfriend Meg is pregnant with his child and it seals the deal that nothing lasts forever. He can't go back and he can't make things right.


13. Sick Cycle Carousel - Lifehouse

'Cause I tried to climb your steps
I tried to chase you down
I tried to see how low I can get down to the ground
I tried to earn my way
I tried to tame this mind
You better believe that I tried to beat this

Meg dies and he's left fighting for the custody of his daughter. For the sake of his child, he decides to take her away for good instead of leaving the baby in the hands of Meg's psychotic parents. This requires leaving everything else he has ever loved behind. Including Veronica. Including the ever-absent Logan.


14. Too Late - Fisher

And it’s too late
to think of what I’ve left behind
- dreams that have faded from view
Too late – too late
I’ve burned all my bridges with you
and I can’t walk on water

Operation take baby Lilly has already started and it's time for Duncan to leave Veronica forever. It's too late to turn back.


15. Cathedrals - Jump, Little Children

In the cathedrals of New York and Rome
There is a feeling that you should just go home
And spend a lifetime finding out just where that is

Though Duncan is now away, trying to create a life for himself and his child, he's lost his true home among Lilly, Logan and Veronica. There is only moving forward and there is only now.