Keep the Streets Empty for Me | a Liesel Meminger & Max Vandenburg mixtape
If you have not come within a ten-foot radius of me in the last six months, that distant and unsettling sound that keeps you from sleeping at night because you're not sure where it's coming from is probably me yelling about the Book Thief.
Just so you know.
I would be more embarrassed, but, you know.
Tracklisting, cover art, 8tracks link, download link, AND SPOILERS underneath the cut.
Keep the Streets Empty for Me
also known as:
the book thief, the word shaker, the best standover man
the good girl, the girl with the accordion
the only survivor on himmel street
01 | IF I HAD A HEART | Fever Ray
An introduction to your narrator: Death, the book thief
this will never end because i want more
more, give me more
02 | BRIONY | Dario Marianelli
The shallow basement of 33 Himmel Street
instrumental
03 | ANNE DREAMS OF HER CHILDHOOD | Trevor Morris
Her brother, the train, and the Gravedigger's Handbook
instrumental
04 | DID YOU SEE THE WORDS | Animal Collective
S is for saumensch, or: Papa teaches Liesel how to read
because it's messy, yes
this mess is mine
there's something living in these lines
05 | SOMEONE IS WATCHING | Dario Marianelli
"Papa, they're checking basements."
instrumental
06 | DEVIL'S SPOKE | Laura Marling
The daunting task of keeping Max alive
i'll be your keeper
i'll hold your face away from light
i am yours until they come
all of this can be broken
all of this can be broken
07 | AWAKENINGS | Grayson Matthews
Ilsa Hermann, the giver
instrumental
08 | TO KISS OR NOT TO KISS | Richard Gibbs
Her best friend, Rudy Steiner
instrumental
09 | KEEP THE STREETS EMPTY FOR ME | Fever Ray
"What a beautiful day to die, Liesel."
molching
keep the streets empty for me
10 | RAIN TEARS | Scala & Kolacny Brothers
The bombing of Molching
each passing day and year
taunts me because you're not here
also known as:
the jewish fist-fighter, the struggler, the star stealer
the jewish rat, the last jew walking
the great threat hitler could not face alone
Schola Hebraeica & the Jewish Heritage Youth Choir | EL MELEKH YOSHEV (INTRODUCTORY PRAYER TO THE 13 ATTRIBUTES OF MERCY) | 01
Enter the struggler: he is scum, he is starving, he is afraid. Please, try not to look away.
almighty king, sittest on the throne of mercy
show forth thy compassion
Hans Zimmer | LEAVE NO MAN BEHIND | 02
The secret life of Hans Hubermann
instrumental
Yann Tiersen | SOIR DE FETE | 03
"Do you still play the accordion?"
instrumental
Mumford & Sons, Laura Marling & Dharohar Project | MEHENI RACHI | 04
Max paints over the pages of Mein Kampf to make The Standover Man
perhaps i'll be a bird one day if i'm good enough
i'll get up and fly away and give up all this love
i am from a country land where beauty only grows
and though i dream to leave some day
i dare not ever go
Greg Edmonson | RIVER UNDERSTANDS SIMON | 05
The swapping of nightmares
instrumental
Woodkid | IRON (ACOUSTIC) | 06
A short history of the Jewish fist-fighter
from the dawn of time to the end of days
i will have to run away
i want to feel the pain and the bitter taste
of the blood on my lips again
i am frozen to the bone, i am
Rachel Portman | SOME THINGS TOO LATE, OTHERS TOO EARLY | 07
Liesel Meminger builds a snowman
instrumental
The Antlers | KETTERING | 08
Rosa Hubermann's very large heart
i should have quit
but instead i took care of you
and i didn't believe them when they told me
that there was no saving you
Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross | SOFT TREES BREAK THE FALL | 09
The word-shaker's tree
instrumental
Ludovico Einaudi | DIVENIRE | 10
Alex Steiner's shop, 1945
instrumental
"I don't believe it. She's alive!"
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