Playlist!

Wild Hope, Mandy Moore (Lyrics)

This is a during-canon song. Hope is an anchor, yo.

Walk alone
Through the crowded streets into the fading grey
Here and gone
Like a decoration for the holiday

Wheel in the Sky, Journey (Lyrics)

Another during-canon song; Jamie's journey goes on a long time.

I've been trying to make it home
Got to make it before too long
I can't take this very much longer

Holiday, Green Day (Lyrics)

No one knows better than a Homeward Bounder that war is Their favorite game. (I only have the Dean Gray mashup version. Oh well.)

This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday

I Am Easily Assimilated, Candide soundtrack (Lyrics)

It's a great survival mechanism.

Do like the natives do.
These days you have to be
In the majority

Gee, Officer Krupke, West Side Story soundtrack (Lyrics)

Lest anyone start feeling too sorry for Jamie, let's not forget that he's a liar, delinquent and scam artist who's generally unencumbered with scruples.

We ain't no delinquents,
We're misunderstood.
Deep down inside us there is good!

Laughing City, Eisley (Lyrics)

Creema di Leema!

follow me down to the laughing city
when people changing all their minds
it's crazy

Ending The Alphabet, The Mountain Goats (Lyrics)

The Big Revelation Of Suck.

What is there left in a city like this
When everyone you know is gone?

Ode To My Family, The Cranberries (Lyrics)

Nobody needs another Fred.

You did not find me, you did not find
Does anyone care

Hope On Fire, Vienna Teng (Lyrics)

This is the Big Epic Finale in song form, basically.

gotta move gotta choose
you've got a difference to make
don't watch it happen again

Waiting to Leave, The Cruxshadows (Lyrics)

Another finalesong; this is Jamie's choice, and some of what comes after.

I have to go - I hear
The call of something stronger
And it's pulling me away

Infinitely Late at Night, The Magnetic Fields (Lyrics)

And then post-finale . . . things go on.

Don't worry about me, I'll be all right
It's just infinitely late at night

Don't Do Sadness, Spring Awakening soundtrack (Lyrics)

Fortunately, Jamie has excellent coping mechanisms. Or a strong talent for lying to himself. Either/or.

Cause you know,
I don't do sadness
not even a little bit.
Just don't need it in my life

Of a Friday Night, Anais Mitchell (Lyrics)

And he can still have a good time in any given place! At least as long as it's still there when he comes back.

Maybe I came too late.
I'm waiting in the shadows of the scaffolds of the old cafe, where you told me to wait.
And I've got this lingering feeling.
It's like I slipped between fingers of the centuries.

King of May, Natalie Merchant (Lyrics)

I used this for before, for Kevin, but it's just as applicable to Jamie, in another way.

Raise your voices up
Drink your loving cups
To his long life
To his long life

Paloma, Carbon Leaf (Lyrics)

The middle verse of this one is most applicable, but the rest works pretty well in parts, too.

In your world you're only a phone away
But in my world you're too far to feel
And it may take some time to learn what's real

A Place Called Home, Kim Richey (Lyrics)

This could be pre-canon or post-canon, but it's good for summing-up.

‘Til then, I travel alone
And I make my bed with the stars above my head
And dream of a place called home