Help me find a song?

[swan_tower]

I’m trying to pick a song to serve as the “soundtrack” to a certain aspect of one of the games I’m in, and I’m coming up empty. So I turn to you, o internets, for recommendations!

The thing I’m trying to set to music is a situation where two character who both have a crap-ton of secrets (including false identities) are going through kind of a fencing match/cat-and-mouse game of figuring each other out and maybe developing something resembling trust. In a perfect world, the song for this would be a male/female duet, but that’s icing on the cake if I can get it; mostly I just need a song that fits the concept. Or, if I can’t get suitable lyrics, something instrumental that is both lush and a little playful. (With a library of over 17000 songs, you’d think I would be able to find something that fits. But nothing has clicked: the closest I’ve come is “Qué Viyéra,” which still isn’t quite right.)

Any suggestions?

Originally published at Swan Tower. You can comment here or there.

Comments

[twistedchick]

At the risk of sounding ridiculous, what came to mind is 'Duetto Buffo de Due Gatti' -- Comic Duet for Two Cats -- by (I think) Rossini. It is a cat vs. cat game in song, and there are a number of versions out there.

[swan_tower]

My knee-jerk reflex was to assume that's the operatic duet Growltiger and Grizzabella sing in Cats. <lol> Had to go look up a video to discover that, no, it's a different song.

[sovay]

I am afraid this has nothing to do with finding you more songs; I am making sure that you are reading me on Dreamwidth because the chances are very high that I am going to have to leave LJ, which I did not want to do, but I am no longer sure if I have the choice.

[sovay]

In a perfect world, the song for this would be a male/female duet, but that's icing on the cake if I can get it; mostly I just need a song that fits the concept

Well, two people means "The Riddle" from Frank Wildhorn's The Scarlet Pimpernel is right out. Let me sleep and I'll get back to you.

[dacuteturtle.livejournal.com]

The Magnetic Fields are a goldmine for this sort of thing. The songs are catchy, sincere, twisted, conflicted, and hopeful all at the same time.

A few contenders, depending, of course, on the exact nuance that you need.

"Tokyo A Go-Go"
"Nothing matters when you're dancing."
"Papa was a rodeo."
"Time enough for rocking when we're old."

[bloodstones.livejournal.com]

What about Secret by The Pierces (https://www.google.com/search?q=secret+the+meices+youtube&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=secret+the+pierces+youtube&*)?

[between4walls.livejournal.com]

The Riddle from The Scarlet Pimpernel has three people but it's totally perfect:

"And we all have/so may faces/the real self/often erases/enticing lies/flicker through our eyes"

http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/s/scarletpimpernellyrics/theriddlelyrics.html