thank you so much, OP! I'm glad you liked it. I think Mark and Maureen would've done their best to keep true to the songs, preserved them as much as they could working them in, and Roger's name is definitely on the playbill as the lyricist and like, Claire remembers sitting on the couch listening to Roger playing and hearing his songs, and the two of them kidding around about some of them, and when she hears them on stage and sees pretend-herself swinging around on a pole on stage it's like
she remembers Roger strumming the guitar and singing this song at her, remembers laughing because he used some of the things she actually said as lyrics (we don't need any money, I always get it for free for example), and looking back she can't believe how young and playful she was and
("I have never meowed like that," she'd argued once, and Roger had laughed and made a claw and went, "what, like--mrrow"
"you make a terrible feline," she'd laughed)
so like. that song is one of her favorites from the show, from the mixtape. and when she hears Foggy humming it (I've had a knack from way back of breaking the rules once I learn the game) she can't help that smile, even as she's stitching Matt up, and maybe she hums along too the way she sometimes does when she listens to her old mixtape
and Foggy's like, "oh my god, Claire, you know this song??"
and she goes, "uh, yeah, kinda, I, uh. funny story, but no time for that now, Matt, stay still"
(Foggy is now deeply intrigued. and kind of suspicious. and maybe the next time they come over Claire's had a shit day and put on the mixtape (and she totally listened to it after the whole thing with the Russians and with Matt, just popped it in and listened to it three times over) and Foggy recognizes those songs except. they're different? more--raw, stripped down, not edited for stage musicals.
Claire just mentions that she knew the lyricist pretty well. and Matt's definitely heard it playing in the background before, he's been over enough times to have caught some of the lyrics at least and compared them to his friend's bombastic renditions. maybe he figured it out?)
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she remembers Roger strumming the guitar and singing this song at her, remembers laughing because he used some of the things she actually said as lyrics (we don't need any money, I always get it for free for example), and looking back she can't believe how young and playful she was and
("I have never meowed like that," she'd argued once, and Roger had laughed and made a claw and went, "what, like--mrrow"
"you make a terrible feline," she'd laughed)
so like. that song is one of her favorites from the show, from the mixtape. and when she hears Foggy humming it (I've had a knack from way back of breaking the rules once I learn the game) she can't help that smile, even as she's stitching Matt up, and maybe she hums along too the way she sometimes does when she listens to her old mixtape
and Foggy's like, "oh my god, Claire, you know this song??"
and she goes, "uh, yeah, kinda, I, uh. funny story, but no time for that now, Matt, stay still"
(Foggy is now deeply intrigued. and kind of suspicious. and maybe the next time they come over Claire's had a shit day and put on the mixtape (and she totally listened to it after the whole thing with the Russians and with Matt, just popped it in and listened to it three times over) and Foggy recognizes those songs except. they're different? more--raw, stripped down, not edited for stage musicals.
Claire just mentions that she knew the lyricist pretty well. and Matt's definitely heard it playing in the background before, he's been over enough times to have caught some of the lyrics at least and compared them to his friend's bombastic renditions. maybe he figured it out?)