songs that make you think of the YW books

[smile]

The song We Belong, by Pat Benatar. I really like that one and parts of it really seem to match wizards.

"We Belong to the light
We Belong to the thunder
We Belong to the sound of the words"

"Close your eyes and try to sleep now
Close your eyes and try to dream
Clear your mind and do your best"

are the parts that really make me think of them.

I can't think or many songs, but Unwritten, by Natasha Bedingfield fit too.

[kk]

One song that I have liked for a while, that reminds me a TON of YW, is Spare and Angel by Chris Rice. It sounds like it would be Kit's perspective in TWD and AWAl...

The first verse:

"Found her staring at the rain, and asking why it has to hurt so bad
Where's the limit to the pain her heart can take, before it breaks in half

I wanted to be strong enough to hold her, show her the way
But she's so far out of reach, now all I can do is pray..."

Chorus:

"Can you spare an angel tonight, send a little help from your side, 'cause somebody's lost down here
Let him wing his way through the dark, carry some of your love into her heart...
Can you spare an angel?"

It's a really sad song, but it's really pretty.

And then this song...This Is Your Time by Michael w. Smith. It makes me think about Deep Wizardry, and it seems to me to be what it would have been like if Nita had died during the Song....

This was her time. this was her dance.
She lived every moment; left nothing to chance.
She swam in the sea; drank of the deep;
Embraced the mystery of all she could be.

This was her time...

Though you are mourning and grieving with us,
Death died a long time ago;
Swallowed in life so that life carries on.
Still its so hard to let go.

It made me cry the first time I heard both of those songs...just such memories...sigh...

They are on my favorite songs list...

[smile]

I have another!

Has anyone ever sen the movie Spirit, Stallion of the Cimarron?

The song "You can't take me, I'm free"

"Never gonna give it up, never gonna give it up, no..."

or something like that. It just popped nto my head, so some lyrics may be wrong.

[Gwendi]

Okay, this song is an "oldie but a goodie" as some people say. I am pretty sure most people have heard this song, and it reminds me of Kit and Nita. It's called "You've got a friend" and I think it's by Carole King and sung by James Taylor. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

[kk]

Another song...I really like this one.

"Give Me Your Eyes" by Brandon Heath. It's a recent song; it came out just this year.

The first verse:

Looked down from a broken sky
Traced out by the city lights
My world from a mile high
Best seat in the house tonight
Touched down on the cold black tile
Hold on for the sudden stop
Breath in the familiar shock
Of confusion and chaos
All those people going somewhere?
Why have I never cared?

It reminds me of SYWTBAW, in which Nita and Kit are looking down on the Dark Manhattan from above; and when they are also back in their own world, with people rushing past them as they tried to fight the Lone One.

[Stormwind]

Hold On, Light will come

In a couple of the different books (SYWTBAW, HW really any of the books) at the times when they are starting their confrontations with the Lone Power, a song rings in my thoughts: Hold On, the Light will Come, by Michael McLean.
"...That as certain as the rising of the sun, when your world is filled with darkness doubt or fear, just hold on, the light will come."
http://www.geocities.com/sjbagwell81/holdon.html

Especially during the time when the group is fighting on the Moon, the hope is still there, even in their darkest hour. The whole groups faith brings them through it collectively.

[Taran]

Magical music:

Two old Jethro Tull albums, Heavy Horses and Songs From the Wood.

Kate Taylor's (James Taylor's sister's) song about horses on her 1978 album.

For some reason -- the Rhiou books, Ponch -- songs from an animal's viewpoint come to mind.

[fernie]

for some reason, ''its the end of the world as we know it'' by R.E.M reminds me of YW

[willowtree]

When I read the part in WAW when everyone dies, The Song Hide And Seek by Imogen Heap was running through my head.

'Where are we?
What the hell is going on?
Dusk has only just
Begun to fall
Crop circles in the carpet,
Sinking, fading'

Maybe my brother watching the OC too much, but I think it's perfect.

[Jacq]

Aw man, I guess there's no cut tag, so you guys will get a lyric dump. Sorry! :3

Bad Religion's Beyond Electric Dreams reminds of the Mobile (Dairine's robots). The lyrics alone don't do it justice - the actual song itself sounds like it could have been composed by silicates. The geographic co-worker seems to be Dairine:

Ratiocination is a practicable way to derive
An attitude of altitude authority by which to abide
Or maybe a thoephany of flaming creosote in disguise

Reality's dead, the future is still, the match is hard to find

Up on a mountain encased in solar rays
Beyond electric dreams of inarticulate passion plays
Coming down a mountain
Eons of a human reign
The conversation of impassive planets
Intercepted by a human being

geographic co-worker in the crumbling geometry of night
a torturing form that traces faceless theories
Of a superhuman imagination in a patch of sand
There were raptures guided with every intensity
I'm only a visitor in an atom of atoms
On a jutting red spattered synagogue of granite
Immigrants crowded literally in space


Lemon Demon's The Ocean reminds me a lot of DW.

Set sail...
For I am like the whale.
I'm on a different frequency.
Saltwater's my cup of tea...
literally.
[...]
Show no fear...
For on this strange frontier
monsters can smell the fear in you.
[...]
We ballroom dance to the rhythm of the tide.
Now my body's on land, but my heart will reside
in the only place I've ever felt Pacified,
or Atlanticized, as it were.
I refer
to the ocean.

[Wiccangixie]

The song 'Are You Ten Years Ago?' by Tegan and Sara always makes me think of that series; so does Leslie Feist' song 'I Feel It All'.

[willowtree]

I think Fiest's song fits too. Also, in the other song I said, the is a line

The insensitivety of this
still lies

Great music music choices that everyone did!!!!

[Wizardprincess]

Nita arguing with the lone power

Bring on fame I got game
See I was born for this part
Just have to start by following the voice inside my heart

Loan powers and wizards

[bookgirl]

Invincible by Pat Benatar. I had the song stuck in my head when I happened to pick up one of the YW books. Then I realized just how well the song fits! Here are the lyrics.
This bloody road remains a mystery
This sudden darkness fills the air
What are we waiting for?
Wont anybody help us?
What are we waiting for?
We cant afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible

This shattered dream you cannot justify
Were gonna scream until were satisified
What are we running for?
Weve got the right to be angry
What are we running for?
When theres no where we can run to anymore

We cant afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible
And with the power of conviction
There is no sacrifice
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible

Wont anybody help us?
What are we running for?
When theres no where, no where we can run to anymore

We cant afford to be innocent
Stand up and face the enemy
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible
And with the power of conviction
There is no sacrifice
Its a do or die situation
We will be invincible

[running_alone]

As kk mentioned earlier, Drops of Jupiter has always reminded me of these books. Actually, I first heard it on the radio when I was reading the series for the first time. And, well, now it's inseperably connected.

I did a presentation on the end of High Wizardry (right after Nita and Kit get there and everything seems done for) in my 9th grade english class. We had to write poems and draw pictures and include a song for our presentation. So I told the story, including the poems, to David Lanz's Green Into Gold. It's completely instrumental. But the first part is in minor and kind of scary and lonely and hopeless, which is when they think they're going to lose. Then it's a happier theme, right when Dairine makes all the light. This theme is short lived, and reverts back to the original. This is when the Lone Power is talking to Dairine and she's giving it a choice, and it isn't sure what to do. Everything seems lost, when the other theme returns stronger than ever, with the return of Peach-who's-actually-a-Power. This theme continues until the end as they go home together.

If you listen to it, you might get what I'm trying to say. I'm not sure how clear I was. xD But I might find some other songs, too.