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Saturday, November 18, 2006
Music (or muse-ic?)
Sometimes when I'm listening to a song, I could write a story, just based on the lyrics. I'm not a melody person at all, but I remember lyrics, sometimes all too well. Here are some songs that beg me to write about them:
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Run - Snow Patrol
Desert Rose - Sting (with Cheb Mami)
Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
If I Could Be Where You are - Enya
Longshot - Antigone Rising
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
If God Made You - Five for Fighting
Far Away Boys - Flogging Molly
Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
Almost anything by Coldplay
What are yours?
Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol
Run - Snow Patrol
Desert Rose - Sting (with Cheb Mami)
Girl from the North Country - Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash
If I Could Be Where You are - Enya
Longshot - Antigone Rising
Come Away With Me - Norah Jones
If God Made You - Five for Fighting
Far Away Boys - Flogging Molly
Feel Good Inc - Gorillaz
Almost anything by Coldplay
What are yours?
As for me, almost every scene, snipets of conversation -- all of my writing is influenced by songs. Some places are specifically tunes to a song's feeling, rhythm or lyric. I cannot write without music, and it has to be different for each project. I've got tons of Loreena McKinnett ready for my Will Scarlet book -- as opposed to Serenade, which was all about the Baroque (even though I set it in the midst of the trasition from Classical to Romantic).
"Chasing Cars" just reminds me of the summer, when Keven was still in Virginia. Can't write using a song that has such specific real-life connotations!