Hello all! Here’s my soundtrack for The Dreamer – I hope you guys like it! 🙂
1) Grant-Lee Phillips – “Sarah” – Witchblade: The Music
Our tragedy is old as the night
Our fable done told a thousand-odd times
For fate is an unmerciful queen
Made a quest out of you and a soldier of me
I curse the stars that take you away
Take you away from my side
Condemned to burn my chariot wheels
Chasing the love of my life
Oh Sarah it’s the pageant we play
Forever and eternally fated
Oh Sarah I done followed too far
I can’t let you slip away
Our destiny is bound like a knot
Can’t be untied won’t be forgot
I feel the arrows ‘fore they arrive
Trained on this place in my heart
And I’m apt to stumble over the edge
Chasing my love in the dark
Oh Sarah it’s the pageant we play
Forever and eternally fated
Oh Sarah I done followed too far
I can’t let you slip away
Oh Sarah it’s the pageant we play
Forever and eternally fated
Oh Sarah I done followed too far
I can’t let you slip away
Well I can’t let you slip away
No I can’t let you slip away
I can’t let you slip away
Well I can’t let you slip away
I can’t let you
And I can’t let you slip away
And I can’t let you slip away
2) Queens Club – “Nightmarer” – Young Giant
There are few things you hope I change (but you’ll stay the same)
And I’ve been all wrong, a little bit little bit
And one thing that you do that’s sure to carry me through it
Is love me all the same, and I will always let you
I’d ride the nightmare for healthy conscience
Sleeping with mouth open wide
I want you to find me
I want you to find me
And all I do is hide, I hide from you
Can we sort this out, I’m ready
I’ve hidden pride to it be
And it’s racing racing and standing still
And it barely touches me anymore
I’d ride the nightmare for healthy conscience
Sleeping with mouth open wide
I want you to find me
I want you to find me
And all I do is hide, I hide from you
It’s end of day
I’m in the rough
I’m in the nude
I’m pausing to
I’d ride the nightmare for healthy conscience
Sleeping with mouth open wide
I want you to find me
I want you to find me
And all I do is hide, I hide from you
3) Florence & The Machine – “No Light, No Light” – Ceremonials
You are the hole in my head
You are the space in my bed
You are the silence in between what I thought
And what I said
You are the night time fear
You are the morning when it’s clear
When it’s over you’ll start
You’re my head
You’re my heart
No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day
You can’t choose what stays and what fades away
And I’ll do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Tell me what you want me to say
Through the crowd, I was crying out
And in your place there were a thousand other faces
I was disappearing in plain sight
Heaven help me, I need to make it right
You want a revelation
You want to get it right
Bit it’s a conversation
I just can’t have tonight
You want a revelation
Some kind of resolution
You want a revelation
No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day
You can’t choose what stays and what fades away
And I’d do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Tell me what you want me to say
Would you leave me
If I told you what I’ve done?
And would you need me
If I told you what I’ve become?
‘Cause it’s so easy
To sing it to a crowd
But it’s so hard, my love
To say it to you out loud
No light, no light in your bright blue eyes
I never knew daylight could be so violent
A revelation in the light of day
You can’t choose what stays and what fades away
And I’d do anything to make you stay
No light, no light
No light
Tell me what you want me to say
You want a revelation
You want to get it right
But, it’s a conversation
I just can’t have tonight
You want a revelation
Some kind of resolution
You want a revelation
You want a revelation
You want to get it right
But, it’s a conversation
I just can’t have tonight
You want a revelation
Some kind of resolution
Tell me what you want me to say
4) Thrice – “Words In The Water” – Major/Minor
Standing knee-deep in cold water, swiftly moving
Somehow I knew I lost something
Waiting waist-deep I saw a book there, in the river
Waiting for me to find it there
I tried to read it, neck deep, treading water
The tide pulled me out to sea
Then with water in my eyes
The words began to rise from their place
They were beautiful and dread
I reached for them and fed on each phrase
They were honey on my lips
Then a bitter twist in my side
I knew they’d lay me in my grave
“Is there no one who could save me?” I cried
Sinking down deep through cold water and heavy silence
Shadows stirring in the gloom
What things lay sleeping down deep in the darkness?
Woke then to find me in my tomb
Then with water in my eyes
The words began to rise from their place
They were beautiful and dread
I reached for them and fed on each phrase
They were honey on my lips
Then a bitter twist in my side
I knew they’d lay me in my grave
“Is there no one who could save me?” I cried
And when I lost all hope to look
Someone took that heavy book from my hands
All it’s weight they set aside
After they had satisfied it’s demands
I felt white and black reverse
And the lifting of a curse from my heart
Then like one receiving sight
I beheld a brilliant light in the dark
5) Kidney Thieves – “Serene Dream” – Zerospace
Serene dream
Soft easy winter
Watering the dry spots on the day
Water leaves of gray
Serene dream
Spend nowhere with me
Isn’t far to nowhere
Rise and feel the bomb of fountains land
Close your eyes in front of nowhere
Language of no words
Spend nowhere with me
Serene dream
Free of thirst and pain
Heavy turns to cake
Serene dream
Where the ethers speak
Tall day
It’s a tall, tall day
It’s a tall, tall, tall day
Spend nowhere
Spend nowhere
Spend nowhere
Spend nowhere
Spend nowhere
Spend nowhere
Spend nowhere with me
6) Thrice – “Call It In The Air” – Major/Minor
A coin tossed into the air will come down,
It will come down somewhere
Your life is a coin in the air
It will come down, it will come down somewhere
Every coin does ring
Every coin will fall
Stop your wavering
Now’s the time so call it out
A coin in the air, it will come down
It will come down somewhere
Every coin does ring
Every coin will fall
Stop your wavering
Now’s the time so call it in the air
You have to choose
And what you stand to lose you’ve been putting up all of your life
Call it in my hand
Only one way to see what the outcome will be
Call it out before we lose the light
No more stalling, no delay
You must call it out by light of day
Every coin does ring
Every coin will fall
Stop your wavering
Now’s the time so call it in the air
You have to choose
And what you stand to lose you’ve been putting up all of your life
Call it in my hand
Only one way to see what the outcome will be
Call it out before we lose the light
So heads or tails?
There’s nothing for it so put an end to your sidestepping
Is it heads or tails?
You can’t ignore it
You stand to win or lose everything
Heads or tails?
So put an end to your sidestepping
Heads or tails?
You stand to win or lose everything
7) Project 86 – “The Black Brigade” – Project 86 Picket Fence Cartel
Prepare in urgency to race
Casting off the weight that burdens me
I cannot dare to force the pace
Marathon for life the road I face
Committed
Determined
My gaze is set on finishing
I’m straining to extend the lead
As every evil chases me
One day, one hour, every step
I know
I know
I fix
My eyes
Ahead
Straining on to run without remorse
Casting off mistakes that came before
In my mind I see a hallowed door
Open arm embrace, I’m reaching for…
Committed
Determined
My gaze is set on finishing
I’m straining to extend the lead
As every evil chases me
One day, one hour, every step
I know
I know
I fix
My eyes
Ahead
Just like a breeze is passing me
My stammers, a distant memory
We cannot afford a glance to see
What’s gaining or what is history
Unyielding
Unflinching
My gaze is set on finishing
I’m straining to extend the lead
As every evil chases me
One day, one hour, every step
I know
I know
I fix
My eyes
Ahead
I’m straining to extend the lead
As every evil chases me
One day, one hour, every step
I know
I know
I fix
My eyes
Ahead
8) Paper Tongues – “Love Like You” – Paper Tongues
I’ll be the first to say,
“I do love you so”
Be the last to walk away
From what we know
You can’t invent a Jones like ours in this world
It only happens once upon a time for boys and girls
I’ll never find another love like you
Who wants to be in love the way I do
Better is a day standing by your side
Your heart is like a castle in my sky
I’ll never find another love like you
Who wants to really be my rainbow
I could almost die to imagine how
We survived to see this day
Only if I had the words to paint the moon
I would paint it on a star just for you
Then we’d get inside a boat made of clouds
And we’d never turn around we’d go all out
I’ll never find another love like you
Who wants to be in love the way I do
Better is a day standing by your side
Your heart is like a castle in my sky
I’ll never find another love like you
Who wants to really be my rainbow
I could almost die to imagine how
We survived to see this day
And mockingbirds they sing upon my tree
And the tower bells they ring and I believe
And I’m asking you to be my everything
I’ll never find another love like you
Who wants to be in love the way I do
Better is a day standing by your side
Your heart is like a castle in my sky
I’ll never find another love like you
Who wants to really be my rainbow
I could almost die to imagine how
We survived to see this day
I’ll never find another love like you
Who wants to really be my rainbow
I’ll never find another love like you
Who wants to be in love the way I do
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Chapters:
The Dreamer (Soundtrack) <– You are here. 🙂
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I especially like the ones that start off kind of slow and mystical then rock out hard and heavy!
Me too! 🙂 I have a lot of fun picking songs for my stories, and it really does help whenever I get stuck. 🙂
so it took me a bit to work through all of them, had never heard them before – though I have heard some Thrice, just not those. Good selections, all!
Thank you Joleene. 🙂 I love listening to music while I write, especially if I can relate certain songs to the characters. Lol, somehow it helps me focus better.
This is a good idea;I keep meaning to put up a soundtrack for my novel, but I keep forgetting 😛 I love how varied the songs you have chosen are.
Thank you Miss Alexandrina. 🙂 I listen to a bit of everything, but soundtracks usually end up being my favorites because I get to hear a wide variety of music. And it’s always fun if I find a particular song that reminds me of a character or scene – I can get a lot of inspiration from those, even if I’m stuck. 🙂 And I’d love to hear your soundtrack too.