Soundtrack Sunday – REBELLION Edition

Lord, save me from male characters who make me listen to sappy music.

So anyway, I snagged a bunch of songs from the River soundtrack and built from there, so there’s some crossover. Without further ado, here is the Rebellion playlist, just in time for you to buy the novella now or read it briefly for free starting tomorrow.

Zoe Keating – “Lost“
I wrote a lot of the forest scenes to Zoe Keating’s Into the Trees. “Lost” also seemed appropriate for the first chapter called “Found”.

Jeffrey Gaines – “In Your Eyes“
C’mon, you knew this one would be on here.
All my instincts, they return//And the grand facade, so soon will burn

Lissie – “They All Want You“
And my heart breaks watching it takin’ its toll

Sheryl Crow – “I Shall Believe“
During the scene where he’s wrapping her hands up after the fight in her cabin (yes, that’s revisited in the novella).
That not everything is gonna be the way//You think it ought to be//It seems like every time I try to make it right//It all comes down on me//Please say honestly you won’t give up on me

BOY – “Drive Darling“
I’m smiling on the surface//I’m scared as hell below

Linkin Park – “Numb”
Daryl’s theme.
Every step that I take is another mistake to you

Chris Isaak – “Let Me Down Easy”
Don’t you hear my heart is calling//You don’t know how hard I’ve fallen for you

Max Frost – “Let Me Down Easy“
That there are two songs with this title is not lost on me.
Before the words are spoken//I know what’s on your mind//So now it’s in the open//Don’t wanna know, don’t wanna know why

Korn – “Alone I Break”
I wrote the book’s fight scene to this one.

David Usher – “Souring”
The opening of the chapter “Assimilate.”
Woke up thinking I love you//But I can’t say why

Ingrid Michaelson – “Can’t Help Falling In Love with You“
So take my hand, and take my whole life too

Twinbed – “Trouble I’m In”
Although this was on the River soundtrack (for a scene toward the end, where he says “No more words”), it was always a Daryl POV song.
You are the trouble I’m in

Lissie – “Hello“
I’ve been alone with you//Inside my mind

David Usher – “My Way Out“
The beginning of the fourth part, Belonging
And if I could remember//If I could find a place a time the space to see another way home//And if I could forget you//Maybe there’s no other way out

The Album Leaf – “The Light”
The final scene of the novella.

Fun fact #1: David Usher–or a teen version–is also roughly how I always pictured Daryl. *the more you knooow*
Fun fact #2: Daryl Marsden was named after a boy I liked in school like two decades ago, and I realized while writing this that I don’t even remember his last name. Clearly it was the love of the century.