Soundtrack Sunday – SATY Edition

The book has been out a couple of weeks now and most people like it (a few aren’t done yet because it’s obscenely long). Here’s the soundtrack finally.

Kat Leon – “Silent All These Years“ (cover)
I love Tori too but this version was on heavy rotation for this book–it’s eerie and I can see the forest of the provincial park, see the bay with a storm coming in, hear the wind making the wood groan in the old boathouse at the end. You’ve got a book about someone whose victimization has been repeatedly minimized and denied by others, about the past rising up like a scream felt in the present, about secrets coming to the surface, about complicity and reckonings. So yeah, this was my big trailer theme song.

Poets of the Fall – “War” (acoustic)
More about that one here and why it was a key to unlocking another character’s POV. I like both versions, including the original, but the acoustic is specifically my favourite.
“If I can let the memory heal / I will remember you with me on that field” and “When I thought that I fought this war alone / We were one with our destinies entwined”

Tusks – “Demon“
“Lay me down / Hold my flaws / Oh my love / I’ll be yours”

Le Bon – “The Darkest Places“
Waverly Investigates Stuff song.
“Feel the twists and turns / Tangled in your web” and “The darkest places are calling / Nothing around to keep me from falling / Every night you haunt me”

Seven of Cups – “Strange Unknown“
Another Waverly Investigates Stuff song, whole lyrics really.
“Do you want this? / Do you really want to know? / The secrets in your bones / When you open the door / To a strange unknown”

Jack Carty – “A Case of You” (cover)
Okay I listened to this one and the Sierra Eagleson version from the last book too, and there’s a chapter titled after it. Just quiet downtime with lots of YEARNING for the reader to take a breath and absorb everything so far.
“She knew your life / She knew your devils and your deeds / And she said, ‘“‘Go to him, stay with him if you can / But be prepared to bleed‘”

Angelo Badalamenti – “Questions in a World of Blue” (demo)
The chapter “Stepping into the Past”, attempting to revisit what happened when Det. Kyle disappeared twelve years earlier, was written after I actually DID write what happened from his point of view. This is the demo and it wasn’t meant for Badalamenti to sing, but something about this version playing low in the background while I was writing completely gutted me. I have no plans to share that POV, it spoils a lot of stuff, but even without it, just the scene in this book with the grim rain and the weight and pain of the past, trying to figure out what happened the day everything changed, still is so sad.
“Why did you go? / Why did you turn / away from me?” and “When did the day / with all its light / turn into night?”

NerdOut feat Ben Schuller – “Running Up that Hill” (cover)
Usually I link to YouTube but the version there has the voice overs from Stranger Things–on Apple Music (which I have) or Spotify (linked to there), you can hear just the song itself. This was on repeat for the scene of Waverly’s big confession of what she’s been lying about for a few books.
“You don’t wanna hurt me / But see how deep the bullet lies / Unaware I’m tearin’ you asunder / Oh, there is thunder in our hearts”

Poets of the Fall – “Late Goodbye” (unplugged)
Lots of awkward tension at the B&B and driving around looking for Waverly’s car.
“And we keep driving into the night / It’s a late goodbye, such a late goodbye”

Spelles – “Dead in the Water“
Some of the final boathouse scenes, and the final conversation with Lashbrook later where Waverly knows something is very wrong here.

Band of Horses – “I Go to the Barn Because I Like“
I tend to have multiple songs for certain scenes depending on POVs, so while “White Flag” (below) is the primary one, this was the other one–something in the tone change midway through feels like a goodbye and a bittersweet embrace.

Kina Grannis – “White Flag” (cover)
Ending theme (goodbye and the cemetery). If ever there was a Waverly song, right?
“I promise I’m not trying to make your life harder / Or return to where we were / But I will go down with this ship / And I won’t put my hands up and surrender / There will be no white flag above my door / I’m in love and always will be / I know I left too much mess and destruction / To come back again / And I caused nothing but trouble / I understand if you can’t talk to me again”

Bonus from the hardcover:

Otis Redding – “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long“

As usual, because this series is one big story to me, a lot of the same songs are on repeat and you’ll find the other playlists on the soundtrack overview page.

If you’re ready for the fifth book, ADaDH is up for preorder at Kobo and iBooks, or there’s still one eARC available in the contest at waverlyjones.ca