SOUNDTRACK: Tonight, Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins, You Were Right by Rufus du Sol, Found Me by Men I Trust, Loon by Bears and Lions & Bloom by The Paper Kites

Soundtrack to RELIC: Smash & Grab by Maz Maddox

Tonight, Tonight by Smashing Pumpkins for a book where a punk convinces a scholar of the past to live in the present and enjoy the moment.

And our lives are forever changed
We will never be the same
The more you change, the less you feel

Believe
Believe in me
Believe, believe

That life can change
That you’re not stuck in vain
We’re not the same, we’re different
Tonight
Tonight

Believe
Believe in me
Believe, believe

In the resolute urgency of now

Soundtrack to RELIC: Sink or Swim by Maz Maddox

You Were Right by Rufus du Sol for a book about a bet, a heist and a combustible chemistry in the middle of the sea.

You were right
I know I can’t get enough of you
Leave it all bloom, you were right
I know I can’t get enough of you, no
The things that I would do

Under the water, I’m sinking further down
Floating I’m nothing, I’m nothing
Arms are wide open, I’m calling out your name
Sitting and waiting, I’m waiting

Soundtrack to RELIC: King & Queen by Maz Maddox

Found Me by Men I Trust for a book about a wandering queen finding a home among fearsome and the wild.

Motion blurred dream visions and kindred faces
Thoughts like bursts of youth taking me places
Living the best outcome of myself
‘Cause I do remember where I come from

I’m happy
My home found me
By which force I do not know
I found my home and it grows by me in beauty

Soundtrack to RELIC: Lost In Amber by Maz Maddox

Loon by Bears and Lions for a book where raptors of the same feather find each other.

he happiest bird is the one that is heard
the happiest thing is the one that has wings
the happiest voice is the one that has a choice

so fly away and be free and make it on your own
fly fly fly now you’re free
will you find your way back to me

Soundtrack to RELIC: Gardens & Ghosts by Maz Maddox

Bloom by The Paper Kites for a book about a plant loving shifter, a cowboy T. Rex, lots of unrequited feels and Cotton-Eyed Joe.

In the morning when I wake
And the sun is coming through,
Oh, you fill my lungs with sweetness,
And you fill my head with you.

Shall I write it in a letter?
Shall I try to get it down?
Oh, you fill my head with pieces
Of a song I can’t get out.

…

Can I take you to a moment
Where the fields are painted gold
And the trees are filled with memories
Of the feelings never told?