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  • song,  Uncategorized

    SOUNDTRACK: Lost & Found by The Midnight

    January 28, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Big Bend Texas Rangers: Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer

    Lost & Found, a song about love find a person when the time is right, for a book about the unexpected second chance and hard won happy ending of two high school sweethearts reunited after 13 years.

    We have mostly wasted time
    Half-asleep and have-to-buy
    Waiting for the faintest lie and waiting for these wounds to heal
    No, we’re never as lost or as found as we think we are
    No, we’re never as lost or as found as we think we are

    Love takes some time to bloom
    When it’s right, it’ll find you
    When it’s right, it’ll find you
    Like sunlight breaking through

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    SOUNDTRACK: Fall Together by Temper Trap & Bleed Together by Matt Lange

    January 21, 2022 / 2 Comments

    Soundtrack to Wages Of Sin: Play Dirty by Onley James & Neve Wilder

    Fall Together by Temper Trap, a song about sworn enemies who kept being drawn together for a book about two rival assassins taking the saying “keep your friends close and your enemies closer” to heart.

    You and me know we’re meant to be
    Maybe we’ll never know
    You and me are worst enemies
    Cause we don’t believe anymore

    ….

    Shallow dreams will tell me everything
    I’ve been listening, but all I heard you
    Pulling strings
    And you’ll do anything to keep me hanging on your every word

    Out on the streets
    Our colors bleed
    Are you the one to speak to me?

    Soundtrack to Wages Of Sin: Head Games by Onley James & Neve Wilder

    Bleed Together by Matt Lange for a book about an uptight psychiatrist venturing into serial killing. He found his perfect match and mentor in a very laidback hitman who breezed his way into his tightly regimented life.

    Loved how the lines, “Can you carve your name into my heart” and “Can you cut yourself in symmetry”, resonate with the the MC’s weapon of choice, the knife.

    So this is the way
    You wove your thread into my fate
    Echoes in your eyes and through your hair
    Mirror blue and I stare
    Entwined in crimson desire

    …

    Can you carve your name into my heart
    Tear it open, yours for taking
    Can you cut yourself in symmetry
    Birds of a feather bleed together

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    SOUNDTRACK: The White Owl Of Winter by MIKL

    January 15, 2022 / 2 Comments

    Soundtrack to Seasons Of The Lukoi: Winter Of the Owl by Iris Foxglove

    The White Owl of Winter by MIKL for a book about a man who was exiled by his ex-lover to a wild, frigid island yet still takes joy in every little thing he discovered there. And found a worthy mate who calls him little owl.

    The white owl of winter
    Circles the sky
    Warning his brother
    Doubting
     his life (?)

    Be as it may
    He conquers the heart
    Joy in trivial things
    Keeps him alive

    Fly beyond

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    SOUNDTRACK: Life Lessons by Railgun

    January 8, 2022 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Life Lessons by Kaje Harper

    Life Lessons by Railgun is a song about not missing the important things in life. This is for closeted cop, Mac, who took a chance at a young high school teacher, Tony.

    I need you
    I needed this
    these things in life I just can’t miss

    well I’m still alive
    and my heart’s beating
    well I’ll guess I try
    but now I’m seeing
    I oughta die(?)
    so what the meaning
    to all these trash
    that I’ve been believing

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    SOUNDTRACK: I Always Knew by The Vaccines

    December 24, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack To Necessary Evils: Psycho by Onley James

    I Always Knew for August, a psychopath who cannot love, who knew in less than a minute that Lucas was his person. And was willing to kill or die on that hill no matter what. The first lines of the song remind me of their first meeting where Lucas literally fell to the floor after crashing into August and things clicked into place.

    Down, down in my bones
    Somewhere I’d never have known
    Right at the back of my head
    It hit me like a beam of light
    Hit me like a hook of the right
    And I could have fell to the floor

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    SOUNDTRACK: I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend by The Rubinoos

    December 10, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to The Former Assassin’s Guide to Snagging a Reluctant Boyfriend by Alice Winters

    Bless The Rubinoos for their LGBT+ friendly lyrics. I Wanna Be Your Boyfriend is Cassel’s goal in life upon meeting the rather oblivious Jeremy. Our boy’s got an entire mob to take on before he gets there.

    Hey (hey), you (you), I wanna be your boyfriend
    I’m trying to say I wanna be your number one
    Hey (hey), you (you), I wanna be your boyfriend
    Gonna make you love me before I’m done

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    SOUNDTRACK: How Can I Protect You by Restless Modern

    December 4, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Fog City: Silent Knight by Layla Reyne

    How Can I Protect You by Restless Modern for a book about two men who would take on the world to protect the ones they love.

    Taking on the world
    How can i protect you
    Got snakes at every turn
    Waiting to possess you
    I’ll tell what you’re worth
    And hope that you’ll remember
    The kind and gentle word
    Has power under pressure

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    SOUNDTRACK: Night by Zola Jesus

    November 26, 2021 / 2 Comments

    Soundtrack to The Night Of by Tal Bauer

    So come close, close to me
    And I’ll come closer to you
    Cause in the end of the night when all we have is gone
    Yes in the end of the night when I can be with you

    This song reminds me of the night that tore Sean and Jonathan apart and the night that brought them together again exactly one year after.

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    SOUNDTRACK: How Dare You by Malinda

    November 12, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Hostile Takeover by Lucy Lennox

    I chose Malinda’s How Dare You for the book because it all started with a drunken dare. The song talks about being drawn to the other person despite one’s attempt to keep at arms length. This reminds me of the enemies to lovers situation between Grey and Ellison.

    Okay, twist my arm
    There’s no harm
    In admiring your charm
    Okay, today is not the day for emotion and foreplay

    You’re safer in my imagination
    But don’t you worry
    I’ll lock you in a world of my creation
    And bury the key

    How dare you
    How dare you make me question if I had it all
    I thought I had it made but that ain’t true
    If I don’t have you

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    SOUNDTRACK: Beautiful Mistake by Mango

    November 5, 2021 / 1 Comment

    Soundtrack to Second Chances: Beautiful Mistakes by Felice Stevens

    This song reminds me of that unforgettable night Wolf and Spencer had in Italy. Wolf calls it a beautiful mistake. The memory haunted them both for a long time.

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