(If you can't view the above video, it's the official music video for Taylor Swift's "Our Song".)
I look around, turn the radio down
He says, "Baby is something wrong?"
I say, "Nothing, I was just thinking that
We don't have a song."
I wondered. I lamented. I kept writing. And I kept reading all these lovely blog posts about songs and books and playlists and why, oh, why, doesn't my book have a song?! What's wrong with my characters? They don't have songs either!!
But over the course of this newest MS, which is much more character-driven than the other, I have started playing songs with lyrics instead of just movie soundtracks when I write. The songs with lyrics all relate to the story. I could choose any one of them to be the main song of the book. But yesterday I discovered what will probably remain the book's theme song (though it was close):
(If you can't view the above video, it's the recording of Taylor Swift's "Innocent".)
There's some things you can't speak of
But tonight you'll live it all again
I loved "Innocent" when I watched her perform it at some awards ceremony, but it wasn't until yesterday that I put two and two together. The above two lines go with my book, but the whole song applies. I have a song!
"Innocent," by Taylor Swift
Does your book have a song? What is it? Or are you as I was, without one? Don't lose heart! The songs will come!
I have no idea how Taylor Swift (T-Swizzle) got two videos in this post. It just fit.
2 comments:
I know what you mean....
My book doesn't have a specific song yet, just a lot of certain genre/era songs from the 1940's that have the feel I want. I'll have to think about the lyrics a little more before I know!
Good luck with your story!
For a while, I didn't have a song for my WIP. Now I have more than one: "The Journey" by Steven Curtis Chapman and "Crown Without a Cross" by Lester & Holly are the primary ones.
(I'm not a big Taylor Swift fan, but I have to admit--I love her song "Enchanted.")
Way to go on finding a theme song! :D
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