As part of the celebration of the May 8th release of City of Lost Souls, Mundie Moms published the CoLS Playlist. You'll find the name of the song, the artist, the reason why Cassie choose it, and a few lines from the song below. Enjoy!
Hem Of Your Garment: Cake
This is a great Sebastian song because it's not just about being a bad person, it's about being a bad person but knowing someone much better than you and really wanting to be like them. It's about wanting to be good and not knowing how to be. About feeling unworthy and that just making you angrier than ever.I have no love but only goalsHow very empty is my soulIt is a soul that feels no thrillA soul that could easily killAnd I'm not fit to touchThe hem of your garmentLove Me Like the World is Ending: Ben Lee
A lovely love song, but one about mortality and finite-ness and endings. This was a Magnus and Alec song since mortality is much on their minds. "The sky is what makes the ocean blue" = mortality is what makes life worth experiencing.This is the last day of existence.And all i want is you.There's a certain sadness.But i know, i know, i know, the sky is what makes the ocean blue.
"From Some Dying Star" by Future Bible HeroesA Sebastian song. More about how other people see him. There's something about very beautiful people who are also very scary and this song gets at that.Your hair is gold on gold
You're seventeen years old
You make my blood run cold cause you're not human.Fresh Blood - The Eels
This was a fun song to listen to again when writing some of the creepier scenes in the books. The refrain about needing fresh blood was -- well, there's some vampire action in City of Lost Souls. Some of it is Simon, but some of it ... isn't.The moon shines in the autumn skyGrowing cold, the leaves all dieI'm more alone than I've ever beenHelp me out of the shape I'm inAfter the fires, before the floodMy sweet baby, I need fresh bloodFirst Day of My LifeA Jace and Clary song. It reminded me of what Izzy tells Clary in City of Glass, that Jace basically was half-asleep before he met her, that she's the first person he ever really "saw.'Yours is the first face that I sawI think I was blind before I met you"Poison and Wine" by the Civil Wars(Courtesy of the really awesome SnapCracklyPop, who is one of my fave concert-going friends)
About Sebastian's messed up feelings for his sister. You can interpret it . . . however you want!You only know what I want you toI know everything you don't want me toOh your mouth is poison, your mouth is wineOh you think your dreams are the same as mineOh I don't love you but I always will"Honey and the Moon" by Joseph Arthur
This one is also for Jace and Clary. They are once again in an impossible situation in this book; they love each other, but as Lilith said, some love can burn the world down. I feel like this song is also about what it's okay to do for love, and whether love is a moral force or outside morals.We're made out of blood and rustlooking for someone to trustwithouta fightBut right noweverything you want is wrong,and right nowall your dreams are waking up,and right nowI wish that I could follow youto the shoresof freedomwhere no one lives"White Blank Page" by Mumford and Sons
Who doesn't love this song? The lyrics could work for Maia and Jordan, Magnus and Alec, Jace and Clary . . .what if love's not enough?Oh tell me now, where was my faultIn loving you with my whole heart?Lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole lifeOh, lead me to the truth and I will follow you with my whole life
"Fistful of Love" by Antony and the Johnsons
This is a creepy song. It's not a love song, even if it is. A Jocelyn and Valentine song — I think after CoLS it will make sense that they get a song, even if Valentine's dead.And I feel your fists
And I know it's out of love
And I feel the whip
And I know it's out of love
And I feel your burning eyes burning holes
Straight through my heart
It's out of love"Lead Me Into the Night" the Cardigans
Magnus and Alec. Mainly Magnus - there is something about the lyrics that makes me think of Magnus, who is pretty worn out and tired of life by the time he meets Alec, who wears his heart on his sleeve , and wakes Magnus up out of his disillusionment and boredom with the world.And lead me into the nightPlease drive away the lightCause I’ve been blinded by glitter and goldMy eyes need to rest from this lightAnd sleep well at nightI traveled east and I traveled westAnd I found a boy with a heart on his chest
"Battle for the Sun" Placebo
We had a song about Sebastian's messed up feelings for Clary. Here's one about his messed up feelings about Jace.I will battle for the sunAnd I won’t stop until I’m doneYou are a cheap and nasty fakeAnd I am the bones you couldn’t breakDream brother, my killer, my lover
"Sweet Talk" The Killers
I usually have a song I listen to when I'm writing action scenes and this time, this was it. I also liked the thematic imagery about angels, grace, and the Fall.Dig me out from this thorn treeHelp me bury my shameKeep my eyes from the fireThey can’t handle the flameGrace cut out from my brothersWhen most of them fellI carry it well."Falling Slowly" by Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová
One for Jace. This is possibly Clary's point of view on him, but it does - in kind of a bleak bunch of songs! - have for me the theme not just of love but also of the hopefulness of the fact that we always have choices about what we do.Falling slowly, eyes that know me
And I can't go back
Moods that take me and erase me
And I'm painted black
You have suffered enough
And warred with yourself
It's time that you won
Take this sinking boat and point it home
We've still got time
Raise your hopeful voice you had a choice"Our Way to Fall" Yo La Tengo
My Simon and Izzy song. It makes me think of how awkward Simon was when he met her, and how he's grown into being someone who she could maybe love and maybe love her.I remember a summer's dayI remember walking up to youI remember my face turned redAnd I remember staring at my feetI remember before we metI remember sitting next to youAnd I remember pretending I wasn't lookingSo we'll try and tryEven if it lasts an hourWith all our mightWe'll try and make it oursCause we're on our wayWe're on our way to fall in loveFirst Day of My Life by Bright Eyes
A Jace and Clary song. It reminded me of what Izzy tells Clary in City of Glass, that Jace basically was half-asleep before he met her, that she's the first person he ever really "saw.'Yours is the first face that I sawI think I was blind before I met you
And lastly, "Opened Once" by Jeff Buckley
The majority of City of Lost Souls is Clary's story, because the majority of the series has always been her story. So this song is for her (and a bit for Jace since he does see her as she is and love her for that), for her vulnerability in loving Jace, and for her feelings of confusion and being left behind and abandoned, and the courage she finally finds.I once was openAnd one with a travelling heartI loved this sweet guyJust like the fictionRushing in your riverbedArise like applause in my headAnd in the half-lightWhere we both standThis is the half-lightSee me as I amJust like the oceanAlways in love with the moonWe fly right overThe minds of so many in painWe are the smile of light that brings them rainIn the half lightWhere we both standIn the half lightYou saw me as I amI am a railroad track abandonedWith the sunsetForgettingI ever happenedThat I ever happened.
The songs are an eclectic mixture of alternative, Indie, pop and rock, and should resonate well while reading the book. My faves on there by far are "Falling Slowly", "Poison and Wine", "Sweet Talk" and "White Blank Page". What are your faves? Will you pick up any of these tunes in preparation for the book release? What do you picture will happen to the characters when you read the lyrics? Share your thoughts below!
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