Music = Literature

1. Music = Literature Authors & Their Stories in Song Presented by Sara Saxton

2. Ramble onLed Zeppelin • Mine's a tale that can't be told, my freedom I hold dear. How years ago in days of old, when magic filled the air. T'was in the darkest depths of Mordor, I met a girl so fair. But Gollum, and the evil one crept up and slipped away with her, her, her....yeah.

3. Moon over bourbon StreetSting • It was many years ago that I became what I am • I was trapped in this life like an innocent lamb • Now I can only show my face at noon • And you’ll only see me walking by the light of the moon • The brim of my hat hides the eye of a beast • I’ve the face of a sinner but the hands of a priest • Oh you’ll never see my shade or hear the sound of my feet • While there’s a moon over Bourbon Street

4. Exit music (for a film)Radiohead • Wake.. from your sleepThe drying of your tearsToday we escape, we escapePack.. and get dressedBefore your father hears usBefore all hell breaks looseBreathe, keep breathingDon't lose your nerveBreathe, keep breathingI can't do this aloneSing.. us a songA song to keep us warmThere's such a chill, such a chill

5. The Ghost of Tom JoadBruce Springsteen • The highway is alive tonight • But nobody’s kiddin’ nobody about where it goes • I’m sittin’ down here in the campfire light • Searchin’ for the ghost of Tom Joad

6. Billy LiarThe Decemberists • Billy Liar's got his hands in his pocketsStaring over at the neighbor's, knickers down.He's got his knickers down.So the summer is eternity for you?Sleeping in until your father's shaking you down,He's shaking you down.And the mailroom shift gets a real short shriftAs you dole out the packages, no-one seems to want you around,All skulking around.Let your legs loll on the lino'Til your sinews spoil.Will you stay here for a while, dear,'Til the radio plays something familiar?Plays something familiar.*This book also inspired a song by The Smiths

7. Home at LastSteely Dan • I know this super highway This bright familiar sun I guess that I'm the lucky one Who wrote that tired sea song Set on this peaceful shore You think you've heard this one before Well the danger on the rocks is surely past Still I remain tied to the mast Could it be that I have found my home at last Home at last

8. Mercy StreetPeter Gabriel • nowhere in the corridors of pale green and greynowhere in the suburbsin the cold light of daythere in the midst of it so alive and alonewords support like bonedreaming of mercy st.wear your inside outdreaming of mercyin your daddy's arms againdreaming of mercy st.'swear they moved that signdreaming of mercyin your daddy's arms

9. OneMetallica • I can't remember anythingCan't tell if this is true or dreamDeep down inside I feel the screamThis terrible silence stops it thereNow that the war is through with meI'm waking up, I cannot seeThat there's not much left of meNothing is real but pain nowHold my breath as I wish for deathOh please god, wake me

10. When the War CameThe Decemberists • With all the grain of babylonTo cultivate, to make us strongAnd hidden here behind the wallsAre shoulders wide and timber on'Til the war came'Til the war cameA terrible autonomyHas grafted onto you and meOur trust put in the governmentThey told their lies as heaven-sent'Til the war came'Til the war came

11. Rain KingCounting Crows • Hey, I only want the same as anyoneHenderson is waiting for the sunOh, it seems night endlessly begins and endsAfter all the dreaming I come home again... • * This book also inspired Joni Mitchell to write “Both Sides Now.”

12. RhiannonFleetwood Mac • Rhiannon rings like a bell through the night and Wouldn't you love to love her?Takes to the sky like a bird in flight and Who will be her lover?All your life you've never seenA woman taken by the windWould you stay if she promised you heaven?Will you ever win?

13. Sympathy for the DevilThe rolling Stones • Please allow me to introduce myself • I’m a man of wealth and taste • I’ve been around for a long, long year • Stole many a man’s soul and fate

14. 2 + 2 = 5Radiohead • Are you such a dreamerTo put the world to rightsI'll stay home foreverWhere two and two always makes a fiveI'll lay down the tracksSandbag and hideJanuary has April showersAnd two and two always makes a fiveIt's the devil's way nowThere is no way outYou can scream and you can shoutIt is too late now

15. Stuck between stationsThe Hold Steady • There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was rightBoys and girls in America, they have such a sad time together

16. Winter for a YearThe Arcade Fire • Oh my God, a winter for a year • Oh my God, a winter for a year • And I cleaned out the back of my wardrobe • Jackets never turn into branches • Not while you’re here

17. 42COldplay • Those who are dead are not dead They’re just living in my head And since I fell for that spell I am living there as well Oh.. Time is so short and I’m sure There must be something more

18. 40U2 • I waited patiently for the LordHe inclined and heard my cryHe lift me up out of the pitOut of the mire and clayI will sing, sing a new songI will sing, sing a new song

19. My Author, My own • Song for Myla Goldberg by The Decemberists • The Ballad of Dorothy Parker by Prince • Hey Jack Kerouac by 10,000 Maniacs • Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? by Green Day • Bukowski by Modest Mouse • Walt Whitman’s Niece by Woody Guthrie (or Wilco & Billy Bragg, your choice!) • Graham Greene by John Cale • Go Ask Shakespeare by Rufus Wainwright • Sylvia Plathby Ryan Adams • Rave on John Donne by Van Morrison

20. The face that launched 1,000 ships • Are you scared to walk through the hallways? Are you worried that the spiders run away? Are you petrified of being petrified? Are we going to have to save the school again? We've got to save Ginny Weasley from the Basilisk We've got to save the school from that unseen horror We've got to save Ginny Weasley from the Basilisk We've got to save the school again • Harry & the Potters • Draco & the Malfoys • The Whomping Willows • The Butterbeer Experience • RoonilWazlib