Authors & Their Stories in SongMUSIC = LITERATURE

Presented by Sara Saxton

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.

RAMBLE ONLED ZEPPELIN

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

MOON OVER BOURBON STREET

STING

Wake.. from your sleepThe drying of your tears

Today we escape, we escape

Pack.. and get dressedBefore your father hears usBefore all hell breaks loose

Breathe, keep breathingDon't lose your nerve

Breathe, keep breathingI can't do this alone

Sing.. us a songA song to keep us warm

There's such a chill, such a chill

EXIT MUSIC (FOR A FILM)RADIOHEAD

The highway is alive tonightBut nobody’s kiddin’ nobody

about where it goesI’m sittin’ down here in the

campfire lightSearchin’ for the ghost of

Tom Joad

THE GHOST OF TOM JOADBRUCE SPRINGSTEEN

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

BILLY LIARTHE DECEMBERISTS

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

HOME AT LASTSTEELY DAN

nowhere in the corridors of pale green and grey

nowhere in the suburbsin the cold light of day

there in the midst of it so alive and alone

words support like bone

dreaming of mercy st.wear your inside outdreaming of mercy

in your daddy's arms againdreaming of mercy st.

'swear they moved that signdreaming of mercy

in your daddy's arms

MERCY STREETPETER GABRIEL

I can't remember anythingCan't tell if this is true or dream

Deep down inside I feel the scream

This terrible silence stops it there

Now that the war is through with me

I'm waking up, I cannot seeThat there's not much left of me

Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for deathOh please god, wake me

ONEMETALLICA

With all the grain of babylonTo cultivate, to make us strong

And hidden here behind the wallsAre shoulders wide and timber on

'Til the war came'Til the war came

A terrible autonomyHas grafted onto you and me

Our trust put in the governmentThey told their lies as heaven-sent

'Til the war came'Til the war came

WHEN THE WAR CAMETHE DECEMBERISTS

Hey, I only want the same as anyone

Henderson is waiting for the sun

Oh, it seems night endlessly begins and ends

After all the dreaming I come home again...

* This book also inspired Joni Mitchell to write “Both

Sides Now.”

RAIN KINGCOUNTING CROWS

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 wind

Would you stay if she promised you heaven?

Will you ever win?

RHIANNONFLEETWOOD MAC

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

SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVILTHE ROLLING STONES

Are you such a dreamerTo put the world to rights

I'll stay home foreverWhere two and two always makes

a fiveI'll lay down the tracks

Sandbag and hideJanuary has April showers

And two and two always makes a five

It's the devil's way nowThere is no way out

You can scream and you can shoutIt is too late now

2 + 2 = 5RADIOHEAD

There are nights when I think that Sal Paradise was

rightBoys and girls in America, they have such a sad time

together

STUCK BETWEEN STATIONSTHE HOLD STEADY

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

WINTER FOR A YEARTHE ARCADE FIRE

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

42COLDPLAY

I waited patiently for the Lord

He inclined and heard my cry

He lift me up out of the pitOut of the mire and clay

I will sing, sing a new songI will sing, sing a new song

40U2

Song for Myla Goldberg by The DecemberistsThe Ballad of Dorothy Parker by PrinceHey Jack Kerouac by 10,000 Maniacs

Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? by Green DayBukowski by Modest Mouse

Walt Whitman’s Niece by Woody Guthrie (or Wilco & Billy Bragg, your choice!)

Graham Greene by John CaleGo Ask Shakespeare by Rufus Wainwright

Sylvia Plath by Ryan AdamsRave on John Donne by Van Morrison

MY AUTHOR, MY OWN

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

THE FACE THAT LAUNCHED 1,000 SHIPS

• Harry & the Potters• Draco & the Malfoys• The Whomping Willows• The Butterbeer

Experience• Roonil Wazlib