Category: Songs For Every Book

Songs For Every Book

Songs For Every Book: The Great Gatsby (and One Direction)

Aubrey Leaman

Please don’t unfollow me.

But One Direction’s Fireproof = Jay Gatsby about Daisy in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel.


 
“It’s been so long, it’s been so long, maybe we’re fireproof
Cause nobody saves me, baby, the way you do.
…
I think I’m gonna win this time,
Riding on the wind and I won’t give up.”

Songs For Every Book

Songs For Every Book: Ophelia From Hamlet

Aubrey Leaman


 
HAMLET: I did love you once.
OPHELIA: Indeed, my lord, you made me believe so.
HAMLET: You should not have believed me; for virtue cannot
so inoculate our old stock but we shall relish of
it: I loved you not.
OPHELIA: I was the more deceived.
…
O, help him, you sweet heavens!
–Act III, scene i
 

1965 by Zella Day

“Can we go back to the world we had?
With a love so sweet it makes me sad
Can we go back to the world we had?
It’s the world we’ve been dreaming of.”

Songs For Every Book

Songs for Every Book: Romeo and Juliet

Aubrey Leaman


JULIET: “Shall I speak ill of             him that is my husband?
Ah, poor my lord, what tongue         shall smooth thy name,
When I, thy three-hours wife,           have mangled it?
But, wherefore, villain, didst             thou kill my cousin? …             Wash they his wounds with            tears: mine shall be spent,
When theirs are dry, for                     Romeo’s banishment.”                                  –Act III, scene ii
Devil’s Backbone
“Oh Lord, Oh Lord, what have I        done?
I’ve fallen in love with a man             on the run
Oh Lord, Oh Lord, I’m begging         you please
Don’t take that sinner from me
Oh, don’t take that sinner from          me…”