camwyn | Reference for future work: Roger's playlist

Wavin' Flag, K'naan. The original version, not his rewrite for the World Cup. Lyrics are here. Most important part probably "Out of the darkness, I came the farthest" and the whole of the second verse.

What Would You Do To Save Your World, an instrumental track by Kerry Muzzey that I may dump.

Destroyer, an instrumental track by Geoff Knorr on the Civilization: Beyond Earth soundtrack.

What Shall We Die For, Hans Zimmer. Should go towards the end if used at all.

Under Pressure, Queen and David Bowie. I know I use this one in a lot of my character playlists but that is largely because these are characters who are thrown into horrible situations and have responses I can be proud of.

Two Thousand Years, Billy Joel. A little bit for the hopeful- most of the song is hopeful in the face of ugly history- but there's one line right near the end that I'm not sure Billy Joel meant to come out this way. And in the evening, after the fire and the light / One thing is certain- nothing can hold back the night implies pretty strongly to ME that somebody is quietly admitting things are only going to get worse before they get better, assuming they ever do get better.

The Plagues, Stephen Schwartz and Hans Zimmer. Comes after the Horrible Revelation but before the bombs. At least partially representative of what's going through his head after trying to get a real answer out of Washington- once I thought the chance to make you laugh / was all I ever wanted / and even now I wish that God had chose another / serving as your foe on His behalf / is the last thing that I wanted...

Simple Life, Elton John- Erm, probably going to drop this too, I used to have it on his playlist back when I first RPed him and saw him as having been just J. Random Guy from Wisconsin.

San Jacinto, Peter Gabriel - This one is outright about a young Native American man faced with both white influence rewriting culture and the world around him and his own potentially deadly rite of passage. Wrong Native group, though, far as I can tell- anyway it's mostly for the part towards the end, I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me through the fear. Was gonna use that for his name, too, but I couldn't really get that to work. The sentiment still counts.

Einstein's Wrong, Steve Jablonsky - This is the Music of the Horrible Revelation. Simple as that.

Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears For Fears - Probably fairly early on in the playlist, before things go foul.

America The Beautiful, Ray Charles- Also early on in the playlist.

Runaround Sue, Dion - Although karaoke was not a thing in the 1950s unless you wanted to count follow-the-bouncing-ball singalongs, I have long harbored an image of Roger as a young man making Yvonne burst into laughter by performing this or something like it in some form of karaoke scenario.

The Way, Zack Hemsey - Lyrics are here. A lot of it applies, but in the end the most important part comes down to This is not the right way / But this is my way.

Prince of Darkness, Indigo Girls - Mostly for one of the repeated parts (someone's on the telephone, desperate in his pain / someone's on the bathroom floor, doing her cocaine / someone's got his finger on the button in some room / no one can convince me we aren't gluttons for our doom), but given that the backstory I've constructed for him includes POW guard duty the first verse's bit about 'the words of my heart lined up like prisoners on a fence' caught my attention some more. Also my place is of the sun and / this place is of the dark fits fairly well with what I can only assume is a massive dichotomy between Crow country and California. Even if West-Tek and Mariposa are both in the sunshiney parts of the state it's the wrong kind of climate and the wrong kind of sunshine and it just. feels. wrong. For many reasons. In the end it applies to getting the hell out of what's left of Mariposa in favor of trying to reach Lost Hills.

I Claim Your Sun, Steve Jablonsky - Back to back with The Plagues, I think, since this is the 'oh my God they actually did it, they're launching the bombs' music.

Nothing for what happens in between Mariposa and Lost Hills yet. Eventually maybe.