As promised, here is the playlist for this fanfiction and favorite lyric. Not to mention why or what scene the song was chosen for.
Miriam Bryant - Push Play
"You painted black upon the whitest lies. You've seen them fall, you have seen them rise- -you drown your heroes in red wine."
Scene: Dirk finally agrees to go to the club with the others and how they are expecting a happy night out.
Three Days Grace - Painkiller
"Never gonna let you get away- The shoulder you cry on, is the dose that you die on!"
Scene: The drinking, neon lights, fight with Jake and then the waking up to Nathanial covers this song.
Mourning Ritual - Bad Moon Rising
"I hear hurricanes ablowing. I know the end is coming soon. I fear rivers over flowing. I hear the voice of rage and ruin."
Scene: Jake and Dirk waking up to their situations.
Miriam Bryant - Adrenaline
"Follow me. Lose yourself. I need this pain to stay sane. There is no shame in being brave."
Scene: Jake searching through Dirk's apartment. Seeing how terrible he was and what he has done. Dirk meeting Jenna.
*Woodkid - Iron
"A soldier on my own, I don't know the way. I'm riding up the heights of shame. I'm waiting for the call, the hand on the chest I'm ready for the fight and fate."
Scene: The tone of the song is meant to establish a backing that things are turning darker. Dirk is being beaten, Jake is trying to save him, the drum background establishes a near tribal but darker hue of the situation they are in.
Nina Simone - Sinnerman (The Thomas Crown Affair Edition)
"So I run to the river, it was bleedin'. I run to the sea, it was boilin'. All on that day. So i run to the lord, "please hide me lord". "Don't you see me down here prayin'?" But the lord said, "Go to the devil!" So I ran to the devil, he was waitin'.
Scene: The sense of urgency is heightened in this chapter. That Jake was trying everything he could but things were going to get worse and worse, but he couldn't do anything.
BRMC - Beat The Devil's Tattoo
"Everyone is king when there's no one left to pawn. There is no peace here, war is never cheap here."
Scene: Dirk is slowly starting to give up. The beat of the song is slow, painful, and smooth. That he was slowly falling into his own depression.
Rudimental - Powerless
"Bury my ghost. Start my glory days, infiltrate my heart, and take the pain away. Took me time to see through your eyes. I need to be strong, but you have made me weak. I won't do you wrong. 'Cause these feelings run deep."
Scene: While Dirk is beside Jenna's dead body, holding her dying son. The song sets a sense of regret and pure agony. Though it sounds upbeat, the lyrics are the regrets that are going through Dirk's head. He was powerless to stop the two most important things in his life at that moment from dying.
Rihanna - Disturbia
"It's a thief in the night, to come and grab you. It can creep up inside you, and consume you. A disease of the mind, it can control you. It's too close for comfort."
Scene: As the song states, Dirk is slowly losing his mind. From the loss of Jenna, he is consumed by guilt and the shadows inside his own heart are coming out. Of course, Nathanial isn't helping him in the slightest.
Seether - Hang On
"Wish I was someone else. My hands are stained with love. Wish I could take it away."
Scene: The title is accurate to what Dirk is feeling. He is slowly losing his mind, so he's decided his best idea would be to fight back. He sees himself in the one he is trying to fight, and thus he is going to fuck shit up as much as possible until they both die... Then Rachel comes in. Inspiring him to hang on a bit longer.
Florence And The Machine - Seven Devils All Around Me
"Holy water cannot help you now. See I've have to burn your kingdom down. And no rivers and no lakes can put the fire out. I'm gonna raise the stakes, I'm gonna smoke you out. I'll be dead before the day is done."
Scene: All parties are starting to realize how deeply this horror story goes. Dirk is starting to delve deeply into his own mind to fight Nathanial. Roxy and Jake are developing a plan- meanwhile seeing they are indeed surrounded by devils. It is the chapter leading up to the end.
Miriam Bryant - Raised In Rain
"Born and raised in rain. Make me feel this way. Twenty pass forever started yesterday. I will call you shame when she knows it my name. Who is braver, this will safe her."
Scene: This is the chapter of relief, death and freedom. What quells the internal and real fires of ones heart? Rain.
Peter Bradley Adams - Darkening Sky
"Oh come with me forever my love, under the darkening sky. Come hide with me, I'll save you my love. Hear me, I'll beg for you life."
Scene: The song is meant to establish the previous relief was false. Yes, Dirk escaped. Yes, Rachel is still alive. But Dirk and Jake still are father apart that ever before and though Nathanial is dead... there are more just like him.
Bastille - Oblivion
"When you fall asleep with your head upon my shoulder. When you're in my arms, but you've gone somewhere deeper. When oblivion is calling out your name, You always take it further than I ever can."
Scene: During Jenna's funeral, this is song is to show the tone of Dirk's inner emotions. How he is torn inside his heart as much as his body. Well... this chapter doesn't need much explaining for the song...
The Neighbourhood - Wires
"We talked about making it. I'm sorry that you never made it. And it pains me just to hear you have to say it. You knew the game and played it, it kills to know that you have been defeated, I see the wires pulling while you're breathing."
Scene: The verdict hit Dirk hard, and the beat of the song shows that he doesn't feel it anymore. He feels too emotions. Guilt and Anger.
Zedd (Matthew Koma) - Spectrum
"Breathing you in when I want you out. Finding our truth in a hope of doubt. Lying inside our quiet drama. Wearing your heart like a stolen dream. Opening skies with your broken keys. No one can blind us any longer."
Scene: Though despite how tragic this fanfic is, the next in the series is going to be one hell of a ride. ;)
