Songs that "fit" the Wheel of Time?

[FortyFiveAuto 1]

Ok, so here's a question for you fellow MWers:

 

Can you think of any songs, contemporary or otherwise, that can be "press-fit" to the theme of the Wheel of Time?

 

Furthermore, can you imagine any songs that you can envision being sung or even played(at least in their heads) by any characters?

 

Include in your thoughts guitars and instruments not present in the WoT. With the One Power, assume that all manner of music can be produced, far exceeding the capabilities of the current day.

 

I caught bits of that song "Again" by Flyleaf on the radio today, after I had finished reading some WoT, and caught my mind wandering in a Randland context while listening to the lyrics. Observe:

 

Flyleaf Moiraine Damodred - Again (singing of Rand al'Thor <--- I know you guys hate him, just bear with me please, lol!)

 

I love the way that your heart breaks (Momo approves of Rand's worry and compassion for people

With every injustice and deadly fate he's killed or tough decicions he's made)

Praying it all will be new

And living like it all depends on you (Hoping he will win TG; and it sort of does, he is the DR)

 

Here you are down on your knees again (Rand trying to seek advice from her, or wiser people)

Trying to find air to breathe again (Trying to find his way around his madness or politics)

And only surrender will help you now (Surrender to her will, or fate, or duty as the DR)

I love you please see and believe again (Believe that he can do what he needs to do)

I love that you're never satisfied (Rand constantly tries to read into things, which Momo

With face value wisdom and happy lies appreciates because of her Daes Daemar background)

You take what they say and go back and cry (Lamenting about the death he is prophesied to cause)

You're so close to me that you nearly died (Obvious Lanfear/twisted doorway reference)

Here you are down on your knees again

Trying to find air to breathe again

And only surrender will help you now

I love you please see and believe again

 

They don't have to understand you

Be still

Wait and know I understand you (Momo "gets" him. She's his only real friend outside of the

Be still Emond's Fielders, and even then, who knows?)

Be still

 

Here you are down on your knees again

Trying to find air to breathe again

And only surrender will help you now

The floodgates are breaking and pouring out (Saidin is overflowing the world, or the DO is pouring out his armies, or simply so much is changing so quickly)

 

Here you are down on your knees

Trying to find air to breathe

Right where I want you to be again (Rand eventually gets to where Momo wants him )

I love you please see and believe again

 

Here you are down on your knees again

Trying to find air to breathe again

Right where I want you to be again

See and believe!

[FortyFiveAuto 1]

Another example is anytime I read about Semirhage.

 

I'm not sure if this had ever been confirmed by RJ, but Semi, who was a great physician back in her day, derived great pleasure out of her sadism, and thus reminds me of Nazi Auschwitz physician Josef Mengele; I wonder if he was the inspiration for Semi's evil. Which then in turn reminds me of the song Angel of Death by Slayer.

 

The lyrics would need to be slightly modified, of course, as they often are with other songs throughout the ages in the WoT fiction. I envision Dreadlords who can channel the One Power playing her theme song with instruments which project their sounds out with weaves and get all the cool distortion and wah effects with flows of the Power.

Slayer Semirhage's Dreadlord Shadowbards - Angel of Death

 

Semirhage, the meaning of pain

The way that I want you to die

Slow death, immense decay

Powers that cleanse you of your life

Forced in

Like cattle

You run

Stripped of

Your life's worth

Human mice, for the Angel of Death

Four hundred thousand more to die

 

Angel of Death

Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

 

Sadistic, surgeon of demise

Sadist of the noblest blood

 

Destroying, without mercy

To benefit the Father of the Dark.

 

Surgery, with no anesthesia

Feel the threads pierce you intensely

Inferior, no use to mankind

Strapped down screaming out to die

 

Angel of Death

Monarch to the kingdom of the dead

Infamous butcher,

Angel of Death

 

Pumped with weaves, inside your brain

Pressure in your skull begins pushing through your eyes

Burning flesh, drips away

Test of heat burns your skin, your mind starts to boil

Frigid cold, cracks your limbs

How long can you last

In this frozen water burial?

Sewn together, joining heads

Just a matter of time

'Til you rip yourselves apart

Millions laid out in their

Crowded tombs

Sickening ways to achieve

The holocaust

Seas of blood, bury life

Smell your death as it burns

Deep inside of you

Abacinate, eyes that bleed

Praying for the end of

Your wide awake nightmare

Wings of pain, reach out for you

Her face of death staring down,

Your blood running cold

Injecting cells, dying eyes

Feeding on the screams of

The mutants she's creating

Pathetic harmless victims

Left to die

Rancid Angel of Death

Flying free

Edited April 18, 2011 by FortyFiveAuto

[Marie 73]

Hmmm, Korn's "Freak on Leash" has always given me a WoT vibe, makes me think of Padan Fain locked up during the beginning of The Great Hunt.

 

Something takes a part of me

Something lost and never seen

Every time I start to believe

Something's raped and taken from me, from me

 

Life's kinda always been messing with me

You wanna see the light?

Can't they chill and let me be free?

So do I

Can't I take away all this pain?

You wanna see the light?

I try to every night, all in vain, in vain

 

Sometimes I cannot take this place

Sometimes it's my life I can't taste

Sometimes I cannot feel my face

You'll never see me fall from grace

 

Something takes a part of me

You and I were meant to be

A cheap f*** for me to lay

Something takes a part of me

 

Feeling like a freak on a leash

You wanna see the light?

Feeling like I have no release

So do I

How many times have I felt diseased?

You wanna see the light?

Nothing in my life is free, is free

 

Sometimes I cannot take this place

Sometimes it's my life I can't taste

Sometimes I cannot feel my face

You'll never see me fall from grace

 

Something takes a part of me

You and I were meant to be

A cheap f*** for me to lay

Something takes a part of me

 

Something takes a part of me

You and I were meant to be

A cheap f*** for me to lay

Something takes a part of me

Part of me, part of me

Part of me

[FortyFiveAuto 1]

Yeah, that's it. At first when you said that song it made me think of a'dam, but yeah Padan Fain is perfect for that one.

 

That song even has chanting in the Old Tongue haha

[Marie 73]

Another one I like is Jem's "Flying High". I like it because it could be from either Moiraine or Thom's perspective.

 

You can't know, oh no

You can't know

How much I think about you, no

It's making my head spin

Looking at you

And you are looking at me

And we both know what we want

Hmmm, so close to giving in

 

Feel so nice

Oh yeah you feel so nice

Wish I could spend the night

But I can't pay the price

Oh no, no

 

But I'm flying so high

High off the ground

When you're around

And I can feel your high

Rocking me inside

It's too much to hide

 

I know, oh yes

I know that we can't

Be together

But, I just like to dream

It's so strange

The way our paths have crossed

How we were brought together

Hmmm, it's written in the stars it seems

Feel so nice

Oh yeah you feel so nice

I'd love to spend the night

But I can't pay the price

Oh no, no

 

And I'm flying so high

High off the ground

When you're around

And I can feel your high

Touching me inside

And it's too much to hide

 

Back to earth

Where did you take me to

I know there's no such thing

As painless love

Well it'll catch us up

And we can never win

But ohhh

I feel so alive

Ohhh

Just wanna hold you

Hold you so tight

 

And I'm flying so high

High off the ground

When you're around

And I can feel your high

Touching me inside

And it's too much to hide

And I'm flying so high

High off the ground

When you're around

[Sam 19]

Don't keep it waiting

You've got nothing to lose

The world is fading

You've got nothing to prove

Finally it all comes crushing down to the earth

Finally we get what we deserve

Get what we deserve, get what we deserve

 

Yeah, f**k my french

This is so ridiculous

I'm a product of God

Still there's poison in my blood

I find it cynical how things are critical

We better breakout before we blackout

 

Raise your voice

Don't let them break you down

All depends on what you do

It's a state of mind

Free the youth

Don't let them break you down

(Ooohhhh)

All depends on what you do

It's a state of mind

 

This boxing ring

Ain't big enough

For the two of us

So hold your ground

(Don't look down)

One wrong move and you'll

Taste the ground

Taste the ground

 

Oh-oh

We are the new generation

Oh-oh

We have to rebuild the nation

 

Oh-oh

We are the new generation

Oh-oh

We have to rebuild the nation

 

Finally, finally, finally

We get what we deserve

 

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