Music and Lyrics

OK so I've had the soundtrack to New Moon on the brain for the past day or so....and I wanted to show where I'm coming from with some of my favorite soundtrack picks. I feel so strongly about some of these songs, I'd love to be able to float them to someone at Summit for the hell of it. I could see them having different (more updated?) artists recording some of them differently (but NOT Kelly Sweet - this version is crucial.) Maybe acoustically or electronically...whatev.

"And I love her yet she has done me wrong. Can I bring her back? She has been long gone. And I'll always be her broken hearted savior." "Broken Hearted Savior" from Big Head Todd and the Monsters.

Ridiculously perfect lyrics for Jacob's feelings about Bella. Especially after she ditches him to go save Edward in Italy. And hello? "Todd" is part Native American. PER-FECT.

"What do I have to do to make you want me? What do I have to do to make you understand? What do I have to do to make you love me? And, if I can't make you love me, just tell me - what do I have to do? To forget about you..." "What Do I Have to Do?" by Stabbing Westward

Jacob thinking this about Bella at the end of New Moon when he won't talk to her but loves her soooo much and is trying to figure out what he has to do to make her love him instead of Edward.

"I reached inside myself and found nothing there to ease the pressure of my ever worrying mind." "Please don't ask me to defend the shameful lowlands of the way I'm drifting gloomily through time. " "The Sun Always Shines on TV" from A-Ha.

Totally describes the way Edward feels about himself while he's away from Bella - and wanting to kill himself when he thinks she's dead. And listen to the music. The frantic pace would be so perfect for Bella and Alice racing to Volterra....and Bella smashing into Edward. Ugh. It. Is. Perfect.

"Every time that I look in the mirror, all these lines on my face getting clearer. The past is gone. It went by like dust to dawn. Isnt that the way? Everybodys got their dues in life to pay." "Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away..." "Dream On" - written by Aerosmith. Performed by Kelly Sweet.

I picked this because the ethereal feeling absolutely blew me away when I first heard it. I immediately thought "Bella lying in the forest". Bella has always been worrying about getting older since she met Edward, but it doesn't matter anymore because... he's gone. And it hints at both Bella and Edward wanting to die because they've lost each other.

"My darling lives in a world that is not mine, an old child misunderstood out of time. Timeless is the creature who is wise and timeless is the prisoner in disguise." "Beauty and the Beast" by Stevie Nicks

The way Bella looks at Edward...and, more importantly, the way the audience looks at Edward Cullen. Absolutely heartbreaking song. It's my Number One pick for New Moon.