Inspiration: The songs and their writers

Each chapter of Chimera has lyrics at the beginning of it; often a song that I was listening to while writing that chapter, or a song that has influenced me a lot over the years. So this is the soundtrack, such as it is. Many of these songs - and others - were suggested to me by the wonderful people that read the epic; I've been awed by a great many new artists thanks to them.

Prologue:

Stay by Shakespeare's Sister (Hormonally Yours)

Parts One to Five:
Shadowboxer by Fiona Apple (Tidal)
Raven Claws by Moonspell (Irreligious)
Not Only Human by Heather Nova (Siren, Wonderlust)
Marblehead Johnson by the Bluetones (Pachinko: The Singles)
Do What You Have To Do by Sarah McLachlan (Surfacing, Mirrorball)

Parts Six to Ten:

Searching by China Black (Unknown)
Push by Matchbox 20 (Yourself or Someone Like You)
Slide by the Goo Goo Dolls (Dizzy up the Girl)
Ready or Not by the Fugees (The Score)
Everlong by the Foo Fighters (The Colour and The Shape)

Parts Eleven to Fifteen:

Black Or Blue by Suede (Dog Man Star) and Acoustic #3 by the Goo Goo Dolls (Dizzy Up The Girl)
I'm No Heroine by Ani Difranco (Imperfectly)
Iris by the Goo Goo Dolls (Dizzy Up The Girl)
Anyday by Ani Difranco (Puddle Dive)
The Perfect Drug by Trent Reznor (Single)

Parts Sixteen to Twenty:
Timelessness by Fear Factory (Obsolete)
One Way Or Another by Blondie (Remized, Reamde, Remodelled)
Wasting Time by Collective Soul (Hints, Allegations and Things Left Unsaid)
Swan Dive by Mary Prankster (Roulette Girl)
In the Blood by Annihilator (In The Blood)

Parts Twenty One to Twenty Five
H. by Tool (Aenima)
Silence by Sarah Mclachlan and Delerium (from Remixed)
A Poisoned Gift by Moonspell (Irreligious)
Mudshovel by Staind (Dysfunction)
What You Are by Drill (Empire Records)

Parts Twenty Six to Thirty:
Learn to Fly by the Foo Fighters (There Is Nothing Left To Lose)
Precious Declaration by Collective Soul (Disciplined Breakdown)
The Middle by Jimmy Eat World (Jimmy Eat World)
Scattered by Green Day (Nimrod)
Grey Matter by Jewel (Haunted)

Parts Thirty One to Thirty Five:
New Thing Now by Shawn Colvin (A Few Small Repairs)
What It Is To Burn by Finch (What It Is To Burn)
Desert Rose by Sting (Brand New Day)
Sao Paulo Rain by Tom McRae (Tom McRae)
Awake by Finch (What It Is To Burn)

Parts Thirty Six to Forty:
Hero by Chad Kroeger (Spiderman)
It's Only When I Lose Myself by Depeche Mode (Only When I Lose Myself)
Something's Always Wrong by Toad and the Wet Sprocket (Something's Always Wrong)
Blackbird on the Wire by the Beautiful South (Blue Is The Colour)
Angel by Sarah McLachlan (Surfacing, Mirrorball, Remixed)

Epilogue:
Blue by the Smashing Pumpkins (Pisces Iscariot) and Closing Time by Semisonic (Feeling Strangely Fine)

                     

Parts One to Five - Parts Six to Ten - Parts Eleven to Fifteen

Parts Sixteen to Twenty - Parts Twenty One to Twenty Five - Parts Twenty Six to Thirty

Parts Thirty One to Thirty Five - Parts Thirty Six to Forty

Epilogue

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