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Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare Playlist >> "Will you always find an escape? >> Just running away, >> From all of the ones who love you, >> From everything.... >> So why can't you stay just long enough to explain?.... >> Take these chances to turn it around." >
 * 1) Welcome to England - Tori Amos media type="file" key="Welcome to England - Tori Amos.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I chose this song because it welcomes people to England and talks about how one has to "bring your own sun...enough for everyone". I think that this is a great song to include about //Clockwork Angel// because Tessa is new to England, and, moving from New York, England is completely foreign to her. She is used to sun and warmth while England is cold and rainy most of the year. Will is the first friendly face -- sort of -- that Tessa meets, which is a relief to her.
 * 1) Toes - Lights media type="file" key="Lights - Toes.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I chose this song because it uses a good book as an analogy to the person she is talking about. This is relevant to the book because Will really confuses Tessa -- mostly because Will acts like he is bipolar. In response, Tessa is always "kept on her toes" when dealing with Will. Another way that this song fits the book is that the song talks about a love of books, and both Will and Tessa love books; books are truly their lives.
 * 1) When it Rains - Paramore media type="file" key="Paramore - When It Rains.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I chose this song for a few reasons: one, the song talks about rain, and in the book, they don't go a day without seeing rain, and two, Will does a lot of things that are mentioned in the song. This song can especially be related to Will with the following lines because will is trying to hide his past from everyone, and though you only find this out in the second book, he is hiding under a facade of arrogance to protect the ones he loves most.
 * 1) Lover to Lover - Florence and the Machine media type="file" key="Lover to Lover - Florence and the Machine.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I chose this song because it also describes Will perfectly. Every line of the song is completely Will. He thinks that "there is no salvation for him now", and the first verse of the song is revealed by Jem to Tessa about Will. Apparently, Will always leaves the Institute every night to drink and what not, but when he comes back, he doesn't act the way a drunk person does. Jem followed him one night, and found that all he did was walk all over London.
 * 1) Better Than I Know Myself - Adam Lambert media type="file" key="Better Than I Know Myself - Adam Lambert.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I'm sure that this is supposed to be considered a love song, but I think that this song perfectly describes Will and Jem's relationship as parabatai (two Shadowhunters who are sworn to protect each other). They practically know each other inside and out, and Will is a thorn in Jem's side and "can be obnoxious at times" (or maybe all the time), but Will genuinely cares about Jem, and though Will treats everyone else terribly, he tries his hardest to be kind to Jem. We find out that Will is only kind to Jem because Jem is dying, though we find out that Jem is dying in Clockwork Angel.
 * 1) Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy media type="file" key="Almost Lover - A Fine Frenzy.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I think that this is a great song about Will and Tessa's relationship (sort of; their relationship is kind of bipolar). I envision this song as from Tessa's point of view because Tessa thinks that Will loves her, and then he acts like he hates her all the time, and he doesn't seem to care, either.
 * 1) Carry On - Fun. media type="file" key="Carry On - Fun..mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I chose this song because I think that this would be a great song for the end of the book. At the end, there are deaths, betrayals, and an overall sadness comes over the whole of Shadowhunters, Downworlders, and a few mundanes, too. This song would work well as an "even though so many terrible things have happened, you much carry on" song.
 * 1) Heavy in Your Arms - Florence and the Machinemedia type="file" key="Florence and the Machine - Heavy in Your Arms.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I chose this song because it talks about betrayal, and at the end of the book, Tessa finds out that someone she trusts greatly despises her, wants her dead, and spies on her for the Magister*. Similar to the situation, the song talks about someone who the narrator thinks is good is actually a terrible person who does not care about anyone, and that person is willing to sacrifice everything just to save himself.
 * 1) My Immortal - Evanescence media type="file" key="Evanescence - My Immortal.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * Again, this is probably supposed to be a love song, but I'm still going to use it to represent another side of Jem and Will's relationship. If the song switched perspectives, the chorus would be from Will's point of view and most of the verses would be from Jem's. Jem is the steady rock between the two, even though Will takes care of Jem when Jem is sick (which is very often because of the yin feng**). Will is trying to accept that Jem is going to die, and it's hard for him to grasp that, soon, his other half will be gone.
 * 1) The Howling - Within Temptation media type="file" key="Within Temptation - The Howling.mp3" width="240" height="20"
 * I think that this is a good song to represent the vampire vs. Shadowhunter fight scene. The song is technically about vampires, and the song's lyrics "the sun is rising/The screams have gone/Too many have fallen/Few still stand tall" actually perfectly depicts that end of the fight (more or less). The sun doesn't rise, but the vampires' house is on fire, so it could technically be considered the sun. The vast majority of the vampires either went up in flames or were killed by Shadowhunters, and only a few were able to escape. Another descriptive line from the song is "when we start killing" because, quite frankly, there is a lot of killing going on.
 * The Magister is an evil person who is trying to wipe out the entire race of Shadowhunters, though no one really knows why, and no one actually knows who the Magister is.
 * Yin feng is a demon poison. When Jem was little, a demon captured him and his parents and tortured him with the drug. It turned his irises and hair silver, and if he does not take the drug, he will suffer and die; if he does take the drug, he'll still die early, but it's not as painful. Cheery, right?