Thank you Jessica for stopping by Books for Company on your book tour! I always love a playlist post.
If I Speak True Playlist
By Jessica L. Brooks
Hello, Jodie! Thanks so much for featuring If I Speak True!
Over the past couple of years, If I Speak True went through quite a few revisions. Because of that, I depended on music to help me get in, stay in, and feel specific moods for many scenes. Mayday Parade’s A Lesson in Romantics is one of my all time *favorite* albums, actually, and I would have loved to have been able to include a few of their songs in the book. But alas, that was not a possibility due to copyright issues, so in both scenes where songs were mentioned I decided to write my own lyrics instead.
The first one is by Twice Antiquated, Dahlia and her best friend Eva’s favorite (fictional) band:
Across the hall
You’re where you always are
I find the strength to speak your name
For the first time
You look up
With a smile
We sit beneath the royal sky later that night
Your voice is velvet and light
I reach for your hand and you hold it so tight
And it’s time, time to reach for the stars, burn our memories into them, and hold them to our hearts
It’s time, time to speak what we’ve never spoken before tonight
It’s the time, time to pour out our souls to whom we love the most
It’s the time, time to search each other’s eyes for what seems right
There is nothing truer than this moment right here right now
So let’s vow to keep it going somehow
Promise never means never and together we’ll always fight because
What if all we have is tonight
You’re where you always are
I find the strength to speak your name
For the first time
You look up
With a smile
We sit beneath the royal sky later that night
Your voice is velvet and light
I reach for your hand and you hold it so tight
And it’s time, time to reach for the stars, burn our memories into them, and hold them to our hearts
It’s time, time to speak what we’ve never spoken before tonight
It’s the time, time to pour out our souls to whom we love the most
It’s the time, time to search each other’s eyes for what seems right
There is nothing truer than this moment right here right now
So let’s vow to keep it going somehow
Promise never means never and together we’ll always fight because
What if all we have is tonight
And here’s the second song, listened to by David as he has a conversation with Dahlia on the phone, by Antonio Levi (a fictional indie singer David listens to):
Where’d you go
I thought we’d agreed to forget the past
What happened to finding us?
Don’t you know
It was a yes when I asked, I heard you say it myself
Don’t slip away
The me I am is missing when you’re gone.
Can’t stop now, look around,
Don’t you feel the sparks flying, burning in our hearts?
Pick me now, pick this feeling and the words and what we’ve shared.
Choose me now, just hold out your hand…
Just hold out your hand
We both know
It all happened because you cared
Why turn around
Reality is just as real anyway
You agreed; I felt it in my bones
Hold my hand
Hold my hand
Can’t stop now, look around,
Don’t you feel the sparks flying, burning in our hearts?
Pick me now, pick this feeling and the words and what we’ve shared
There’s nothing compared to you
Make a wish I’ll beg it true
Hold my hand before he gets to you
The me I am is perfect when you’re around
Find Jessica
Blog Tour Schedule
January 27th – Kristalyn Thornock at The Sarcastic Palmtree (Release Day/DVD giveaway)
January 27th – Cassandra at Cassandra Lost in Books (Release Day)
January 27th – Meg at Book Groupies (Release Day)
January 28th – Kaitlin at Reading is My Treasure (Review)
January 28th – Lisa at Dizneeee's World of Books
January 29th – Kathy at I Am A Reader, Not A Writer (Author Interview)
January 29th – Cheyanne at Cheyanne Young (Author interview)
January 30th – Eugenia at Chasm of Books (Author Interview and Review)
January 30th – A. Kerr at Kerrific (Review)
January 31st – Jenna (JL) at Avid Reader Musings (Writing Playlist)
January 31st – Ella Johnson at Mymcbooks Blog (Spotlight/giveaway)
February 1rd -Eugenia at Chasm of Books (Shaver dream cast)
February 3rd – Heather Rosdol at Buried in Books (Review)
February 3rd – Rachel at The NerdHerd Reads (Dreamcast)
February 4th – Penny at One Writer's Journey (Author Interview)
February 4th – Dana at Dana Square (character interview)
February 5th – Beverly at The Wormhole (Author interview and book promo spot)
February 5th – Kaycee at My Crafty Zoo (Deleted scene and recipe)
February 6th – Kimberly Lim at Kim's Reading Lounge (Review)
February 6th – Dianne at Oops! I Read A Book Again (Review)
February 7th – Janie Junebug at Women: We Shall Overcome (Guest Post)
February 7th – Jodie at Books for Company (Lyrics written for If I Speak True)
February 7th - Colleen at Cici's Theories (Plant meanings and their correlations to the characters)
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