Dance, Dance, fools

My Grandmother called and left a message for me on Saturday. Imagine a high pitched, really posh British accent as you read it:

"Emily, love, I was wondering how you've been impacted by the writers wanting not to work or not working or the striking or whatever they're doing. I was wondering if you could use it to get in there and, you know, jump over them and take over."

She's kind of a massive Republican, God bless her.

Anyway, onto the meme about music. I was one of the first people to get tagged but my dallying has made me one of the last people to respond. Nonetheless, I get a meme, I answer it, even if I don't do it right away.

The topic is to name a song that inspires you to write and copy some of the lyrics.

As I have previously mentioned about thirty thousand times, I'm into action. So when I write action scenes I have to get into it by blasting an awesome rock song. "Keep on Dancing" by No Doubt is my favorite. But that's more about the beat than the lyrics.

When I wrote my first screenplay I had a death scene that ripped me up to write. I listened to "My Immortal" by Evanescence repeatedly as I wrote that scene. I mean like nine times in a row.

But lately? I just keep on the background music, usually a mix of rock or a mix of mellow stuff depending on what kind of scene I'm writing.

But the one song that consistently gears me up to write when I'm exploring the marital problems of my protagonists via zombie killing is "Dance Dance" by Fall Out Boy. Lyrics:

She says she's no good with words but I'm worse
Barely stuttered out
"A joke of a romantic" or stuck to my tongue
Weighed down with words too over-dramatic
Tonight it's "it can't get much worse"
Vs. "no one should ever feel like.."

I'm two quarters and a heart down
And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds
These words are all I have so I'll write them
So you need them just to get by

Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me

You always fold just before you're found out
Drink up its last call
Last resort
But only the first mistake and I...

I'm two quarters and a heart down
And I don't want to forget how your voice sounds
These words are all I have so I'll write them
So you need them just to get by

Why don't you show me the little bit of spine
You've been saving for his mattress, love

Dance, Dance
We're falling apart to half time
Dance, Dance
And these are the lives you'd love to lead
Dance, this is the way they'd love
If they knew how misery loved me

Why don't you show me the little bit of spine
You've been saving for his mattress (mattress, mattress)
I only want sympathy in the form of you crawling into bed with me