1. The Beginning�Empire Records, "Sugar High" I picked this song after the story was finished. I'd always liked this song and I was reading over the lyrics, looking for a song to really pinpoint the party at the beginning of the story, and this fits perfectly. It also tells a little bit about what exactly Zac and Ginger did together the first night they were together, which is a big secret I never plan on telling. ::smiles::
2. Ginger's Theme�Unwritten Law, "Rest of my Life" This is a name of one of the last chapters, and originally it was the name of two other chapters, all having something to do with Ginger. I listened to this song a lot when writing a lot of the really emotional cancer scenes with Ginger and it just seems to make sense.
3. Zac's Theme�Paul McCartney, "Maybe I'm Amazed" Paul McCartney wrote this song about his wife Linda. There is no doubt about that. He was in love and in this story, Zac is truly, madly, and deeply in love with Ginger. (I was thinking about using that song in the position as well but it just never happened). Ginger means the world to Zac and this song portrays it perfectly.
4. Young Love�Dashboard Confessionals, "Hands Down" A friend of mine told me about this song a while ago and said "Man, I wish I could have a date like that." This song is so true when it comes to a young, spirited couple in love.
5. Kris's Theme�Feeling Left Out, "My Heart Is In Your Hands" I had the hardest time finding a theme song for Kris. There aren't all that many songs out there about her kind of situation, but I found this song. There's not much to it but it's a good song and helps define Kris a little bit.
6. Cancer�Beach Boys, "Don't Worry Baby" This is another one of the chapter titles that also defines the story. This is more of Zac's point of view that Ginger's, but it's something that helps them get through the cancer situation as many times as it arises.
7. Taylor's Theme�Afroman, "She Won't Let Me Fuck" This is one of the funniest songs in the world and I love it to death. It fits Taylor perfectly in his views of Ginger and the world's population of females as well. The song explains a man's need to get laid, and Taylor always seems to be needing some. His best fit line: "Things we need to do, every other day or two."
8. Break Up�Simon and Garfunkel, "Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme" Of course, this is the chapter name of the break-up scene and it fits quite well. We finally find out Ginger's name, and the song gives it away anyway, and it was playing when I wrote the breakup scene. It fits quite nicely.
9. Ginger's Theme #2�Les Miserables, "On my Own" Starting off the second half of the story, Ginger is indeed "on her own" and she has to start her life over again. She'd had a boyfriend in her life for as long as she could remember and now that she's by herself, she needs to do it all alone. I knew this was going to be on the soundtrack and I knew it was going to be this song to define it.
10. David's Theme�Savage Garden, "The Lover After Me" I kind of threw this in there, calling it David's Theme but it also could be Zac's second theme. The song talks about a man after a breakup; she's moved on and he's by himself, and how he looks at his life differently now that the girl is gone. In this song, David is "the lover after" Zac, and Zac is the persona of the song.
11. Make Up�Feeling Left Out, "Spilled Milk" This is the main theme of the story as well as the theme of the make up. When I wrote the scene where Zac and Ginger meet again, this song was playing on repeat on my computer as I wrote it. This song COMPLETELY defines this area of the story, and actually is meant to be playing when the reader reads the chapter with this name. This song is everything to the rest of the story.
12. Zac #2�The White Stripes, "Same Boy You've Always Known" I'd been wanting to use this song a number of times as a chapter title because it just fits Zac so well, but I never found a good chapter to use it. This song is Zac completely after the make up and Ginger doesn't see it as well as Zac wants her to.
13. LA�Everclear, "Santa Monica" Upon moving back to Los Angeles, Zac and Ginger disappear completely from their orginial homes, Tulsa and Tampa, and move "beside the ocean" as the song states, and they leave everything behind. Everything that happened before that moment is gone. That is what this song is about.
14. Ginger's Death�Three Doors Down, "When I'm Gone" This song is very, VERY important to the last chapter of the story when Ginger dies. The entire scene where Zac is with Ginger, in the ambulance, and then at the hospital, is supposed to be focused mainly on Zac with absolutely no sound except for this song. If it were a movie scene, it'd be one of those where you follow the main character around with all this action going out, no noise, just a song playing in the background. That's how this song is supposed to be used in this story.
15. The End�Matchbox Twenty, "Bright Lights" Although the song is about someone going away to follow her dreams in a big city, but it could also be interpreted as a death, and that's how I'm taking it. It's perfect for the end of the story.