====Stories Inspired By Songs====

Sometimes, the image that a song paints can take on an entirely different hue when viewed through the lens of another universe.  This is a list of TTU stories that have been written as riffs on scenes taken from our Earth's popular music.

For song lyrics written //within// TTU, see CategoryCulturalia.

==StoryPierPressure==
**Song:** REM, "Belong"
**Lyrics:** //Those creatures jumped the barricades, and headed for the sea, sea.//
**Author comments:** This has got to be one of the most fitting TTU songs I've ever heard.  There's a whole 'nother story here, or several, in the lyric: "The world collapsed on a Sunday morning. She got up from the kitchen table, folded the newspaper and silenced the radio ..."  Although of course it would have to be changed to [[TheWednesdayRule Wednesday]].  ;-)
**Further discussion:** http://baxil.livejournal.com/128734.html

==StoryScatterlings==
**Song:** Paul Simon, "You Can Call Me Al"
**Lyrics:** Pretty much the whole thing; the story begins and ends with the song's first and last lines.
**Author comments:** My interpretation of the lyrics went in a very different direction than the song itself.  The original is about a middle-aged man going through an identity crisis; the story's about a young mage refinding himself in a visit to a foreign country.  But the vivid imagery refused to let go of my brain.

==StoryRightHereRightNow==
**Song:** Jesus Jones, "Right Here, Right Now"
**Lyrics:** //Right here, right now; there is no other place I'd rather be.  Right here, right now; watching the world wake up from history.//
**Author comments:** The story is a fiercely ironic take on the theme of the song; its protagonist spends the entire tale sitting on his couch, making phone calls, and watching TV while the world burns just a few miles away.  There's also no small amount of Information Society's "Fire Tonight" informing the story's central phone conversation.

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CategoryStories