Soundtrack Saturday (11)

Soundtrack Saturday

Hosted by myself (Novel Reveries)

Choose a song that you believe could be the soundtrack to your  book, or to a character in your book.

Finished Reading: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (book review)

Soundtrack: 

Classic: I've Got the World on a String sung by Frank Sinatra

Contemporary: Heartless by Kanye West

I LOVE everything golden oldies, including Frank Sinatra. I've been browsing through some Peggy Lee stuff for this book, as well as my fav. guy of all-time George Gershwin, but in the end I chose Frank Sinatra's version of I've Got the World on a String to represent Gatsby's blissful ignorance about life. Too bad he lost that string, huh?

I also had Heartless by Kanye West stuck in my head for some reason whenever I thought about Daisy. So there you have it!

[Chorus]

In the night, I hear them talk 

the coldest story ever told

Somewhere far along this road, he lost his soul

To a woman so heartless 

How could you be so heartless

Oh, how could you be so heartless?

[Verse 1]

How could you be so cold as the winter wind when it breeze yo

Just remember that you talking to me though

You need to watch the way you talking to me yo

I mean after all the things that we been through

I mean after all the things we got into

Ayo, I know there are some things that you ain't told me

Ayo, I did some things but that's the old me

And now you wanna get me back and you gonna show me

So you walk around like you don't know me

You got a new friend, well I got homies

But in the end it's still so lonely

[Chorus]

In the night, I hear them talk 

the coldest story ever told

Somewhere far along this road, he lost his soul

To a woman so heartless 

How could you be so heartless

Oh, how could you be so heartless?

[Verse 2]

How could you be so Dr. Evil?

You bringing out a side of me that I don't know

I decided we weren't gonna speak so

Why we up 3 A.M. on the phone?

Why would she be so mad at me for?

Homie I don't know she's hot and coldI won't stop wont mess my groove up

Cause I already know how this thing go

You run and tell your friends that you're leaving me

They say that they don't see what you see in me

You wait a couple months then you gonna see

You'll never find nobody better than me

[Chorus]

In the night, I hear them talk 

the coldest story ever told

Somewhere far along this road, he lost his soul

To a woman so heartless 

How could you be so heartless

Oh, how could you be so heartless?

[Verse 3]

Talking talking talking talk

Baby lets just knock it off

They don't know what we been through

They don't know about me and you

So why I got something new to see?

And you just gonna keep hating me

And we just gonna be enemies

I know you can't believeI could just leave it wrong

And you can't make it rightI'm gonna take off tonight (Into the night)

[Chorus]

In the night, I hear them talk 

the coldest story ever told

Somewhere far along this road, he lost his soul

To a woman so heartless 

How could you be so heartless

Oh, how could you be so heartless?