I'm making a playlist with a certain fictional character. I need a song with the theme "live fast die young." So far all I've found is Live Young Die Free by Fletcher, which is a great song but not quite what I'm looking for to fit this particular character. I need something a little less rebellious, and a little more fatalistic belief in oneself dying young. Music genre doesn't matter. Any recs?
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Thanks for the recs! 😄 The search continues. The character doesn't want to die, it's more of a superstitious belief about himself, if that makes any sense. I found this one, it's a little closer to what I'm going for.
It really depends on how you interpret the lyrics. A lot of singers have this pessimistic mindset of "since I'm going to die soon anyway, might as well enjoy life" , but if you are looking for a narrator that is sort of narcissistic, like 'I'm cursed, and God is out to get me so I gotta cherish this here little life and make every minute count", I personally don't think this is a very prevalent way of thinking, or at least not expressed very explicitly just because it doesn't sounds as good as general pessimism.
I see that you are coming up with songs that are very literal about "dying young" in the song title, I'm afraid it's going to be a long time before you find a fitting song that is good, musically.
I have a couple reccomendations. I just found this song, and the lyrics ("Ain't handing nobody roses.
And I don't wanna die alone.") seem to be what you're looking for, if he ends up finding a woman to marry.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0rUxenSpUTbAKxgMBLfZPm?si=1XpfTJ9CT825JeCqSWEgZg
This other one is just instrumental. It could work, because of the title and feel of it, if he does die
young, whether he's married or not.
https://open.spotify.com/track/0zkuUh32fTt4R1k9UnsBUv?si=lKGGVR1xShenQOnHF7RQMA
Hey @Hermione_Violet,
As soon as I read those words, the first song that came to mind was this one:
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It might be a bit too "rebellious" for your character, but I still thought I'd share 🙂
Something you could try is to use the Lyrics match feature in Search on mobile:
Hope you find that useful. Good luck!
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