Metallic Lights {Metallic Charms Book #3}

**BONUS CONTENT #2**

‘Metallic Lights’ Bonus Content

-Bonus Content #2

·         Playlist

I basically listened to a song on repeat until I finished a chapter. I do this a lot, and for this book, I put the songs in the chapter as a YouTube link.
As you can see, I listened to a lot Taylor Swift. Actually, I’m pretty sure her entire ‘Red’ album is on this playlist. The reason for that is because at the start of every one of her albums, Taylor writes a passage about what her songs in this album are about. If you all want to know what that says, it’ll be after the list of songs I put here. It just made me realise that this is exactly what Noel and Tony’s love is about. The pain and passion and everything in between, it’s what makes them strong, even if they don’t get back together.

The Last Time – Taylor Swift featuring Gary Lightbody
Astronaut – Simple Plan
I Will Wait – Mumford & Sons
I Almost Do – Taylor Swift
Treacherous – Taylor Swift
Different World – Jes Hudak & George Krikes
Seven Devils – Florence + the Machine
I’m Alive – Shinedown
What You’ve Done to Me – Samantha Jade
Bruises – Train
She Wolf – David Guetta featuring Sia
Trembling Hands – The Temper Trap
I Knew You Were Trouble – Taylor Swift
Sing Together – Train
Need Your Love – The Temper Trap
Set Me On Fire – Bella Ferraro
With Me – Sum 41
What the Water Gave Me – Florence + the Machine
State of Grace – Taylor Swift
Broken Arrow – the Script
It’s My Life – Bon Jovi
Everything Has Changed – Taylor Swift
Skyfall – Adele
Little Talks – Of Monsters and Men
Begin Again – Taylor Swift
When Can I See You Again – Owl City
Breakeven – the Script
Wish You Were Here – Delta Goodrem
Six Degrees of Separation – The Script
S.O.S – ABBA
Live To Rise – Soundgarden
Titanium – David Guetta featuring Sia
Dark Paradise – Lana Del Rey
Sad Beautiful Tragic – Taylor Swift
When The Darkness Comes – Colbie Caillat
To Feel Alive – IAMEVE
Dirt and Roses – Rise Against
Now – Paramore
New Way to Bleed – Evanescence
Radioactive – Imagine Dragons
Human – Christina Perri

Some words from the incredible and insightful, Taylor Swift: “There’s an old poem by Neruda that I’ve always been captivated by, and one of the lines in it has stuck with me ever since the first time I read it. It says ‘love is so short, forgetting is so long.’ It’s a line I’ve related to in my saddest moments, when I needed to know someone else had felt that exact same way. And when we’re trying to move on, the moments we always go back to aren’t the mundane ones. They are the moments you saw sparks that weren’t really there, felt stars aligning without having any proof, saw your future before it happened and then saw it slip away without any warning. These are moments of newfound hope, extreme joy, intense passion, wishful thinking, and in some cases, the unthinkable letdown. And in my mind, every one of these memories looks the same to me. I see all of these moments in bright, burning, red.

My experiences in love have taught me difficult lessons, especially my experiences with crazy love. The red relationships. The ones that went from zero to a hundred miles per hour and then hit a wall and exploded. And it was awful. And ridiculous. And desperate. And thrilling. And when the dust settled, it was something I’d never take back. Because there is something to be said for being young and needing someone so badly, you jump in head first without looking. And there’s something to be learned from waiting all day for a train that’s never coming. And there’s something to be proud of about moving on and realising that real love shines golden like starlight, and doesn’t fade or spontaneously combust. Maybe I’ll write a whole album about that kind of love if I ever find it. But this album is about the other kinds of love that I’ve recently fallen in and out of. Love that was treacherous, sad, beautiful, and tragic. But most of all, this record is about love that was red.”