Swithin’s Day? COME ON.) Anyway, I was all defensive, like, “No, stop, don’t - that song is on Eleanor’s soundtrack.” But it didn’t end up mattering because they didn’t use it. (It’s an ’80s story that takes place on St. When the movie One Day came out, I was sure this song would be on the soundtrack.

“I just want to break that song into pieces,” she said, “and love them all to death.” Under Your Thumb,The Vaccines Park made drum noises with his mouth “ch-ch-ch, ch-ch-ch.” “And his voice at the end,” she said, “when he goes just a little bit too high… And then the very end, where it sounds like the drums are fighting it, like they don’t want the song to be over …” “Plus,” she said, “I love the rest of it just as much, like the high part, the melody, the dahhh, dah-de-dah-dah, de-dahh, de dahhh.” “I didn’t want to waste the batteries,” she said. “You could have.” His eyes were smiling, his mouth only sort of. “I just wanted to listen to those three seconds over and over.” “Oh my God, that’s the best beginning to a song ever.”

That one song – is it ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’?” This is the song that Park gives Eleanor on their first mixed tape. If Eleanor & Park had a tagline, it would be “Love will tear us apart.” Soon my darling, soon my darling.” Sweet Disposition, The Temper Trap “High climbs the summer sun, high stands the corn, That guy doesn’t exist enough (for me) in fiction. With Park - with all of my male heroes, really – I’m trying to portray someone who’s masculine, but still tender and full of big feelings. It’s from the point of view of a poor farmboy envisioning how he’ll provide for his beloved. This song – Love on a Farmboy’s Wages – is one of my favorite XTC songs, and it’s especially quiet and romantic. I had this picture of Park as an island of thoughtfulness in a sea of chaos everybody else is screaming and being crass, and he’s listening to intellectual New Wave. Or maybe he’d make a special bus tape with as much screaming and wailing on it as possible. Tomorrow he was going to bring Skinny Puppy or the Misfits. Park pressed his headphones into his ears. XTC was no good for drowning out the morons at the back of the bus. So this is the song that Park is listening to on his headphones the very first time we meet him.

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell