The soundtrack focuses on how people let others affect them emotionally, either building them up or tearing them down. It starts upbeat and optimistic, slows to more thoughtful songs, then speeds up again near the end. The themes are dealing with what others think of you versus who you are, finding your unique qualities, and facing life's changes. Many songs describe relying on others for stability or escaping negative thoughts and feelings through reckless behavior. Overall it explores dark romantic ideas of guilt, fear, loneliness, sin, and self-destruction.

1. We Are Golden, We Are Not
The soundtrack is meant to start off quick-paced and optimistic, and then it slows
down into more peaceful and thoughtful songs, and then the paces quickens once
more near the end. The themes focus, mainly, on how one lets other people affect
them -- whether they let someone else build them up or tear them down. I chose
songs that elicit emotional responses from me specifically in hopes that they’ll
have the same effects on anyone else who listens.
By: Hannah Discenza

2. We Are Golden by Mika
I was a boy at an open door
Why you staring
Do you still think that you know?
Looking for treasure
In the things that you threw
Like a magpie
I live for glitter, not you
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden
We are not what you think we are
We are golden, we are golden
Teenage dreams in a teenage circus
Running around like a clown on purpose
Who gives a damn about the family you come from?
No giving up when you’re young and you want some
It glorifies how the
only thing that matters
about someone is who
they are, not what
others think of them or
where they’re from.
Transcendentalism: non-conformity

3. Make Them Gold by CHVRCHES
We are made of our longest days
We are falling but not alone
We will take the best parts of
ourselves
And make them gold
We are made of our smallest
thoughts
We are breathing and letting go
We will take the best parts of
ourselves
And make them gold
It’s a song about taking the
most unique parts of
oneself and glorifying
them.
Transcendentalism: non-conformity

4. Looks Like Rain by Passion Pit
All the rivers are bending
And the mountains are peaking
And the flowers are blooming
And the meadows are rolling
Into waves, they wash up on the shore
And barely touch your toes
The clouds are crowding around us
For some reason, no one knows
And I said, "Hey, looks like rain"
Then you lifted your hands and prayed
"Go away, you can come back some other day"
But they stayed and you soaked under all of the grey
And the rain washed all our cries and pleas away
He uses aspects of nature
to describe the beauty of
him and his relationship to
whomever the song is
about, and then he uses
the aspects of nature to
describe how its no longer
beautiful.
Transcendentalism: Nature

5. Landslide by Fleetwood Mac
I took my love and took it down
I climbed a mountain and I turned
around
And I saw my reflection in the snow-
covered hills
Till the landslide brought me down
Oh, mirror in the sky, what is love?
Can the child within my heart rise
above?
Can I sail through the changing ocean
tides?
Can I handle the seasons of my life?
Stevie Nicks sings
about how nature
inspired her to
think about the
changes in her life.
Transcendentalism: Nature

6. The Way by Fastball
They made up their minds
And they started packing
They left before the sun came up that day
An exit to eternal summer slacking
But where were they going without ever
Knowing the way?
They drank up the wine
And they got to talking
They now had more important things to
say
And when the car broke down they
started walking
Where were they going without ever
Knowing the way?
The song is about two
people who up and
leave their lives behind
without thinking of the
consequences it’d have
on them or the people
around them.
Transcendentalism: Intuition over reason

7. Lampshades on Fire by Modest Mouse
Well, the lampshade’s on fire when the lights go
out
The room lit up and we ran about
Well, this is what I really call a party now
Packed up our cars, moved to the next town
Well, the lampshades’s on fire when the lights go
out
This is what I really call a party now
Well, fear makes us really, really run around
This one’s done so where to now?
Our eyes light up, we have no shame at all
Well you all know what I’m talking’ about
Shaved off my eyebrows when I fall to the ground
So I can’t look surprised right now
Pack up again, head to the next place
Where we'll make the same mistakes
Burn it up, or just chop it down
Ah, this one's done so where to now?
This song describes people
who keep running from their
mistakes and themselves;
it’s also a song about
reckless abandon.
Transcendentalism: Intuition over reason

8. Black Dog by Andrew Jackson Jihad
Black dog I see
Daily, nightly
Monthly, yearly
Sweetly, dearly
She says
"when you pat me I feel neatly
Rub my paws please, scratch my belly”
In the evening I try songwriting
I'm self loathing, but I love singing
I'll try escaping these evil feelings
But they keep coming, oh they keep
coming...
The song is about two things:
one of them being how the
narrator relies on someone else
for emotional stability, and the
other being how much the
narrator can’t seem to escape his
negative thoughts and feelings
when not around the person he
relies on so much.
Dark Romanticism: guilt, fear, loneliness

9. O My Heart by Mother Mother
Oh my heart, it's a fish out of water
Oh my heart, it's a fish on the rocks
and it bakes in the bad sun
Oh my heart, it's a rock in the gutter
Oh my heart, it's a rock and great
boulder and stuck in the gutter
And I throw my heart back to the ocean
But it don't go far, it come back floating
And I watch it wash it up with the dead
fish
But it ain't quite dead, it just is like this
The singer is singing about
how he’s self-loathing and
how his heart has died over
the years from all the negative
feelings he feels, like guilt and
loneliness and hatred.
Dark Romanticism: guilt, fear, loneliness

10. Victorious by Panic! At The Disco
Double bubble disco queen headed
to the guillotine
Skin as cool as Steve McQueen, let
me be your killer king
It hurts until it stops, we will love
until it’s not
I’m a killing spree in white, eyes like
broken Christmas lights
My touch is black and poisonous
And nothing like my punch-drunk
kiss
I know you need it, do you feel it
Drink the water, drink the wine
The song celebrates the
acceptance of the singer’s
self-destruction and the
way he influences other
people to the same self-
destructive fate.
Dark Romanticism: sin and self-destruction

11. Heartilation by Andrew Jackson Jihad
I wanna tear apart my heart
Glue the pieces to my car
Crash it into a wall
I don't wanna feel at all
I wanna break apart my
heart
Douse it in gasoline
'till the fire burns clean
Then flick a cigarette
Like that movie con-air
Doused in gasoline
The entire song is about
the singer’s self-loathing
and how he wants to
destroy his own heart and
himself so he can stop
feeling those things.
Dark Romanticism: sin and self-destruction