Soundtrack

Every novel needs its soundtrack, right?  It kinda sorta serves as my roadmap.

Book I: Qaos Ascending

一  Book of Days
June 2025
Traveler's Song (Future of Forestry)
Birth (Glasslands)
Stereo (4th Avenue Jones)
Road to Nowhere (Talking Heads)
Our House (Madness)
Traveler's Song - The Piano and Strings Sessions (Future of Forestry)
Passaporto (Appino)
Dreams & Disasters (Owl City)
Half a Life (Love Spit Love)
Feeling Gravity's Pull (R.E.M.)
Segway (Keep for Cheap)
Morph (Twenty One Pilots)
How Soon is Now? (Love Spit Love / The Smiths)
The Worst Kind of Gods (House of Heroes)
Molasses (Jimmy Lo Fi)
Laugh About It (Paper Route)
Concurrence (AsFireFalls)
Outside (The Primitives)
Driver 8 (R.E.M.)
All Around Me (Flyleaf)
Afterlife (Switchfoot)

July 2025
We're Only Getting Closer (Everyone Moves Away)
Across the Universe (Fiona Apple / The Beatles)
There's She (Macbeth)
Light Up the Sky (Thousand Foot Krutch)
Nothing is Safe (The Myriad)
The Impression That I Get (The Mighty Mighty Bosstones)
Harmony (Andy Hunter w/ Beth Bullock)
Soul Meets Body (Death Cab For Cutie)
MLK (U2)

二  Dashboard Monkeys
High Ball Stepper (Jack White)
Never Let Me Down Again (Depeche Mode)
Back and Forth (Glasslands)
The Sound (Switchfoot)
All My Balloons (Children 18:3)
Mad World (Twenty One Pilots / Tears for Fears)
Paint It Black (Rolling Stones)
In Limbo (Radiohead)
Stressed Out (Twenty One Pilots)
Song 2 (Blur)
Stranger Ways (Anberlin)
No New Tale to Tell (Love & Rockets)
If the Trees Had Eyes, They'd Be Glaring at You (Aquarium)
All the Way Down (The Primitives)
Jumpsuit (Twenty One Pilots)
Still Here (Gileah Taylor)
Original (Supermarket)
Plowed (Sponge)

August 2025
Reach (Kye Kye)
Radiator (Family Force 5)
Go For Broke (Glasslands)
Pop Song 89 (R.E.M.)
Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Mike Mains & The Branches)
Lullaby (The Cure)
Mirrors and Smoke (Jars of Clay)
Mock the Music (Children 18:3)
Scarecrow (Ministry)
While We're Young (Ocean is Theory)
Nighttime Drive (Jay Som)
Unknown Land (Graceful Closure)
Goat (Macbeth)
Rockit (Gorillaz)
I Already See It (Kye Kye)
Communication (Brothers Martin)
Bugs (Talkie)
Dream on Cowboy (Flesh for Lulu)
Peace Song (Kye Kye)
I'm So Sick (Flyleaf)
Shadow Killer (Macbeth)
Her Solitary Migration (Said Fantasy)
Against the Current (Mree)

Fall 2025
The Saints (Andy Mineo)
Zombie (Bad Wolves / The Cranberries)
You Should See Me in a Crown (Billie Eilish)
God of This City (Bluetree)
Set the World on Fire (Britt Nicole)
Innocent (Colorfair)
Rose-Colored You (Deserts Chang)
This is Happening (Duologue)
Endless Imitation (Duologue)
Okay (Flyleaf)
Monosynth (Joy Electric)
Long Time (Love Spit Love)
Porcelain (Moby)
On Your Own (Mree)
Punk Rawk Show (MXPX)
The Search (NF)
Sliver (Nirvana)
Every Second Counts (New Order)
Freebooter (Project 86)
Jigsaw Falling into Place (Radiohead)
Scenery Going By (Reverend Horton Heat)
Open (The Cure)
Firestarter (The Prodigy)
Born Again (Third Day w/ Lacey Sturm)
Gone (Toby Mac)
Wildfire (Transform)
Cantaloop (U3)
Reversal (Underoath)

Winter 2025
Jingle Bells (August Burns Red)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Deas Veil)
Noel (Kye Kye)
Misfit Toys (Project 86)
You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch (Queen's Club)
What If I Stumble (Sarah Kelly / DC Talk)
Lullaby (Shonlock)
Little Drummer Boy (The Almost)

Winter 2026
Icarus (Bastille)
Jigsaw (Love Spit Love)
Need You Now (Plumb)
In Trenches (Project 86)
Fragile Wings (The Overseer)

Spring 2026
Unstable (Anberlin)
Chevette (Audio Adrenaline)
Sea Meets Earth (Fever Fever)
Picture Perfect (Hidden Hospitals)
Punk Rock Girl (The Dead Milkmen)
Wipeout (The Surfaris)
Wish You Well (Thousand Foot Krutch)
Be Somebody (Thousand Foot Krutch)
Ill Am I (Toby Mac)
Broken For Love's Sake (Tricia Brock)
Bandito (Twenty One Pilots)
Car Radio (Twenty One Pilots)
Driftwood (Underoath)

Summer 2026
Lies (Before Their Eyes)
Revolutionaries (Bethany Dillon)
Back Against the Wall (Cage the Elephant)
Cross Bones Styles (Cat Power)
Hold Your Breath (Children 18:3)
We'll Never Say Goodbye (Children 18:3)
Can't Change Me (Chris Cornell)
Self Mind Dead (Death Therapy)
Louder Than a Lion (Eisley)
BZRK (Family Force 5)
Clouds Catch Fire (Fever Fever)
Beautiful Dream (Fever Fever)
Curious (Fever Fever)
Set Your Sails (Future of Forestry)
Closer to Me (Future of Forestry)
Deadman (Glasslands)
Touch This Light (House of Heroes)
Oh My God (Jars of Clay)
Superbike (Jay Som)
The Light (Love & Rockets)
Change in the Weather (Love Spit Love)
Daydreamer (Mree)
Hard Day (OMD)
Legendary (Queen's Club)
Release the Panic (Red)
Feed The Machine (Red)
Pretender (Run River North)
Drink Before the War (Sinead O'Connor)
Monster (Skillet)
Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (The Smiths)
Courtesy Call (Thousand Foot Krutch)
Fly on the Wall (Thousand Foot Krutch)
So Fly (Toby Mac)
Nico and the Niners (Twenty One Pilots)
Obvious Bicycle (Vampire Weekend)


  Question Everything
Fall 2026
Debut (Anberlin)
Che Il Lupo Cattivo Vegli Su Di Te (Appino)
Contact (As Cities Burn)
Sirens (Attalus)
Lost So Long (Children 18:3)
The Cruel One (Children 18:3)
Until Then (Death Therapy)
Blue Fish (Eisley)
Currents (Eisley)
Lies and Fear Go Hand in Hand (Everyday Sunday)
Coma (Everything in Slow Motion)
So I Thought (Flyleaf)
In the Dark (Flyleaf)
Demons (Glasslands)
Give Me a Sign (GFM)
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day)
Abulia and Akrasia (Jack White)
Hero (Jars of Clay)
Headphones (Jars of Clay)
Worlds Apart (Jars of Clay)
All God’s Children (Love Spit Love)
Numb (Tait)
By Your Side (Tenth Avenue North)
Hearts Safe (Tenth Avenue North)
Untitled (The Cure)
You Waste Time Like a Grandfather Clock (The Myriad)
Welcome to the Masquerade (TFK)
Atmosphere (Toby Mac)

Winter 2026
Just Hanging On (Everyday Sunday)
Snow Miser (FM Static)
Absence of Emotion (Hidden Hospitals)
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (Jars of Clay)
The Eleventh Hour (Jars of Clay)
Softer to Me (Relient K)
Is This a Dry Season or Agnosticism (Sons)
Heat Miser (TFK)

Winter 2027
What Do I Know of Holy (Addison Road)
True Faith (Anberlin / New Order)
Pompeii (Bastille)
One More Round (Barlow Girl)
Lazarus (Bellarive)
Dreams (Between Forever)

Withering (Blindside)
Jump (Cash Hollistah w/ Lando)
Prodigal (Casting Crowns)
Cover Your Eyes (Children 18:3)
It's Killing Me (DC Talk)
Sinner (Duologue)
Familiar Faces (Fever Fever)
Hangin' On (Hillary Hand)
Sing (I Am Empire)
Deadman (Jars of Clay)
Goodbye, Goodnight (Jars of Clay)
Tea & Sympathy (Jars of Clay)
How He Loves (John Mark McMillan)
Frivolity and Its Necessities (Joy Electric)
Chemicals (Love and Death)
It Hurts When I Laugh (Love Spit Love)
Fall on Tears (Love Spit Love)
Spin (Macbeth)
Dust (Mazzy Star)
Light We Burn (Nine Lashes)
Hero (Skillet)
The Devil and I (Sons)
Something Evil (Starflyer 59)
Hey, Hey (Superchick)
Beauty From Pain (Superchick)
Yet (Switchfoot)
Pictures of You (The Cure)
Never Enough (The Cure)
10:15 on a Saturday Night (The Cure)
I'm For You (Toby Mac)
Made to Love (Toby Mac)
Lane Boy (Twenty One Pilots)
Fairly Local (Twenty One Pilots)
Slaves (Wolves At The Gate)

Spring 2027
Worlds Collide (12 Stones)
The Unwinding Cable Car (Anberlin)
The Straight and the Winding Way (Artifex Pereo)
Some Kind of Zombie (Audio Adrenaline)
Running Out of Time (Barlow Girl)
Slip (Between Forever)
If We Ever Needed You (Casting Crowns)
Supernatural (DC Talk)
Sound of Silence (Disturbed / Simon & Garfunkel)
Escape Artist (Duologue)
Millstone (Eisley)
Bring Me to Life (Evanescence)
On Top of the World (Fever Fever)
Recovery Begins (Fireflight)
Light in Your Eyes (Flyleaf)
Dear My Closest Friend (Flyleaf)
Again (Flyleaf)
Frail (Jars of Clay)
Silence (Jars of Clay)
Jiang Jun (Jay Chou)
Waiting For Someday (Nicole Nordeman)
The New Stone Age (OMD)
The Loneliest Man in the World (Pacifico)
Home (Phillip Phillips)
Videotape (Radiohead)
The Outside (Red)
Let It Burn (Red)
Damage (Red)
I So Hate Consequences (Relient K)
I Don't Believe in If Anymore (Roger Whittaker)
Run or Hide (Run River North)
Lose My Mind (Starflyer 59)
Under the Milky Way (Starflyer 59 / The Church)
Still Here (Superchick)
Dark Horses (Switchfoot)
Hold My Heart (Tenth Avenue North)
I'm Down (The Almost)
All About You (The Psychedelic Furs)
Wildest Ocean (The Wedding)
E for Extinction (TFK)

Credits
With You (Superchick)
Ill Am I (Toby Mac…remix)

 
Book II: Finding Zemo

一  Outback Camel
Rain's 'A Comin' (Children 18:3
Heaven and Earth (Fever Fever)
Throwing Punches (The Myriad)
Jackie (Sinead O'Connor)
With You (Superchick)
Paper Lung (Underoath)
Too Bright to See, Too Loud to Hear (Underoath)

  Royal Hiccup
(*Fin) - (Anberlin)
Depraved (Anberlin)
Stronger (Children 18:3)
Horses (Future of Forestry)
My Disaster (Love and Death)
Get on the Plane (The Myriad)
Ride (Twenty One Pilots)

  Heavy Metal Banjo
Tighter Noose (Abandoned Pools)
Hold On (Andy Hunter)
This Ship is Going Down (Attalus)
Man, O Shipwreck (Attalus)
Sabotage (Beastie Boys / Project 86)
Bury a Friend (Billie Eilish)
Paralyzed (Brian "Head" Welch)
The Missionary (Brothers Martin)
Shadow of Your Wings (Casting Crowns)
Whispering (Children 18:3)
A Chance to Say Goodbye (Children 18:3)
Valleys (Close Your Eyes)
Blood in the Tears (Demon Hunter)
Underworld (Duologue)
Time (Fever Fever)
Do You Hear What I Hear? (Flyleaf)
The Sounds (Glasslands)
O Come, O Come Emmanuel (Future of Forestry)
Close Your Eyes (Future of Forestry)
Soul Without a Home (Glasslands)
Natural Disaster Baptism (Heath McNease)
Choose Your Blade (House of Heroes)
Radioactive (Imagine Dragons)
Sleeper (Kye Kye)
Broke (Kye Kye)
I’m Not Laughing (Lacey Sturm)
No Plan B (Manafest)
Day After Day (Men At Work)
I Am (Peace of Mind & KJ-52)
Fall Behind (Nyves)
Something Divine (Nyves)
No Angel (Playdough)
Cash Rules Everything (Playdough)
Ambigram (Project 86)
Pale Rider (Project 86)
Something I Can Never Have (NIN / Flyleaf)
Fall Goliath Fall (Project 86)
Optimistic (Radiohead)
Perfect Life (Red)
Death of Me - Guillotine Remix (Red)
Commodity (Remedy Drive)
Monsters Calling Home (Run River North)
Bullet with Butterfly Wings (Smashing Pumpkins)
The Day That I Found God (Switchfoot)Vice Verses (Switchfoot)
End (The Cure)
In Between Days (The Cure)
Polar Bears and Shark Fins (The Myriad)
Glass Elevator (The Myriad)
Amend (The Overseer)
Mors Tua Nos Vita (The Wedding)
War of Change (TFK)
Unsound (Underoath)


Book III: The Simple Life of Finches

一  Blind Monk
Into the Sea (Attalus – The Brighter Side EP) 
Copycat (Billie Eilish)
Here’s My Heart (David Crowder)
Ride Across the River (Dire Straits)
We Three Kings (Ethan Luck)
Aftermath (Fever Fever)
Slow Your Breath Down (Future of Forestry)
Things That We Should Say (Future of Forestry)Homeward (Future of Forestry)
Resolution (Glasslands)
Made It (Sherrod White w/ Hillary Hand)Thrive (Switchfoot)

  The Inklings
Brothers in Arms (Dire Straits)
Demons (Imagine Dragons)
All My Tears (Jars of Clay)
Come With Me Now (Kongos)
Reach (Kye Kye)
Walking on Water (Leagues)
Fools (Nyves)
King of Queens (Playdough)
Light Off / 關上所有的燈 (The Sign of Human)
Be Somebody (TFK)
Rest (Wolves at the Gate)

  Slug Bug Red
I Won't Complain (Benjamin Clementine)
God of This City (Bluetree)
Black Honey (Thrice)


Author Bio: My Savior My God (Aaron Shust)

Original inspiration for Project Qaos: The Misunderstanding (OMD)

Last song ever: Write Your Last Paragraph (Joy Electric)...Hopefully not for another 40 years