Songfacts - Songs Inspired by Books

Songs Inspired by Books

Found 283 Songs.

(Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Öyster Cult

1984 - David Bowie

2+2=5 - Radiohead

42 - Coldplay

7 Chinese Brothers - R.E.M.

A Billion Balconies Facing the Sun - The Manic Street Preachers

A Skeleton in the Closet - Anthrax

A Spaceman Came Traveling - Chris de Burgh

Among the Living - Anthrax

Angelo - Brotherhood of Man

Are 'Friends' Electric? - Gary Numan

Around The Universe In 80 Days - Klaatu

Bad Excuse For Daylight - Therapy?

Baobabs - Regina Spektor

Bare Bones - Madeleine Peyroux

Be The Ball - Slash's Snakepit

Beautiful Loser - Bob Seger

Becoming the Dragon - Trivium

Been Down So Long - The Doors

Bible Black - Heaven and Hell

Big Brother - David Bowie

Blood And Thunder - Mastodon

Book of Revelation - The Drums

Booooom, Blast and Ruin - Biffy Clyro

Both Sides Now - Judy Collins

Brandy Alexander - Feist

Brave New World - Iron Maiden

Breathe - U2

Brief Candles - The Zombies

Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel

Brown Eyed Handsome Man - Chuck Berry

Cactus Practice - Tori Amos

Calling Occupants (Of Interplanetary Craft) - Klaatu

Catcher In The Rye - Guns N' Roses

Charlotte Sometimes - The Cure

Cherry Lips - Garbage

Child Called "It" - Buckcherry

China In Your Hand - T'Pau

Chinese Translation - M Ward

Circle VII: Sins of the Lion - Alesana

Crown of Creation - Jefferson Airplane

Dark Entries - Bauhaus

Dear God - XTC

Denn Die Todten Reiten Schnell - Faith and the Muse

Disposable Teens - Marilyn Manson

Disturbance at the Heron House - R.E.M.

Dodo - David Bowie

Dogs Of War - The Sensational Alex Harvey Band

Dollars & Cents - Radiohead

Don't Leave Me Behind - We Are The Fallen

Don't Let Me Fall - Lenka

Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police

Durango 95 - Ramones

Dust Bowl Dance - Mumford & Sons

Dyslexicon - The Mars Volta

Eagle - ABBA

Electioneering - Radiohead

Elvis Presley And America - U2

Ender Will Save Us All - Dashboard Confessional

Eveline - Nickel Creek

Every Grain Of Sand - Bob Dylan

Everything's Illuminated - Nerina Pallot

Exit Music (For A Film) - Radiohead

Exit Night / Juliet's Theme - Emmy the Great

Eye in the Sky - The Alan Parsons Project

Fair Weather - Julia Nunes

Fairytale Of New York - The Pogues

Falls To Climb - R.E.M.

Family Snapshot - Peter Gabriel

Far Pavilions - And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

Fire On the Mountain - Rob Thomas

Firework - Katy Perry

Flower Of The Mountain - Kate Bush

Flowers and Cages - Josh Todd

For The Sake Of The Call - Steven Curtis Chapman

For Those About To Rock (We Salute You) - AC/DC

For Whom The Bell Tolls - Metallica

Front Row - Metric

Frontside - Buckcherry

Galadriel - Barclay James Harvest

Gas Panic! - Oasis

Ghost World - Aimee Mann

Giving Up the Gun - Vampire Weekend

Go All The Way - The Raspberries

Godly Intersex - Of Montreal

Golden Skans - Klaxons

Gonzo - The All-American Rejects

Grendel - Marillion

Heavyweight Champion Of The World - Reverend and The Makers

Hemingway's Whiskey - Kenny Chesney

Higher Than Hope - Nightwish

Home at Last - Steely Dan

House at Pooh Corner - Loggins and Messina

Howl - Florence and the Machine

Hunger - Frankie & the Heartstrings

Hypnotized - Fleetwood Mac

I Fought In a War - Belle and Sebastian

I Will Be Free - Cindy Morgan

If Eilert Loevborg Wrote a Song, It Would Sound Like This - Broken Records

In Hiding - Pearl Jam

In Like A Lion (Always Winter) - Relient K

In Repair - Our Lady Peace

Industrial Discipline - Fear Factory

Into The Nightlife - Cyndi Lauper

Invasion - Eisley

Is That All There Is? - Peggy Lee

Islands in the Stream - Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton

It's All Coming Back to Me Now - Celine Dion

It's Dangerous Business Walking Out Your Front Door - UnderOath

January - Pilot

Join Me In Death - HIM

Jonathan - Barclay James Harvest

Journey From Mariabronn - Kansas

Killing An Arab - The Cure

King of Cream - The Love Kills Theory

Kiss That Frog - Peter Gabriel

L.A. Woman - The Doors

Leaving Las Vegas - Sheryl Crow

Left Hand Path - Entombed

Leftovers - Jarvis Cocker

Leper's Song - Barclay James Harvest

Les Feuilles Mortes - Iggy Pop

Life And How To Live It - R.E.M.

Lightning-Rod Man - The Factory

Lily of the Valley - Queen

London Beckoned Songs About Money Written By Machines - Panic At The Disco

Look Alive, Sunshine - My Chemical Romance

Lord Of The Flies - Iron Maiden

Losing It - Rush

Lost Art Of Murder - Babyshambles

Lovely Bones - Josh Todd

Lovesick for Mina - Cradle of Filth

Magneto And Titanium Man - Paul McCartney and Wings

Major Minus - Coldplay

Mama - Genesis

Man Of Constant Sorrow - The Soggy Bottom Boys

Mandinka - Sinead O'Connor

Mark My Words - P.O.D.

Martin Eden - The Twilight Singers

Medicine Man - Barclay James Harvest

Michael's Song - The Coral

Misty Mountain Hop - Led Zeppelin

Mix Tape - Brand New

Monster - Meg & Dia

Moon over Bourbon Street - Sting

Morbid Tales - Celtic Frost

Morning After Dark - Timbaland

Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens

Moscow Underground - Simple Minds

Mr. Raffles (Man it Was Mean) - Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel

Mrs. Hemingway - Mary Chapin Carpenter

My Soul Sings - Delirious?

Narnia - Steve Hackett

Nation Of Checkout Girls - The Enemy

Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Krovvy) - Rob Zombie

New Frontier - Iron Maiden

No Spill Blood - Oingo Boingo

November Rain - Guns N' Roses

Number The Brave - Wishbone Ash

One - Metallica

One Fine Day - David Byrne and Brian Eno

Over The Hills And Far Away - Led Zeppelin

Pala - Friendly Fires

Parklife - Blur

Penelope's Song - Loreena McKennitt

Pilate - Pearl Jam

Prince Caspian - Phish

Private Investigations - Dire Straits

Profession Of Violence - UFO

Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors - Radiohead

Pull Me Under - Dream Theater

Quasimodo - Lifehouse

Ramble On - Led Zeppelin

Red Right Hand - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds

Red Wine, Mistakes, Mythology - Jack Johnson

Region of The Worms - The Love Kills Theory

reJoyce - Jefferson Airplane

Resistance - Muse

Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac

Riki Tiki Tavi - Donovan

Rivendell - Rush

River to Consider - White Denim

Rocket Man - Elton John

Romeo And Juliet - Dire Straits

Run Daddy Run - Miranda Lambert

Saint Veronika - Billy Talent

Salinas - Laura Marling

Scentless Apprentice - Nirvana

Science Fiction: Nova Lepidoptera - Barclay James Harvest

Secret Journey - The Police

Set Apart This Dream - Flyleaf

Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son - Iron Maiden

Shadows And Tall Trees - U2

Sign Of The Cross - Iron Maiden

Sirens Of Titan - Al Stewart

Sit Down - James

Sorrow - Pink Floyd

Soulmate - Natasha Bedingfield

Speaker For The Dead - Gatsby's American Dream

Star Crossed - Scary Kids Scaring Kids

Start - The Jam

Statistics - Lyfe Jennings

Strange and Beautiful (I'll Put a Spell on You) - Aqualung

Street Spirit (Fade out) - Radiohead

Suffragette City - David Bowie

Sunburned Country - Keith Urban and Olivia Newton-John

Surfing The Void - Klaxons

Swim with Sam - a balladeer

Sympathy For The Devil - The Rolling Stones

T.B.D. - Live

Tea In The Sahara - The Police

Telegraph Road - Dire Straits

That Was A Crazy Game of Poker - O.A.R.

The Art of War - Anberlin

The Autumn Carnival - The Dandy Warhols

The Call Of Ktulu - Metallica

The Comet Song - Björk

The Crow, the Owl and the Dove - Nightwish

The Crystal Ship - The Doors

The Dreams Of Children - The Jam

The Evil That Men Do - Iron Maiden

The Fly - U2

The Ghost Of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen

The Golden Bough - The Coral

The Inner Light - The Beatles

The Invisible Man - Queen

The King's New Clothes - Danny Kaye

The Lovesong Writer - Thursday

The Magician's Birthday - Uriah Heep

The Necromancer - Rush

The Ocean - U2

The Phantom Of The Opera - Iron Maiden

The Phantom Of The Opera - Andrew Lloyd Webber

The Piper - ABBA

The Revealing Science Of God - Yes

The Sensual World - Kate Bush

The Stars Look Down - Rush

The thing That Should Not Be - Metallica

The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine - Laurel & Hardy

The Trooper - Iron Maiden

The Truth Beneath The Rose - Within Temptation

The Ugly Duckling - Danny Kaye

The Veldt - Deadmau5

The World According To Garp - Al Stewart

The World As I See It - Jason Mraz

These Bones - Dashboard Confessional

These Roads Don't Move - Jay Farrar and Ben Gibbard

This Charming Man - The Smiths

This is Home - Switchfoot

Time To Dance - Panic At The Disco

Timshel - Mumford & Sons

Tiny Cities Made Of Ashes - Modest Mouse

To Live Is To Die - Metallica

To The End - My Chemical Romance

Tom Sawyer - Rush

Tomorrow Never Knows - The Beatles

Tomorrow's Food - Incubus

Total Life Forever - Foals

Trynna Finda Way - Nelly Furtado

Twilight Zone - Golden Earring

Ulysses - Franz Ferdinand

United States of Eurasia - Muse

Venus In Furs - The Velvet Underground

Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles

Waltzing Matilda - traditional

We Are Golden - Mika

We Are The Dead - David Bowie

When The Wild Wind Blows - Iron Maiden

When Two Worlds Collide - Iron Maiden

Where Have All The Flowers Gone? - The Kingston Trio

Whip It - Devo

White as Snow - U2

White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

Who Wrote Holden Caulfield? - Green Day

Wig-Wam Bam - Sweet

Wild Boys - Duran Duran

Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush

Yellow Guitar - Kate Campbell

Yertle The Turtle - Red Hot Chili Peppers

You Better Leave the Stars Alone - Ego Likeness

You're Gonna Go Far, Kid - The Offspring

Zero She Flies - Al Stewart

Zooropa - U2