User talk:KConWiki/List of songs that retell a work of literature

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• An Alien Heat by Spirits Burning and Michael Moorcock is a concept album that retells An Alien Heat by Michael Moorcock.^{[citation needed]}
• Goethe's Faust.^{[citation needed}
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• Goethe's Faust.^{[citation needed}
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• The Hollow Lands by Spirits Burning and Michael Moorcock is a concept album that retells The Hollow Lands by Michael Moorcock^{[citation needed]}
• Mack Avenue Skullgame by Big Chief is an album on Sub Pop based on the book Masquerade by Lowell Cauffiel.^{[citation needed]}
• Nightfall in Middle-Earth is an album by Blind Guardian that retells Tolkien's The Silmarillion.^{[citation needed]}

• "20 000 ljööd vee all" by
  Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.^{[citation needed}
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• "All is Not Well" by
  Wicked by Gregory Maguire.^{[citation needed}
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• "Alone" by
  poem of the same title.^{[citation needed}
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• "Altair-4" by Blind Guardian is about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.^{[citation needed]}
• "And Then There Was Silence" by Blind Guardian is based on The Iliad.^{[citation needed]}
• "And Your Little Dog Too" by Hannah Fury is told from the point of view of the Wicked Witch of the West from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.^{[citation needed]}
• "Animal Farm" by Hazel O'Connor is about George Orwell's Animal Farm.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Bard's Song (The Hobbit)" by Blind Guardian retells The Hobbit.^{[citation needed]}
• "Barefoot Children in the Rain" by
  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.^{[citation needed}
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• "Beneath These Waves" by
  Moby Dick from Captain Ahab's perspective.^{[citation needed}
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• "Billy Bones And The White Bird" by Elton John is based on the fictional character Billy Bones in the first section of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1883 novel Treasure Island.^{[citation needed]}
• "China in Your Hand“ by T'Pau is based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.^{[citation needed]}
• "Crimson King" by
  Demons & Wizards, on Touched by the Crimson King, is told from the point of view of Randall Flagg, the main antagonist from The Dark Tower by Stephen King.^{[citation needed}
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• "Cute Without the E (Cut From the Team)" by Taking Back Sunday is based on William Shakespeare's play Othello.^{[citation needed]}
• "Daedalus" by Thrice is a retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus, so well known from Greek mythology.^{[citation needed]}
• "Dante's Prayer" by Loreena McKennitt, inspired by Dante's Inferno^{[citation needed]}
• "Done with Bonaparte" by Mark Knopfler is based on "The Diary of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier" by Jakob Walter.^{[citation needed]}
• "Dorian" by
  Demons & Wizards is based on The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.^{[citation needed}
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• "Dracula" by Iced Earth is about Dracula by Bram Stoker.^{[citation needed]}
• "El Dorado" by Iron Maiden references an Edgar Allan Poe poem of the same name.^{[citation needed]}
• "The End of The Universe" by S.P.O.C.K refers to The Restaurant at the End of the Universe by Douglas Adams.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Face of Dorian Gray" by Robert Marlow is based on Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.^{[citation needed]}
• "Flight of Icarus" by Iron Maiden is loosely based on the Greek myth of Icarus.^{[citation needed]}
• "Footprints" by
  Psalm 77:19.^{[citation needed}
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• "The Gladdest Thing" by Deb Talan incorporates as its chorus the poem "Afternoon on a Hill" by Edna St. Vincent Millay.^{[citation needed]}
• "Heart Of Love" by Jamie Bond from The Heavenly Kid movie references the story of Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Highwayman" is a Loreena McKennitt song which recounts a poem by Alfred Noyes. Phil Ochs originally wrote the musical interpretation of the poem which was taken and extended by Loreena McKennitt, without attribution.^{[citation needed]}
• "Home", by Breaking Benjamin, is based on The Wizard of Oz.^{[citation needed]}
• "I Can't Let You In" by
  Wicked.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• "I Cheat the Hangman" by the
  Doobie Brothers is a song inspired by the story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by Ambrose Bierce.^{[citation needed}
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• "I Have Seen The Future" by The Bravery is a song inspired by Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.^{[citation needed]}
• "
  Lady of Shallot" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.^{[citation needed}
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• "If You'd Only Believe" by The Jacksons references Victor Hugo's novel Les Misérables.^{[citation needed]}
• "Indiana" by Meg & Dia is based on the George Sand 1832 novel of the same name.^{[citation needed]}
• "Insener Garini Hüperboloid" by
  The Hyperboloid of Engineer Garin by Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy.^{[citation needed}
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• "Jekyll & Hyde" by
  The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.^{[citation needed}
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• "Jillian (I'd Give My Heart)" by Within Temptation is about Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr.^{[citation needed]}
• "La cruz de Santiago" by Mägo de Oz is inspired by the adventures of Captain Alatriste and is dedicated to his writer, Arturo Pérez-Reverte.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Lady of Shalott" by
  Momus has a song based on the same poem.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• "Legend of Xanadu" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich based on Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem "Kubla Khan".^{[citation needed]}
• "Let it Show" by
  Wicked.^{[citation needed}
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• "The List" by
  John Green's Paper Towns.^{[citation needed}
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• "Lord of the Flies" by Elton John is based on Lord of the Flies by William Golding.{{cn}
• "Lord of the Rings" by Blind Guardian is about The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.^{[citation needed]}
• "Love Song for a Vampire" by Annie Lennox is about Bram Stoker's Dracula.^{[citation needed]}
• "Love Story" by Taylor Swift is loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.^{[citation needed]}
• "Lullaby" by Lagwagon is based on Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk.^{[citation needed]}
• "A Man for All Seasons" by Al Stewart was based on Robert Bolt's play.^{[citation needed]}
• "Memory" from the musical Cats is based on lines from a poem by T. S. Eliot.^{[citation needed]}
• "Midsummer Night's Dream" by
  The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.^{[citation needed}
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• "Moonchild" by Iron Maiden is based on the novel of the same title by Aleister Crowley.^{[citation needed]}
• "Monster" by Meg & Dia is based on Cathy Ames' character in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden".^{[citation needed]}
• "Mrs. Bluebeard" by They Might Be Giants is told from the perspective of one of the wives of Bluebeard.^{[citation needed]}
• "My Name Is Macbeth" by Mitch Benn is Shakespeare's Macbeth reworked in the style of Eminem.^{[citation needed]}
• "Nescio" by
  The Nits is based on De Uitvreter by Nescio.^{[citation needed}
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• "Never Come Down Again" by
  Wicked, told from Elphaba's point of view.^{[citation needed}
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• "Night ∞ Series" is a series of 4 songs by Hitoshizuku-P x Yama. It tells the story of Bad∞End∞Night: Volume 1 and 2 by Hitoshizuku-P. (It is worth noting that the songs and the books goes hand in hand and the fact that the songs came before the books).^[citation needed]
• "Nights of Arabia" by Kamelot is based on the framing story of Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights.^{[citation needed]}
• "O Médico e o Monstro" by Resgate is based on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson.^{[citation needed]}
• "Oedipus" by Regina Spektor refers to the tragedy of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles.^{[citation needed]}
• "Oedipus Rex" by Tom Lehrer also refers to the Sophocles play.^{[citation needed]}
• "Oh! You Pretty Things" by David Bowie contains lyrics that reference Anthem by Ayn Rand.^{[citation needed]}
• "Omega Man" by Iron Savior is based on the novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson.^{[citation needed]}
• "Out of the Silent Planet" by Iron Maiden is based on the movie Forbidden Planet and the science-fiction novel by C. S. Lewis.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Pearl" by
  novella of the same name by John Steinbeck.^{[citation needed}
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• "Penelope" by
  Robi Rosa is based on the character from Homer's Odyssey.^{[citation needed}
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• "The Phantom of the Opera Ghost" by Iced Earth is also about Leroux's play.^{[citation needed]}
• "A Picture of Dorian Gray" by
  The Television Personalities is about Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray.^{[citation needed}
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• "Poet" by Bastille was inspired by Sonnet 81 by William Shakespeare.^{[citation needed]}
• "Poor Little Rich Boy" by Regina Spektor refers to a short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.^{[citation needed]}
• "Prick! Goes the Scorpion's Tale" By Emilie Autumn is based on the fable "The Toad and the Scorpion".^{[citation needed]}
• "Prince in the Scarlet Robe" by Domine based on Corum Jhaelen Irsei, the main character in a series of books by Michael Moorcock.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Prophecy" by Iron Maiden is based on the book Seventh Son by Orson Scott Card, and appears on the concept album Seventh Son of a Seventh Son.^{[citation needed]}
• "Raistlin and the Rose" by Lake of Tears is based on Dragonlance Legends trilogy by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Resistance" by Muse is based on 1984 by George Orwell.^{[citation needed]}
• "Restless" by Elton John is based on George Orwell's novel 1984.^{[citation needed]}
• "A Revolta dos Dândis" by Engenheiros do Hawaii mirrors the ideas present on "The Dandy's Revolt," a chapter of Albert Camus's The Rebel.^{[citation needed]}
• "Ride a White Swan" by
  T.Rex refers to the plot of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit.^{[citation needed}
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• "Ride into Obsession" by Blind Guardian is inspired by the story of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.^{[citation needed]}
• "Riki Tiki Tavi" by Donovan is a spoof on the mongoose character from The Jungle Book.^{[citation needed]}
• "Roderigo" by
  Gabriel Garcia Marquez.^{[citation needed}
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• "Romeo and Juliet" by Dire Straits is inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet.^{[citation needed]}
• "Sahara" by
  Eddie From Ohio retells Jon Krakauer's 1996 nonfiction book Into the Wild.^{[citation needed}
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• "The Salesman, Denver Max" by The Blood Brothers is based on the Joyce Carol Oates short story "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"^{[citation needed]}
• "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" by Pink Floyd is based on the I Ching.^{[citation needed]}
• "
  The Eurythmics based on George Orwell's novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four".^{[citation needed}
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• "Shalott" by
  Alfred Lord Tennyson.^{[citation needed}
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• "The Sign of the Cross" by Iron Maiden appears to be partly based on Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Small Print" by Muse tells the story of Faust from the point of view of the Devil.^{[citation needed]}
• "Someone Speaks Softly" by
  Wicked by Gregory Maguire.^{[citation needed}
  ]
• "Something Wicked That Way Went" by Vernian Process is based on Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury.^{[citation needed]}
• "Somewhere Far Beyond" by Blind Guardian is based on The Dark Tower by Stephen King.^{[citation needed]}
• "The Soulforged" by Blind Guardian talks about Raistlin Majere, a major character in the Dragonlance universe.^{[citation needed]}
• "Space Is Deep" by Hawkwind is based on the Michael Moorcock book The Black Corridor.^{[citation needed]}
• "Stormbringer" by Deep Purple is about Elric of Melniboné.^{[citation needed]}
• "Sun and Steel" by Iron Maiden is about "Sun and Steel" by Yukio Mishima, which is in turn about Miyamoto Musashi.^{[citation needed]}
• "Talk Shows on Mute" by Incubus is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as well as Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?^{[citation needed]}
• "Tell Mary" by
  Mary by Vladimir Nabokov.^{[citation needed}
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• "Terror Train" by
  Demons & Wizards is sung from the perspective of Blaine the Mono, a character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower, and recalls part of the plot.^{[citation needed}
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• "Thumbelina" by Nightmare of You is based on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins.^{[citation needed]}
• "To Be or Not to Be" by BA Robertson is based on William Shakespeare's plays.^{[citation needed]}
• "To The End" by My Chemical Romance retells the gothic horror story "A Rose for Emily".^{[citation needed]}
• "Toilet Tisha" by
  Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin.^{[citation needed}
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• "Tom Joad, Parts 1 and 2" by Woody Guthrie retells The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.^{[citation needed]}
• "Tommyknockers" by Blind Guardian is about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.^{[citation needed]}
• "Traveler in Time" by Blind Guardian is about Dune by Frank Herbert.^{[citation needed]}
• "
  The Inheritors by William Golding.^{[citation needed}
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• "The War I Survived" by Hawkwind refers to Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut.^{[citation needed]}
• "Weight of Living, Pt. I" by
  The Rime of The Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.^{[citation needed}
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• "Wheel of Time" by Blind Guardian tells the story of The Wheel of Time by Robert Jordan.^{[citation needed]}
• "When Two Worlds Collide" by Iron Maiden tells the same story as
  Philip Gordon Wylie and Edwin Balmer.^{[citation needed}
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• "Where Eagles Dare" by Iron Maiden is based on Alistair MacLean's novel Where Eagles Dare.^{[citation needed]}
• "Which Way, Robert Frost?" by Jacky Cheung references the poem The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost.^{[citation needed]}
• "Wings" by BTS is based on Demian by Hermann Hesse.^{[citation needed]}