Donnie's+Music

**Check out these awesome 80's songs from DONNIE DARKO'S soundtrack!**
 The film features a haunting original score by Michael Andrews. It also features a soundtrack of 80's music that the director selected to correspond with the setting of 1988, but also for **the LYRICS of the songs which contain some "coincidental" links to the plot of Donnie Darko.**

1) Compare the songs chosen as soundtracks to the OPENING SCENE of the movie in the two versions of the film. Which song do you think works better to open the movie, both in terms of style/tone and the content of the lyrics?

2) Review the lyrics of two other 80's song which appear on the soundtrack.

 **DIRECTOR'S CUT: "Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS**
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(Audio only - Videos for this band have been removed from YouTube.) However, you can view the original 80's video for the song [|HERE]

//Ms Munro's comments:// Note how the lyrics reference FATE repeatedly. Also, "Up against your will" "It must be the killing time... unwillingly mine" //... all link to Fate vs. Choice, a key theme of the film as// //Donnie struggles with his destiny//

"Under a blue moon I saw you" ... "Star-lit nights" //... describes the night when Donnie first meets Frank// ... //the colour blue also refers to water, a key element in the film ... Donnie often wears the colour blue, referencing his power over it//

"The killing moon will come too soon" //... the end of the world is coming in 28 days according to Frank//

"He will wait until you give yourself to him" //.. Frank awaits Donnie's decision about which path he will choose// || === ===

__**"The Killing Moon" by Echo and the Bunnymen**__ So soon you'll take me Up in your arms Too late to beg you or cancel it Though I know it must be the killing time Unwillingly mine
 * Under blue moon I saw you

Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him

In starlit nights I saw you So cruelly you kissed me Your lips a magic world Your sky all hung with jewels The killing moon Will come too soon

Fate Up against your will Through the thick and thin He will wait until You give yourself to him**

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I believe that these lyrics are connected to Donnie's feelings for Gretchen Ross, especially their last moments together as they watch the storm from Carpathian Ridge. ||.

 **"__Never Tear Us Apart" by INXS__**

Don't ask me What you know is true I love your precious heart**
 * Don't have to tell you

I You were there Two worlds collided And they could never tear us apart**
 * I was standing

We could live For a thousand years But if I hurt you I'd make wine from your tears

That we could fly 'Cause we all have wings But some of us don't know why**
 * I told you

I I was standing You were there Two worlds collided And they could never ever tear us apart

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INXS soundtrack (Director's Cut)**
 * Re-view the opening scene of Donnie Darko with the

(Original Cut with Echo & the Bunnymen soundtrack is unavailable on video online due to copyright issues) ||
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Soundtrack to the Middlesex High School montage
e.g. Jim Cunningham, Kitty Farmer, the Sparkle Motion girls, Ms Pomeroy and Dr Monitoff, Seth (the bully), etc.
 * The scene in which we first see many key characters,

Also, Donnie is about to meet Gretchen as this song ends... "Something happens and I'm head over heels" .... ?

There are also references to the fire at Jim's house, Donnie holding a gun, and possibly the storm.** ||  == ==

"Head Over Heels" by Tears For Fears
 And talk about the weather** But traditions I can trace against the child in your face Won't escape my attention You keep your distance with a system of touch And gentle persuasion I'm lost in admiration could I need you this much Oh, you're wasting my time You're just wasting time
 * I wanted to be with you alone

I never find out till I'm head over heels** Something happens and I'm head over heels Ah don't take my heart Don't break my heart Don't throw it away
 * Something happens and I'm head over heels

Thought of your future With one foot in the past now just how long will it last** No no no have you no ambition My mother and my brothers used to breathe in clean in air And dreaming I'm a doctor Oh I feel so...
 * I made a fire and watching it burn
 * It's hard to be a man when there's a gun in your hand**

Something happens and I'm head over heels

I'm on the line, one open mind This is my four leaf clover**
 * And this my four leaf clover

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This 1988 song by The Church is playing during Donnie and Elizabeth's party in the Original Cut. (The song is playing as Donnie and Gretchen come back downstairs after having sex for the first time)

Some of the lyrics have vague references to the film... i.e. Donnie's state of mind and views on love and death.... || __**"Under the Milky Way" by The Church**__

Sound of their breath fades with the light. I think about the loveless fascination,** Under the milky way tonight.
 * Sometimes when this place gets kind of empty,

Lower the curtain down in memphis, Lower the curtain down all right. I got no time for private consultation, Under the milky way tonight.

Wish I knew what you were looking for. Might have known what you would find. Wish I knew what you were looking for. Might have known what you would find.

Something thats shimmering and white. Leads you here despite your destination, Under the milky way tonight** || <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
 * And its something quite peculiar,