The Wolf series song.

I was browsing youtube for new songs and I found this band. LOVE THEM. And hey, a lot of their songs fits my books from atmosphere to lyrics. 

Delta Rae-Bottom of the River

If you get sleep or if you get none

(The cock’s gonna call in the morning, baby)

Check the cupboard for your daddy’s gun

(Red sun rises like an early warning)

The Lord’s gonna come for your first born son

(His hair’s on fire and his heart is burning)

Go to the river where the water runs

(Wash him deep where the tides are turning)

And if you fall....

And if you fall....

Hold my hand

Ooh, baby, it’s a long way down to the bottom of the river

Hold my hand,

Ooh, baby, it’s a long way down, a long way down

The wolves will chase you by the pale moonlight

(Drunk and driven by a devil’s hunger)

Drive your son like a railroad spike

(Into the water, let it pull him under)

Don’t you lift him, let him drown alive

(The good Lord speaks like a rolling thunder)

Let that fever make the water rise

(And let the river run dry)

This song reminds me of The Wolf series, most especially the Waerloga's before the Great War, how desperate and how dark their minds have become. Plus in the video, that kind of reminds me of the witch trials which also works with the title (bottom of the river) where witches were once drowned, the woman who is dragged out of her house turns the table on her captures which is also what the Waerlogas did.

Well, this song can be interpreted in many creepy ways. My take on it, which fits the Waerlogas is that they were fed up with what their 'Masters' were doing, most especially where they divide families and take their children away--The Lord's gonna come for your first born son--that some would prefer to kill their children rather than have them suffer. 

And if you were found out that you deprived the werewolves of a 'commodity' it would be taken as an act of treason, and if you try to run away, you'd be hunted down--the wolves will chase you by the pale moonlight.

...and yes, it is becoming clear to me that The Wolf series are getting darker and darker. 

Delta Rae-Surrounded

I was born in the state where my mother was raised

With the children of soldiers, the children of slaves

And it’s too much to take, the mind how it breaks

The lessons the stories the shame and the glories and all

They linger ’round

Foxes and hounds

Our souls are bound

To older ground

Fell in love with a girl who’s found love before

In the hands and the hearts of the people she wore

She’s all that I see, but there’s things in between

The fractures and fissures of all of the pictures we leave

They linger ’round

Foxes and hounds

They’re with me now

Can’t lay them down

And I feel it all around, I’m surrounded

And I feel it all around, I’m surrounded

And I feel it all around, I’m surrounded by ghosts

So we keep them at home, the secrets and bones

The voices we hear so we’re never alone

They tease and they taunt, comfort and haunt

My mother and father and so many I’ll never know

They linger ’round

Foxes and hounds

My hands are bound

And I feel it all around, I’m surrounded

And I feel it all around, I’m surrounded

And I feel it all around, I’m surrounded by ghosts

This song tells the story of Lei, in book 2: Wolf at Heart, feels as she dives into the Waerloga world, reading one journal after another, learning the pain and joy of her people. And she suddenly realizes how the fate of her people are now up to her. Now she feels the heavy responsibility of changing how the wolves treat the future Waerloga.

Delta Rae-Unlike Any Other

Here I am in this empty room

Miles away from you, if you ask me

I’d get in my car and I’d drive all night

I’m coming home to you, if you’ll have me

But no one needs to know

When you hold me, it’s unlike any other

I’ve been this girl so many times

Blurring all the lines like it’s easy

I can’t believe that I got this close again

Now I’m afraid to move, you might really see me

You don’t need to know

When you hold me, it’s unlike any other

No one needs to know

This song is very much Lycaon-Mey or Kai-Lei. It's a toss up. The song is wistful, romantic and sweetly sad. It echoes the feelings of both sides. 

Delta Rae-Fire

I, I got my eye on you, I heard what you been saying

These rumors you spread ’round, they burn me down like flames and

We used to be friends, but that ain’t true now

You ain’t got my back, you’ve shown me that so many times

When I need help

Can’t call for help

’Cause no one comes

So I’m calling FIRE

It won’t be pretty, I ain’t no girl cried wolf, I’ll bring this whole damn city

They’ll come from miles around just to see how you cut me down

We used to be friends, but that ain’t true now

You poisoned the well, now I can’t tell who’s on my side

When I need help

Can’t call for help

’Cause no one comes

So I’m calling FIRE

This is when Lei put her foot down and says, "No more nice" and shows her mean side. 

I love it when that happens. It's also shows that she couldn't depend on anyone else in the Lycaon's pack, she has only herself for the moment. That she has to earn her place by herself without anyone helping her.