Emmylou – Vance Joy
As I’ve been writing my musical pairings, I’ve been listening to the infamous Fallen Through playlist. For some of the chapters, I already know what songs I’m going to pair, but for a few, I still find myself lost. Chapter Six was one of them.
For the chapters where I’ve felt lost, I play my music and I re-read the chapters, hoping I feel a connection. As soon as this song came on, I felt it and it was tethered to this chapter. Emmylou is such a vulnerable and delicate song as the narrator tells his Emmylou not to be scared and that she is loved. Ironically, this is the first time Tyler declares his love for Della and it is such a fitting song that complements this moment.
I still find myself flashing back to this night and the immense panic I felt when I was left alone. The unfamiliar surroundings felt like a clamp on my lungs and I felt as if I was being strangled without him around. I needed him and he was there. So much of the dialogue was in fact said that night in the reserve and it still lingers there til’ this day. “I never thought I’d meet someone who’d had it happen to them” was a true sentence and I always envied him for living, for the most part, such a sheltered life.
Still, the main theme and takeaway from this chapter was the admission of love, and we never stopped saying it for the remainder of our relationship. I still remember when he turned with a coy smile and said that he loved me before running back towards the taxi for one last kiss.
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