Journey Through Twin Peaks (a video series)

It's called She Would Die for Love and it's on the album Voice of Love which also has a vocal track to Voice of Love and some other songs that have sonic and lyrical traces of Fire Walk With Me (I also used the tracks Movin' On In at the end of Part 2 & Until the End of the World at the end of Part 4 - which to my eyes sounds like it echoes parts of the instrumental Half Heart from FWWM). I can't remember exactly how I found it, except that I had heard the instrumental track referred to by that name and wondered if, like Falling, there were lyrics out there somewhere (or else maybe I noticed at the end of FWWM, Lynch is credited for lyrics even though none appear in the movie). It's really interesting to me how She Would Die for Love could read as a vague love song yet its verses have very eerie echoes of the Laura/Leland dynamic. I would assume this is not coincidental given that it was probably written for the movie.

I opened and closed each part with a Julee Cruise song - each was from the Twin Peaks era (either the '89 album Floating into the Night that was NOT actually in Twin Peaks: Floating, Up in Flames (which is Wild at Heart but not sung by Cruise), Mysteries of Love (from Blue Velvet), Movin' On In, I Remember, I Float Alone, She Would Die for Love, and Until the End of the World. I also included one additional Cruise song: The Swan, at the end of the The Last 7 Days of Laura Palmer chapter. They all seemed to fit the vibe really well, both musically and lyrically (I mean, "when you told your secret name, I burst in flames and burned..." from Floating? C'mon...).

I probably wouldn't do it in video form but the idea of tackling Floating into the Night & Voice of Love as they reflect upon (and influence?) the series & film would be really interesting. I mentioned this above but it's amazing how these songs (some of which were recorded way before their use in the series) manage to double both as vague, wistful love songs and suggestive commentaries on the events and characters of Twin Peaks themselves. Sometimes it's almost subliminal - I always thought Julee Cruise sang "a darkened murder far away..." rather than "the dog and bird are far away" in The World Spins.

And thanks again for the kind words on the series.