The song "This is where I Belong" from Spirit always made me think of Narnia. I always imagined Lucy singing it

This is Where I Belong
I hear the wind across the plain
A sound so strong - that calls my name
It's wild like the river - it's warm like the sun
Ya it's here - this is where I belong

Under the starry skies - where eagles have flown
This place is paradise - it's the place I call home
The moon on the mountains
The whisper through the trees
The waves on the water
Let nothing come between this and me

Cuz everything I want - is everything that's here
And when when we're all together - there's nothing to fear
And wherever I wander - the one thing I've learned
It's to here - I will always....always return

This song makes me think of Caspian coming to Ramandu's Island to come for Ramandu's Daughter:

I Will Always Return (Bryan Adams)

I hear the wind call your name
It calls me back home again
It sparks up the fire - a flame that still burns
Oh it's to you I'll always return
I still feel your breath on my skin
I hear your voice deep within
The sound of my lover - a feeling so strong
It's to you - I'll always belong

Now I know it's true
My every road leads to you
And in the hour of darkness darlin'
Your light gets me through

Wanna swim in your river - be warmed by your sun
Bathe in your waters - cos you are the one
I can't stand the distance - I can't dream alone
I can't wait to see you - Ya I'm on my way home

Oh I hear the wind call your name
The sound that leads me home again
It sparks up the fire - a flame that still burns
Oh, it's to you - I will always return

Like Ithilwen, You Found Me, by the Fray has always reminded me of Narnia, though each verse reminds me of different character(s). It sort of depends on what kind of mood I'm in when I listen to the song, but it usually goes like this:

I found God on the corner of First and Amistad
Where the west was all but won.
[...] I said, where've you been? He said, "Ask anything."

Where were you?
When everything was falling apart.
All my days spent by the telephone.
And all I needed was a call
It never came... To the corner of First and Amistad.

The first verse(s) remind me of the Narnians in PC, particularly Trumpkin, Nikabrik, and movie!Peter, if you want to count him. They're watching Narnia fall apart all around them, wondering where Aslan is, if he even exists. In Nikabrik's case, he gives up on waiting for Aslan--the other two keep waiting, even though they think it's a lost cause. It also reminds me of Caspian waiting on the Pevensies to answer the call of the horn. The book says that Caspian led several disastrous attacks against Miraz, and was in dire straits by the time the Pevensies finally did get to him. I imagine he did feel that "All I needed was a call, it never came..."

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late.
You found me, you found me.

The chorus itself reminds me especially of three people. One, Eustace, freshly undragoned and yet still feeling horrible about all the past wrongs he'd committed--"Lost and Insecure." Two, Rillian--I imagine he had a rough time adjusting to the Free Life, not to mention the looks other Narnians would have given him. I daresay he would've had some somber days, thinking back on all the time he'd lost because he fell for the witch's scheme. And if it'd been just a bit sooner, he could have seen his father properly... and not been "Just a little late." Three, Edmund--the betrayer, whose faults led directly to Aslan's sacrifice. I can see Edmund on a cold night when the guilt takes hold, "Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded; 'Why'd you have to wait?'"

But in the end everyone ends up alone.
Losing her, the only one who's ever known.
Who I am, who I'm not and who I wanna be.
No way to know how long she will be next to me...

Ah, Susan. Dear Gentle Queen, who fell astray, and only Aslan knows if she finally got Found. The fourth line in particular-- "Who I am, Who I'm not, and Who I wanna be" illustrates Susan's inner struggle to a tee. She tells herself who she is (a completely normal, if pretty, London girl), who she certainly isn't (a queen of a magical land), and lastly what she desperately wants to be, but can't ever seem to admit to herself. The rest of the verse talks about Susan's grief over losing her family: "But in the end, Everyone ends up alone."

The early morning, the city breaks.
And I've been calling for years and years and years
And you never left me no messages.
You never sent me no letters.
You got some kind of nerve, taking all I want.

This part reminds me of Caspian's search for Rillian, and also the Narnians from the Golden Age pining after their lost Kings and Queens. A lot of this song has Susan written all over it, though, as her story matches up with this verse as well.

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The song can speak to a lot of issues in the Chronicles--the theme also corresponds to the lost seven lords, for example--but these are the ones it reminds me of most often (or, at least, most currently).

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait?
Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late.
You found me, you found me.

The song "Ice Queen" by Within Temptation is a song that really describes the White Witch.

Sample lyrics:

When she embraces your heart turns to stone
She comes at night when you're all alone
And when she whispers your blood shall run cold
You better hide before she finds you

This song reminded me of Puddleglum and how he wasn't afraid to look stupid in order to stand up to the Green Witch. It fits how he would go on believing in Aslan even if it made him look foolish.

Title: Fool for You
Artist: Nichole Nordeman
Lyrics:
There are times when faith and common sense do not align,
When hardcore evidence of you is hard to find,
And I am silenced in the face of argumenative debate,
It's a long hill it's a lonely climb. Maybe it's true.

CHORUS:
'Cause they want proof,
They want proof of all these mysteries I claim,
'Cause only fools would want to chant a dead man's name.
I would be a fool for you, all because you asked me to.
A simpleton who's seeming naive,
I do believe You came and made Yourself a fool for me.

I admit that in my darkest hours I've asked what if,
What if we created some kind of man made faith like this,
Out of good intention or emotional invention,
And after life is through there will be no You.

'Cause they want proof of all these miracles I claim,
Cause only fools believe that men can walk on waves.
Maybe it's true.

Unaware of popularity,
And unconcerned with dignity,
You made me free.
That's proof enough for me.

I would be a fool for You,
Only if You asked me to,
A simpleton who's only think of,
The cause of love.

I will speak Jesus name,
And if that makes me crazy,
They can call me crazed,
I'm happy to be seemingly naive,
I do believe You came and
Made Yourself a fool for me.

I think "Scarborough Fair", as performed by Simon and Garfunkel, is a song one might hear in being played by a squire on his lute in the halls of Cair Paravel. IMO, the song has a very Narnian sound to it.

Scarborough Fair
Are you goin' to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine.

Tell her to make me a cambric shirt (On the side of a hill in the deep forest green).
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Tracing a sparrow on snow-crested ground).
Without no seams nor needlework (Blankets and bedclothes the child of the mountain).
Then she'll be a true love of mine (Sleeps unaware of the clarion call).

Tell her to find me an acre of land (On the side of a hill, a sprinkling of leaves).
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Washes the grave with silvery tears).
Between salt water and the sea strands (A soldier cleans and polishes a gun).
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Tell her to reap it in a sickle of leather (War bellows, blazing in scarlet battalions).
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme (Generals order their soldiers to kill).
And gather it all in a bunch of heather (And to fight for a cause they've long ago forgotten).
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair? Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme.
Remember me to one who lives there, she once was a true love of mine.

I feel like an archeologist digging up this thread!
We just got Apple Music and I was looking up the PC soundtrack because it's the one I don't own. I looked down at the recommendations and saw Prince of Persia. I have not seen it; but visually it reminds me of HHB, so I clicked, curious as to what the music would sound like. I did not realize that Harry Gregson-Williams was the composer and when the Narnia-esque music with an oriental flair came out of the speaker... I cannot describe the feeling. The song I tried was "Tamina Unveiled", and I felt like I was listening to a track for HHB!

Apologies for blowing my own trumpet again... I posted the link to this in the Musicians' Cafe thread a while back but I don't think many people caught it. It's my song based on the final chapters of "The Last Battle".

https://edenthomas.bandcamp.com/track/mike-nash-farther-up-farther-in-additional-track

That's a vary good song King_Erlian! vary catchy and upbeat I like how you incorporated some the lines from the end of the book in to the lyrics nicely done.

Thank you, narnia fan 7! I wrote the music about 30 years ago but the lyrics I came up with at the time were rubbish. But the tune stayed with me. I felt it had such a happy, uplifting feel. When I thought of writing a lyric based on "the Real Narnia" it came flooding back.

"Night Ride Across the Caucasus" by Loreena McKennitt. I think it really matches the Horse and His Boy:

It's a bit weird responding a post from five years ago, but I was searching to see if anyone had mentioned her music on this thread! Ditto on that song; it's very evocative of the atmosphere of HHB.

Another song of hers that always makes me think I'm in Narnia is "The Mummer's Dance" by McKennitt. I especially love this upbeat live version! The lyrics make me think of dryads and fauns dancing in the Narnian forests. The song itself is about old May Day customs, but I like to pretend that the trees mentioned are dryads:

When in the springtime of the year
When the trees are crowned with leaves
When the ash and oak, and the birch and yew
Are dressed in ribbons fair

"A garland gay we bring you here
And at your door we stand
It is a sprout well budded out
The work of Our Lord's hand"

Try something by George Ezra, he's got an amazing classical voice. I know, when I think Narnia, I usually think the battle song. Nothing is impossible with the Narnia battle song playing in the background!

I know it's an odd combination, but I can't hear "Hotel California" by the Eagles anymore without thinking of Underland. They both have the same hazy, creepy atmosphere, and I think the soft guitar at the beginning is a bit evocative of the LotGK's mandolin. Also, the narrator, the beautiful woman and the night man make me think of Rilian, the LotGK and Mullugutherum respectively.

"Relax," said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!"

"Many fall down, and few return to the sunlit lands", anyone?

I also ran across a song by a Norwegian artist called Runaway, and it makes me think of Jill's emotional state at the beginning of The Silver Chair. (I kind of wonder if the artist had Narnia in mind when she came up with the concepts for the music video, what with the snowy wood and all.)

Even though I'm Norwegian, I hadn't heard about Aurora before (Runaway is the song, while Aurora is the artist) - she has a very nice voice!

The snowy wood changing with the summer landscape, and the singer running through the wood and posing in front of the summer landscape, does indeed seem to owe something to Narnia.

And I see what you mean about Jill ...

I have a playlist please tell me what you think about it
So i am a huge fan of Drum N Bass and Narnia so i thought why not put combine the two of them together. each of the songs discribe a character. tell me what characters these songs discribe to you.

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