Music Without Words

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This classical violin instrumental tells the story of Nailers life almost exactly as it happens!  The violin gets louder just as Nailer makes life and death situations.  Then the music quites in correspondence when Nailer is either safe, or when Nailer and Pima discover Nita.  And the weird thing about how similar the music and the book  is how the music follows the action of the book.  It is almost as if the artist wrote the music while reading Ship Breaker.  The music can be separated into at least two parts that follow the book exactly.  The first half of the song follows the first half of the book, and the same with the second half of the song and book.

The song starts out with a slow almost foreshadowing pace.  Then, slowly it goes from distressed panicking tones to slowly increased speed and rhythm.  This almost directly relates to Nailer as in his whole life has been the same humdrum work and life.  Always crawling around the inside of dirty ships and never knowing if he will have a job the next day.  But just like in the book when Nailer falls into a vat of oil and is scared for his life, the music sounds ominous and deadly.  Then suddenly the tempo goes from almost  haunting, to quick and life restoring.  But this happy tempo only lasts for a little, then the sad music comes back to haunt the listener.  Even after Nailer escapes from the oil in a near death experience his joy does not last very long when his dad tries to kill him.

The second half of the song follows the same pattern as the book.  For the most part the song is sad and radiates unhappy thoughts.  Then for brief seconds, happy delightful violin and cello playing can be heard.  Even though Nailer has found the key to his escape of everything he hates, the end is not as easy as it first may seem. Just when it seems that Nailer is good and about to be free with Nita another disaster is waiting for Nailer to make the wrong move.  As I said earlier; I would not be surprised if the music was wrote while the composer read the book.