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Cellphone ringtone

Hi Nora! I hope I'm not bothering you. Your books were incredible and I enjoyed them very much. So I have a question regarding the scene between Andrew and Neil in the locker room in The Raven King, when Andrew gives Neil a cellphone and a song about runaways plays as the ringtone. Is the ringtone based on an actual song? Thank you so much for your time :)

Heya! Thank you so much for taking a chance on the Foxes! I'm really glad you liked them.

The song I had in mind when I wrote the scene, love it or hate it, was "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum. The lyrics don't fit what Neil thought he heard, and it's not really the type of music I think Andrew would willingly listen to, but once it wormed its way into my head I couldn't shake it loose again.

Call you up in the middle of the night
Like a firefly without a light
You were there like a slow torch burning
I was a key that could use a little turning

So tired that I couldn't even sleep
So many secrets I couldn't keep
Promised myself I wouldn't weep
One more promise I couldn't keep

It seems no one can help me now
I'm in too deep
There's no way out
This time I have really led myself astray

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Can you help me remember how to smile
Make it somehow all seem worthwhile
How on earth did I get so jaded
Life's mystery seems so faded

I can go where no one else can go
I know what no one else knows
Here I am just drownin' in the rain
With a ticket for a runaway train

Everything is cut and dry
Day and night, earth and sky
Somehow I just don't believe it

Runaway train never going back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Bought a ticket for a runaway train
Like a madman laughin' at the rain
Little out of touch, little insane
Just easier than dealing with the pain

Runaway train never comin' back
Wrong way on a one way track
Seems like I should be getting somewhere
Somehow I'm neither here nor there

Runaway train never comin' back
Runaway train tearin' up the track
Runaway train burnin' in my veins
Runaway but it always seems the same