This isn't a full update guys, but I really wanted to give you a new experience. This is a chance to take yourself out of the ordinary reading process and remove yourself to a plane outside of time and space, outside of any specific moment in this story.
I usually avoid inserting music with lyrics into the narrative, because it distracts people from the words on the page. But this is a song that deserves your full attention purely because of its lyrics.
All I ask you to do now is to put this song on, sit back, and listen.
And as you're listening, let the references in these lyrics take you back to the story you've been reading here, let images and feelings drift back from past chapters, and think about Jack's particular mindset at this moment in time, as he is on his way to the Isle de Muerta in the longboat.
Everything about this song speaks for itself, really, so I'll just let you get on with it.
For me, it opened up a really nice (albiet heartbreaking) window into Jack's mind, and shed new light on his emotions that could only be brought about through the tone of this music.
The song is: "A Heart You Can't Find" by Wise Children.
I'll put the lyrics here so you can follow them and take in the song fully. Enjoy!
I never told you about your mouth
How when you speak, I grow still
How every word that you say
Just makes me die.
And I never put myself on the line
'Cause you can't break a heart you can't find.
I never told you about your eyes
How when you look at me, I feel blind
And when I don't see you for months
You're still always on my mind.
And I never put myself on the line
'Cause you can't break a heart you can't find.
And I was falling for you
From the start
But now you're drifting from me
And you're too far from land
And this is tearing me apart
I'll be calling your name
While I crawl through the sand.
I never told you about your man
How when he speaks, I grow ill
How when I see you with him
I don't feel like it's real.
And I never put myself on the line
'Cause you can't break a heart you can't find.