i would know him in death, at the end of the world (a playlist) - the song of achilles

"I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world."
About the Book: The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller)
A tale of gods, kings, immortal fame, and the human heart, The Song of Achilles is a dazzling literary feat that brilliantly reimagines Homer’s enduring masterwork, The Iliad. Written by Madeline Miller, winner of the 2012 Orange Prize for Fiction.
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Genre: classical, greek mythology, dark academia, instrumental, violin, cello, flute, piano, strings, orchestral, greek tragedy, reading and studying music, achilles and patroclus, booktube, booktok

[@booksofazwei]

timestamps & message about ads: 00:00 A Thousand Times Good Night - Abel Korzeniowski 06:47 True Love’s Last Kiss - Eternal Eclipse 10:27 Wait for Me - Luca D’Alberto 15:06 Let’s Run Away Together - Johannes Bornlöf 18:15 A Time for Us - Nino Rota, Angèle Dubeau 23:29 I Will Find You - Audiomachine 26:49 Afterlife - Ivan Torrent Sorry about the ads everyone! I have no control over them, as the copyright owners of the music get to decide when to place them. however, I believe if you go to the end at 31:28 and restart the video, the ads are gone! :) Playlist with all my Song of Achilles videos: kzbin.info/aero/PLCwzQnYqeDQj3fLbNPgjInpuTHcXK3RYL

[@hiderocks8476]

'Swear it.' 'Why me?' 'Because you're the reason. Swear it.' 'I swear it,' I said, lost in the high color of his cheeks, the flame in his eyes.

[@kirarenee149]

The only reason! Literally

[@brandonthevampireslayer]

“I could recognize him by touch alone, by smell; I would know him blind, by the way his breaths came and his feet struck the earth. I would know him in death, at the end of the world.” ❤ - Madeline Miller

[@Timely7]

this playlist reminds me of a soulmate of mine who's truly perfect for me yet me and him wont ever meet. a divinely intervention that will forever keep us apart.

[@booksofazwei]

🥹

[@kirarenee149]

They may not agree with you and probably don’t! If someone believed they are perfect for you they would be right next to you! End of discussion

[@musaalkazim7]

Your love will only sweeten day after another

[@aro5314]

I finished this book and quickly went on a hunt for some music that accompanied it, out of all the playlists i’ve heard none of them encompassed the sorrow and love that the book made me feel as this one did :,)

[@mia-qw4tb]

This playlist is one of the ones where i really feel their story. I can imagen their life while this music plays, the feelings, just everything fits in so well. You really caught their story very well, it's touching, really!

[@booksofazwei]

aw thanks so much, glad you liked it!

[@abbyjohnson7863]

Exactly how I feel about it! I feel like I'm about to cry my heart is swelling listening to the first song

[@angelinahicks-zf7um]

"I'd choose you" In the end I'd always choose you. Worlds apart, separated, lost, floating, drowning, in death I'd choose you. You have pierced my soul and I can know no other. My body is yours, my mind is yours, I am yours. When you breathe, I live. When you hurt, I bleed. I will feel you. In this life and the next I'd choose you. I'd love you.

[@abbyjohnson7863]

Almost started crying but I'm in public

[@williamcreston364]

The world will collapse. All its pillars will crumble. Through the relentless flood of time, All life will find its end. All tears will dry. And this fate will too be mine. That inevitable decline. But is one end not a new beginning? Is catastrophe not a catalyst for hope? Does calamity not bring clarity? Surely I will find peace from destruction. Order from chaos. Love from sadness. Truth from hate. And maybe... Just maybe... Myself again.

[@kirarenee149]

🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@TheCrazeace]

Just recently started reading and finished it in 2 days about a week ago. Damn the writing is so so good and I have never cared for any book couple as much as Patrochilles. I didn't cry while reaidng it but after finishing it and watching every fan edits and playlists the floodgates open. Such a sad story but thank god for that beautiful ending.

[@booksofazwei]

i loved the writing and that bittersweet end so much :')

[@Pain-ss8jm]

"It owns you" Sometimes there is no more way to keep running away from sadness. It owns you so quickly in a devastating way. It puts you in front of your own shadow and makes you confront your enemy. When it explodes that way, it's because something necessary was ignored for too long. It is important to find where the enemy is, because unknown teardrops are the most heartbreaking. When you ask yourself where the problem is even when you feel like everything is going well so perfectly. The fact of not finding your opponent among the perfect world you see is an illusion. And so, it remains... Why is it so? while your face fills with tears, It persists... always the same cycle. Why? The most trampled path is to ignore and to keep going on. Even so it stills there... For which reason? Wasn't it perfect? What am I doing wrong? It pushes you to the limits. To the point where you're willing to lose everything instead of keeping to live in the illusion. It only will starts When you decide to give yourself to your feelings. When your brain surrenders and admits he needs help. When your brain starts to listen to the heart. It's the moment that your heart can finally be listened to. It's where it begins... The moment where your feelings are going to lead to the enemy. It's when fearless owns you and you shout. "Where are you hiding?" Enemy... Tell me! Who are you? After remarkable efforts to find the enemy... it's finally in front of your eyes. I raised the sword and eliminated the enemy. The enemy was a shadow, hopeless, hurt and ignored. If only I had known... If only I had listened to him... If only i had reached him out my hand... If only I had known from the start that the enemy was actually me!... If only i had reached him out my hand... If only I had listened to him... If only I had known... So please, Don't be me. When you get to the heart of the problem, listen to it. because beyond the abyss, there won't be anything anymore. Won't have new memories anymore. Won't have again anymore. Won't have anymore anymore.

[@booksofazwei]

wow, thanks for sharing this!

[@lemonzest5127]

I just wanted to say that this was really beautiful! It actually made me tear up so thanks for that lmao

[@azizalarrie28yearsago8]

reading this with the song 😭😭😭😭😭💚🖤

[@kirarenee149]

You watch him everyday be blind to his own beauty and his own worth. Listen to how he talks! How are they that in love with each other and they are not equally as beautiful?

[@kirarenee149]

And he watches everyone around him torture him all day with compliments then insults… so when he says I’m leaving he means he’s leaving alone till they are both safe to heal in private.

[@azizalarrie28yearsago8]

I cried like a baby like an idiot after finishing. like wtf 😭😭😭😭😭 I HATE WAAAAAR

[@theamazinganonymous7847]

The amount of ambition and adrenaline this brings in a artist/writer/poet is just insane. I think that I just might've found my perfect playlist.

[@musaalkazim7]

Sadness is the reality and demand to be felt

[@lydiasortizcoalition3610]

I just finished the song of Achilles, and I must say, your playlist is the only one that made me cry all over again, it's awesome... Thanks! :D

[@booksofazwei]

ahh thank you for listening, and hope you enjoyed that emotional rollercoaster of a book :')

[@lydiasortizcoalition3610]

@@booksofazwei I definately did! (though I read the Iliad and knew how it was going to end ;-;) also, have you planned doing a playlist on Circe? :)

[@booksofazwei]

@@lydiasortizcoalition3610 i actually haven't read circe yet, but its on my to-read list! I'll hopefully make a playlist once i read it, i've heard such good things!!

[@lydiasortizcoalition3610]

@@booksofazwei ooh I hope you do! :) it as a very good book too, I can't wait to hear your next playlists, anyway!

[@ladyredl3210]

“No matter how dark the mirror, to be reflected, to be seen, is the greatest gift one being can bestow upon another “

[@Willow-oc9pw]

And I was facing spring once again. No matter how hard I try, I can never run from him, can I? There he was again…brown t-shirt and quiet shoes. He stood there staring right at me, his thick hair swaying in the gentle breeze. He had the most lit up and reflective eyes God ever created. Instantly took me back to the times at the rooftop of our night school. Laying over the overgrown moss on the cracked concrete as we studied the starlit sky instead of studying for our exams our young souls couldn’t help but feel thrilled. Spring told me all about Zeus’s gift to Europa; the Canis Major. The stars were pretty but even prettier when I was taking them in from the reflection in Spring’s bright eyes. ‘Greek Gods and their lavish gifts to fill in for their absence huh?’ -But, I’d be pretty happy with a constellation. Time isn’t always flexible. There’s so much to pursue in the long run. Spring spoke again; ‘You’d be okay even if presents are all the company you have?’ I took my time with this question noticing the familiar edge in his voice. -The constellation was in the shape of a bull as a reminiscence of their very first encounter. Zeus aligned it so as no one forgets their story. He wanted everyone to know how much he loved her. Can’t I appreciate the great Greek god of skies showing his love towards his mortal lover? ‘But you don’t receive my love that easily’ I felt my breath get hitched in my throat. I turned my head to the side hoping he didn’t catch it. ‘I’ll ask again. Would you ever leave me to pursue something you’ve always wanted?’ I feel myself let out a breath I didn’t know I’d been holding:-You know my answer. ‘Even when I volunteer to go with you? If only you’d agree…think of what we could have; same school, same time zone same…us’ I find myself fiddling with my billowing sleeves, looking anywhere but him:-You’ve known my answer. I felt his burning gaze on me as he spoke next: ‘Yes, I have. I’ve known it since the day I borrowed your pencil and never gave it back hoping you’d talk to me.’ I stilled at that. He paused before continuing: ‘I’ve known it since the day I caught your eye at my game and you stared straight without returning my smile. That Valentines when I watched as you struggled to say no to your admirers as they handed over chocolates to you but handed them over to your girlfriends the moment they turned at their heels’ ‘I’ve always known just how cautious you have been. Around anyone and everyone, worried you’d give your true feelings away or even hurt someone else’s feelings. I’ve watched you as you did your best to not raise anyone’s hopes at having you, be it Valentine’s or any other day. I’ve always noticed the distance you’ve placed between yourself and others, believe me because I have.’ I turned to meet his gaze. Contrary to what I assumed the eyes that were looking at me were much warmer if not concentrated. He looked at me like he couldn’t read me well.There was a frown between his arched eyebrows. My fingertips found their way as they began to work. His skin was cooled from the spring night breeze but some of the heat from his skin seeped through. ‘I’ve always stood back and watched you keep everyone at an arms distance as if you were always ready to leave to somewhere far away’ he finished watching me quietly. -And yet you approached me repeatedly until I let you in. I dropped my eyes to his. They were brown. Not the brown from chocolate but almost like my morning coffee; plain black with no sugar. I found my fingers had moved to his eyebrows now, tracing the fine lines. He closed his eyes at this. His lids weren’t heavy but his eyelashes were. ‘You still haven’t let me in’ my fingertips hovered on top of his eyelashes at that. -I haven’t? He opened his eyes at that- oh those eyes…I felt myself stumble into them the first time I looked into them and the effect they have on me still haven’t changed. Brown eyes may seem so and so until you fall for someone with brown eyes. -Tell me then. What part of me have I not let you in to yet? ‘Let me come with you. We...just got together but you never let me do anything for you. I want to hold your hand as you achieve everything you’ve dreamt of’. My hand still hovered above his face- You want me to take you away with me oceans away…away from your own dreams? What about your own happiness? ‘And what if I tell you that you are now my happiness?’ I lightly drag the crescent right below his eyes and I feel him lean in. -Then I must tell you that I cannot promise to always be enough. I’ve watched you too, you know as you talked about your dreams so different from mine; I watched your pupils relax into this clearer shade of brown-I…have I ever told you that I absolutely love your eyes? They are so pretty He is quiet for a while until I realize the tip of my thumb is wet. But his voice is calm when he speaks next. ‘But they aren’t pretty enough to make you let me stay, are they?’ a pause as I say nothing waiting for an outburst from him that doesn’t come. ‘Have I ever told you that you are just a little mean? Telling me you love my eyes right before we part ways. Is this your way of making sure I never forget you?’ -You know well that we do not have to part, long dist- ‘Would you call me regularly though? Or pick up my calls?’ his voice starting to sound just a little breathy. I brush my knuckles against his cheekbones just the slightest bit cool from his dried tears. I choose to stay silent this time. ‘You wouldn’t. You can’t even promise me that much ‘cause of the place you’re going to. No, don’t give me that look. I’ve always known that you do not plan to go to college for the next couple of years. That the dream that you keep quiet about is volunteering at the war sigh- -You’ve known all along? How come you never- ‘Never what? You know that I can’t- no wouldn’t stop you from doing something that you so desperately wish to do. But I also couldn’t hold myself back from falling for the person you are and the more I fell for you, the more I dreaded the day I’d have to let you go like that. There were times I tried to hold myself back from approaching you too knowing how this would end. So at the end all I could come to was that you at least let me go with you.’ -You talk about how hard it will be for you. What about me? How could I drag the man I love away from the life he’s dreamt of since he was younger? I pause for a moment as I feel a trembling hand on mine. I take a deeper breath before continuing:-I have no family and never had anyone who cherished me, not until you came along. I know I am to blame for letting you in so I cannot make a bigger mistake by taking you away from the ones who love you. Your family, your friends who cheered you up every time I tiptoed around you, your-your five dogs. You shine, my love. I’ve heard the professors praise you and felt nothing but pride. I’ve seen your college application. You have every bit of potential to be the vet you’ve always dreamt of becoming. I take his hand in both of mine, rubbing soothing circles before continuing-I on the other hand have to do this. I have to. The world has given me everything I have asked it to and even more. I never thought I deserved to have a boyfriend let alone someone like you. The world deserves you and I certainly don’t. His next words come slightly muffled as he leans on my shoulder; ‘You said you have no one. What about me? You just called me your boyfriend but never let me be one for you. Why can’t you let me hover around you even when you know that I’m aware of what it will take? I knew you were the one I wanted to be with since the first time I saw you. The time I borrowed a pencil from you, the time I overheard your talk with the professor about your volunteer plan, and the time you quietly picked up the fallen peony from the bouquet I was holding before taking it into your arms and giving me the most beautiful smile are all carved into my memory like they were just yesterday when you know how far we’ve come.’ He wraps the other arm around me and pulls me closer. ‘Loving you came too easily. It was like breathing to me.’ -Loving you on the other hand was like testing the waters. I put my feet in to test and next thing I know I’m deep in. I find myself leaning in to him. (present) And just like that years have passed. The urge to lean into those eyes, to just let myself get tangled in them still hasn’t gone away even after all these years. His eyes momentarily land on me before they turn towards the front. For a second I stand there and wonder if he did recognize me, the added scars on my face are sure to make it hard. I push my doubts aside as the signal turns red. He crosses over and I follow after him quietly before taking over and facing him. Looking closer I could see the lines added to his face by time. Pushing away the urge to press my fingers into those crescents I ask instead:-Do you happen to have an extra pen? There’s a tensed pause before ‘No, but would a pencil do?’ There’s a curve forming at his lips and I feel an upward tug at my own. twitter n insta : @julyswillow

[@kirarenee149]

He has been cursed that he can not even see his own reflection, beauty or worth and if you see the love between them and you actually know what love is how can you watch that without wanting to just be alone

[@theamazinganonymous7847]

I want cry what is this mastery and please if this isn't the soulmates true love I get, than I don't want love at all.

[@SpecsSpacedOut]

i haven't read song of achilles and its just sitting on my shelf telling me to but I keep putting it off, however my favorite playlists are for this book and this is by far the best one I have ever heard

[@hawoali9047]

I cried so fast.

[@booksofazwei]

🥹

[@lhc23_]

This is the most beautiful playlist that I've listened.

[@jodoodlyboi2963]

Music allows me to enjoy the sad feels instead of feel stuck in it

[@abbyjohnson7863]

YES I know exactly what you mean if ima be sad I might as well be aesthetically sad!

[@jodoodlyboi2963]

@@abbyjohnson7863 right? This type of music is sad, yet beautiful, and so it can help you sit comfortably in your emotions

[@ninucavacharadze3693]

Most beloved

[@Sdwarren1131]

Thank you for putting (A thousand times goodnight- by Abel Korzeniowski), in this playlist it's very fitting and it was also in my favorite version of romeo and juliet from 2013. Honestly though, all of your playlist i've listened to so far are amazing and very inspiring for writing.

[@Sss-mb5qs]

Korkuyorum karanlığa bürünmesinden aydınlığa susamış gözlerimin, Ve yine korkutmasını istiyorum bu endişenin yüreğimi ki unutmayayım nedenimi. Bu hakkında değil çaresizliğin yada cesaretsizliğimin, Bu sefer korkularım koruyacak benliğimi. Kirlenmemiş hisler hep göstermez miydi çıkışı, karıştırırken ruhumuza sancıyı. Kanamış dudakları ateşle temizleyen vicdan, Yarayı acıttıkça iyileştiren bir sızı ruhumdan. Gri dumana bürünmüş bu havadan tiksinen sancım, Hatırlatıyor bir parça kalmış toprağın kokusunu içimde. Geldiğim ve döneceğim yeri, Nedenimi...

[@rneuil]

off sonunda bir türk

[@sm-od6yz]

You have a wonderful way of making music breathe fresh life into the written word. Could you do a playlist based on any of Mary Renault’s Greek mythology based historical fiction? ‘The king must die’, ‘The bull from the sea’, the Alexander trilogy …..

[@booksofazwei]

thank you! and ooh i haven't read any of those, but i'll put them on my list - thanks for the recommendation!

[@myname-uk6oe]

2nd song got me crying

[@booksofazwei]

ahh yeah i love that piece :')

[@en_fairytopia]

This is so so so beautiful 💔

[@booksofazwei]

thank you!

[@azizalarrie28yearsago8]

I'm so in love with this playlist pls do more like this

[@booksofazwei]

thank you! I’m actually working on one of a similar style that’s inspired by circe, written by the same author as the song of Achilles!

[@shanislost1]

Amazing work on this playlist, I love how it actually tells a story

[@booksofazwei]

ahh thank you! :) this is probably my favorite playlist that I’ve made so glad you like it!

[@shanislost1]

@@booksofazwei Of course! It's probably one of my most favourite playlists of all time :)

[@user-iu6jn9bs5h]

How many lifetimes will it take for both to remember and believe in ...

[@nemo4evr]

You should include "Blue As The Turquoise Night of Neyshabur" by Yo-Yo Ma from the Silk Road Journeys, it has always inspired me, beautiful playlist BTW, thank you.

[@booksofazwei]

Thank you! and thanks for the suggestion!! I'll keep it in mind for future playlists :)

[@christineterry3079]

Ilistening to this beautiful music !! It speaks to my heart! tears are flowing from my eyes why ! Maybe iam too emotional..😢 💕

[@booksofazwei]

💕💕💕

[@aayushsingh.7194]

@@booksofazwei Do you know what genre is this

[@ninoshvelidze5196]

Only this playlist could feel my sorrow. Thank you for making this 💖💖

[@booksofazwei]

❤

[@radaadrandaadelrr]

very very nice

[@booksofazwei]

Thanks!

[@user-oz2my1dz9t]

Grantaire and Enjolras

[@volvoreta]

Abraiante....

[@kirarenee149]

I have never spent a Valentine’s Day with anyone!

[@jillianthompson4274]

i want to love so hard that it could break me. i wish and wish and wish to feel the feeling of having someone. someone who will love me through my good and even more in my bad days. i want to be so blindly in love that all i can see is them. just them. is this to much to ask for?

[@marktamlyn7019]

Love is not something that can be taken from a bookshelf and consumed ,it comes at a great costs,lives are forever changed,consumer beware.

[@lewis3221]

New clip dispo kzbin.info/www/bejne/jYfFZ5mHl5Wde7c

[@titiorn3610]

Do you plan to make this playlist on Spotify? 🥹 Because it’s worthwhile.