I always play around with my list as I go, so that the overall mood of the music matches whatever I'm writing at the moment.
The one song that's always somewhere in the list when I'm writing is "The Engine Driver" by The Decemberists. There's one part of the chorus that says, "And I am a writer, writer of fictions, I am the heart that you call home. And I've written pages upon pages trying to rid you from my bones...my bones."
That song always puts me in the right mindset.
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here."
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