We Used to Live Here

Book Playlist

We Used to Live Here Playlist

by Marcus Kliewer

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 11, 2026

3 mixes for this book

The first half moves from the house’s inviting stillness into the wrongness of an unwanted visit, using uneasy score cues and shadowy instrumentals. The vocal half turns toward Eve and Charlie’s fragile sense of home, the strangers’ unsettling familiarity, and the fear that a place—and its past—can claim its occupants.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Tubular Bells

Mike Oldfield · Time To Have Peaceful

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2

Prelude

Bernard Herrmann · Psycho (The Complete Original Motion Picture Score)

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3

Profondo rosso

Goblin · Profondo rosso (Gold Tracks) [Colonna Sonora Originale dal Film "Profondo Rosso"]

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4

Tenebre

Goblin · Austinato - Live in Austin, Texas

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5

Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106: III. Adagio

Béla Bartók · The 50 Darkest Pieces of Classical Music

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6

Kids Will Be Skeletons

Mogwai · Happy Songs for Happy People

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7

Prelude

Krzysztof Penderecki · Dark Light

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8

A House In Nebraska

Ethel Cain · Preacher’s Daughter

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9

Intruder

Peter Gabriel · Peter Gabriel 3: Melt (Remastered)

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10

Somebody's Watching Me

Rockwell · Somebody's Watching Me

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11

House Of Glass

Cage The Elephant · Social Cues

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12

People Are Strange

The Doors · Strange Days

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13

Night Shift

Lucy Dacus · Historian

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14

Every Breath You Take

The Police · Synchronicity (Remastered 2003)

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15

Possum Kingdom

Toadies · Rubberneck

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16

Little Dark Age

MGMT · Little Dark Age

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17

On "Your House"

Alanis Morissette · Jagged Little Pill (Spotify Landmark Edition)

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18

Home

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros · Up from Below

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19

Mother

Danzig · Danzig

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20

Family Tree

Ethel Cain · Preacher’s Daughter

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