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Kafka’s Metamorphosis moves through shock, isolation, domestic strain, and then a bleak, quiet resolution—so this playlist alternates tense-but-readable atmospheres with words that echo alienation and irreversible change. The instrumental half leans into uneasy, shifting textures (a “mind under pressure”), while the vocal half uses grounded indie/folk and art-pop to mirror Gregor’s spiraling relationship to family, duty, and selfhood.
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40 songs
1
Spiegel im spiegel
Arvo Pärt · Arvo Pärt: Portrait
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Adagio in G Minor
Tomaso Albinoni · Adagio in G Minor
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The Promise
Michael Nyman · The Piano: Music From The Motion Picture
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Requiem for a Dream
Clint Mansell · Requiem for a Dream
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The Curse
Josh Ritter · So Runs The World Away
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Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
Frédéric Chopin · Chopin: Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9 No. 2
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Clair de lune
Claude Debussy · Träumerei - Liebestraum - Für Elise - Clair de lune - Gymnopédie - Sony Classical Masters
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Gymnopédie No. 1
Erik Satie · Erik Satie & Friends
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As It Was
Harry Styles · Harry's House
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Creep
Radiohead · Pablo Honey
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Hurt
Johnny Cash · American IV: The Man Comes Around
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The Scientist
Coldplay · A Rush of Blood to the Head
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13
A Change Is Gonna Come
Sam Cooke · Ain't That Good News
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14
Take Me To Church
Hozier · Hozier
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15
Somebody That I Used To Know
Gotye · Making Mirrors
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Somewhere Only We Know
Keane · Hopes And Fears
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Fast Car
Tracy Chapman · Tracy Chapman
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18
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Tears For Fears · Songs From The Big Chair
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19
Breathe Me
Sia · Colour The Small One
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20
All I Want
Kodaline · In A Perfect World (Expanded Edition)
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Ophelia
The Lumineers · Cleopatra
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Young And Beautiful
Lana Del Rey · Young And Beautiful
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Stay With Me
Sam Smith · In The Lonely Hour
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The Night We Met
Lord Huron · Strange Trails
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Nocturne
Secret Garden · Songs From A Secret Garden
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The Sound of Silence
Simon & Garfunkel · The Singer
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Come Away With Me
Norah Jones · Come Away With Me (Super Deluxe Edition)
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bury a friend
Billie Eilish · WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?
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Odyssey
Rival Consoles · Odyssey / Sonne
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Light Through The Veins
Jon Hopkins · Insides
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Take A Bow
Rihanna · Good Girl Gone Bad: Reloaded
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Paranoid Android
Sybarite5 · Everything in Its Right Place (Radiohead Remixed)
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A Moment Apart
ODESZA · A Moment Apart
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Divenire
Ludovico Einaudi · Divenire (Deluxe Edition)
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ocean eyes
Billie Eilish · Ocean Eyes
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The Light Behind Your Eyes
My Chemical Romance · Number Three
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Somebody Else
Molotov Cocktail Piano · MCP Performs The 1975: I like it when you sleep...
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Liability
Lorde · Melodrama
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The Less I Know The Better
Tame Impala · Currents
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