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This playlist follows the contrast at the heart of Binding 13: Johnny’s public life of rugby and expectation against Shannon’s private need for safety and space. Its songs move from guarded isolation and hurt toward trust, persistence, and the fragile hope of being understood, with several Irish artists grounding the romance in the book’s setting.
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40 songs
1
Shannon
Henry Gross · Release
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2
All I Want
Kodaline · In A Perfect World (Expanded Edition)
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3
Nothing Arrived
Villagers · {Awayland}
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4
Dreams
The Cranberries · Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (Super Deluxe)
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5
Chasing Cars
Snow Patrol · Eyes Open
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6
Breakeven
The Script · The Script
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7
Outnumbered
Dermot Kennedy · Without Fear
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Linger
The Cranberries · Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We? (Super Deluxe)
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9
The Scientist
Coldplay · A Rush of Blood to the Head
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10
Skinny Love
Bon Iver · For Emma, Forever Ago
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11
Liability
Lorde · Melodrama
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12
Somewhere Only We Know
Keane · Hopes And Fears
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13
Fade Into You
Mazzy Star · Female Rockers
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14
The Only Exception
Paramore · Brand New Eyes
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15
Turning Page
Sleeping At Last · Turning Page
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16
Power Over Me
Dermot Kennedy · Dermot Kennedy
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17
Run
Snow Patrol · Final Straw
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18
Work
Charlotte Day Wilson · CDW
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19
Praying
Kesha · Rainbow
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20
Fix You
Coldplay · Fix You
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21
You And Me
Lifehouse · Lifehouse
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22
Bloom - Bonus Track
The Paper Kites · Woodland
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23
First Day of My Life
Bright Eyes · I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning
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24
Iris
The Goo Goo Dolls · Dizzy up the Girl
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25
Make You Feel My Love
Adele · 19
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26
The One
Kodaline · Coming Up for Air (Expanded Edition)
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27
Work Song
Hozier · Hozier
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28
Yellow
Coldplay · THE BEST EVER: Time to Relax
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29
Sweet Disposition
The Temper Trap · Conditions
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30
Somebody Else
The 1975 · I like it when you sleep, for you are so beautiful yet so unaware of it
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31
Medicine
Daughter · The Wild Youth EP
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32
The A Team
Ed Sheeran · +
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33
Never Let Me Go
Florence + The Machine · Ceremonials (Original Deluxe Version)
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34
Let Her Go
Passenger · All the Little Lights
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Holocene
Bon Iver · Bon Iver, Bon Iver
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36
I Will Follow You into the Dark
Death Cab for Cutie · 100 Greatest Dinner Party Songs
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37
The Funeral
Band of Horses · Everything All The Time
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38
Read My Mind
The Killers · Sam's Town
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Times Like These
Foo Fighters · One By One (Expanded Edition)
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