✍️ ALL LYRICS BY EME LATINA (2025) #QuiteQuotable Challenge @ The Soundry ✨📝✨📝✨ Sophie's World (1991) is a novel by Norwegian writer Jostein Gaarder. It follows Sophie Amundsen, a Norwegian teenager, who is introduced to the history of philosophy as she is asked "¿Who are you?", "¿Where does this world come from?" in a letter from an unknown philosopher. “Life is both sad and solemn. We are led into a wonderful world, we meet one another here, greet each other - and wander together for a brief moment. Then we lose each other and disappear as suddenly and unreasonably as we arrived.” ✨📝✨📝✨ ——————————————— LYRICS: ——————————————— [Verse 1 - Subtle pad textures to represent the surreal mental journey] A letter with no sender came "Who are you?" it asked (and nothing more) Questions slipped through the mailbox Perplexed, she walked back to her door Thoughts followed after her, like skipping stones From Plato to Descartes Where do we rest our bones? [Pre-Chorus - Introduce slight rhythmic tension with cello swells or light percussion] The world view she knew began to bend Are we mere puppets living for a dead end? [Chorus - Choral backing vocals] If someone doesn't think of us... Do we exist? Does our matter matter? [Kick drum with heavy sidechain] Does life expand or shatter? Who are you? What is anything? Follow the yellow brick road A girl wonders where it goes... (Where do we go?) [Verse 2] She met a voice without a face A mind behind an ancient gaze... "To be or know — that is the quest" The world’s a riddle, try your best. Reality peeled back its skin... She saw the author tucked within Not God, not man, but something strange And thoughts of self began to change... [Bridge – Soft, minimal, spoken/half-sung] [ambient drones or a single piano note repeating] There's a key we never reach Doors that never open, which If you yearn to know of living There's a chance you're not done grieving [Chorus – reprised, more intense] Do we exist? Does our matter matter? Does life expand or shatter? Who are you? What is anything? Follow the yellow brick road A girl wonders where it goes... (Where do we go?) [Outro – fading, soft piano arpeggios] "You are the question and the sum" Confused, (hmm) she begun to hum... Life's built on thought, breath upon breath You take your questions to your death ✨📝✨📝✨ ————————————————— THE CHALLENGE: ————————————————— 🎶 Create a song that centers around a quote from any form of media—films, video games, books, comics, animation, or fiction-based podcasts—but it can’t be something a real person has actually said outside of fiction. There is no genre restriction. 🎶 All submitted tracks will be placed into a playlist. 🎵 Top 10 will be featured in order, and the rest will be randomized within the list.
