List of Songs That Retell A Work of Literature - D

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• "Dalai Lama" by Rammstein is loosely based on Der Erlkönig by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
• "Dante's Inferno" by Iced Earth, retells Dante's Inferno.
• "The Dawn of a New Age" by Satyricon is based on the Book of Revelation.
• "Dead" by Pixies refurbishes the biblical legend of David and Bathsheba.
• "Dracula" Iced Earth is about Dracula by Bram Stoker
• "Don't Stand So Close to Me" by The Police references Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov.
• "Doublespeak" by Thrice is about George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four
• "Damnation Alley" by Hawkwind from the novel by Roger Zelazny.