List of Songs That Retell A Work of Literature - M

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• "Memory" from the musical Cats is based on lines from a poem by T. S. Eliot.
• "Me Gustas Cuando Callas" by the Brazilian Girls is a sung version of Pablo Neruda's poem of the same name/
• "Midsummer Night's Dream" by Noe Venable speculates about the children's return from Narnia in "The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe".
• "Misery Loves Company" by Anthrax is about Misery by Stephen King.
• "Moon over Bourbon Street" by Sting is describing a character from Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire
• "Monster" by Meg & Dia is based on Cathy Ames' character in John Steinbeck's "East of Eden".
• "Mr. Raven" by MC Lars retells "The Raven", a poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
• "My Name Is Macbeth" by Mitch Benn is Shakespeare's Macbeth reworked in the style of Eminem
• "The Melting Point of wax" by Thrice retells the story of The Fall of Icarus.
• "Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Iron Maiden is based on the short story "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" by Edgar Allan Poe.
• "My Antonia" by Emmylou Harris with Dave Matthews is about My Antonia by Willa Cather.