List of Songs That Retell A Work of Literature - T

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• "The Tain" is a song/concept EP by The Decemberists that retells the Irish epic "Táin Bó Cúailnge"
• "Tales of Brave Ulysses" is a single by Cream that retells Homer's The Odyssey.
• Tales of Mystery and Imagination is an LP by The Alan Parsons Project which retells several Poe stories.
• "Talk Shows on Mute" by Incubus is based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.
• "Tea in the Sahara" by The Police is about The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. King Crimson also has an instrumental called "The Sheltering Sky" about the same book.
• "Tell Mary" by Meg & Dia is based on Mary by Vladimir Nabokov.
• "Tell Your Story Walking" by Deb Talan is based on Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem.
• "Terror Train" by Demons & Wizards is sung from the perspective of Blaine the Mono, a character in Stephen King's The Dark Tower, and recalls part of the plot.
• "The Thing That Should Not Be" by Metallica is based on H. P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu
• "The Things They Carried" by Eux Autres is based on "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien.
• "Thumbelina" by Nightmare of You is based on Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins.
• "Timeless Skies" by Al Stewart is about The Silmarillion.
• "The Drowning Man" by The Cure is based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast.
• "The Tomahawk Kid" by Alex Harvey is based on characters from Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island
• "To Be or Not to Be" by B. A. Robertson is based on William Shakespeare's plays.
• "To Tame a Land" by Iron Maiden tells the story of Dune by Frank Herbert
• "To The End" by My Chemical Romance retells the gothic horror story "A Rose for Emily".
• "Toilet Tisha" by Outkast retells the 18th-century Russian short story "Poor Liza" by Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin.
• "Tom Joad, Parts 1 and 2" by Woody Guthrie retells The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.
• "Tommyknockers" by Blind Guardian is about The Tommyknockers by Stephen King.
• "Traveler in Time" by Blind Guardian is about Dune by Frank Herbert.
• "A Trick of the Tail" by Genesis is based upon The Inheritors by William Golding
• "The Trooper" by Iron Maiden was inspired by "The Charge of the Light Brigade" by Tennyson.
• "Turn, Turn, Turn", by Pete Seeger, notably covered by The Byrds, takes its lyrics from chapter three of the Book of Ecclesiastes in the Holy Bible.