#way down we go

Ok so. I have been sitting on this for a little while, and was planning on waiting to post it, but I am ridiculously impatient! This is the first crossword puzzle I’ve ever made! I spent a few days bashing my head against a wall trying to make it newspaper style with radial symmetry but it was impossibly hard to keep all the answers/hints on theme, so maybe next time…

Way Down We Goby@xiaq is one of my very favorite fics, so if you haven’t read it, you should, and if you have, you should reread it because some of my clues are a bit niche (I had. So much fun making them)! I’m kind of actually v proud of this so: please play my crossword puzzle If you do, you can send me 1-4 emojis and I will draw you a little doodle based on them as a prize! and I will love you! Forever!

Way Down We Go
Performed by Kaleo
Written by Daníel Kristjánsson, Davíð Antonsson, Jökull Júlíusson and Rubin Pollock

Yes, I copied and pasted the writer credits from Wiki.  Because, wow, those Icelandic names.

From Wikipedia:  The song was written by the band, and co-produced by the band.  It’s been used all over TV and the big screen, showing up in Collateral Beauty, Logan, Orange is the New Black, Suits, Supergirl, The Blacklist, Notorious, Lucifer, Grey’s Anatomy, Teen Wolf, Blindspot, Eyewitness andThe Vampire Diaries.  Also in ads for Boots UK andRiverdale.

Why so much TV and film use?  Well, just its rhythm suggests of emotion in turmoil.  Songwriter and singer Jökull Júlíusson has a voice that carries through some extreme highs and lows of feeling the way a song representing a heartbreaking drama should.

In a TV Guide article about the proliferation of this song, there was mention of one showrunner asking his staff for a bunch of songs they currently like. Send like, 10 songs that sound like our show.  This one came up often.

This song stikes a similar chord with me, being the emotional touchstone that it is for all those Hollywood execs.  It is a three-and-a-half minute capture of a dramatic shift, oftentimes in a downward direction, in life and the situations it can contain therein.

Hear this song.  Don’t just listen.  Like many things of Icelandic origin, this is a thing of beauty.

Oh, father tell me, do we get what we deserve?
Oh, we get what we deserve

And way down we go
Oh, way down we go
Say, way down we go
Way down we go

Whoa, you let your feet run wild
Time has come as we all go down
Yeah but for the fall—oh, my—
Do you dare to look him right in the eyes?

‘Cause they will run you down, down 'til the dark
Yes, and they will run you down, down 'til you fall
And they will run you down, down to your core
Yeah, 'til you can’t crawl no more

And way down we go
Way down we go
Say, way down we go

'Cause they will run you down, down 'til you’re caught
Way down we go

Whoa, baby, yeah
Whoa, baby
Baby
Way down we go
Yeah

And way down we go
Way down we go
Say, way down we go
Way down we go