Het grote voorbeeld voor The Common Linnets (Ilse de Lange & Waylon) was het zeer succesvolle Amerikaanse duo The Civil Wars. Bij deze twee eigenwijze singer/songwriters, Joy Williams & John Paul White, spatte de energie er af, waardoor ze niet alleen vaak heftige ruzies hadden, maar ook heel intens samen zongen. Ik ben al een tijd fan van ze, juist door die geweldige en intense samenzang, waarbij ze continu met elkaar in contact zijn. Hun lied Kingdom Come is gebruikt in de film The Hunger Games (2012).

Kingdom Come
Run, run, run away.
Buy yourself another day.
A cold wind’s whispering
secrets in your ear.
So low and only you can hear.

Run, run, run and hide.
Somewhere no one else can find.
Tall trees bend their leaves
pointing where to go.
Where you will still be all alone.

Don’t you fret, my dear.
It’ll all be over soon.
I’ll be waiting here.
For you.

Run fast as you can.
No one has to understand.
Fly high across the sky
from here to kingdom come.
Fall back down to where you’re from.

Don’t you fret, my dear.
It’ll all be over soon.
I’ll be waiting here.
For you. For you. For you.

Don’t you fret, my dear.
It’ll all be over soon.
I’ll be waiting here.
Don’t you fret, my dear.
It’ll all be over soon.
I’ll be waiting here.
For you. For you. For you.

Run, run, run away.
Run, run, run away.