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you’re on your own, kid by taylor swift
“I hosted parties and starved my body
like I’d be saved by the perfect kiss”
“Everything you lose is a step you take
so make the friendship bracelets
take the moment and taste it”
sweet nothing by taylor swift
“They said the end is coming
everyone’s up to something
I find myself running home to your sweet nothings”
“All that you ever wanted from me was sweet nothing”
I personally see this song as a representation of her friendship with Sirius. He doesn’t expect anything from her, not even love or a romantic relationship, they just care about each other.
this is me trying by taylor swift
“I had the shiniest wheels
now they’re rusting”
“I didn’t know if you’d care if I came back
I have a lot of regrets about that”
Some of these lyrics, especially the one about not knowing if the other person cared if she came back, make me think of her relationship with Petunia. She gave up that relationship because Petunia pushed her away, but she always wondered if she should have tried harder, if there was something she could have done to make up for it.
my love mine all mine by mitski
“So, when I die, which I must do
could it shine down here with you?”
“My baby, here on earth
Showed me what my heart was worth”
I can’t listen to this song without thinking about Lily singing it to little baby Harry.
the end of the world by skeeter davis
“Why does the sun go on shining?
Why does the sea rush to shore?
Don’t they know it’s the end of the world?”
Though this is meant to be a breakup song, I think about it in the context of Lily under this enormous stress of Voldemort being after her, the wizarding world is at war, and yet the rest of the world moves on.
chemtrails over the country club by lana del rey
“It’s beautiful how this deep normality settles down over me
I’m not bored or unhappy, I’m still so strange and wild”
I interpret this song as being about normalcy while grave dangers are in the background, the perfect depiction of Lily’s life in the cottage with James and Harry
glimpse of us by joji
“I’m only here passing time in her arms”
I’m sorry but this is the quintessential jegulus in a jily fic song. I think of this when Lily finally discovers James’s feelings for Regulus following Regulus’s death
august by taylor swift
“August slipped away like a bottle of wine
‘cause you were never mine”
sun bleached flies by ethel cain
“but I always knew that in the end, no one was coming to save me
so I just prayed, and I kept praying and praying and praying”
It makes me think of Voldemort finally showing up to kill Lily.
can’t catch me now by olivia rodrigo
“But I’m in the trees, I’m in the breeze”
“Yeah, sometimes the fire you founded
Don’t burn the way you’d expect
Yeah, you thought that this was the end”
Lily’s magic continues to live on after her death, and the love she felt for her friends persists.