"We gather here.
We line up weeping in a sunlit room.
And if I'm on fire
You'll be made of ashes, too."
"Even on my worst day
Did I deserve, babe?
All the hell you gave me.
Cause I loved you.
I swear I loved you.
'til my dying day"
When thinking about what to do with this song I like to think of how andromeda is looking back at her life. And her sisters. If she was on fire, then shouldn't they be too? I really see this song being about her sisters and all of them. Thinking about specially Bella and Andromeda and how when two of the oldest siblings turn away from each other. Even though they still love each other. No matter how much later on Bella will not admit that she ever did. At the end of the day, they were sisters and family. And maybe that's because it's even more sad.
"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
And you're the hero flying around saving face
And if I'm dead to you why are you at the wake?
Cursing my name
Wishing I stayed
Look at how my tears ricochet"
When Andromeda left the 12 Grimmauld Place, it was because she got kicked out. She didn't leave on her own terms and that why there was no grace when she left. Andromeda never saw herself as the hero, so when she meets Ted aka the "hero". Wishing I stayed I think could relate to Sirius and their relationship. Andromeda wishes that she stayed but she couldn't. And he dose the same.
"We gather stones
Never knowing what they'll mean
Some to throw
Some to make a diamond ring
You know I didn't want to
Have to haunt you
But what a ghostly scene
You wear the same jewels
That I gave you
As you bury me"
When gathering stones, I think it could relate to her time at Hogwarts before the fall out with her family. And how when she was young, she didn't fully understand the meaning of her purpose. "Some to throw and some to make a diamond ring", is how some of the things she went through, were hurtful and hard. But others where her marriage to ted. I think the ghostly part could be bine a way that Narcissa "haunt" her younger sister. As a younger sister myself, if one of my oldest siblings left and I was forced to be ashamed by them. Then that could leave a serious impression on me, so when thinking about Narcissa. She also married to get out of her family but did it the "Right Way". Weather she really loved Lucias is another debate entirely. And "Burying" her could be Narcissa burying her and Andromeda sistership.
"I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
And you're the hero flying around saving face
And if I'm dead to you why are you at the wake?
Cursing my name
Wishing I stayed
Look at how my tears ricochet"
Fun fact: Andromeda was killed by the snatchers. So, no grace came from her death as she was protecting her grandson.
And I can go anywhere I want
Anywhere I want
Just not home
And you can aim for my heart, go for blood
But you would still miss me in your bones
And I still talk to you
When I'm screaming at the sky
And when you can't sleep at night
You hear my stolen lullabies.
Now for the ICONIC bridge. When Andromeda got kicked out, she felt freedom and could choose her life. No more family problems, no more nightmares, no more times wishing to leave but staying anyway. But still with freedom come guilt. Guilt for leaving guilt for choosing herself over everyone else. When as the older sibling that was her job, to choose everyone else before you. So, what she still talks about her sisters I think of it in a loving way, and she know that they miss her. Even though she should hate them, there no point. I think after leaving Grimmauld Place Andromeda, matures in a way unlike before. I think by becoming a mother she grows in love and life, unlike her sisters. C. Also, HC that one of the lubbies that, Narcissa sings to Draco when he's a kid is the same one.
I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
And so the battleships will sink beneath the waves
You had to kill me, but it killed you just the same
Cursing my name
Wishing I stayed
You turned into your worst fears
And you're tossing out blame
Drunk on this pain
Crossing out the good years
And you're cursing my name
Wishing I stayed
Look at how my tears ricochet
Grace: the quality of being pleasantly polite, or a willingness to be fair and honest.
When living with her family, Andromeda never had grace, nor had she ever expired to have any. So, when throwing her out of that house and family she was to blame for all of the family problems. Cause at the end of the day Andromeda chose herself. And not in a selfish way, she chose to love a muggle and suffer the consequences. "Killing" her past self must have taken a toll on her sisters. Maybe Andromeda leaving was the last straw and made Bella finally snap. She turned into her family worst fear by choosing herself. And they will blame her, and always never take reasonably for what they did to make Andromeda turn away from them.