**Notes up top, it’s the marauders guys we know what we signed up for but specific CW for thoughts of death and suicidal ideation (suicide is mentioned in Tolerate It and Happiness , be kind to yourself and skip those if you need) If you see the “---” between lyrics it means what comes after it is a little off the deep end and you definitely don’t need to buy into it to get the rest of the song interpretation I like to put on the song and then read along but you do you,, I think that’s it up top, I had a lot of time on my hands lol so here you go** Author Credit @pagexofxcups Title POV Story Standout Lyrics Everything Has Changed (Red) Sirius We all know the moment in ATYD when Remus walks onto the hogwarts express 4th year and Sirius has a sexuality crisis, this is a super soft take on him still thinking about it the next morning “All I knew/This morning when I woke/Is I know something now/Know something now I didn't before” (Look at that Bi awakening!) “And all I've seen/Since eighteen hours ago/Is green eyes and freckles and your smile” (Remus Lupin ABSOLUTELY has green/hazel eyes and freckles I will fight on this) “I just wanna know you better, know you better, know you better now (x3)” (They’re already best friends but this feels like a whole new world!) “All I know is you held the door” (In the scene Remus did loiter at the compartment entrance for a while,,,) “All I know since yesterday/Is everything has changed” (Best Friends to lovers is the best!!) “And all my walls/Stood tall painted blue/But I'll take 'em down, take 'em down/And open up the door for you” (Realistically, they’re both emotional messes at this point but the amount they trust each other really is incredible) “makin' up for lost time” + “Come back and tell me why/I'm feelin' like I've missed you all this time” (Both of these!! He thinks it’s crazy it took him so long to notice!) ---- “So dust off your highest hopes/All I know is pouring rain/And everything has changed” (what if the “dust off” bit signifies a time jump and now this is them actually getting together either sixth year or summer of ‘77??) “All my days, I'll know your face” (No matter how bad it gets, he can still remember Remus in this moment...) Gold Rush (evermore) Remus Essentially Remus thinking about Sirius, it seems to apply mostly to their time at Hogwarts/before they were dating but maybe there’s a bit of reminiscing thrown in too “Eyes like sinking ships on water/ so inviting/ I almost jump in” (Sirius has grey or grey/blue eyes) “Anyone would die to feel your touch/ Everybody wants you/ everybody wonders what it would be like to love you” (heartthrob problems!) “Walk past, quick brush/I don't like slow motion double vision in rose blush” (Hates the fact that he has a crush on sirius of all people, also “red flush” line) “What must it be like to grow up that beautiful/ with your hair falling into place like dominoes” “I see me padding ‘cross your wooden floors/With my Eagles t-shirt hanging from the door” (PADing AKA padfoot that one’s a stretch but I love it,, also eagles are the correct time period, american based, but totally possible for remus to have one of their shirts at hogwarts) “At Dinner parties I call you out on your contrarian shit” (There’s no reason for this to be here except it feels so in character I cannot believe it never happened) “The coastal town we wandered round had never seen a love as pure as it and then it fades into the grey of my day old tea” (summer of ‘77 ATYD!! Then reminiscing on it after OotP??) “My mind turns your life into folklore/I can’t dare to dream about you anymore” (Double whammy-- I think the mythologization of the marauders time at hogwarts is v real and this line encapsulates it in-universe really well,, but also the can’t dare to dream bit is one or both being closeted) August (folklore) Grant After remus goes back to hogwarts, the whole calling from the payphone and talking to him about sirius scene!! But also this is literally just Grant’s song I will not budge ok I didn’t even include everything on here so much of it is just,, glaringly obvious “Whispers of ‘Are you sure?’/‘Never have I ever before’” (gayyyyyyyyyy) “But I can see us lost in the memory/.../’Cause you were never mine” (thinking about how remus was always going back to Hogwarts and, in the end, back to Sirius) “Will you call when you're back at school?” (Almost word for word ATYD like what) “To live for the hope of it all/ Cancel plans just in case you'd call” (Self-explanatory,, remus would just send him a time and once he was almost an hour late and grant was still there to pick up) “So much for summer love and saying ‘us’/'Cause you weren't mine to lose” (I really need to point out that remus never dumped grant? Just called him up and started asking for advice on sirius? that had to hurt) “‘Cause you were never mine/’Cause you were never mine, never mine” (All of this also echoes what eventually happens when sirius gets out of azkaban,, to add some perspective and extra pain!) It’s Nice to Have a Friend (Lover) Remus+Sirius This ones pretty straight (ha) forward,, two school friends whose relationship changes as time goes on,, but also ATYD sixth year where they keep calling it a “friendship” and it’s obviously more “Sleeping in tents” (timing’s totally wrong but i have to point out all camping imagery it just feels mandatory at this point) “It's nice to have a friend (Ooh)” (It’s so sweet because at first they both really just needed a friend,, coming from the childhoods they’d had and all) “Light pink sky up on the roof/Sun sinks down, no curfew” (Astronomy tower vibes?? And of course there was a curfew they just had the cloak and ignore it lmao) “Feels like home, stay in bed/The whole weekend” (ATYD sixth year christmas break vibes) Tolerate It (evermore) REGULUS OK so let’s take out anything romantic and, instead, think about a Reg looking up to/idolizing Sirius like so many little siblings do,,, Then we can realize how well the lyrics lend themselves to a fractured family situation and what it’s like, as time goes on, for him to watch Sirius suffer at home, and eventually, the mixed feelings that come from Sirius leaving “I notice everything you do or don't do/You're so much older and wiser” (I’m imagining like pre-hogwarts still very young sirius and reg, but classic little sib vibes) “Lay the table with the fancy shit/ And watch you tolerate it” (Sirius getting increasingly upset at the Black family and all the traditions, and lumping Reg in with it) “I greet you with a battle hero's welcome/I take your indiscretions all in good fun/I sit and listen” (Sirius coming home after being sorted for the first time, Reg can’t be over the top obviously but maybe he gets something subtle in gryffindor colors and tries to listen because he’s excited to be going to Hogwarts, too, and also he loves his older brother but it’s heartbreaking because Sirius is realizing just how effed their family is at the same time) “I polish plates until they gleam and glisten” (so normally this would be a house elf’s job but when we remember the imagery of laying the table earlier it seems like reg is trying to, essentially, show love in the black family/slytherin way and is making all this extra effort that sirius either won’t notice or won’t care about) “I wait by the door like I'm just a kid” (this repetition gets sadder every time because instead of just being a kid (which he really still is!) It also stands in for Sirius kinda ignoring him and him following along with what his parents are doing/saying) “While you were out building other worlds, where was I?/Where's that man who'd throw blankets over my barbed wire?” (Reg’s angry now, sirius was off at hogwarts meeting the marauders (and secretly a lot of what sirius is doing is what reg wants to do) and reg feels abandoned. Sirius used to protect him from the worst of their parents punishment but now he’s gone) “Now I'm begging for footnotes in the story of your life” (He Feels like Sirius forgot about him, now that he’s a slytherin too, but it’s complicated because he misses him still) “You assume I'm fine, but what would you do if I...” (Reg is realizing that he’s not fine and that he doesn’t have a way out, also the rhyme progressions seems to suggest that this could end with “die” which is, of course, HEARTWRENCHING when we think about both the abuse he’s suffering and his eventual fate) “I break free and leave us in ruins?/.../Believe me, I could do it” (I think that this bit is Sirius actually leaving and Reg trying to tell himself that he could, too, if he wanted, but it’s already ringing hollow) “I sit and watch you” (This is the last line, I think it could mean that after all this anger and hurt and confusion he still loves sirius,, Picture this, they’re in their final years at Hogwarts and Reg’s looking across the great hall at the marauders laughing) Willow (evermore) Remus During 6th or 7th year at Hogwarts, him and Sirius are together, and he gets pulled into one of their crazy pranks and he’s just so grateful that this is his life and these are his friends and that he ended up with Sirius really just reflecting on how all of this silliness makes him so, so happy “I'm like the water when your ship rolled in that night/Rough on the surface but you cut through like a knife” (Remus was in a bad mood but all of these crazy antics pulled him out of it) “And if it was an open-shut case I never would've known from that look on your face” (I think this was a simple prank that sirius made overly complicated on purpose to cheer remus up, which, aww) “The more that you say/The less I know” ( this is sirius rambling about whatever the prank is and pulling remus into it) “Wherever you stray/I follow/I'm begging for you to take my hand/Wreck my plans/That's my man” (personally, I think Remus was just as much of a rebel as james and sirius but it also makes sense that sirius would egg him on and kinda be the one to pull him out of line) “Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind (oh)” (So imagine willow=whomping willow= lycanthropy, Sirius reminded him that he was so much more than just that!) “Head on the pillow, I could feel you/sneaking in” (ATYD,,, sneaking into each others beds) “As if you were a mythical thing/Like you were a trophy or a champion ring” (Sirius always seems larger than life) “And there was one prize I'd cheat to win” (like he didn’t cheat in school but for sirius he’d do anything) “You know that my train could take you home” (Hogwarts express imagery??) “ They count me out time and time again/Life was a willow and it bent right to your wind “ (So if we interpret the willow as lycanthropy this is him saying he’s so often discounted because he’s a werewolf but Sirius never treats him any differently) “Wait for the signal and I'll meet you after dark/Show me the places where the others gave you scars” (Remus is now fully involved in the prank, HA, but what if they’re pranking the slytherin common room and that’s what the second line refers too?) “ Now this is an open-shut case/Guess I should've known from the look on your face/Every bait and switch was a work of art” (And, of course, the prank goes off without a hitch Sirius had it under control the whole time lol) You Are in Love (1989- DLX) Sirius When Remus couldn’t say he loved someone in ATYD “One look, dark room/Meant just for you” (6th! Year! vibes!) “Light hearted joke/No proof not much/But you saw enough” (Sirius knows him well enough to know what his love looks like) “Coffee at midnight” (once again there is no canon reason for this to be here but it feels so incredibly wolfstar, those disasters) “No proof, one touch/You felt enough” (It literally boggles my mind sometimes to think about the fact that they’ve all known each other and have been living together since they were 11 like they genuinely know each other so well and trust each other so much it’s crazy) “You can hear it in the silence/.../You are in love, true love” (see above, apply it to them,, my word) “Burnt toast, Sunday” (I guess it is ATYD canon that neither of them can cook, but still, perfect) “You keep his shirt/ He keeps his word/And for once you let go/Of your fears and your ghosts” (first point, the shirt in question is a cardigan, second point they’ve both been so mistreated and abused that the trust they built between them is literally incredible?!? I know I said it once before but they know each other and trust each other so much at this point and eventually that’s half of what makes the ending so incredibly painful) “You fight and you talk” (they absolutely fight, how could they not with the pressure on them, but there’s so much history and love between them I can’t--) “One night he wakes, strange look on his face/Pauses, then says, you're my best friend” (Sirius has James but to Remus, Sirius is kinda everything) ---- “You understand now why they lost their minds and fought the wars” (Not only is the just an incredibly romantic line but in ATYD they reference the Epic of Gilgamesh a bit and Sirius and Remus can parallel Enkidu and Gilgamesh in some ways so maybe that’s one of the “books beside the bed” that sirius read and this is him understanding Gilgamesh a bit better) Lover (Lover) Lily James and Lily as newlyweds, look I’m a sucker for imagining them happy and this has just enough substance to warrant it ok?? “Have I known you 20 seconds or 20 years?” (for timing purposes, they’re 20 just had harry and so freakin happy it hurts) “We could let our friends crash in the living room/This is our place, we make the call” (you KNOW before going into hiding the boys were there alllll the time) “I've loved you three summers now, honey, but I want 'em all” (That’s pretty damn close timeline wise, got together seventh year ~17 and they’re ~20 in this) “With every guitar string scar on my hand” (There is once again no canon reason for this to be here except the thought of Lily being the one who plays acoustic guitar in the common room instead of James just added five years to my life) “I take this magnetic force of a man to be my lover” (Big james energy! He was their leader!) “My heart's been borrowed and yours has been blue/All's well that ends well to end up with you” (imagine that first line as happening at the same time, as in he was probably so upset when she was dating other people at school but in retrospect it’s sweet and kinda funny) “Swear to be overdramatic and true to my lover” (they can both be drama queens and it’s adorable) “Can we always be this close forever and ever?/And ah, take me out, and take me home” (Don’t promise forever!! And don’t talk about being taken out??? It just hurts a bit if I think to hard) Paper Rings (Lover) Sirius, mostly So this is incredibly biased, I needed something happy in here, and the idea comes from one tik tok edit I saw where someone did a wolfstar raising harry AU with this song and that’s all I can hear now (So it’s mostly vibes based FYI) “The moon is high/Like your friends” (this just makes me laugh it feels very marauders obviously not first meeting but- between moon and rebel teen activities it certainly fits) “Now I've read all of the books beside your bed” (That’s one way to get sirius to read I suppose) “Like the shoulder that I gave you in the street/Cat and mouse for a month or two or three” (ATYD sixth year vibes, a bit, yeah?) “I like shiny things, but I'd marry you with paper rings/Uh huh, that's right/Darling, you're the one I want” (Sirius is, at heart, a rich boy) “I hate accidents except when we went from friends to this” “In the winter, in the icy outdoor pool/.../to the color that we painted your brothers wall” (this verse has big remus energy and let’s imagine in this AU Reg survived too and they were helping him get a fresh start too ok??!? Also is the icy outdoor pool the great lake at hogwarts I need to know) “I want your complications too” (Werewolf alert!) “You're the one I want, and/Paper rings and picture frames and all my dreams/Oh, you're the one I want” (this could’ve been their life y’all!!!!!!!!!) Cardigan (folklore) Remus I have a complicated relationship with putting this song on here because I don’t think the story of it fits them that well but i see people use lines from this for remus maybe more than any other song and I do agree that individual lines are really fitting so i’ll put them down, but it’s another vibes based one I suppose Cardigan (this is the title but it warrants mentioning because, of course, in fanon remus exclusively wears cardigans lol) “Sensual politics/When you are young, they assume you know nothing” (I mean og order of the phoenix vibes) “But I knew you/Dancin' in your Levi's/Drunk under a streetlight” (yeah sirius def did this) “You drew stars around my scars/But now I'm bleedin'” (there ya go the line that earned the song it’s place here) “I knew you/Tried to change the ending” (looking at this with hindsight it does seem to have mad sirius switching secret keeper vibes) “I knew you'd haunt all of my what-ifs/The smell of smoke would hang around this long/'Cause I knew everything when I was young” (Remus reflecting on Sirius and how certain they all were as kids joining the war, wondering if he could have realized sooner and changed something) “I knew I'd curse you for the longest time” Never Grow Up (Speak Now) Lily Lily singing to baby Harry and imagining the life they could have “Your little hand's wrapped around my finger/And it's so quiet in the world tonight” (Harry was saved by a mothers love-- also important, I think this bit is the actual scene that’s taking place and the rest of the time jumps are lily imagining the future they could have) “I won’t let nobody hurt you” “No one’s ever burned you/ Nothing’s ever left you scarred” (?!!?!?!?!?!!!) “Take pictures in your mind of your childhood room/Memorize what it sounded like when your dad gets home/.../I just realized everything I have is someday gonna be gone” (So this hurts? It’s a delicate balance of imagination and then the realization that none of it is guaranteed) “ Don’t you ever grow up ” (I also want to take a moment at the end here to remind everyone of the double meaning in this because James and Lily never got to grow up, they died at 21) Champagne Problems (1) (evermore) Sirius, right after going to Azkaban Sirius thinking about Remus, how their love isn’t what Remus should focus on right now it’s a “champagne problem” It’s time for pain guys-- but also this is literally what made me start this,, I cannot pick and choose lyrics I’m annotating it in full at the bottom scroll down to see Champagne Problems (2) (evermore) Omniscient Narrator/ a bit of Remus Telling the story of the marauders this is literally their theme song-- how friendship became a luxury during a war and how they lost everything and the world celebrated “You booked the night train for a reason So you could sit there in this hurt” (Remus after it happened) “Champagne problems” (the wizarding world was saved! Why is he so distraught, people think) “You told your family for a reason/You couldn't keep it in/.../Now no one's celebrating” (had to tell someone, anyone, that it wasn’t all a happy day that his whole world had just crumbled ) “No crowd of friends applauded/Your hometown skeptics called it/ Champagne problems” (all of his friends are dead and people aren’t understanding) “Love slipped beyond your reaches” (All love, it seemed, his closest friends and lover gone in one day) “And I couldn’t give a reason” (OK so if this is an omniscient presence speaking it’s acknowledging how cosmically unfair his situation is OR remus at a complete loss and asking himself the awful “why?”) “Your Midas touch on the Chevy door/November flush and your flannel cure/’This dorm was once a madhouse’/I made a joke, ‘Well, it's made for me’” (it’s literally, actually, them sirius’ birthday is November 3 and he had a motorcycle--madhouse dorm could be any of them or remus making a werewolf joke) “How evergreen, our group of friends/Don't think we'll say that word again” (OW, first and foremost, but look at how mythologized the marauders became too by making these memories larger than life he’s memorializing James but also making the pain worse for himself in the long run ) “And soon they'll have the nerve to deck the halls/That we once walked through” (yup if it happened on halloween this would be November/early december time but now) “‘he would've made such a lovely groom/What a shame he's fucked in the head,’ they said/But you'll find the real thing instead/She'll patch up your tapestry that I shred” (this is remus missing sirius I will die on this hill- between everyone assuming he was the traitor and is currently going insane, that’s the fucked in the head part and then we’re hit with imagery of a shredded tapestry?!?! ie. losing family, which is what happened to remus) “You won't remember all my/Champagne Problems” (remus realizing that he has no future and no one who cares about him and that this will go down in history as a day of celebration not tragedy and that he will be alone) evermore (evermore) Remus and Sirius, when Sirius is first going to Azkaban Essentially, Remus’ POV is Taylor and Sirius’ POV is Bon Iver -- but things get muddled towards the end Yes the song ends on a hopeful note,post line “ you were there ” at the end of Bon Iver section-- realistically I think it would be remus reconnecting with grant but,, For all of you die hard romantics it could be sirius getting out, too, and the truth being revealed (Oh my!! Or the “Floors of a cabin creaking under my step” could be remus telling Harry in Deathly Hallows that Teddy is on his way and asking him to be godfather!?!) “Grey November” (Nov. 1981) “replay my footsteps on each stepping stone/Trying to find the one where I went wrong” (trying to find any clue that Sirius was the spy) “And I was catching my breath/.../Evermore” (the chorus is painfully self explanatory I do believe) “Can’t remember/What I used to fight for” “I rewind the tape but all it does is pause On the very moment all was lost Sending signals To be double crossed” (word play on double crossed- also referencing the spy and betrayal) “ Barefoot in the wildest winter/.../Evermore” (opening bit about being with the werewolves? And the rest is still,,, ow) SIRIUS POV Shift “Can't not think of all the cost/And the things that will be lost/Oh, can we just get a pause?” (trying to say he’s innocent or just being still hazy on what actually happened) “Or the violence of the dog days I'm on waves, out being tossed” (Transforming into a dog in Azkaban, being taken there by ship because Azkaban is on an island let’s all remember) “I dreamed of you (to be certain we'll be tall again) (If you think of all the costs) It was real enough (whether weather be the frost) To get me through (or the violence of the dog days) (Out on waves being tossed)” (ALL SIRIUS POV, his time in Azkaban mixing with whatever hope he had left and him clinging to the memory of Remus out in the world somewhere) Last Kiss (Speak Now) Just generally wolfstar Look I don’t think this song fits them much at all and it is here for one reason only-- JULY 9 “That July 9th, the beat of your heart/It jumps through your shirt/I can still feel your arms” (This! Is! Literally! Their! Anniversary! In! ATYD! July 9, 1977!!) “The life of the party, you're showing off again/And I roll my eyes and then you'd pull me in” (this fits pretty well too) “Never thought we'd have a last kiss/Never imagined we'd end like this” (and out of context I mean,, yeah) Happiness (evermore) Remus This one is, admittedly, not perfect, but there are too many similarities to discount-- let’s imagine it’s remus at his lowest points (in ATYD canon I imagine when it starts he’s kinda in a drunken haze right after the betrayal, pre-grant) “.../But now I’m right down in it/ all the years I’ve given” (This is important to say that he feels like he’s lost perspective and he’s just, kinda, raw) “I showed you all of my hiding spots” (ATYD Mapmaking but also metaphorical obvs) “I was dancing when the music stopped” (He was with the werewolves when it happened) “And in the disbelief/I can’t face reinvention/I haven’t met the new me yet” (falling into alcoholism/not being able to live with himself) “There’ll be happiness after you/But there was happiness because of you/Both of these things can be true” (Mourning all the friends he’s lost) “There is happiness/Past the blood and bruise/Past the curses and cries/Beyond the terror in the nightfall” (all of what happened on Halloween 1981,, but also remembering the happy memories he has with Lily and James) “Haunted by the look in my eyes/That would've loved you for a lifetime/Leave it all behind/And there is happiness” (There’s a musical shift on Would’ve that can signal a subject shift,, now it’s about Sirius and Remus is haunted by the fact that he didn’t suspect sirius of being the spy and he’s saying, here, that it’s only in forgetting/alcohol that he can move on and be happy,, not good yall) “Tell me, when did your winning smile/Begin to look like a smirk?” (“That Sirius Black smile”) “When did all our lessons start to look like weapons/pointed at my deepest hurt” (lessons as in lessons at Hogwarts, and how even his happiest memories are now reminders of the betrayal) “I can't see facts through all my fury” “There’ll be happiness after me/But there was happiness because of me/Both of these things, I believe/There is happiness” (very dark, he’s contemplating there being no more remus) “across our great divide/There is a glorious sunrise” (these lines symbolize reunion, ok, just go with me, so for the first one it would be Grant showing up) (So in the song this happens after the "green light" line but pls for storytelling purposes let's do a lil magic reordering) (OK i had to cut some stuff so this comes out of the blue now but I'm still buying it TBH) “Leave it all behind/ and there is happiness” (Abandoning the wizarding world??) “I can't make it go away by making you a villain/I guess it's the price I paid for seven years in Heaven/And I pulled your body into mine/Every goddamn night” (dealing with the trauma-- 7 years in heaven=7 years at Hogwarts, and he’s trying so hard to hate Sirius but his happy memories are getting it all muddled up) “After giving you the best I had/Tell me what to give after that” (ATYD almost word for word) “In our history, across our great divide/There is a glorious sunrise” (Time jump! He finds out Sirius is innocent, second reunion) “All you want from me now is the green light of forgiveness/You haven't met the new me yet/And I think (s)he'll give you that” (reconnecting now that Sirius is out, Remus knows he’ll forgive him for thinking he was the traitor and for, well, everything) ------ “Leave it all behind/Oh, leave it all behind/Leave it all behind/And there is happiness” (BIG time jump and what if,,, this is when remus dies. He’s thinking about how he can finally be reunited with all of his friends and be happy at last which is,,, OW) Lucky One ( Red) Mary MacDonald (ATYD) This is Mary questioning the war, coping with survivors guilt, and eventually deciding to live in the muggle world “You had it figured out since you were in school/Everybody loves pretty, everybody loves cool” (thinking about simpler times? When she was surrounded by friends and happy) “Another name goes up in lights/Like diamonds in the sky” (This represents someone dying! This is my thesis! Go with it!!) “And they'll tell you now, you're the lucky one” (questioning the war effort and survivors guilt) “Now it's big black cars, and Riviera views/And your lover in the foyer doesn't even know you” (Funerals and then looking at Darren and all the muggle-ness he represents) “And your secrets end up splashed on the news front page” (Daily Prophet, Lily dying) “'Cause you don't feel pretty, you just feel used.” (Dumbledore used them as child soldiers) “And all the young things line up to take your place” (all the young things dudes?) Another name goes up in lights/You wonder if you'll make it out alive --- “It was a few years later/I showed up here/And they still tell the legend of how you disappeared” (Ok so all of this LA imagery, who in the story moved to California?? Philomena Pettigrew, that’s who, what if this is Mary corresponding with and eventually finding phil and getting advice on how to leave the wizarding world-- apply this to the fake name/arriving to LA imagery in the beginning too!) Let me tell you now, you're the lucky one (philomena avoiding the war) Bonus Songs! These ones are so sad and fit the marauders vibes but the story’s are pretty obviously not about them-- However, if you’re looking for some extra pain, listen to these and think abstractly right where you left me (evermore- bonus track) Remus “Friends break up, friends get married/.../But I'm right where you left me” (He never really moved on from losing, well, everything I mean how could he?) “Wages earned and lessons learned/But I, I'm right where you left me” (Lessons AKA teaching at Hogwarts?) “Right when I felt the moment stop/Glass shattered on the white cloth/Everybody moved on/I, I stayed there” “They expected me to find somewhere/Some perspective, but I sat and stared” “I cause no harm, mind my business” (Retreating into himself emotionally but also dealing with being a werewolf on his own) “If our love died young, I can't bear witness/And it's been so long/But if you ever think you got it wrong” (Missing Sirius and just beginning to think he could be innocent) Innocent (Speak Now) Remus @Sirius when he gets out of Azkaban-- very soft, kinda his response to Sirius in Everything has changed many years later if that makes sense “I guess you really did it this time/Left yourself in your warpath” (He charged into finding Peter without thinking it through and couldn’t communicate what really happened,, it wasn’t his fault in any way the justice system failed him but it was his anger and impulsiveness that started the chain of events) “Wasn't it beautiful when you believed in everything/And everybody believed in you?” (Back at Hogwarts, before the war) “Your string of lights is still bright to me” (Remus can still see a bit of who he was before in him, no matter how broken he seems) “who you are is not where you've been” (He! Is! More! Than! His! Time! In! Azkaban! With love and time and a life away from war he could have recovered! I really, really believe this!) You're still an innocent” (Literally falsely imprisoned) “But at night you live it all again/You wouldn't be shattered on the floor now/If only you had seen what you know now then” (Peter being the spy) “Wasn't it beautiful runnin' wild 'til you fell asleep/Before the monsters caught up to you?” (running around as animagi with Remus during the full moon) “Today is never too late to be brand new” “It's okay, life is a tough crowd/32 and still growin' up now” (damn close, Sirius was 33 when he escaped Azkaban, also the world thinking he’s guilty) “Lost your balance on a tightrope, oh/It's never too late to get it back” (if he just had Time he could’ve started healing damnit ima cry) marjorie (evermore) This song is really just an exploration of loss and grief,, in Marauders speak that means it could apply to so many different characters-- Remus, obviously, but also Sirius thinking about James or, so sadly, Harry thinking about his parents “What died didn't stay dead/You're alive, you're alive in my head” “And if I didn't know better/I'd think you were listening to me now/If I didn't know better/I'd think you were still around” “'Cause every scrap of you would be taken from me” “All your closets of backlogged dreams/And how you left them all to me” (This line in particular screams harry thinking about James to me) “I know better/But I still feel you all around/I know better/But you're still around”