What Songs Remind You of Severus Snape and/or His Relationships?
I came across this song by accident, but realize how wonderfully it fits Severus and his views towards Lily. It's called Love Song Requiem by Trading Yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfQxAhVithM
I made this playlist while writing a fanfic recently! <3
The lyrics don't really match, but the general feel of Pink Floyd's 'The Trial' always makes me think of Severus at the beginning of his turn to the "Light" , pleading for Lily's protection with Dumbledore. He is truly becoming undone through his desperation and despair, revealing his innermost feelings, and Dumbledore is just picking at his insecurities, like that manipulative bastard he is.
There's quite a few Lewis Capaldi songs which feel like they should be the soundtrack to a Snily story, but these 2 are my favourites.
Wish You The Best :
Someone You Loved :
Quote from Krystal on March 2, 2023, 2:26 pmMy song would be 'All I Need' by Within Temptation. It is from Lily's side in a Snily when she starts falling for Severus.
I didn't know this song, thanks. Fits perfectly!
Quote from 𐙚 ‧jel₊˚ ⋅ on May 9, 2024, 6:32 pmI made this playlist while writing a fanfic recently! <3
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/73O2oGUG04nTMVs99actle?si=3c3526ade9bd4993
I love 13!
I think this fits with the moment when Lily abandoned Severus.
Republika and Grzegorz Ciechowski are wonderful, by the way.
I am posting the text in English:
So, this is it and you are leaving
Here are your books, here are your CDs
You can take what you want
I'd rather you took me
I am lighter than all these pictures
Which you're going to cut me out from
I'll be silent- I'm dead anyway
Just take me as you leave x4
In your new life, you'll find me some place
On a shelf or on a sill
Once in a month you'll dust me off
Just take me as you leave x3
Please, take me as you leave
Just take me as you leave x3
Please, take me as you leave
Just take me as you leave x3
Please, take me as you leave
This also fits the canonical situation between Sev and Lily:
In a hall so big and shiny
Like nocturnal Buenos Aires
That doesn't want to sleep
The orchestra are tuning up their instruments
They give a sign and will soon begin
To play the new tango
We're sitting near, indifferent
To each other like tourists
Tapping out the rhythm
There will be no tango between us
Even if a miracle was to come true
Nothing can help us
Even though sharp notes are flowing
Blood is burning in the veins
None of us will ever
Jump up to dance
Chorus:
Because it takes two to tango
Two compatible bodies and eager hearts
Because it takes two to tango
This is how the world is made
There will finally come upon Buenos Aires
A night as thick as ink
And when the dawn breaks
What has been in our hearts once
Once like a sparkling diamond
Will lose all of its shine
And though they will play again
God only knows
We won't ever come together
In this hall
Chorus:
Because it takes two to tango
Two compatible bodies and eager hearts
Because it takes two to tango
This is how the world is made /x2
Chorus:
Because it takes two to tango
Two compatible bodies and eager hearts
Because it takes two to tango
This is how the world is made /x2
My favourite Severus songs in several posts.
(I've picked songs not already in the thread. I'll add the lyrics but won't repeat song parts.)
Nevermore by Deine Lakeien
This is Severus as a Potions Master in Hogwarts, thinking about Lily
They say that everyone
goes out into the streets,
they say that spring is back in town.
And people looking at each other
and no one will be left alone.
High walls fighting the skies
high walls protecting my life
They say that I should
better leave my dungeon,
so I can breathe again.
And I pretend
not to hear not to see
Don't you know why?
Don't you know why?
Nevermore will I fall in love
Nevermore will I fall in love
no more laughter,
no more tears in my eyes
no more belief,
and no more these white lies.
All in the past in faithful one with one,
locked in tender sweet embrace
one tiny sign and you were one with me
far from a distant place
And now my days are paralysed
with gloomy pressure
and sadness everywhere
and future prospects will be hindered
by despondency and tiredness
Hand of Sorrow by Within Temptation
This is also a perfect Severus song, and it always touches my heart.
And now I'm going to take it apart [in Brackets]
The child without a name grew up to be the hand
[either Dumbledore's or Voldemort's hand]
To watch you, to shield you or kill on demand
[meaning Harry]
The choice he'd made he could not comprehend
[joining the Death Eaters]
His blood a grim secret they had to command
[Sev's blood status/his magical power]
He's torn between his honor and the true love of his life
[Lily of course]
He prayed for both but was denied
So many dreams were broken and so much was sacrificed
[This whole verse is equally about his DE time and his Spy time]
Was it worth the ones we loved and had to leave behind?
So many years have past, who are the noble and the wise?
Will all our sins be justified?
The curse of his powers tormented his life
[his fascination with the Dark Arts]
Obeying the crown was a sinister price
[Voldemort/Dumbledore]
His soul was tortured by love and by pain
He surely would flee but the oath made him stay
[vowing to protect Harry/unbreakable vow]
Please forgive me for the sorrow, for leaving you in fear
[This whole verse is Severus talking to Harry; also to Lily?]
For the dreams we had to silence, that's all they'll ever be
Still I'll be the hand that serves you
Though you'll not see that it is me
