Look What You've Done - Jet

Look What You've Done

Take my photo off the wall
If it just won't sing for you
'Cause all that's left has gone away
And there's nothing there for you to prove

Ohhh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems likes such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Give me back my point of view
'Cause I just can't think for you
I can hardly hear you say
What should I do, well you choose

Ohhh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems likes such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Ohhh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone

Take my photo off the wall
If it just won't sing for you
'Cause all that's left has gone away
And there's nothing there for you to do

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
Oh well, it seems likes such fun
Until you lose what you had won

Oh, look what you've done
You've made a fool of everyone
A fool of everyone
A fool of everyone

- Jet

*considers how she can relate it*  Peter, possibly?  Sirius also, in the eyes of the world.  The first made a fool of Lily, James, Sirius, Dumbledore...everyone. 

Father of Mine - Everclear

Father of Mine

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
You know I just closed my eyes
My whole world disappeared
Father of mine
Take me back to the day
When I was still your golden boy
Back before you went away

I remember the blue skies
Walking the block
I loved it when you held me high
I loved to hear you talk
You would take me to the movie
You would take me to the beach
You would take me to a place inside
That is so hard to reach

Father of mine
Tell me where did you go
You had the world inside your hand
But you did not seem to know
Father of mine
Tell me what do you see
When you look back at your wasted life
And you don't see me

I was ten years old
Doing all that I could
It wasn't easy for me
To be a scared white boy
In a black neighborhood
Sometimes you would send me a birthday card
With a five dollar bill
I never understood you then
And I guess i never will

Daddy gave me a name
My dad he gave me a name
Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away
My dad gave me a name

Father of mine
Tell me where have you been
I just closed my eyes
And the world disappeared
Father of mine
Tell me how do you sleep
With the children you abandoned
And the wife I saw you beat

I will never be safe
I will never be sane
I will always be weird inside
I will always be lame
Now i'm a grown man
With a child of my own
And I swear I'm not going to let her know
All the pain I have known

Then he walked away
Daddy gave me a name
Then he walked away...

- Everclear

I posted this song some time ago on H.E.A.D.B.O.Y. (He's Evil And Diabolical, But Our flavor of Yogurt), a Tom Riddle fan thread on Fiction Alley.  The similarities are just too good.  Look at the parts I bolded - that's everything I saw that especially related.  You can change "It wasn't easy for me/To be a scared white boy/In a black neighborhood" to a young wizard in a Muggle orphanage.

Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen

The song Hallelujah, that I first heard on Shrek, is special to me and a number of friends.  Just the other day I found it was actually written by Leonard Cohen, a Canadian who also is honored by having Cassie quote him at the beginning of quite a few of her chapters of the trilogy.  So I look for the lyrics now, and I'm finding two different versions.  the first two verses are the same, but the last two are quite different.

 

( The unfamiliar )

 

( The one we know, girls )

Remembering Ishew

So it suddenly came to me the other day that oh, I have a WIP called If Sirius Had Won.

 

Perhaps I can work on it again sometime during the holidays.