i loved being a witch

She gave him a wistful smile. “Sure would’ve been nice to meet you under different circumstances.” “Like how?” It was a dangerous line of questioning, but he couldn’t help himself. “Oh, like you came to one of my shows and heard me sing,” she said. “And afterward you came up to chat, and maybe we had a drink and a dance or two.” He could imagine it, her singing somewhere like Pluribus’s nightclub, him catching her eye, connecting before they’d ever even met. “And I’d come back the next night.” “Like we had all the time in the world,” she said.

the ballad of songbirds and snakes by suzanne collins / The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) dir. francis lawrence

He was glad about the erasure. It was just one more way to eliminate Lucy Gray from the world. The Capitol would forget her, the districts barely knew her, and District 12 had never accepted her as one of their own. In a few years, there would be a vague memory that a girl had once sung in the arena. And then that would be forgotten too. Goodbye, Lucy Gray, we hardly knew you.

Cause there we are again when I loved you so Back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known

“I know you killed Mayfair to protect me. Me and the rest of the Covey.” She rested her forehead on his chest. “I'll never be able to thank you for that.” He stroked her hair. “Well, she's gone for good now. You're safe.”

Look at how my tears ricochet