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using my deep and serious thinking skills to make a highly detailed playlist centered around steve rogers and bucky barnes? more likely than you'd think. this might be a crazy small niche but i hope one person enjoys this.

song analysis under the cut <3

Pre-War

Stubborn Love (The Lumineers) First and foremost i am a stevebucky lumineers truther, this is evident by every edit i've ever made. This is just very them, reflecting on how young love is simultaneously wonderful and kinda awful, and i think this works out for them whether you hc that they were together before the war or if you hc that they weren't but there were weird feelings or whatever. they were stubbornly devoted in any way.

True Blue (boygenius) its about being best friends with someone and knowing someone very well and loving them through all the good bad and mediocre things, and that's ~relevant~. drawing attn to "i cant hide from you like i hide from myself"

Lover, You Should've Come Over (Jeff Buckley) i don't have a ton of serious analysis for this other than that it vibes out super hard for me from Steve's POV after Bucky leaves for the war when he's suddenly by himself for the first time in his life.

dorothea (Taylor Swift) song from Bucky's POV, reflecting on Steve when he was younger. And like maybe he's reflecting from war, maybe he's reflecting from the 2020s, but like definitely time has passed. in my mind this is Bucky thinking about growing up with Steve.

cowboy like me (Taylor Swift) song from Steve's POV about him and Bucky, specifically when Steve parses out his feelings for the first time.

Fast Car (Tracy Chapman) this feels like Bucky's POV like when he's about to leave for the war and they're remembering hot summer nights and dreams about visiting the Grand Canyon. super normal about this.

Gun Song (The Lumineers) song from Steve's POV, ye olde atlas themes. Steve and his legacy (TM). lord help him.

The War

Nobody's Soldier (Hozier) i go back and forth on this for them. i think in the context of WW2, this is a Steve song, but in the context of the 21st century this is a Bucky song. it's thematically appropriate for them both. the tension between the orders and the missions and the ultimate reasoning for why they're fighting. whatever, i can't be normal.

Be Still (The Killers) this song is about Steve Rogers hope this helps. "Rise up like the sun, labor til the work is done" what the hell man!! this one does have the vibes of the singer speaking to someone, and i envision Sarah saying this to Steve.

A Pearl (Mitski) this is a Steve POV. but the 'war' is Captain America and he's losing himself to it but he's not really upset about it. "god's righteous man, pretending you could live without a war" this is also a Dick Winters song but that's neither here nor there.

Body to Flame (Lucy Dacus) Bucky 's POV to Steve, sorta in response to Steve losing himself to Cap. I envision like BUCKETS of angst between them for the first few months after Azzano where they can't really reach each other because they've both found a safety net in the war instead of in each other.

Gale Song (The Lumineers) Bucky POV during the war but before Steve gets there when he's like wow this shit sucks i'm glad Steve isn't here. And then maybe tack it on to his complicated feelings about Peggy and Steve being on the front with him.

Cleopatra (The Lumineers) This is my Steve Rogers Anthem. "The only gifts from my Lord were birth and a divorce/But I've read this script and the costume fits so I'll play my part." This is S T E V E.

You'll Never Walk Alone (Marcus Mumford cover) I put this on here after reading "The Hundred Year Playlist" by girlbookwrm on AO3, this song is the chapter song for when Bucky falls off the train. I kinda have it in here as the placeholder song for the train scene.

Me & My Dog (boygenius) Steve POV when he's crashing the Valkyrie and he tells Peggy 'this is my choice' after she told him to 'give Barnes the dignity of his choice' because that's a callback if i ever did hear one. he's flashing through his memories, thinking about getting to see his mom and dad and Bucky again.

In a Week (Hozier, Karen Cowley) Steve POV AFTER he's crashed the Valkyrie, when he's drowning (Sorry). Because he honest to god does think he's going to die and be reunited with Bucky again. End tweet with extreme prejudice. "I'd be home with you, I'd be home with you"

Bucky as The Soldier

doomsday (Lizzy McAlpine) I see this one specifically for the time period between when he's captured and when they fully figure out how to brainwash him. when hes conscious of the fact that hes a prisoner. and then when they tell him that Steve is dead (nightmare). and then at the end its "i had no choice in the matter, why would i? it's only the death of me" once they finally wipe him.

Timekeepers (Lucy Dacus) "I fought time, it won in a landslide, I'm just as good as anybody, I'm just as bad as anybody" this evokes those fics where it's a disjointed account of his years as the soldier where he wakes up long enough to remember who he is before they wipe him again.

Steve in the Future

epiphany-long pond (Taylor Swift) like right after he wakes up and they tell him its 2011, and then he's in that cabin just reading dossiers about the last 67 years. and he's having flashbacks and nightmares because 1945 was only a week ago. just that. "Only 20 minutes to sleep, but you dream of some epiphany, just one single glimpse of relief, to make some sense of what you've seen"

Sick In The Head (The Lumineers) another legacy song! who knew! he'd already started losing himself to Cap during the war, and now nobody even knows who Steve Rogers is. so he should just be Cap right? "I don't know if its alright with you, i'll be gone, a ghost will be here in my stead" but the ghost is Cap.

O Theo (Matthew Perryman Jones) This is like that deleted scene where he's reading the dossiers about his dead friends sorry. "Then my heart was still unknown I was drunk and full of sorrows/I was longing for a home with nowhere to go."

Pride and Joy (Brandi Carlile) this song is about Sarah Rogers end tweet. and maybe Peggy and Bucky a little, but mostly him talking to Sarah, wondering if she'd recognize the man he has become.

Maine (Noah Kahan) this is like that deleted scene from The Avengers where he’s wandering around the city by himself and looking at the files of his dead friends. and then feelings (TM) about new york changing while he's gone and how he recognizes it but he also really doesn't.

Hits Different (Taylor Swift) from Steve's POV like missing Bucky and remembering all the times when they were young that Steve was stupid about them and now that Bucky's dead Steve is like "suddenly i am incapable of getting over you even though i never had trouble with that before." and at the end of this she says "i heard your key turn in the door down the hallway, was that your key in the door? is it you? or have they come to take me away?" and like don't think about Steve having nightmares about Bucky being alive and waking up in his dumb fucking SHIELD apartment alone. don't do that.

Fireworks (Mitski) this is like when Steve wakes up and realizes nobody knows him they just know Cap so he leans into it. "i will go jogging routinely, calmly and rhythmically run, and when I find that a knife sticking out of my side, i'll pull it out without questioning why." plus the fireworks motif with his bday being on July 4.

Some Nights (fun.) this to me is just like that whole time from defrosting through TWS, and i've made two different edits to this song about steve so i'm obviously so normal about it. specifically the section about how he joined SHIELD to help people and then slowly realized he was making things worse. "oh lord i'm still not sure what i stand for, what do i stand for"

The Archer (Taylor Swift) when he can’t tell where Steve Rogers ends and Captain America begins. this is very "The Avengers" to me, and then his time with STRIKE when he's like sure i guess i'll fight if i don't have anything else to live for. "i jump from the train, i ride off alone, i never grow up, it's getting so old. help me hold onto you" BYE

Dawns (Zach Bryan and Maggie Rogers) this song to me reads as like thinking about how your relationships used to be and being so angry because you want it all back but you can't go back because everything is dead. and then violently regretting what you never were able to say to them. "it just dawned on me life is as fleeting as the passing dawn, and i shoulda told him twice i believe in something bigger than both of us."

Zombie (The Cranberries) odd placement but hear me out. this is obvs a Steve POV song we all know this, and it's a song about war we all know this, but i didn't vibe with it in the war section. this song is angry, and i vibe it with Steve's anger at the state of the future & how war and violence have only worsened, and with his shady SHIELD work in DC & his slowly building gut feeling that he isn't actually saving people.

The Winter Soldier & After

Trouble Man (Marvin Gaye) it's the TWS anthem, and i love this song.

making the bed (Olivia Rodrigo) from Steve's POV during TWS, with the whole 'i died for nothing' and 'i've been working for the very people i swore to destroy' vibe. but with the grain of salt that he's honestly not trying very hard to be a person, and he can't just blame all his shit on HYDRA. "they're changing my machinery and i just let it happen, i got the things i wanted its just not what i imagined"

Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush) this is like my fun movie montage of Steve and Nat and Sam digging through the file dump and putting together clues to find Bucky and Steve is like "if i only could, i'd make a deal with god, and i'd get him to swap our places" DO YOU SEE. i hate it here.

Love Of My Life (Queen) from Steve's POV looking for Bucky. because he's like girl why did you leave. and even though we know that Bucky leaving has narrative significance, Steve is just sad about it. but still, he loves Bucky no matter what.

Futile Devices (Sufjan Stevens) from Bucky's POV. his memories of Steve are scattered and don't make very much sense, but they're strong and he has good feelings associated with them. and maybe here he's like in the same city as Steve and he's thinking about reaching out, but he can't figure out what words are good enough to explain everything happening in his head so he stay away. "and i would say i love you but saying it out loud is hard, so i wont say it at all, and i wont stay very long"

Bite The Hand (boygenius) this is from Bucky's POV obviously. this is one of the first damn songs i put on this list. identity?? who is she?? "i can't love you how you want me to" and "who do you think you are? who do you think i am? what do you wanna say? what do you think will change? maybe i'm afraid of you." like come on. the conflict between The Soldier and James Barnes and Bucky.

No Machine (Adrienne Lenker) from Steve's POV, to me this is like when Steve has decided to stop chasing Bucky and let him decide whether to come in. but he doesn't want Bucky to think Steve stopped caring about him, he just cares about him enough to let him go. "to the ocean of your love i am a river"

Sun Bleached Flies (Ethel Cain) from Bucky's POV when he's hunting down HYDRA, and the memories are flooding back but its the Soldier memories not the childhood ones. "if its meant to be then it will be/I forgive it all as it comes back to me" and "i always knew that in the end no one was coming to save me so i just prayed and i keep praying and praying and praying"

A Troubled Mind (Noah Kahan) from Bucky's POV about his scrambled brain. this song has the vibes of "my head is a mess and i don't know what's real but i have all these feelings that i'm so sure about and i don't know why i'm sure about them or what they even mean." and then he's trying to go around to different places hoping something familiar triggers something for him to remember. i'm fine this is all fine.

Killer + The Sound (Phoebe Bridgers, Abby and Noah Gundersen) from Bucky's POV. here, he's recovered most of what he's gonna recover. he's started to settle down like in Romania, and he's balanced out he doesn't have as many flashbacks and nightmares and he's like wow maybe i can reach out to Steve now AND THEN he sees Steve on the news in Sokovia doing hero shit and he has a whole crisis. "i am sick of the chase, but i'm stupid in love, and there's nothing i can do". and then the second half of the song where the pov shifts from "i" to "you" to me that's like the part of his mind that he calls The Soldier talking to the James part i dont know man i dont know. it's all sad.

The Only Living Boy in New York (Simon & Garfunkel) this is a vibe song for them and their messy relationship with new york in the past and in the future.

Civil War Movie Specifically

Under Pressure (Queen, David Bowie) Another one taken from "The Hundred Year Playlist" by girlbookwrm. the theme vibe for Civil War for me, but like the song is from Steve's POV about the Avengers Divorce.

coney island (Taylor Swift, The National) this is a notable stevebucky anthem, and it could go anywhere but i put it here because this period has the required amounts of angst for them. like specifically when they ride in that plane together from Germany to Siberia. the Taylor verses are Steve, and The National verses are Bucky.

Guilty As Sin (Taylor Swift) from Steve's POV like after the Accords conflict becomes about Bucky and he decides he's gonna burn the world for Bucky and he doesn't care about Cap anymore. and also this song is fun and there's that vibe of being like "are we actually anything or am I just remembering it wrong, but either way I am down bad for you" which I believe is there for them. "if long suffering propriety is what they want from me, they don't know how you've haunted me so stunningly. i choose you and me, religiously"

I Want You (Mitski) from Bucky's POV when Steve shows up in his apartment in Bucharest. and then his POV throughout the whole rest of the movie, like any time they're alone together and Bucky has all these thoughts he wont voice. "you're coming back and it's the end of the world, we're starting over and i love you darling, and i am done here."

Unknown/Nth (Hozier) from Steve's POV. when he's just trying to make Bucky understand that he wants him as he is now, not how he was in 1945. and then the themes this song has about loving something that's probably bad for you, but you do it anyway. "that i'd walk so far just to take the injury of finally knowing you"

Northern Attitude (Noah Kahan, Hozier) from Bucky's POV during Civil War. "if i get too close and i'm not how you hoped, forgive my northern attitude i was raised out in the cold" gosh. and he's like yea hey Steve have you been doing okay i wanna be in your life again but i refuse i wont ruin it i can't.

The Tortured Poets Department (Taylor Swift) from Steve's POV. another one of him trying to make Bucky understand that they're both different people, and they don't need to be who they used to be. "who's gonna know you if not me?"

Long Long Time (Linda Ronstadt) from Steve's POV when Bucky goes into cryo in Wakanda and Steve loves Bucky so he's not arguing or anything but he's like WRENCHED about it obviously. "i've done everything i know, to try and make you mine, and i think i'm gonna love you for a long long time."

The Boxer (Simon & Garfunkel) this is generally Steve coded, i don't hold it emotionally to a specific area of his life, i thought about putting it in his defrosted era but i think it's better here, after Civil War when he's on the run. "i am leaving, i am leaving but the fighter still remains"

Democracy (The Lumineers cover of Leonard Cohen) from Steve's POV. like imagine, he tears the star off of his uniform and grows his hair out and he and Team Cap are doing aid work and disaster relief around the world instead of killing people, and he's like "this is what i was supposed to be a symbol of. this is what i am meant for" and then in a perfect world he never becomes Cap again but he keeps fighting, just on a different scale, and for things that actually matter to him. "sail on o mighty ship of state, through the shores of need, past the reefs of greed, through the squalls of hate. sail on, sail on, sail on"

Post-CW, or like in an AU after and the vibe is "they've reunited but they haven't healed yet"

Two Ghosts (Harry Styles) from Bucky's POV, about relearning themselves and one another in the modern world. but it's hard because they have no idea how to actually communicate with each other.

Chloe or Sam or Sophia or Marcus (Taylor Swift) from Bucky's POV. Could totally be like "Peggy or Sam or Sharon or Tony" when he's like in a crisis about who he's become and whether he's worth loving anymore. "if you wanna break my cold cold heart just say 'i loved you the way that you were'"

I And Love And You (The Avett Brothers) i go back and forth on this but i think its a POV for both of them. "Brooklyn Brooklyn take me in, are you aware the shape I'm in?" they both come back to NY different men from when they left, and Brooklyn is important for them to find themselves and each other again.

Renegade (Big Red Machine, Taylor Swift) insane to me this is insane to me. from Bucky's POV to Steve, when Bucky's evened out and made real progress and he realizes Steve has been slowly killing himself ever since he was defrosted. and Bucky says "how are you supposed to help me heal if you wont even heal yourself?" "is it insensitive for me to say 'get your shit together so i can love you'"

Fresh Out The Slammer (Taylor Swift) from Bucky's POV and it's like his Turning Moment when all the trigger words and programming are gone and he can just work on being Bucky now. and he knows all isn't well just because he's free from the programming, he knows that this is just the beginning of a lot more shit they have to handle, "but it's gonna be alright, i did my time"

The End.

Fine Line (Harry Styles) from Bucky's POV. starting anew, and all the crap that comes along with that. it's not a perfect ending, i love me some interpersonal angst. but the way Bucky sees it, they're going to have highs and lows, but for the most part they'll ride the fine line, they'll be balanced, and they love each other which is all that matters.

Two Slow Dancers (Mitski) from Steve's POV. because in my hc, it takes five-ever for Steve to deconstruct the Cap Walls and figure out how to be a person again. and this song is like super sad, but i put it down here because it's about mourning the past and accepting the future. Steve mourning the person he was so that he can better become the person he is now. "to think that we could stay the same, but we're two slow dancers, last ones out."

I Wanna Get Better (Bleachers) okay this one, verse one and two is Bucky's POV, verse three is Steve's POV. this song to me has the vibes of "when you have someone you love, but you have to get better for yourself you can't get better for them." "that's why i'm standing on the overpass screaming at myself 'hey i wanna get better'"

Forever (Mumford & Sons) Steve POV, like the "you" in this song is Steve. so maybe he's saying it to himself or maybe someone is saying it to him. this is Steve fully accepting his place in the future, and mourning the past (Peggy) but deciding to move forward and love fully. Eff you Russos.

Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Marvin Gaye) no analysis just vibes. let them be happy goddammit.

At Last (Etta James) they're fine! they're happy! they don't fight crime anymore, they fight for civil rights and education and democracy. and they're gross and in love.

Patience (The Lumineers) i just like this as a conclusion, like a montage of them living quietly somewhere. having family dinner with their people. making new friends. reading quietly on a sunday morning. it took a long time for them to get here, but they made it.

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