The first song I selected to be on Philip’s Playlist is Be Here Long by NeedtoBreathe. I chose this song because I believe that it represents how Philip feels about losing his dad, specifically with the lyric “I’m swimming in the grief and there’s no anchor that could hold me down” Philip is at the age where he’s old enough to understand what happened to his dad, but not old enough to properly cope with it, feeling that his dad left him here. This is shown by the lyric “I’m still here and I’m missing you”. This song describes missing someone and having to deal with it, which is the situation Philip is currently in at the very beginning of the book.
