It could be both! Or just an AU - years ago I encountered a PM-based fic that was entirely prose, incorporating the sense of the song into a larger story of, if I recall aright, discrimination against mages in the Great Depression. And shipping, of course. As far as I recall, it didn't have any lines from the song after about the second paragraph, although there were still parallels.
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Date: 2011-02-10 10:53 pm (UTC)