Believe
Breaking Benjamin
Hide!
Don't tread the water
Just stay still
I'll not be bothered
By you until
I'm picking sides
And pulling the strings
I'm living lies
And shedding the skin
I'm open wide
And letting you in
I'm wronging rights
Believe!
I don't care what you want
I just want mine!
Shut up!
Smart little bitch
I don't need lies!
I don't care what you want
I just want mine
Get up!
Force it to fit!
Confined inside!
Don't pull me under
Into the deep
I often wonder
How it should be
I'm picking sides
And pulling the strings
I'm living lies
And shedding skin
I'm open wide
And letting you in
I'm wronging rights
Believe!
I don't care what you want
I just want mine!
Shut up!
Smart little bitch
I don't need lies!
I don't care what you want
I just want mine
Get up!
Force it to fit!
Confined inside!
I don't care what you want
I just want mine
I don't care what you want
I just want mine!
I don't care what you want
I just want mine!
Shut up!
Smart little bitch
I don't need lies!
I don't care what you want
I just want mine
Get up!
Force it to fit
Confined inside!
My!
Dead eyes!
No!
Hide!
Concealed from the world, the shadows in the lime light.
Don't tread the water
Just stay still
He didn't move, didn't make ripples. Only stood still and slowly drowned in the oppressive wave of his responsibilities and duty.
I'll not be bothered
He couldn't be bothered with anything but what was expected of him. Trapped in a standstill, hiding from the world.
By you until
I'm picking sides
"Well I'm here aren't I? It's not like I'm going to go running back to the Order after siding with a traitor!" He screamed at his professor. Not exactly a wise decision.
And pulling the strings
He manipulated. Stole. Altered. Erased. He was not who he was.
I'm living lies
And shedding the skin
Who he had been was gone now.
I'm open wide
His true self he revealed only to this singular man.
And letting you in
And this is how it felt to be.
I'm wronging rights
If one wrong in his life was righted, it felt the world adjust and shift to perfection. All he needed was this.
Believe!
"Believe what you will, Potter."
I don't care what you want
"My only motivation is most clearly for my own benefit."
I just want mine!
Shut up!
"No." Harry wouldn't believe it. Like always.
Smart little bitch
Profanity always made him hard.
I don't need lies!
"Don't even attempt to convince me you get more from this than a good fuck, Potter. For I would never believe it."
I don't care what you want
Ruthlessly perusing his own intentions. What man had he desired, to be so cold? He knew all too well.
I just want mine
Get up!
Force it to fit!
Grunts and gasps and screams and moans. Another day in the classroom with unprepared sex. Harry was becoming accustomed.
Confined inside!
Again he was trapped and hiding.
Don't pull me under
Into the deep
He was falling again
I often wonder
How it should be
He never had any basis for a normal life.
I'm picking sides
He was here now. He couldn't turn back
And pulling the strings
Manipulation was such a beautiful thing. It could convince a person they loved when they did not, they hated when they cared, that they desecrated when they purified.
I'm living lies
Here was he again.
And shedding skin
I'm open wide
And letting you in
I'm wronging rights
And sometimes he thought there was more to this. And each time he allowed this thought, he was proven wrong. He barely had thoughts, anymore.
Believe!
I don't care what you want
I just want mine!
Snape had left him broken here and dead inside, left him unattended and crawling through this grass of stained tinted red.
Shut up!
Or perhaps he had not, after all, left him.
Smart little bitch
A foot fell from his left and kicked a sounding crack into his jaw line.
I don't need lies!
"I need not hear your disgusting lies any longer, Potter."
I don't care what you want
I just want mine
"I've gotten what I wanted."
Get up!
"Get up. I might as well leave you with my tension satisfied."
Force it to fit!
Confined inside!
He felt dead to the world, but no phoenix sang obituary.
I don't care what you want
I just want mine
Gasps and moans. Not as harsh and not as long. Was there some type of cold desire in Snape's eyes? Or was that only hatred?
I don't care what you want
I just want mine!
"Get up Potter. I won't leave you in this state."
I don't care what you want
I just want mine!
"Didn't think you cared."
Shut up!
A smarting slap, this time.
Smart little bitch
"Don't ever presume I do, Potter. I merely cannot have you left here on Hogwarts grounds with my traces so very evident upon you. It's time you fulfill your loyalty. We're going to the Dark Lord."
I don't need lies!
"Don't tell me you regret your sworn loyalty?"
I don't care what you want
I just want mine
"No sir. All I regret is…"
Get up!
Force it to fit
"Say it, Potter." Snape obviously thought he meant their sex.
Confined inside!
My!
"I regret….that I wasn't truly alive when I came to you. That you weren't able to break me completely. That the rest of my life got the chance before you did."
Dead eyes!
And then Snape looked Harry in the eyes, and saw his death written like a poem, with the words scratched from the surface of the slate they were carved into.
No!
And he smirked.