snow white: secretly she sneers
based on the original Grimm's fairytale, with my own twisted head!canon
[the queen's song. she is everything a woman is meant to be: strong, confident, mysterious, & beautiful. she marries the young king for political reasons and knows it is her physical appearance that made him fall for her. that does not bother her. there is freedom with that power, & she means to hold onto it.]
sunburn. muse.
Come waste your millions here
Secretly she sneers
Another corporate show
A guilty conscience grows
I'll feel a guilty conscience grow
I'll feel a guilty conscience grow
Come let the truth be shared
No-one ever dared
To break these endless lies
Secretly she cries
She burns like the sun
And I can't look away
And she'll burn our horizons make no mistake
And I'll hide from the world
Behind a broken frame
And I'll burn forever
I can't face the shame
[deep within her heart, she knows her beauty will not last & that the king will grow tired of her. she is pregnant, & already her husband has turned away. a darkness creeps into her soul & she resents the child growing inside her.]
my skin. natalie merchant.
Oh, I need
The darkness
The sweetness
The sadness
The weakness
Oh, I need this
Do you remember the way
That you touched me before
All the trembling sweetness
I loved and adored?
Well, is it dark enough?
Can you see me?
Do you want me?
Can you reach me?
Or I'm leaving
[the queen observes over the years how loved her daughter is by the kingdom. she sees the youthful beauty and sincere grace & kindness. but instead of being proud of her daughter, the queen becomes jealous that attention has been taken away from her. she worries about her future, for while the king adores their daughter, he is increasingly becoming disinterested in his wife.]
you stole. brand new.
Well I wish that I was as good as you
Caring and trusting
And I wish that my condition was new but I'm old and rusting
So we just hurry up only to wait
Add to the list of all the places we hate
And I pretend like I got something to say
But I've got nothing
Now I know that you stole
Yeah, you stole
From the cradles they were rocked in
You took the first words that they spoke
Yeah you stole
Yeah you stole
So if I'm a liar and you're a thief
At least we both know where the other one sleeps
So let's end this tonight
[the queen is unable to see her own self-worth, constantly comparing her physical beauty to her daughter's. it's a vulnerable moment, and she can either chose to overcome her insecurities...]
you are the moon. the hush sound.
You don't see what you possess, a beauty calm and clear
It floods the sky and blurs the darkness like a chandelier
All the light that you possess is skewed by lakes and seas
The shattered surface, so imperfect, is all that you believe
I will bring a mirror, so silver, so exact
So precise and so pristine, a perfect pane of glass
I will set the mirror up to face the blackened sky
You will see your beauty every moment that you rise
[...or fall victim to the darkness within her]
help i'm alive. metric.
I tremble, they're gonna eat me alive
If I stumble they're gonna eat me alive
Can you hear my heart beating like a hammer?
Beating like a hammer
If you're still alive my regrets are few
If my life is mine what shouldn't I do?
I get wherever I'm going, I get whatever I need
While my blood's still flowing and my heart's still
Beating like a hammer, beating like a hammer
Help, I'm alive, my heart keeps beating like a hammer
[the queen murders her daughter.]
blinding. florence + the machine.
Seems that I have been held, in some dreaming state
A tourist in the waking world, never quite awake
No kiss, no gentle word could wake me from this slumber
Until I realise that it was you who held me under
Felt it in my fist, in my feet, in the hollows of my eyelids
Shaking through my skull, through my spine and down through my ribs
And I could hear the thunder and see the lightning crack
All around the world was waking, I never could go back
Cos all the walls of dreaming, they were torn right open
And finally it seemed that the spell was broken
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
And all my bones began to shake, my eyes flew open
No more dreaming of the dead as if death itself was undone
No more calling like a crow for a boy, for a body in the garden
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love, so in love
No more dreaming like a girl so in love with the wrong world
Snow White's stitching up the circuitboards
Synapse slipping through the hidden door
Snow White's stitching up the circuitboard
[she reflects, as she stares at the blood on her hands, the crimson stains on her dress. her daughter's ebony black hair covers her face, hiding those eyes that held confusion & fear & and life no more. the queen is at a loss, & the weight of the darkness consumes her.]
hybrid. elsiane.
Here I begin to fail the steps of a battle without sense
I've nearly began to understand as I grown my way
There is no light out of all the places
There is no sign of our help
There is no time and a chance of relations
What if I choose to live?
Living in a dangerous womb
Its like falling every moment every stage
Living in my own little world
Outcoming every sequence of this dream
How did this begin and turned in such inhumanity?
I'm hoping for myself to escape the insanity, I'm open
What if I choose to live and what if I killed you, Inhumanity
There is no light out of all the places
There is no sign of our help
There is no time and a chance of relations
What if I choose you
How did this begin and turned in such inhumanity?
I'm hoping for myself to escape the insanity, I'm open
What if I choose to live and what if I killed you inhumanity?
zip.