decaf plaid

listen, the first verse is sirius talking and the second verse is regulus

the whole running away from home, even the grimmauld roaches "shudder at your name," dark magic, etc. "All you ever want is to be right / Even if that means you gotta lie to do it" very anti-slytherin

and then how am I supposed to hear "Bask inside your victory / My heart that once was beating / Bleeding in the palm of your hand" without thinking about only the brave:

"Regulus’s heart is frozen. A cage of bones around it. Hard, and dead, and rough." "Crimson rivers flooding and washing over the empty tundra of his heart, dragging away all that made Regulus ever want to smile."

"You don't really wanna hear the truth, do you?"

"Regulus tells himself that it’s okay to keep the truths that hurt inside. He can deal with the pain, absorb it so it doesn’t touch Sirius. It’s better that he hates him. Easier. The truth would break Sirius and what was the point of it then?"

"Yet you have the nerve to miss me ... / When you're the one who let it get this bad"

"I’m not my brother, James. I’m not the rebel who runs away, leaves everything behind, and then wants to play hero."

"That all you ever wanted was to fight / I was only trying to survive your chaos"

"Sirius always got it wrong... He was loud in his rebellion. Making a big show of it... I’m not an idiot like him. I play by her rules, and then move my pieces when nobody’s watching."

and don't even get me started on the "all you ever wanted was to fight" also applying to joining the order 😭

"We’re going to end this war, Prongs. You, and me, and Moony, and Wormy... It’ll be us. The saviours of the wizarding world."