FILK: Behind Red Eyes

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 93790

And here's a link for a MIDI of the song: 
http://www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/lennon/351/blueeyes.mid

Feel free to sing along...just follow the bouncing ferret!

Eustace_Scrubb

Eustace_Scrubb wrote:
> Continuing to mine the collected works of Pete Townshend...
> 
> Behind Red Eyes (adapted from Behind Blue Eyes, off Who's Next)
> (Lament sung by Harry sometime late in OOTP)
> 
> I have seen what it's like
> To be the bad man
> To be the mad man
> Behind red eyes
> 
> I have sensed what it's like
> When he's angry
> at the failings
> of his dark allies
> 
> And my dreams
> They aren't as empty
> As I wish that they could be
> 
> I've spent hours, in a long hallway
> with a locked door
> beckoning me
> 
> No one knows what it's like
> To feel his feelings
> Like I do
> What must I do?
> 
> No one else knows his joy
> Or his anger
> Most of my schoolmates
> Don't think it's true.
> 
> But my dreams
> They aren't as empty
> As I wish that they could be
> 
> I've heard Rookwood telling secrets
> to further vengeance
> that's aimed at me.
> 
> When my scar hurts me, don't tell Sirius
> 'cause he might panic and lose his cool
> If I tell Ron or Hermione
> They may just shrug and I'll feel like a fool.
> 
> Sometimes I feel I'm possessed by evil
> I see the Headmaster as though I am a snake
> If our eyes meet, I feel I should strike him
> Though he's the last person that I should hate
> 
> I have seen what it's like
> To be the bad man
> To be the mad man
> Behind red eyes