My Past Is Not Today
A beautiful song sung by the Hasbro character Sunset Shimmer in an online short for the My Little Pony: Equestria Girls spin-off movie and book series. I think of it as being equally applicable to Snakes in the present day, as he tries to turn his life around and discover what friendship and being a good person is.
Verse 1:
Power
Was all I desired
But all that grew inside me,
Was a darkness I acquired
When I began to fall,
And I lost the path ahead,
That's when your friendship found me,
And it lifted me instead
Snakes thinking on his darkest days, culminating in one brave, selfless act to save the world from THRUSH's doomsday device in Deadly Codename. He quite literally fell, being blasted off the device, and was rescued by Jim and Pinto. Although Pinto did not extend friendship, Jim, Arte, and some of the others did, and that helped plant a seed of wanting to change in Snakes' heart.
Chorus:
Like a phoenix burning bright in the sky,
I'll show there's another side to me
You can't deny
I may not know what the future holds,
But hear me when I say,
That my past is not to find me,
'Cause my past is not today
Self-explanatory. Snakes is celebrating the new life he is starting to discover. He will not go back to what he was, because he has finally found his honor and that he doesn't want to stop being a good person.
Verse 2:
Ambition
Is what I believed
Would be the only way
To set me free
But when it disappeared,
And I found myself alone,
That's when you came and got me
And it felt like I was home
Snakes honestly believed that power and ambition were the ways that he would be free, not oppressed any longer. But he discovered that he got into just as much, or more, trouble when he was living only for himself. The kindness shown to him by some of the others, especially Coley, Lafe, and Ray, has helped to change him for the better and show him that true friendship does exist. He reciprocates by wanting to be there for them in Airship.