Paul Shapera - Priscilla Contemplates

[PRISCILLA:]

Some speak about love in a sweet way
Enchantment, romance and dizzy dream states
And some just wait and pace their cage
Some speak about love as a passion
As rapture and cries, and sighs and gasps and
Some resign to yearn inside
These odes of tear stained banter and dew eyed candor
That wither in the world, the world that
Just deceives you and beats and bleeds you
And leaves lonely little girls

And some sacrifice, anyway
Some sacrifice it all away
Ah, the fallen and the burdened and the wreaths upon their grave
When they’re broken, there’s no assurance they made a better place

Some speak about love in a kind way
The friend that won’t leave and makes your day sane
As you bide and cringe and hide
Some wait for a stranger to touch and fill them
Some wait for the stranger who will kill them
And some just pace their lonely cage
With one dear doll who keeps you from crying, but cries too
Silently inside
Some speak of love and kindness, and clutch in blindness
And take and hoard and hide

And some sacrifice, anyway
Some sacrifice, it all away
Ah, the fallen and the burdened and the wreaths upon their graves
When you’re broken, there’s no assurance you made a better place

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