Oh please don't love me outright
You see, you see, you see,
it was from a past life, that someone better could possibly be me
but, no no not this time,
this time it's just a test,
a beginning and a middle and
no one ever knows the end
because before the final chapter,
well, it turns out that she fled
to a different reality
with a different cast
where she smiled the same way
and called out different names
and everyone believed that it was from the depths of somewhere darker that
she must have came
but the truth oh the truth is
invention and reinvention and trial and error
here she is in the same dress
spinning around and around and around
driving some new man mad
can he keep her?
what a laugh
if he only knew,
that he was just you
just a little less polished
just a little less cute
just a little more used
she's a runner, little lover
she's a phoenix in a cage that you designed
before she burst into flames
and you come to find
that the only person she's ever been is mine
so, please please don't make the mistake
don't follow the pattern, oh so boring and plane
and please don't love her outright,
she isn't yours to contain
she just leaves, slips the trap again
laughing all the way, as she cries and cries
through the pain
of looking into new eyes with a new name
and wishing it was yours all the same
all the same
all over and over and over
again
