Failure

Oh pretty bird how you are just like me,

With heart so pure and bones as light as sun.

Your path is one that’s destined to be free,

Instead, this cage has left your fate undone.

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Why did the only thing that could free you,

Get lost among your valuables and change?

You sit and wonder what there is to do,

And why you cannot see beyond this range.

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You had a few high hopes and dreams before.

The ones of princess charms and glitt’ring gold.

And now they’ve gone and hid outside a door,

They too are like the key that you have sold.

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Oh pretty birdy you have gotten stuck,

And just like me, you see, you’re out of luck.

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Redemption

I’ve come to find this love of mine

Has left me high and dry.

He ran off with the girl next door.

He thought he’d make me cry.

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I guess her smile was more lovely.

I guess her eyes were clear.

I guess her hugs did bring him joy,

And so he kept her near.

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He must’ve forgotten the time I spent

Devoted just to him.

Instead, he chose this new siren

Who loved him on a whim.

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And last week when he said he was

Caught up in his work.

Came home close to twelve o’clock,

I almost went berserk.

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I knew that he was with her for

Some conjugal contact.

Waltzed in the door without a care,

Expecting me to act.

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To be a little housewife was

My only destiny,

And now that he has been untrue

I’m finally set free.

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Little did he know that I was

Making some calls too.

Whenever he was off with her,

I was off with you.

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Now, there are no strings attached.

He is dead and gone.

He was not my one true love, so

He’s buried in the lawn.

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