And maybe they are strange, strange children
who are tired, tired

[But a tired that sleep won't fix]

A Crow theived him of his blood
And in return he haunted her,
her ghost

And when madness and contempt
Became stained by passion and pale flesh
He thinks that their tangled, ****** limbs
will be their d o w n f a l l

[But then again, he was the one to triumph in the end]

And you burn me
With your gall
And rasping beauty
Fused into tarnish and **gold

He is torn
between two royals,
blue blood, pretty eyes.

One is his master, his King.
The other holds his heart captive,
greedy, greedy.

She is porcelain skin, ****** hair.
Her mouth is a wicked creature,
poison her weapon of choice
(And how she has poisoned him)

She lusts for the throne
He thwarts her at every turn

Its a strange game,
tearing each other apart

You hold my hand
and sing ashes, ashes,

We run to the forest,
fingers burning.

(I blow mine out)

You sing we all fall down,
and the world is a pyre

She finds it odd
That the two of them
[A crow and a ghost]
Cast no shadow

*[And he finds it hysterical
That he can creep up on her
And steal her away in the dark of morning]

My strange lover came to me last night
Late December murmurings,
Bruised lips
                      and Hooded Eyes
*[And in the morning when he is gone,
She finds ink scrawlings staining her sheets]

She was a mad, mad girl
*[Bella, Bella, won't you come to p l a y?]

Someone has cut my strings, Love
And now I sit here(vulnerable)

You take me in your (bitter)hands
And toss me against the wall

And as I slump against the broken glass
I think
Maybe it was you

[Someone is wailing]
*[Maybe its you]

He watches her waltz
With half starved eyes
*[My Dear, do you hear my heart echo as it screams?]

They say there is a King
[A King of all Things]
With a crown made of bones
and a Crow for a Queen

She is a haunted creature,
with stained fingers
and coal eyes
Skin wrapped around bones
and chilly veins.

"Black Crow"
her ghost taunts her,
his lips stained pomegranate,
teeth glittering
and mind spiraling