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Unfairly Maligned

from The Birdcage by Struwwelpeter

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Clear summer sky
A backdrop for a beautiful lie
It's better to lose than to not try
Run through my synonyms for 'goodbye'
Until I run dry

Dark winter day
It's the least comforting shade of grey
The tether breaks and I drift away
It's not an ending, just a delay

Now catch your breath
Float beyond life and death
Then lose your mind
Leave us behind
Unfairly maligned

I'm in the past
The dreams of time gone by that don't last
The pleasant days are fading too fast
Despite how many I had amassed
Outshined and outclassed

In my defense
I'm a man with more senses than sense
I don't feel enough to be incensed
I'm giving up on my last pretense

It's a strange kind of comfort
That can ease you in
An experimentation
An adaptable sin
It's the hope you hold onto
In the strength of the light
I'll be pointing and laughing
When you give up the fight

I hear applause
Although I doubt it's for a just cause
A chilling sense of paradise lost
The sudden emptiness is the cost

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from The Birdcage, released May 18, 2015
©2015 Ben Mitchell

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