My lies are prettier than the truth you yell
Elegent and graceful they slip through my teeth
whispering their lovlies to me
and maping out my dreams. . . . 

(you're
        gone)

dancing across the blood-stained hall 
they entice me with the chants they call
entrance me with their prancing multi-coloured eyes
singing with sweet lips dripping crimson

You are not gone. . . 

Friends i tell you as you gasp 
let me smile and leave me dance 
i want to jump and love and sing and run
leave all my lies in their glass bowls

where i can watch them always.

Lies, tell me all I need to hear
drop your sweetness in my ear
let it run down where it may
leave me here to bathe in its puddles.

leave me innocent and let me breathe
in deep the sweet cold air 
of a summer morning filled with dolcet songs
of my lies.

(epilouge)
	(emptiness is where i keep my lies 
	they fill the hole you used to touch
	my lies, they rot away my heart
	and make her smile)






copyright 1997 Rachael Lee