The smell of a candle
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Freshly blown out
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The light of the clock
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Shines on my skin
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Like a sickly green moonlight
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On a pale white day's decay
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I try to wipe you from my memory
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But your face won't fade away
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Another boy kissed me today
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I laughed in his mouth
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It's not funny that I'm not kissing you
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I'm not laughing because we fell through
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It's the stories they told us when we were younger about life and love
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How our happiness lies in the hands of another
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Who'd fly in on the wings of a dove
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[Chorus]
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Well that's the way the fairy tale goes
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Boy meets girl and they wed with roses
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But that's not the way it seems to be
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And I'm pissed that they lied to me
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Cuz boy meets boy and boy runs away
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Or girl meets girl and she's afraid to stay
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We end up home alone watching court tv
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Not living ever after happily
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You're right
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You are prince charming
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Onto the next princess when he's bored with the last
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He's the hero of every story
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He's got his chapter in every girl's book
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He walks away with all the honor and glory
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But I wonder what else he took
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Goodbye, prince charming
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And drown sleeping beauty
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Shove Cinderella's slipper where the sun don't shine
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Toss the little mermaid back out to sea
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Cuz the fairy godmother had to perform another abortion today
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And the seven dwarves live in the forest, of course, cuz they were driven away
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But this part of the story could spark a cultural rage
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So at the sound of the tone we just turn the page
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[Chorus]
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Starting today
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We'll tell the story my way
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The king of imperfection
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Takes back the prince of mistakes
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Ever After Happily
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Jay Brannan |