Ballad in plain D
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I once loved a girl her skon was bronze,
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with the innocence of a lamb,she was gentle like a fawn
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I courted her proudly but now she is gone
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Gone aas the season she's tak--en


through young summer's breeze,I stole her away
from her mother and sister, though close did they stay
each one of them suffering from the failures of their day
with strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us


of the two sisters I loved the young
with sensative instincts, she was the creative one
the constant scapegoat, she was easily undone
by the jealousy of others around her

for her parasite sister I had no respect
bound by her boredom, her pride to protect
countless visions of the other she'd reflect
as a crutch for her scenes and her society

myself, for what I did, I cannot be exused
the changes I was going through can't even be used
for the lies that I told her in hope not to lose
the could be dreamlover of my lifetime

with unknown consciousness, I possesed in my grip
a magnificant mantelpiece, though it's hard being chipped
noticing not that I'd already slipped
to a sin of a love's false security

from silhouetted anger to manufactured peace
answers of emptiness, voices vacansies
till the tombstones of damage read me no questions but, please
what's wrong and exactly the matter