There is a place where lonley willows weep
and moaning rivers groan against their shores,
where mournful swallows sing themselves to sleep
and shrouds of flowers stifle grassy moors.
And through the timeless scene Ophelia treads
with wreathes of thistles trailing from her hands.
Her crowns of brambles coil around her head
as Queen of cliche, on the bank she stands.
The girl inside is trapped by playwright's games
a puppet forced to dance a certain way.
Her path was set before he knew her name,
brought into life to die inside a play.
What cruel man would push her to the brink
and let her drown between his lines of ink?
There is a place where lonley willows weep
and moaning rivers groan against their shores,
where mournful swallows sing themselves to sleep
and shrouds of flowers stifle grassy moors.
And through the timeless scene Ophelia treads
with wreathes of thistles trailing from her hands.
Her crowns of brambles coil around her head
as Queen of cliche, on the bank she stands.
The girl inside is trapped by playwright's games
a puppet forced to dance a certain way.
Her path was set before he knew her name,
brought into life to die inside a play.
What cruel man would push her to the brink
and let her drown between his lines of ink?