Open The Gates

We both put up our walls the night we met

The more we flirted the more my heart yearned

I made a decision to open up the gate

To allow you into my kingdom

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You might have believed I was a king

The way I held myself up on a pedestal

My truth is I was a fool merely performing for all to see

Joy came to me from the laughter of others

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Your tale was something much different from mine

You stood atop your walls and professed your love to me

Those words always felt empty to me

I never saw your gate move

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You asked to be treated like a queen on a pedestal

Yet you carried yourself like a fool

A mask of pain for all to see

Hiding from the world your inner self

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I stood at your gate and waited patiently

Love and compassion were given freely

Things I couldn’t even give myself at times

But your heart was still full of pain

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In the end the price became too steep

My mind betrayed my heart

Reality opened my eyes to the truth

A simple step was all it took for me to walk away

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Yet my feet refused to move

There was a chain around me that had to be cut

Calling upon my spirit guides to cut the chain

A sword broke the chains in the blink of an eye

Back to my kingdom I ran with a new mask to play the fool