Fairy Tale

Music: Grace McDunnough
Lyrics: Salome Strangelove & Grace McDunnough

Another night and you’re all dressed up
Fabled smile and fairy tale eyes
You sparkle on the dance floor
Like champagne diamonds
They all want your spells, want to fall to your charms
You’ve got the magic they’re looking for

I watch you leave with some new stranger
See you come back empty again
It’s the wrong place for storybook endings
No princes among these wolves
They won’t break your curses, can’t slay your dragons
No, they don’t have the magic you’re looking for

Well you read too many books as a child
Too many movies, too much TV
And you are trying on those lovers like they were glass slippers
Biting at each apple that falls from the tree
Now you need something real before this scene changes
Oh, look up from your pages right at me

There are no genies in these bottles
No potions. no witch brews
And not a one will grant you three wishes
It’s time to stop all this make-believe
They won’t break your curses, can’t slay your dragons
They don’t have the magic you’re looking for

I know you feel that you were promised
Happy ever after, once upon a time
But it’s no use crying into wishing wells
There are no more beanstalks left to climb
This world is what you make of it
This world is what you make of it

But you read too many books as a child
Too many movies, too much TV
You are trying on those lovers like they were glass slippers
Biting at each apple that falls from the tree
And now you need something real before this scene changes
Oh, look up from your pages, right at me