This began as a song written for February Album Writing Month, a tribute to one of my all-time favorite books. I've long wanted to write a song for Molly Grue, and this is that song...
This song was made possible by my Patreon patrons, especially Robin Abess, Jon Haight, John Woolard, Shouts Out Unicorn, Jeremy Jackson and Jennifer Lewis, and James Doster. I will always be grateful to them.
lyrics
Oh Molly Grue, Where have you gone?
You couldn’t find a unicorn,
You’d searched for one since you were just a lass.
And now that one has come to you
Your maiden days have long been through,
Now that your hair of gold has all withered to dried grass
You say
Where were you when I was new
When I was young and fair?
Now all my happy endings have all
vanished in the air…
Like Robin Hood, Maid Marian,
And all their merry men
And all the things we dared to dream back when
The ghosts that haunt our memories now
Have never really been
There are no happy endings because nothing…
Nothing ever ends…
Oh, Schmendrick, dear, what will you do?
The magic once inside of you
You felt when you were younger has come to you at last
And all the power that you need,
Is held within you, locked and keyed,
Why must we speak in riddles with the questions that we ask?
We are not always what we seem,
and hardly ever what we dream.
And all our happy endings have
Abandoned us, it seems…
Like Robin Hood, Maid Marian,
And all their merry men
And all the things we dared to dream back when
The ghosts that haunt our memories now
Have never really been
There are no happy endings because nothing…
Nothing ever ends…
When the wine drinks itself, the passage you will find,
When the skull speaks, when the clock strikes the right time
Like Robin Hood, Maid Marian,
And all their merry men
And all the things we dared to dream back when
The ghosts that haunt our memories now
Have never really been
There are no happy endings because nothing…
Nothing ever ends…
credits
from M,
track released May 30, 2019
Sean Smith - Lead Guitars
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