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My Faerietale Life

from Allure by Lorelei

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I tried Cinderella’s slipper and even though it fit,
That Prince found fancy with my Houseman, and the two of them split
And they live happily ever after in the deep Enchanted Wood
While I’m sweeping my own walkway and contemplating my maidenhood.

And I find myself wishing that stupid old wolf will
Catch them unawares on some sun-dappled hill --
But they’d give him indigestion, they’re all sugar and sunshine,
So it’s just a faerietale that I imagine at tea time.

Yeah, but this cheap piece of glass shines like a diamond
And if I’m happy with that, then who are you to say?
Cuz I can delude myself any way I want to,
And I know that my Prince Charming will find me some day.

And then came a Dark Knight upon a stormy black steed,
But he was seeking a dragon and he said he had no need
For the comforts of flesh and the joys of home
And he rode off to find the worm and its catacomb.

Seven short guys came by and presented their need,
A woman to live with them and play Donna Reed,
But I heard about the jealous Queen and her poison kiss
And I thought, “No band of miners is worth all of this.”

So the slipper sits on the mantlepiece there
An empty trophy, filled with dust and despair,
And my friends think that it’s a trinket from QVC --
They don’t understand the dream that it represents to me.

Yeah, but this cheap piece of glass shines like a diamond
And if I’m happy with that, then who are you to say?
Cuz I can delude myself any way I want to,
And I know that my Prince Charming will fnd me some day.

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from Allure, released April 30, 1999
Lorelei: vocals. Dave Rowe: guitar. Tom Rowe: drum machine.

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Lorelei Maine

I’ve been in the Performing Arts (dance, theatre, chorales and choirs, bands and ensembles, solo musical performances) since I was 4. I started playing piano at the age of 3, and I haven’t yet found an instrument that I can’t somehow play, although I still make those distressing “pureed cat” noises on violin. I play harp, piano, flute, guitar (I know 10 chords. Okay, 6), and African percussion. ... more

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