The Broken Cinderella:
Too good to be true, they said
But I never once thought
To listen to the warnings
And stories of what you had wrought
Upon girls much more foolish than me
But in the face of your beautiful eyes
I couldn't say no
So I agreed to my downfall in one try
It was so easy for you
I wasn't a girl in your eyes, but an object
That you could toy with for a time
Play with my feelings just for a bet
Maybe you felt like God and wanted
To show off the power you had
Keeping others under your thumb
Whatever it was, you won the hand
Your poker face was your perfection
Telling me I looked beautiful, then turning
Around and mocking the way I looked
To your heartless entourage, swinging
One way and the next, so I could never know
What you were thinking and how you felt
I was a simple girl, at least at the time
What was it that you saw, that you felt needed to be dealt
With, I will never understand
Why me? What did I ever do to hurt you and
The pretty people, I always tried to stay
Away from trouble, but you decided to throw sand
In my eyes and blind me from your plan
Inviting me to the dance under a guise of fun
Never knowing you were planning the night
From where my bitterness sprung
I don't know where you got the pictures
I just know that when you saw the mask
Of beauty I had put on for the night, you
Hesitated to complete your task
Then something shocked you from your reverie
And you played the disc, so all those I had ever known
Saw me in a way I had never intended for the world
To see, but now they knew, by something stolen
You stood there, pointing and laughing
Along with everybody else, while I felt a tear
Slip across my cheek and at that moment, I saw
Something in your eyes, it was fear
Fear that you had actually hurt me rippled
Across your face, as though you thought
I would be laughing along with you
About a joke that wasn't funny to be caught
Inside. Then your shred of humanity disappeared
And you turned away from me, laughing once more
At my gullibility, so I ran, I had nothing left for me here
People followed behind, pushing and shoving, through the door
To see the girl who thought she was Cinderella
Being whisked away by a handsome prince to the ball
Where all her dreams would come true
Only to find that the prince was a complete doll
With no heart, just some handsome features
That he used to crush dreams and break hearts
Cinderella was just a fairytale, I know that now
You never cared for me, it was just a facade who's detail was off the charts
Years later you came back and apologized to me
But it was too late, you had mangled my once pure heart into
A mess of ugliness and bitterness and untrustworthiness
Making me unworthy to love and be loved
You never truly thought about the consequences of what
You had done to me, it had just been a game, a joke,
And you tried to explain that to the brokenness that people
Now called me, but your poor humor had not been just a poke
It had smashed my trusting love into thousands of pieces
Making me cynical about everything and everyone
That tried to get close to me in any way
Your "small" prank had weighed a ton
I don't think you ever forgave yourself once you saw
The damage you had done to my life
But you moved on, like everybody else had
Only I couldn't, stuck in the past and its lies
If only I hadn't fallen for your deception
But here I am, ruined by what you called a simple jest
My heart can't let go of the decision it made to follow
You down the road to make me broken because it failed the test
Of love
