may queen

i called you tantalus the way you devoured
the things you worked so hard to make,
you give just as much as you take

i threw your thoughts into the sky and then
watched as they formed clouds right above my head
i made a world out of you

while you just made a fool of me,
then swallowed it whole

now i am still running
i am still asking:
can it be a sin to know?

betray me
what are you waiting for?
i’m just your may queen
like the ones before

clueless while you were deer-stalking
always on my trail,
planting roses in my eyes.

i don’t know who you are.

you offered me the branch and i cut my
hands for you while you just washed yours clean,
of every single trace of me

the sun will shine on you forever but
none of my heavens seem to last that long,
i loved you but i got it so wrong

i gouged out all the things inside me
to make room for your parasites

you got me with your promises
that in you i’d be immortalised

betray me
what are you waiting for?
i’m just your may queen
like the ones before

clueless while you were deer-stalking
always on my trail
planting roses in my eyes.

i don’t know who you are.

my mind is a room
filled with portraits of you,
while mine hangs with the other queens
always in your view

i thought the best thing
on this haunted isle was you

but sugar on the rim
becomes salt in the wound,
now i couldn’t escape if i wanted to
couldn't escape if i wanted to

oh, betray me
what are you waiting for?
i’m just your may queen
like the ones before

you're always deer-stalking
always on my trail
planting roses in my eyes,

but now i know who you are
now i know who you really are.