You chase and chase a wayward rainbow,
When you reach the end, there’s no pot of gold
You stumble into secrets that will never end
And you think you’re doing fine in the lions’ den

There are no knights to sip the wine,
Life is stone sober all the time
No warm embraces to keep you safe
Because paradise wasn’t there in the first place.

Paradise lies about it all
No one will catch you when you fall
When you scream no one hears you at all
The castle fell when you read that wall
Because paradise lied about it all

You dig deeper for the treasure you wish to find,
In the hole, the note reads, "Better luck next time,"
All alone you face the world, thinking what a smile will do
And when you look off the balcony, a brick wall is your view
I know it’s never anything
Your tears are many, the songbird won’t sing
Fly away from hope and you will see
Paradise lied to you and me.

You venture away and plead to come back home
Vainly hoping all is safe when you aren’t alone
Somehow, believing in fairy tales that fade before your eyes
The pain comes in, once again, and feeds your lonely cries.
They lied to you, before you knew
What one final tale could do
After they fade and you appear
You search for a time that has disappeared.

The castle fell when you read that wall,
Paradise lied about it all.

©1996 Laura Chambers-Wright. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be transmitted or reproduced in any form without explicit written permission from the author