Song: Waking.

[cadhla]

I was your Sleeping Beauty,
I was happy to be still,
Alone and palely loitering
Out on the thorny hill,

And if you had said you loved me,
I would be there even now...
You said you yearned to hold me,
But you never told me how.

Eternity as in a dream
Was all you seemed to ask...
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,
But I'm not up to the task.

I was your Sleeping Beauty,
I was yours alone to use,
Defenseless in my dreaming,
Ripe and ready to abuse,

And if you had said you loved me,
I would still be by your side...
You said you yearned to keep me,
But you left my heart denied.

Eternity as in a dream
Was all you seemed to ask...
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,
But I'm not up to the task.

I was your Sleeping Beauty,
I was cloistered as a rose,
But the deepest slumbers end,
The sleeper rises from repose,

And if you had said you loved me
I might never have been free...
You said you yearned to bind me,
But your silence was the key.

Eternity as in a dream
Was all you seemed to ask...
I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,
But I'm not up to the task.

I'm sorry, I'm so sorry,
But I'm not up to the task.