The result of just feeling a little melancholy
She said you are my only lover
yet in her eyes we see the guile
She said there'll never be another
but the teasing lie is in her smile
She says you really are the best
the others can't compare
we are no better than the rest
her mendacity shows there
She wields a power spun from some primeval source and we knuckle down before it helpless in its might knowing hopelessly there's no recourse except to sate heart's shameless appetite
It's a game to her and we all play
pretending that we know the rules
until that unsuspecting day
she plays us all for silly fools
And with a goodbye wave most cavalier
she'll waltz away without concern
past flattery spent and insincere
leaving behind a dream of her return
We secretly deny the glaring truth
that we were not the one
surrendering to callow youth
and reality that would never be won
That girl, once upon a time in school, who just blew you away