Emily sits on the seventh stair

Just outside the lions' lair

Holding the magic in her bowl

She feels complete, it makes her whole

She takes the hand of a passing boy

Who treats her like a battered toy

She doesn't know, she doesn't care

She breathes the magic in the air

And how do you tell her it isn't real?

How do you say it's a short end deal?

How do you save a passing glance?

And how do you give her another chance?

It's a hard won fight to keep her here

Where reality is crystal clear

She says she loves you, she slips away

She says she'll find you some other day

She'll make you feel like she wants to go

But she says it isn't true you know

She says the hazes are her home

She'll show you where she wants to roam

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She's beautiful and she's very sweet

But the magic smoke is who she'll meet

So the letters you write, you'll never send

Her daytime nightmare never ends

You're watching it pull her to the top

You're waiting for the shoe to drop

She says she loves you but she won't stay

She says it's her life anyway

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