Vorpal Blade

Steel shine

Moon low

Deep breath Don’t go Whispers

say run

But I stay

Hand on the hilt

Vorpal Blade

Found it where the black trees lean Silver cut through the foggy

green Blade in the dirt with a strange blue gleam Like it

had been waiting inside my dream Rabbit gone quiet,

Cat gone still Cards far off on the palace hill Queen got

rage and the world got ill But I got a choice and

an iron will Pick it up,

heart loud No more shrinking in the crowd No more lost,

no more bowed Fear said hush,

I said not now

Every fall brought me here

Every tear

turned clear

Every riddle, every door

Made me sharper than before

Vorpal Blade, cut through the night

I’m not running from the fight Moon in my eyes,

fear in my way I step forward with the Vorpal Blade Vorpal

Blade, bright little flame I’m not the girl who first came If

the dark wants my name It can meet me and the Vorpal

Blade

Slice, slice, breathe slow Blue steel,

red glow Step, step,

don’t fade Dance with the Vorpal Blade

Mushroom smoke still in my lungs Tea party laughter under my tongue

Rose-red lies and the Queen’s loud drums All turned sharp when the

moment comes I was small,

I was tall, I was split in two I asked who and

the answer grew Now the nightmare got a face I knew It

looks like fear, but it bleeds like truth Grip tight,

shoes on stone

I can stand here on my own

If I tremble, let it show Brave still moves when it’s not

whole

If the monster is my shadow I will look it in the

eye If the dark has been my teacher I will thank it,

then survive If the Queen built every terror I will break her

favorite cage I am done with being hunted I am walking toward

the stage

Vorpal Blade, cut through the night I’m not running from the fight

Moon in my eyes,

fear in my way I step forward with the Vorpal Blade

Vorpal

Blade, bright little flame I’m not the girl who first came If

the dark wants my name It can meet me and the Vorpal

Blade

Steel shine

Moon low

Deep breath

I go

Whispers say run

But I stay Hand on the hilt

Vorpal Blade