Sad Cinderella Lyrics - For The Sake Of The Song - Townes Van Zandt

When the bandits have stolen your jewelry and gone 

And your crippled young gypsy, he's grown tall and strong 

And your dead misconceptions have proven you wrong 

Well then, princess, where you plannin' to turn to? 

When your magazine memory has spun you around 

And you realize your lovers were just painted clowns 

And outside your window you start hearing sounds 

Where they're building a cross for to burn you 

When all your bright scarlet turns slowly to blue 

Will you stop and decide that it's over? 

When your teardrops go sour and no longer fall 

The splash cross the virgin that lives down the hall 

And spends all her nights with an ear to your wall 

Well then, what will you have you can offer? 

When the firedancers finish and leave you alone 

With nothing but embers and sacks full of stone 

That hang 'round your neck, slicing through to the bone 

Will there still be a place for your laughter? 

When all your bright scarlet turns slowly to blue 

Will you stop and decide that it's over? 

When your shattered illusions come a-tumblin' home 

And all of the butchers you've nourished have grown 

And they are suddenly able to leave you alone 

And they run like slaves that are set free 

When your questions are answered and your pleading is done 

And your mind starts a-screaming that you ain't the one 

That once dwelled within you, will you turn, will you run 

But princess, will you come home and get me? 

When all your bright scarlet turns slowly to blue 

Will you stop and decide that it's over?