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The Lovely Turnaway

from Big Eyed Muse by Ray Woodruff

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Is it just to cry as they accuse
Is it just to smile as you offer them your shoes?
Is it worth any damn thing as you dry your eyes
And convince yourself it’s better to lie than try?

Is it just to be the one who is so misunderstood
By anyone who ever tries to do you good?
Is it just to be put down with every compromise
Just to give you one more reason not to bother trying?

Just to be the beautiful one who failed?
To be the lovely turnaway?
Will you beg or whisper, will you scream and rail
Just to be the one who smiles when they say,
“You’ll be the one who’ll rue the day?”

Is it just to taste the tears as you tie your shoes?
To smudge your makeup with every faint excuse?
To be the one who gets to dry her eyes
On her coat sleeve and hope they sympathize?

Is it just to be the one who can’t do any wrong,
Cuz nothing you do ever hurt anyone?
Is it just to be the one who never has to care
Cuz nothing you do ever goes anywhere?

Just to be the beautiful one who failed?
Just to be some lovely turn of phrase?
To feel the poet’s justice as you drive your nail
Through your own wrist and the look away?

Just to be the beautiful one who failed?
The lovely toy left out in the rain?
To be the star-crossed princess in your high-rise jail
Who proves her own point as she walks away?

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from Big Eyed Muse, released January 1, 2007

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Ray Woodruff Richmond, Virginia

Songwriter. Guitarist. Instrumentalist. Visuals. Lost writer.

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