the smell of a candle   freshly blown out   the light of the clock   shines on my skin   like a sickly green moonlight   on a pale white day’s decay   i try to wipe you from my memory   but your face won’t fade away      another boy kissed me today   i laughed in his mouth   it’s not funny that i’m not kissing you   i’m not laughing because we fell through   it’s the stories they told us when we were younger about life and love   how our happiness lies in the hands of another   who’d fly in on the wings of a dove      chorus   well that’s the way the fairy tale goes   boy meets girl and they wed with roses   but that’s not the way it seems to be   and i’m pissed that they lied to me   cuz boy meets boy and boy runs away   or girl meets girl and she’s afraid to stay   we end up home alone watching court tv   not living ever after happily      you’re right   you are prince charming   onto the next princess when he’s bored with the last   he’s the hero of every story   he’s got his chapter in every girl’s book   he walks away with all the honor and glory   but i wonder what else he took      goodbye, prince charming   and drown sleeping beauty   shove cinderella’s slipper where the sun don’t shine   toss the little mermaid back out to sea   cuz the fairy godmother had to perform another abortion today   and the seven dwarves live in the forest, of course, cuz they were driven away   but this part of the story could spark a cultural rage   so at the sound of the tone we just turn the page      chorus      outro   starting today   we’ll tell the story my way   the king of imperfection   takes back the prince of mistakes