The Queen’s Regrets

I used to be a toy for man

A wretched life I had began

Feigned in my burlesque light

Each night was an internal fight

They’d come to me and I’d fulfill the pay

And then suddenly I was tossed away

They want my body not my soul

This heart no man hope to stole

No feelings of tender love and care

This life, for me, was hard to bear

I gave up hope of a love so true

And desire of starting a life that’s new

But suddenly something came to change

Even when things seemed so vain

And when I felt engrossed with pending doom

I saw him, all the way across the room