Requiem for a Fairy Queen

A Fairy died this morning The last one of her kind I did not see her dying For I was just too blind The last queen of her people She lived to watch them fade And never did she stray from The choices she had made The tiny shining creatures Had always been around Inspired songs and poems Inspired sight and sound But time it was no healer It just made me forget To whom I owed my arts to To whom I was in debtA Fairy died this morning The last one of her kind I did not see her dying For I was just too blind The last queen of her people She lived to watch them fade And never did she stray from The choices she had made The tiny shining creatures Had always been around Inspired songs and poems Inspired sight and sound But time it was no healer It just made me forget To whom I owed my arts to To whom I was in debt [instrumental interlude] Alone out in my garden The Fairy Queen despaired For years she had not seen me Not knowing how I fared But quietly she waited She hoped I would return She put her faith all in me If only I had learned Without their queen among them The Fairies couldn't stay The cold sun burned upon them They had to fade away I found the Queen this evening Next to a poison cup For all her hopes had vanished I finally had grown up [instrumental outro] If only I had learned [Instrumental interlude] Without their queen among them The Fairies couldn't stay The cold sun burned upon them They had to fade away I found the Queen this evening Next to a poison cup For all her hopes had vanished (I finally had grown up)