The Prophecy (Long Story Short - Live From Lyon)

[Part I: The Prophecy]

[Verse 1]

Hand on the throttle

Thought I caught lightning in a bottle

Oh, but it's gone again

And it was written

I got cursed like Eve got bitten

Oh, was it punishment?

Pad around when I get home

Guess a lesser woman would've lost hope

A greater woman wouldn't beg

Still I looked to the sky and said

[Chorus]

"Please

I've been on my knees

Change the prophecy

Don't want money

Just someone who wants my company

Let it once be me

Who do I have to speak to

About if they can redo the prophecy?"

[Verse 2]

Cards on the table

Mine play out like fools in a fable

Oh, it was sinking in

Slow is the quicksand

Poison blood from the wound of the pricked hand

Oh, still I dream of him

[Chorus]

Please

I've been on my knees

Change the prophecy

Don't want money

Just someone who wants my company

Let it once be me

Who do I have to speak to

'Bout if they can redo the prophecy?

Oh, oh, oh, oh

[Bridge]

And I sound like an infant

Feeling like the very last drops of an ink pen

A greater woman stays cool

Still I howl like a wolf at the moon

And I look unstable

Gathered with a coven 'round a sorceress' table

A greater woman has faith

But even statues crumble if they're made to wait

I'm so afraid I sealed my fate

No sign of soulmates

'Cause I'm just a paperweight in shades of greige

Spending my last coin so someone will tell me it'll be okay

[Part II: long story short]

[Verse]

Past me

I wanna tell you not to get lost in these petty things

Your nemeses

Will defeat themselves before you get the chance to swing

And he's passing by

Rare as the glimmer of a comet in the sky

And he feels like home

If the shoe fits, walk in it everywhere you go

[Chorus]

And I fell from the pedestal

Right down the rabbit hole

Long story short, it was a bad time

Pushed from the precipice

Clung to the nearest lips

Long story short, it was the wrong guy

[Post-Chorus]

Now I'm all about you

I'm all about you, ah-ah

Yeah, yeah, I'm all about you ah-ah

Yeah, yeah, oh

[Part III: The Prophecy / Long Story Short]

[Chorus]

Please

I've been on my knees

Change the prophecy

Don't want money

Just someone who wants my company

Let it once be me

Who do I have to speak to

About if they can redo the prophecy?

[Outro]

The prophecy

Long story short, it was the wrong guy

Long story short, I survived