Moon-Eyed Marionette

Porcelain skin in the cold moonlight

Threaded heart beating slow at night

Whispers bloom like roses made of dust

Every dream I touch turns to rust

Crimson ribbons falling from the sky

Fairy wings trembling like they’re shy

Mirror on the wall shows someone else

She’s wearing my smile like a stolen spell

Tiptoe through the dark in a carnival glow

Every shadow dancing like it already knows

There’s a secret in my bones I can’t forget

Strings pulling tight on this silhouette

I’m a moon-eyed marionette

Haunted by the stories I’ve never met

In a fairytale forest where the trees confess

All the broken lullabies I suppress

Twisted magic in my breath

Love’s a curse I can’t reject

Dancing on the edge of life and death

A moon-eyed marionette

Velvet nightmares kiss me while I sleep

Footsteps echo from the forest deep

Glass butterflies shatter on my skin

I let them cut, I let them in

A crown of thorns made of lullaby notes

Broken clock hands choking my throat

Somewhere in the dark a phantom calls

My name crawling up the castle walls

Tiptoe through the dark in a carnival glow

Every shadow dancing like it already knows

There’s a secret in my bones I can’t forget

Strings pulling tight on this silhouette

I’m a moon-eyed marionette

Haunted by the stories I’ve never met

In a fairytale forest where the trees confess

All the broken lullabies I suppress

Twisted magic in my breath

Love’s a curse I can’t reject

Dancing on the edge of life and death

A moon-eyed marionette

Pull the strings—

let me fall, let me break, let me sing

Through the cracks—

I see worlds made of shimmering black

If the nightmare loves me, let it stay

If the magic kills me, fade away

But tonight I’ll carve my own silhouette

No more moon-eyed marionette

I was a moon-eyed marionette

Bound by secrets I never met

But the fairytale forest is burning red

And I won’t bow to shadows in my head

Cut the curse from my breath

Rewrite life from death

No more dancing on the edge

No more moon-eyed marionette