Rapunzel Sonnets Lyrics

Song	Rapunzel Sonnets
Artist	Emilie Autumn
Album	Your Sugar Sits Untouched
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	Sonnet I
	Dreaming from my tower
	In the air
	Higher than the trees
	Surrounding close
	Wondering if men
	Would find me fair
	Footsteps down below
	Break my repose
	The mist about my window
	Hinders me
	From viewing
	Who would enter in my court
	But so few visitors I chance to see
	Intent I am
	On making my report
	And tuning my sweet song
	Towards the earth
	I’ll change my fate
	Which left me here since birth
	Sonnet II
	Six notes
	Only had I sounded
	When
	The footsteps came nearer my prison wall
	Trembled I
	Yet sounded them again
	And from what seemed the pit of earth
	Heard call
	A voice
	Quite different
	From those I had heard
	Though I could count that number on one hand
	My lips
	Too dry to speak a single word
	I wondered
	Why I had not better planned
	And tried in vain to step back from the sill
	For something held my hair
	And kept me still
	Sonnet III
	I tried to scream
	But sound I could not make
	My frightened wit had robbed me of my speech
	I thought of how my tresses
	I might break
	But spied the scissors
	Just beyond my reach
	Frantically
	I fumbled through my skirts
	Searching for my dagger in the fold
	The same I used
	For tearing linen shirts
	And as I knew
	Not what of me had hold
	To sacrifice my braids
	I raised my knife
	Too late!
	I now must kill to save my life
	Sonnet IV
	My point directed at the stranger’s chin,
	No time was left for severing his rope
	But shall I murder him
	Or let him in?
	I was too stunned at what I saw
	To hope for some salvation
	I knew I was lost
	Whichever was my choice
	It mattered not
	The mist had cleared
	My innocence the cost
	And for one endless moment
	I was wrought
	Of human flesh
	And human cares and fears
	The fantasy of fables
	Read for years
	Sonnet V
	A face it was
	Yea, it had lips and eyes
	But unlike that which greets me in the glass
	In its twin orbs
	I saw no less surprise
	And so we stood
	Two statues made of brass
	I gazing in his eyes
	And he in mine
	As though we might have read each other’s thoughts
	He smiled slowly
	As one
	Drunk with wine
	When suddenly the forest rang with shots
	The hunters oft’ before had come too near
	And so I bid adieu
	To all my fear
	Sonnet VI
	Hardly knowing half of what I did
	But well aware the half
	I knew was mad
	I grasped his arms as virtue may forbid
	And pulled the creature with what strength I had
	Into the chamber
	To the floor we fell
	Then scrambled I
	To my poniard retrieve
	And asked him now
	At death’s third door
	To tell
	Why cam’st he hence
	And bade him not deceive
	For if he should be false
	Despite his beauty
	Though I be fooled
	My dagger knew its duty
	Sonnet VII
	His lips then moved
	But not a sound was heard
	I saw them
	As two petals from a rose
	When finally
	He was fit to say a word
	I was content examining his nose
	He made some mention
	Of a songbird’s tune
	I was not listening
	But o’erlooked his brow
	He claimed
	He would have climbed up to the moon
	I wished to give him peace
	But knew not how
	He had not thought his rope a maiden’s hair
	Upon my life
	I found the creature fair!
	Sonnet VIII
	The deed explained
	He begged of me my name
	“Rapunzel”
	I replied
	“A man thou art?”
	“I am”
	The creature laughed
	“The very same
	How long hast thou been kept from life
	Apart?”
	I told him how
	For one and twenty years
	My home had been the walls
	He saw around me
	How no amount of pleading
	Nor no tears
	Have gained a visitor
	Until he found me
	But when I think upon it
	I recall
	For staring
	He did not hear me at all
	Sonnet IX
	It seemed to me
	We may as well not speak
	His eyes had gone
	As cloudy as the day
	He asked if he might
	Come again that week
	And I knew
	He must soon be gone away
	He took my hands
	And pressed them in his own
	As if by doing so
	He should stay longer
	He told me of the world
	I might have known
	Vowing to return
	And slay my wronger
	Then promising no harm
	His head he bent
	And kissed my lips
	Then out the sill he went
	Sonnet X
	Lowering himself
	As he had come
	Through the mist
	My creature disappeared
	Riding back
	To all that he was from
	And all that I could never be
	I feared
	And yet
	What raven locks fell 'round his face
	What gentle eyes
	As gray as seagulls wings
	A voice so soft
	My words cannot replace
	The memory
	Of a thousand lovely things
	And so I’ll dream again
	Of arms more sweet
	The dagger
	I had dropped
	Lies at my feet

	Sonnet I
	Dreaming from my tower
	In the air
	Higher than the trees
	Surrounding close
	Wondering if men
	Would find me fair
	Footsteps down below
	Break my repose
	The mist about my window
	Hinders me
	From viewing
	Who would enter in my court
	But so few visitors I chance to see
	Intent I am
	On making my report
	And tuning my sweet song
	Towards the earth
	I' ll change my fate
	Which left me here since birth
	Sonnet II
	Six notes
	Only had I sounded
	When
	The footsteps came nearer my prison wall
	Trembled I
	Yet sounded them again
	And from what seemed the pit of earth
	Heard call
	A voice
	Quite different
	From those I had heard
	Though I could count that number on one hand
	My lips
	Too dry to speak a single word
	I wondered
	Why I had not better planned
	And tried in vain to step back from the sill
	For something held my hair
	And kept me still
	Sonnet III
	I tried to scream
	But sound I could not make
	My frightened wit had robbed me of my speech
	I thought of how my tresses
	I might break
	But spied the scissors
	Just beyond my reach
	Frantically
	I fumbled through my skirts
	Searching for my dagger in the fold
	The same I used
	For tearing linen shirts
	And as I knew
	Not what of me had hold
	To sacrifice my braids
	I raised my knife
	Too late!
	I now must kill to save my life
	Sonnet IV
	My point directed at the stranger' s chin,
	No time was left for severing his rope
	But shall I murder him
	Or let him in?
	I was too stunned at what I saw
	To hope for some salvation
	I knew I was lost
	Whichever was my choice
	It mattered not
	The mist had cleared
	My innocence the cost
	And for one endless moment
	I was wrought
	Of human flesh
	And human cares and fears
	The fantasy of fables
	Read for years
	Sonnet V
	A face it was
	Yea, it had lips and eyes
	But unlike that which greets me in the glass
	In its twin orbs
	I saw no less surprise
	And so we stood
	Two statues made of brass
	I gazing in his eyes
	And he in mine
	As though we might have read each other' s thoughts
	He smiled slowly
	As one
	Drunk with wine
	When suddenly the forest rang with shots
	The hunters oft' before had come too near
	And so I bid adieu
	To all my fear
	Sonnet VI
	Hardly knowing half of what I did
	But well aware the half
	I knew was mad
	I grasped his arms as virtue may forbid
	And pulled the creature with what strength I had
	Into the chamber
	To the floor we fell
	Then scrambled I
	To my poniard retrieve
	And asked him now
	At death' s third door
	To tell
	Why cam' st he hence
	And bade him not deceive
	For if he should be false
	Despite his beauty
	Though I be fooled
	My dagger knew its duty
	Sonnet VII
	His lips then moved
	But not a sound was heard
	I saw them
	As two petals from a rose
	When finally
	He was fit to say a word
	I was content examining his nose
	He made some mention
	Of a songbird' s tune
	I was not listening
	But o' erlooked his brow
	He claimed
	He would have climbed up to the moon
	I wished to give him peace
	But knew not how
	He had not thought his rope a maiden' s hair
	Upon my life
	I found the creature fair!
	Sonnet VIII
	The deed explained
	He begged of me my name
	" Rapunzel"
	I replied
	" A man thou art?"
	" I am"
	The creature laughed
	" The very same
	How long hast thou been kept from life
	Apart?"
	I told him how
	For one and twenty years
	My home had been the walls
	He saw around me
	How no amount of pleading
	Nor no tears
	Have gained a visitor
	Until he found me
	But when I think upon it
	I recall
	For staring
	He did not hear me at all
	Sonnet IX
	It seemed to me
	We may as well not speak
	His eyes had gone
	As cloudy as the day
	He asked if he might
	Come again that week
	And I knew
	He must soon be gone away
	He took my hands
	And pressed them in his own
	As if by doing so
	He should stay longer
	He told me of the world
	I might have known
	Vowing to return
	And slay my wronger
	Then promising no harm
	His head he bent
	And kissed my lips
	Then out the sill he went
	Sonnet X
	Lowering himself
	As he had come
	Through the mist
	My creature disappeared
	Riding back
	To all that he was from
	And all that I could never be
	I feared
	And yet
	What raven locks fell ' round his face
	What gentle eyes
	As gray as seagulls wings
	A voice so soft
	My words cannot replace
	The memory
	Of a thousand lovely things
	And so I' ll dream again
	Of arms more sweet
	The dagger
	I had dropped
	Lies at my feet

	Sonnet I
	Dreaming from my tower
	In the air
	Higher than the trees
	Surrounding close
	Wondering if men
	Would find me fair
	Footsteps down below
	Break my repose
	The mist about my window
	Hinders me
	From viewing
	Who would enter in my court
	But so few visitors I chance to see
	Intent I am
	On making my report
	And tuning my sweet song
	Towards the earth
	I' ll change my fate
	Which left me here since birth
	Sonnet II
	Six notes
	Only had I sounded
	When
	The footsteps came nearer my prison wall
	Trembled I
	Yet sounded them again
	And from what seemed the pit of earth
	Heard call
	A voice
	Quite different
	From those I had heard
	Though I could count that number on one hand
	My lips
	Too dry to speak a single word
	I wondered
	Why I had not better planned
	And tried in vain to step back from the sill
	For something held my hair
	And kept me still
	Sonnet III
	I tried to scream
	But sound I could not make
	My frightened wit had robbed me of my speech
	I thought of how my tresses
	I might break
	But spied the scissors
	Just beyond my reach
	Frantically
	I fumbled through my skirts
	Searching for my dagger in the fold
	The same I used
	For tearing linen shirts
	And as I knew
	Not what of me had hold
	To sacrifice my braids
	I raised my knife
	Too late!
	I now must kill to save my life
	Sonnet IV
	My point directed at the stranger' s chin,
	No time was left for severing his rope
	But shall I murder him
	Or let him in?
	I was too stunned at what I saw
	To hope for some salvation
	I knew I was lost
	Whichever was my choice
	It mattered not
	The mist had cleared
	My innocence the cost
	And for one endless moment
	I was wrought
	Of human flesh
	And human cares and fears
	The fantasy of fables
	Read for years
	Sonnet V
	A face it was
	Yea, it had lips and eyes
	But unlike that which greets me in the glass
	In its twin orbs
	I saw no less surprise
	And so we stood
	Two statues made of brass
	I gazing in his eyes
	And he in mine
	As though we might have read each other' s thoughts
	He smiled slowly
	As one
	Drunk with wine
	When suddenly the forest rang with shots
	The hunters oft' before had come too near
	And so I bid adieu
	To all my fear
	Sonnet VI
	Hardly knowing half of what I did
	But well aware the half
	I knew was mad
	I grasped his arms as virtue may forbid
	And pulled the creature with what strength I had
	Into the chamber
	To the floor we fell
	Then scrambled I
	To my poniard retrieve
	And asked him now
	At death' s third door
	To tell
	Why cam' st he hence
	And bade him not deceive
	For if he should be false
	Despite his beauty
	Though I be fooled
	My dagger knew its duty
	Sonnet VII
	His lips then moved
	But not a sound was heard
	I saw them
	As two petals from a rose
	When finally
	He was fit to say a word
	I was content examining his nose
	He made some mention
	Of a songbird' s tune
	I was not listening
	But o' erlooked his brow
	He claimed
	He would have climbed up to the moon
	I wished to give him peace
	But knew not how
	He had not thought his rope a maiden' s hair
	Upon my life
	I found the creature fair!
	Sonnet VIII
	The deed explained
	He begged of me my name
	" Rapunzel"
	I replied
	" A man thou art?"
	" I am"
	The creature laughed
	" The very same
	How long hast thou been kept from life
	Apart?"
	I told him how
	For one and twenty years
	My home had been the walls
	He saw around me
	How no amount of pleading
	Nor no tears
	Have gained a visitor
	Until he found me
	But when I think upon it
	I recall
	For staring
	He did not hear me at all
	Sonnet IX
	It seemed to me
	We may as well not speak
	His eyes had gone
	As cloudy as the day
	He asked if he might
	Come again that week
	And I knew
	He must soon be gone away
	He took my hands
	And pressed them in his own
	As if by doing so
	He should stay longer
	He told me of the world
	I might have known
	Vowing to return
	And slay my wronger
	Then promising no harm
	His head he bent
	And kissed my lips
	Then out the sill he went
	Sonnet X
	Lowering himself
	As he had come
	Through the mist
	My creature disappeared
	Riding back
	To all that he was from
	And all that I could never be
	I feared
	And yet
	What raven locks fell ' round his face
	What gentle eyes
	As gray as seagulls wings
	A voice so soft
	My words cannot replace
	The memory
	Of a thousand lovely things
	And so I' ll dream again
	Of arms more sweet
	The dagger
	I had dropped
	Lies at my feet

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