Ugly Swan
Remember when
You were at the bottom
Of the chain
Red embers then
Cutting blazing hot in
-to your skin
You rose again
Vowing your tormentors
Grim revenge
Alas, in vain
For when you turned a mentor
You left the trench
Burned, blistered, crusty, scarred
Up to your eyebrows, down to your lard
Bawling, barking, lashing out
Hurt wants devout
Might have been an ugly duckling
Turned into an ugly swan
Only ever see you chuckling
When you're raining on someone
See them bending, see them buckling
As you swing your royal mace
Only nectar you are suckling
Is your underlings'
Disgrace
Disgrace
You hide behind
The history of terror
You survived
It left you blind
To pleasure and to error
On your side
(contempt)
Burned, blistered, crusty, scarred
Up to your eyebrows, down to your lard
Bawling, barking, lashing out
Hurt wants quiet and devout
(hot anger)
Toughened dermis, hardened heart
Fibrous tissue, blackened and charred
Moving slowly, spraying clout
Choke any doubt
Might have been an ugly duckling
Turned into an ugly swan
Only ever see you chuckling
When you're raining on someone
See them bending, see them buckling
As you swing your royal mace
Only nectar you are suckling
Is your underlings'
Disgrace
Disgrace
I will break the vicious cycle
I will grow up to be sane
I will not be a disciple
To your sacrilegious reign
You may live for now, however
Time will be our remedy
And so soon, there's nothing left
But distant, bitter memory
Might have been an ugly duckling
Turned into an ugly swan
Only ever see you chuckling
When you're raining on someone
See them bending, see them buckling
As you swing your royal mace
Only nectar you are suckling
Is your underlings'
Disgrace
Disgrace
You were at the bottom
Of the chain
Red embers then
Cutting blazing hot in
-to your skin
You rose again
Vowing your tormentors
Grim revenge
Alas, in vain
For when you turned a mentor
You left the trench
Burned, blistered, crusty, scarred
Up to your eyebrows, down to your lard
Bawling, barking, lashing out
Hurt wants devout
Might have been an ugly duckling
Turned into an ugly swan
Only ever see you chuckling
When you're raining on someone
See them bending, see them buckling
As you swing your royal mace
Only nectar you are suckling
Is your underlings'
Disgrace
Disgrace
You hide behind
The history of terror
You survived
It left you blind
To pleasure and to error
On your side
(contempt)
Burned, blistered, crusty, scarred
Up to your eyebrows, down to your lard
Bawling, barking, lashing out
Hurt wants quiet and devout
(hot anger)
Toughened dermis, hardened heart
Fibrous tissue, blackened and charred
Moving slowly, spraying clout
Choke any doubt
Might have been an ugly duckling
Turned into an ugly swan
Only ever see you chuckling
When you're raining on someone
See them bending, see them buckling
As you swing your royal mace
Only nectar you are suckling
Is your underlings'
Disgrace
Disgrace
I will break the vicious cycle
I will grow up to be sane
I will not be a disciple
To your sacrilegious reign
You may live for now, however
Time will be our remedy
And so soon, there's nothing left
But distant, bitter memory
Might have been an ugly duckling
Turned into an ugly swan
Only ever see you chuckling
When you're raining on someone
See them bending, see them buckling
As you swing your royal mace
Only nectar you are suckling
Is your underlings'
Disgrace
Disgrace
Credits
Writer(s): Judith Claire Boehm
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