Tales never lie

[Verse 1]
We feared to awaken the children’s despair,
We tailored the lies, rewrote what was there.
And each of us carries a secret inside,
Regretting the fables that swallowed our light.

We dressed up the witches in gowns of a queen,
But all of it played like a cheap painted scene.
The truth is not found in the stage or the show,
It lives in the reader who dares not let go.

[Chorus]
We never wanted to frighten the young,
So truth was buried in books full of dust.
But what is left when the stories are done,
And even the credits betray all the trust?

We don’t need the glitter, we need what is real,
Where sorrow and fear are the wounds that can heal.
It’s time to unveil the shadowed domain,
So children will learn that life’s not a stage play.

[Verse 2]
The slipper is bloody — the ball hides the screams,
The sisters go blind with their envy and schemes.
The apple decays with the witch’s own breath,
And mirrors are shattered by sins never left.

Betrayal has taken the blame,
The mermaid dissolved in the foam of the waves.
Love turned to a curse, hope faded away,
And freedom’s a ghost that just runs into gray.

[Chorus]
We never wanted to frighten the young,
So truth was buried in books full of dust.
But what is left when the stories are done,
And even the credits betray all the trust?

We don’t need the glitter, we need what is real,
Where sorrow and fear are the wounds that can heal.
It’s time to unveil the shadowed domain,
So children will learn that life’s not a stage play.

[Verse 3 – choir]
You burned out the truth from the pages of old,
Rewritten the images, lies to be sold.
Erased from the world, our own fates rearranged,
But truth can’t be hidden, just endings are changed.

We’re written in books, yet erased from the stage,
Our voices are silent, our smiles disengaged.
But masks cannot hide what is heavy with shame,
The truth only sleeps underneath all the blame.

[Bridge]
We are tired of silence, our voices will rise,
Through glittering tales that have blinded your eyes.
We’re not the heroes, not villains you see,
We are the ones who know truth underneath.

[Final Chorus – choir]
Now hear our call — the truth is inside,
Where sorrow and fear are no reason to hide.
It’s time to tear down this invisible chain,
That locks you away in the fairytale’s frame.

Let the masks all collapse, let fa;ades be destroyed,
It’s time to cut short this deceiving parade.
It may leave you bleeding — but freedom remains,
For truth is what rises in liberated veins.