Snow White

Lyrics

[Intro]
(mirror-glass strings and a thread of red-hot iron menace)

[Verse 1]
"Mirror, mirror" — every morning, the same starving little rite,
a Queen who measured her whole worth by who was fairest in the light.
Then the glass said someone lovelier breathed under her own roof,
and envy did the thing that envy does: it went looking for proof.

[Chorus]
Snow White, Snow White, sleeping in the glass —
the lace, the comb, the poisoned apple, each one worse than the last.
Comparison's a circuit that will eat the one who feeds it —
the Queen kept asking who was fairest, and the asking is what killed it.

[Verse 2]
Seven little miners kept her, and the huntsman spared her heart,
but a mother's jealousy is patient, and it came in threefold art.
A bite, a coffin made of crystal, a prince who would not leave —
and the apple shook loose from her throat, and she woke, and learned to grieve.

[Bridge]
(the iron glows)
At the wedding they had shoes of iron heated glowing in the coals,
and they made the Queen dance out her spite till the music took its toll.

[Outro]
So mind the little morning question of who's the fairest of them all...
the mirror only shows you the hunger that will, in the end, make you fall.