I watched her from the corner
As she began to play her song
Her spindly fingers danced across
The notes she'd known so long
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I saw the Silver Spider glow
As she set to work to make it so
The tune would have a home to dwell
A Spider's web to sleep.
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With such dedicated passion
The small Spider began to fashion
What could only be described
As a catastrophic web
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And rightly I refused to watch
To listen to her gentle touch
But the Spider did not need my praise
As she slowly spun her web
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"You cannot finish all of it
There's no way you'll accomplish it
Nodame just give up on it"
But the Spider spun her web
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I soon gave up on getting through
For now my place would have to do
I would have to wait 'til she was due
Or was done building her web
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She really did not notice me
She had not listened to my plea
So I listened and began to see
As bit by bit she spun her web
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It wasn't so alarming
More a subtle sort of charming
Not at all physically harming
The beginning of her web
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The way she spun was quite a feat
With so much work left to complete
But she just smiled and kept at it
And spun her growing web
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Too soon I felt mesmerised
My opinion was almost capsized
My resistance began to dwindle
Against the Silver Spider's thread
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For so long she had amused me
Tried so hard just to provoke me
But I had not moved an inch
Until I saw her spin her web
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And now as I watched the Spider
How I longed to sit beside her
But there is danger in desire
Danger of catching in a web
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Her lively eyes and open smile
Had known that in a little while
I'd be begging on my knees
Begging for a chance to play
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At first I was terrified
I tried to run, I tried to hide
But she continued to rehearse her plan
To catch me in her web
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And yes, I felt drawn to her web
The sound a soft and soothing ebb
And I began to fashion my intent
To join her in the web
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As the music grew and grew
She noticed me and took her cue
She struck, and I could not refuse
The chance to join her web
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I felt myself give in to her
She will come get me for sure
But I cannot get through to her
Too caught up in her web
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Nodame you're a mystery
Why will you not come to me?
You taunt and tease and tantalise
But leave me in your web.
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I cried aloud, "The game is won
Victory is yours, why do you shun?
You need not finish, please just come
Away from your web to me!"
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But still she did not utter
Nor her concentration flutter
She had better things to do
Now that she had me in her web
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The music stopped and I awoke,
Nodame peered at me.
"Are you ok? That's quite a fall"
"You lie, I felt nothing at all!"
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I see her eyes, I see her smile
It just took me a little while
And awake I know that I belong
Forever in her web
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"My little spider dance with me
Over the land, across the sea"
But she just smiled and said to me
"You've caught me in your web."