Blue Dragon
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It's not hard, I know, to stand up and be hated
It's easy to be all alone and frustrated
It doesn't take courage to say you don't care
Or to keep from trembling when nobody's there
It's not the brave woman who takes her own life
Or ends someone else's with her pocket knife
It isn't the lion who won't run away
It isn't the pureheart who vows they will stay
It takes far more courage to say you're ashamed
Most villains, but hardly all heroes are famed
It's a lion who turns tail and runs far away
A wise lion who lives to fight some other day
It takes far more courage to admit that you're wrong
It takes more than I have to forsake the throng
A dragon is more cowardly than a hare
A dragon can hate when there's nobody there
Only a dragon can ignore its fears
And only a dragon cries false dragon's tears
I once was a dragon, I needed no one
I knew that a life rose and set like the sun
And then I found you and my false courage cracked
You who possessed bravery that I lacked
It was easy for me to pretend you weren't there
All others believed that I could never care
You offered me freedom, why, I'll never know
But my ice queen's defenses melted like the snow
You showed me a world where I was revered
It wasn't so important then to be feared
You were the lion who showed me my heart
I'll never forget you, you gave me my start
I was a blue dragon angry at the light
And mourning the lack of a nonceasing night
It took you, the lion, to show me my game
I didn't think you could end up just the same
So now I'm the lion- but then, what are you?
You, my dear Seifer who makes dreams come true?
You've lost all your courage, you're Edea's pet
And if I stay with you I'm only a threat
So I'll go, a brave lion without any joy
I'll leave you, my Seifer, a sorceress' toy
I leave now the lion, Raijin by my side
You think that I'm going to run off and hide
You can die for Edea, it's all up to you
You're not the same lion I swore that I knew
Just the dragon I once was, pretending to care,
And crying the tears that I know are not there.