DidnÂ’t I try
To love her?
DidnÂ’t I paint
Pictures of her?
DidnÂ’t I try
To change?
I shouldnÂ’t have bothered.

DidnÂ’t I buy
The ocean for her?
DidnÂ’t I wear
The colour (?)
DidnÂ’t I feel
The wind?
DidnÂ’t I plead?

She is strange
And sorrow.
She is
Like cherry blossom.
She is
The Empress.

DidnÂ’t I kneel
Before her?
DidnÂ’t I follow
Her orders?
DidnÂ’t I clean
Her shit?
DidnÂ’t I fall?

DidnÂ’t I climb
The ladder?
DidnÂ’t I smile
For the cameras?
DidnÂ’t I feel
The wind?
DidnÂ’t I plead? (? bleed)

She is strange
And sorrow.
She is
Like cherry blossom.
She is
The Empress.

She is strange
And sorrow.
With lips
Like cherry blossom.
She is
The Empress.