Ring Around the Rosy

How could it be?
That when I said "you're the only one for me."
You had already left, why didn't I see.
Since the start, through those opaque, deceiving eyes.
All that you said were only lies.
How could it be that it took me so long just to realize.

I didn't even encourage what other people had to say.
As I kept on drifting and drifting away.
Closer to you, farther from them.
You're like the flower, I'm the stem.
Holding onto you for far too long.
I thought I was right, but in the end, always wrong.

As I sing...
[Ring around the rosy, A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down!]
Again, as every tear that is shed, I will still sing..
[Ring around the rosy, A pocket full of posies,
Ashes! Ashes! We all fall down!]

- Pauline Pau