Please Cry for Me Encinitas

It won’t be easy

You’ll think I’m strange

When I try to explain how I feel

That I still need your love

After all that I’ve done

You won’t believe me

All you will see

Is a gal you once knew

Who failed to preserve paradise

As she always promised to do

I first had to betray you         

I had to lie

Couldn’t stay all my life in the law

Looking out through the window

Staying out of the sun

So I chose council       

Ran for mayor

Making everything pew

And nothing deterred me at all

I never expected it to

Please cry for me, Encinitas

The truth is I up and left you

All through my lying days

My bad existence

I broke my promise

Just keep your distance

And as for fortune

And as for fame

I always invited them in

And I showed to the world

They are all I desire

They are ambitions

They are surely the brass rings  

They promised to be

The answer was here all the time

I love you and hope you love me

Although I have blood on my hands

Please cry for me, Encinitas

The truth is I up and left you

All through my lying days

My bad existence

I broke my promise

Just keep your distance

Have I lied too much?

There’s nothing more

I can think of how to play you

But all you have to do

Is look at me to know

That my words are not true

Please cry for me, Encinitas