• He asked her, he begged her, to let down her hair.
    She couldn’t know of the pain she’d find there.
    He told her he loved her, the witch’s child.
    How could she know he was violent and wild?
    How could she know he wanted her virtue?
    How could she fight the words, “I love you.”
    He stole her away from her safe refuge.
    He forced on her all that she dared refuse.
    The man who promised her the whole wide world
    Betrayed and hurt this pretty girl.
    The witch looked for her daughter frantically.
    “Rapunzel! Rapunzel! Oh, where is she!”
    But Rapunzel was running out of time.
    Soon her lover would commit the last crime.
    Poor Rapunzel had traded her tower
    For a life spent in her lover’s power.
    How short, how short, her life would be.
    Soon he would set Rapunzel’s spirit free.
    As her mother searched, her lover abused.
    He hit Rapunzel when she dared refuse.
    No one knew, so no one dared to help her.
    Weary Rapunzel could last no further.
    All alone, Rapunzel cried.
    All alone, Rapunzel died.