Lyrics to Apprentice

She was all the stars in a velvet sea

A gem of perfection she seemed to me

Skin like silk and a rose red smile

All grace when I brought her tea



And her laughter cut through my girlish dream

"Don't you know that we're all silk and cream

And roses and velvet and gems and stars?

You must be more than what you seem."



One night I stole into her garden

And I overheard her sigh...



"You don't have to be wild to want to run

Look at the roses and you'll see

See them climbing ever higher toward the sun

These garden walls are not for me."



I had come so young to the Twilight School

Quiet and shy and a bit of a fool

A hopeless handmaid, so awkward and awed

Until she saw an uncut jewel



She taught me all the Companion's art

Beauty and charm and the skills to set ourselves apart

We were teacher and student, we were friend and friend

And we were sisters of the heart



Sharing afternoon tea in her garden

She would gaze up at the sky...



"You don't have to be wild to want to run

Look at the ring-doves and you'll see

See them stretching their clipped wings out toward the

sun

This pretty cage is not for me."



She could see her path laid out in flowers and in stone

Priestess, Lady, Head of House, and nothing left

unknown

She whispered to her teacup that it chilled her to the

bone

"When others look to you to make their choices

You no longer make your own..."



Now my clients say there's no lady as fine

The skill and the charm and the garden are mine

But I walk outside the gate at night

And see the stars and planets shine



They say she's done battle, they say she fell in love

They say she near died in that endless sky above

And all of her lessons I took to heart

Even that of the rose and the dove



She taught me to look beyond the garden

And she never said goodbye...



You don't have to be wild to want to run

Look at the river and you'll see

See it leap and dance away, laughing in the sun

Perhaps it knows a place for me.