Lyrics Cassandra No More (Goodbye to all That) - Deborah Stokol

What if you're right nine times out of 10
What then?
And what if you speak shining words
Then someone else speaks those very same words
And suddenly the whole world applauds?

Should I have chosen to bed the old fraud
The golden god and golden (liar/)lyre?
Perhaps that would have been
The preferable choice
To this sacrificial pyre

But I will be Cassandra no more
Goodbye to all of that!
And I will be Cassandra no more
Won't build with those crooked slats

So what's the solution
When snakes there will bite me
And I'm lit with a great prophecy?
I see it all
I see it all
I see it all so clearly!
For too long, they did not believe me

I carried this all for years and years
I've soaked through the books with frustration and tears

But I'll burn this old parchment
Dissolve this old page
I've let go of all of that rage

'Cause I will be Cassandra no more
Goodbye to all of that
Oh, I will be Cassandra no more
Though I know I had it all down pat

No more patterns in the dark
Spiderwebs in the garden
Three-thousand chain links
No one else sees

No one else sees
But me

Connections I will make no more!
It may all come - or may choose another door
Will try to be glad just not to know
And live in this moment, free

So I will be Cassandra no more
Goodbye to all of that
I will be Cassandra no more
Farewell to all of that