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Love as Tragedy: A Play in 3 Acts

from Second Skin by Alfa

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“Love As Tragedy: A Play in Three Acts”

Verse 1:
Act I was brilliant / We played our parts
so convincing and I still
Remember the lines
You had me going on first dates and I fell
Like Icarus falling away from the sun.

CHORUS
Now that it’s all over and done I notice
You just needed someone to play your damsel
Now that I can see things a little clearer
I feel sorry for the next girl
You will always see (you’ll always see)
Love as tragedy.


Act II was gripping
She came out of nowhere, storm in a teacup
The irony bare
You seem so honest
Playing your parts so convincing but she
Is speaking my lines.

Now that it’s all over and done I notice
You just needed someone to play your damsel
Now that I can see things a little clearer
I feel sorry for the next girl
You will always see (you’ll always see)
Love as tragedy.


Now that it’s all over and done I notice
You just needed someone to play your damsel
Now that I can see things a little clearer
I feel sorry for the next girl

Now that it’s all over and done I notice
You just needed someone to play your damsel
Now that I can see things a little clearer
I feel sorry for the next girl
You will always see (you’ll always see)
Love as tragedy.
You will always see (you’ll always see)
Love as tragedy.

Don’t let me sit through another minute
Cuz Act III’s the part that
I couldn’t get right.
And you’ll be persistent
‘til somebody gets it
But I don’t intend to find out tonight.

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from Second Skin, released July 31, 2009

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Armed with a voice, an instrument, and a keen sense of crafting a song, Alfa has been hailed as "an artist who has a spectrum of colors in her palette, a songwriter with a knack for tickling a mainstream ear" (Music Connection) Her songs have been heard on E!, MTV, nationally-released films and Spotify Philippines' Viral Top 50 in 2016. Alfa has opened for Sam Smith, Us the Duo, and Howie Day. ... more

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