Where were we?
I love you, my Ella, I love you my dear
But every time I see you, you fill me with fear
For the since day you were born,
To hell you’ve been sworn
Since your terrible coming, all has been lost
The plague claimed your father and our home to the frost
As a baby you ripped your dresses to shreds
You dirtied the cloth and tore all the threads
For all of this horrible grief, you are to blame.
I love you, my Ella, but I wish you never came
Where were we?

Where were we?
I love you my Ella, I love you my dear
But over the years you’ve stolen my cheer
You’ve taken away all that is good
I cared for you like a good mother should
Yet you give nothing, all you do is take
You cry in the night and requisite that I wake.
Then I discover you are well and unharmed
Still you pretend to be scared and alarmed.
I show you how to live and you still go astray.
I love you, my Ella, but would you please go away?
Where were we?

Where were we?
I love you my Ella, I love you my dear
But my patience is lost at your fourteenth year
I can no longer take this despair
You’ve brought more misery than I can bear
I’ve tried, my child, I’ve really tried
To wait until a damned soul took you for bride
Yet I can’t endure your wretched curse
I know that this horror will only get worse
So to stop this tragedy I take in hand a knife
I love you, my Ella, but I must take your life
Where were we?

Where were we?
I love you my Ella, I love you my dear
But the need for your demise is too severe
I say we are going to walk up to the cliffs
My voice never wavers and it never shifts
You flash the humorous smile I adore
And follow me blindly out of the door
We run through the grass that leads to the ledge
You sit down, laughing, with your feet over the edge.
I take the blade from my pocket and hide it in my sleeve
I love you my Ella, but tonight you will leave
Where were we?

Where were we?
I love you my Ella, I love you my dear
But the time for your end is growing near
You stand on the grass and begin to walk back
I hold your shoulder in place, away from the track
You ask why I hold so tightly and coldly
You try to shake off my hand so boldly
But I hold you so firmly in place
That I can see the fear in your face.
I unsheath my knife and lunge straight for you
I love you my Ella, but your reign of sorrow is through
Where were we?

Where were we?
I love you my Ella, I love you my dear
But away from my beautiful blade you steer
I try to explain the unavoidable reason for this
Yet you simply cry as I try and continue to miss
I yell out as in frustration that you will not stand still
And Ella, my darling, you take the knife, and finally kill
“Ella, Ella What have you done? Ella, Ella What have you done?”
In you eyes I see the sorrow, the horror, and the stun.
I weep but I know a life with you would be unlivable
I love you my Ella, but what you’ve done is unforgivable.
Where were we?

Where were we?
I love my Ella, I love my dear.
But as I fade I see a single tear.
“Mother, I’m sorry but it had to be this way
for at the bottom of the cliff one of us had to lay.”
“You betrayed me my child” I manically scream
“This terrible deed you will never redeem!”
With the last strength of my being
I keep you from fleeing
And try to throw you into the sky
I love you my Ella, but why won’t you die.
Where were we?

Where were we?
I love you my Ella, I love you my dear
But as I fade away it all becomes clear
That you never loved me
Oh, now I can see
You planned this cruelty all along!
I tried to send you back to where you belong.
But instead you look at me with the false sorrow
That it’s your own fault I won’t see tomorrow
You act you will notice my absence
I hate you my Ella, I did love you once
Where were we?