The Ballad of Petrilly Gill
(To the tune of the Eagles _Lyin’ Eyes_)
Halfling
girls just seem to find out early
How to open
doors with pick and file
A rich old
mark so she won't have to worry
She'll mask
in black and climb the wall in style
Late at
night a big old house holds plenty
Where each
antique and stature has its price
And it
breaks her heart to think she’s has to leave some
But her
fence has asked she grab that diamond ice
So she finds
the safe and gets on with the thievin’
Pick the
locks and shut all the traps down
Grabs the
bag of gems but as she is leavin'
A shadow
there with maw turned in a frown.
She can't
hide from flyin' eyes
And her mask
is a thin disguise
Awash in
fear she’ll realize
her mark is
just a sphere of many eyes
At a
dockside bar her favorite fence is waiting
Tracking goods
that come and go with the tide
As she runs away
from as abomination
She hopes he
has ways to get her out alive
“Because if we
fall, we will fall together”
She whispers
that cold warning with a smile
“Beholders
grudges, they go on forever,
They are
nothing but malice, hate, and guile.”
She can't
hide from flyin' eyes
And her mask
is a thin disguise
Awash in
fear she’ll realize
her mark is
just a sphere of many eyes
She adds this
job to ones that she’s regretted
And stares
out at the stars up in the sky
Out in the night,
the sphere is silhouetted
And her
fence tried to run with no goodbye
She wonders
how it ever got this crazy
She thinks
about the pro she used to be
Did she get gulled
or did she just get lazy?
After
killing him, her paths are fight and flee
“My, oh my,
you sure know how to arrange things
You set me
up so well, so carefully”
Taking his
poor worthless life just didn't change things
As the sphere
appeared and she cursed silently
She can't
hide from flyin' eyes
And her mask
is a thin disguise
Awash in
fear she’ll realize
her mark is
just a sphere of many eyes
There ain't
no way to hide from flyin' eyes
Her death approaches
with nine old magic eyes
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