Puzzle the Donkey (A Narnia Song)

Song: Puzzle
Music, Lyrics & Voices" Ai

[Verse1]
By Caldron Pool, a skin was found,
The precious hide of a lion, cold on the ground.
Though Puzzle pleaded, "What if it's wrong?"
The ape’s slick whispers were a siren's song.
And so the skin was tied and sewn,
And on a donkey, Aslan's face was shown.

[Chorus]
A humble heart and long, soft ears,
He followed Shift for all his years.
The cruel ape's word, a binding spell,
Led Narnia through a final, fading hell.

[Verse2]
The gentle dupe, a fraud unseen,
A puppet figure on a fading green.
"Aslan commands!" the ape would cry,
While Puzzle felt the truth was just a lie.
He played his part, too timid to refuse,
Worn down by fear, and Shift's unending use.

[Chorus]
A humble heart and long, soft ears,
He followed Shift for all his years.
The cruel ape's word, a binding spell,
Led Narnia through a final, fading hell.

[Verse3]
But courage came with honest Jill,
Who found him hiding, weeping by a hill.
He shed the skin and all his shame,
And found his own true self, and spoke his name.
No lion now, no grand pretense,
Just one small donkey, full of innocence.

[Chorus]
A humble heart and long, soft ears,
He followed Shift for all his years.
The cruel ape's word, a binding spell,
Led Narnia through a final, fading hell.

[Verse4]
At the end of all, by the Stable door,
A shivering Puzzle, humble to the core.
He thought of justice, fierce and grand,
And dreaded judgment by Aslan's hand.
But Aslan spoke with love, and not with wrath,
And set the little donkey on the upward path.

[Chorus2]
His ears went down, then up with grace,
Forgiven fully in that holy place.
He trotted on to Aslan's real, new world,
A humble creature, with his coat newly pearled.