(Note: Sung to the tune of Alice In Wonderland's "Painting The Roses Red")

Sung by Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy

It all started when Fluttershy was visiting Canterlot Castle with her friends to visit Princess Celestia. It was then that Fluttershy saw a very sickly bird (Princess Celestia's own pet Philomena) and decided to nurse it back to health.

It proved to be a very difficult patient, and it only got worse. Then it suddenly burst into flames and turned into a pile of ash. Of course, both Fluttrshy and Twilight Sparkle thought that they had killed it.

Until Princess Celestia caught up with them, and the bird (who happened to be an immortal phoenix) sprung back to life. It turned out it was going t get better anyway, but it decided to mess with their heads for cheap giggles.

Twilight and Fluttershy both reached the same conclusion together:

Philomena is a jerk.

Making us think she’s dead
Was making us think she’s dead
That dumb phoenix
Pulled out the tricks
Fluttershy lost her head
By making us think she’s dead
By making us think she’s dead

Oh, making us think she’s dead
And many a tear we shed
But then and there,
And with a flare
Burst into flames instead
Suddenly a flash of red
Making us think she’s dead

Making us think she’s dead
She’s making us think she’s dead
What’s that, you say?
‘But, anyway,
Why did we think she’s dead?’

“Huh? Oh!
Well, the fact is, pal
We didn’t know she was a phoenix,
Or...”

That she could be not dead
And be reborn instead,
So basically
She pranked us, see
To see where it all led
That bird is a jerk, my friend
By making us think she’s dead

Making us think she’s dead
She’s making us think she’s dead
She ignored us,
Fluttershy’s fuss
To get a cheap laugh said
Just by making us think she’s dead
Yes, making us think she’s dead

That bird’s
A punk
That re-birthing junk
By making us think she’s dead!

Author's Note

As requested by Ugly-Duckling123.