I heard you liked the future, I heard you liked the past. – Midas has a painful past, but he constantly tries to put on a good front for those that are around him.
Pairs of two might just be your thing. – He is a paint and colored with two main colors.
But I heard you liked the cold -
though cold hearted you are not. – He is kind.
I heard you liked the leaves, I heard you like the butterflies. – He has wings.
You're free - in spirit - but I can see those chains tied to your hooves. – He has fashioned chains recently to capture a wraith.
My dear, perhaps you're just a broken storybook fantasy, a mythological beast – He is a Pegasus, and his name is often referred to as mythological from the old tale of the actual Midas.