Hocus Pocus

(album: Kings & Queens - 2009)

Bullets flying over head
Hear them through the walls as you lie in bed
Know you're fighting for the one you love
This time son I'm telling you to run

Lost myself in things I shouldn't do
Came two years later to without you
Things I've done and the things I've seen
I've been so wrong to so many the team

Is all looking like they're all past up and away
Disowned from their homes and their families
So I can't see myself in the dream
Dream I saw was all 'round me got

Hocus pocus, three men jokers
Barristers beast, policemen thieves
Three queens and broken dreams
A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

Hocus pocus, three men jokers
Barristers beast, policemen thieves
Three queens and broken dreams
A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

Well, the jokers looking over as he pulling an ace
The militia take cover under my staircase
Witches in the kitchen bitching and itching
Two old school friends haunt the hall ways

The host proposed a toast all of the ghost
And the ones that loved us, the hearts we broke say
I'll never make that promise again
Once was enough to all around me got

Hocus pocus, three men jokers
Barristers beast, policemen thieves
Three queens and broken dreams
A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

Hocus pocus, three men jokers
Barristers beast, policemen thieves
Three queens and broken dreams
A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

As I came to I looked for you in the cupboards
And the drawers and the toilet queue
Asked the medicine man if he had heard the news
He told me I'd thrown you out last June

Grabbed the politician by the neck threatened to use
Fists in a fight to find out the truth
He said you set the scene, son, everyday
You can't blame the dammed for your own mistakes

While the mason he was pacing in my living room
Emma had a child growing up in the womb
I said I'm staying in, I never felt like I left
My last breath was taken in conjunction with

Hocus pocus, three men jokers
Barristers beast, policemen thieves
Three queens and broken dreams
A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

Hocus pocus, three men jokers
Barristers beast, policemen thieves
Three queens and broken dreams
A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

Hocus pocus, three men jokers
Barristers beast, policemen thieves
Three queens and broken dreams
A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

Hocus pocus, three men jokers
Barristers beast, policemen thieves
Three queens and broken dreams
A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend