Hocus Pocus

By Jamie T

On Kings & Queens

Released on September 7, 2009

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[Intro]

Bullets flying overhead

Hear 'em 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


[Verse 1]

Lost myself in things I shouldn't do

Came two years later 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

Well, I can't see myself in the dream

The dream I saw was all around me, got


[Chorus]

Hocus pocus, three men jokers

Barristers, beast, policemen, thieves

Three queens and broken dreams

A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

I got hocus pocus, three men jokers

Barristers, beast, policemen, thieves

Three queens and broken dreams

A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend


[Verse 2]

Well, the joker's 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 hallways

The host proposed a toast to all of the ghosts

The ones that loved, us the hearts we broke, said

"I'll never make that promise again"

Once was enough too; all around me, got


[Chorus]

Hocus pocus, three men jokers

Barristers, beast, policemen, thieves

Three queens and broken dreams

A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

I got hocus pocus, three men jokers

Barristers, beast, policemen, thieves

Three queens and broken dreams

A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend, I got


[Verse 3]

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, every day

You can't blame the damned 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


[Chorus]

Hocus pocus, three men jokers

Barristers, beast, policemen, thieves

Three queens and broken dreams

A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend

I got hocus pocus, three men jokers

Barristers, beast, policemen, thieves

Three queens and broken dreams

A bottle full of trouble and 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

I got hocus pocus, three men jokers

Barristers, beast, policemen, thieves

Three queens and broken dreams

A bottle full of trouble and a gambling fiend