Blair Dunlop Secret Theatre Lyrics

I’ve seen a trick or two in my life
Yea, I’ve seen a trick or two
But a common theme in deceiving machines is the point
of which you see through

I’ve seen a trick or two in my life
Yea, I’ve seen a trick or two
But as far as I know you only show the things that make
you seem true

Its words were long and twisted
Like his shadow in the night
And as Lucifer lit the lanterns
Shown over his pen in flight

Corpus was a century where he first learned to spin the
word
But beyond the walls lay riches
That his taste much preferred

I’ve seen a trick or two in my life
Yea, I’ve seen a trick or two
But a common theme in deceiving machines is the point
of which you see through

I’ve seen a trick or two in my life
Yea, I’ve seen a trick or two
But as far as I know you only show the things that make
you seem true

While singing came the calling Inspired them to create
So we dropped the pen and he fled instead
Over the Cambridge gates

A cool head on his shoulders
And a piper lays in hand
Corpus lay in the shadows
While it fought for the English brand

Come quick as the crimson pours
Face down in a Deptford bar
But the sly surprise's blade, seems to me to be all
too bizarre

Either way, the bill got paid
Then my little pain is due
And I’d have swallowed the whole damn lot
Had I not seen a trick or two

Some say he chanced his luck
The next day peninsula bound
Venus and Adonis, chanced theirs too
And headed back the other way around

Panning in the Venetian sun
It’s brown, not even scarred
Almost as hard to believe
Is the very notion of a Stratford bard

I’ve seen a trick or two in my life
I’ve seen a trick or two in my life