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The Court Jester

from Croakus Pokus by The Croaks

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lyrics

Left these stuffy walls
To roam the misty mire
Searching for a heart to roast
On a splintered spire

Upon hearing a tantalizing tune
My loins flowed with viscous desire
Saw him fingering his lute
Quick was I to conspire...

"Pray teach me one of your magic tricks
I’ll introduce you to my hips
You can jig in my court any day
I yearn to hear your music play"

Possessed by your bronze bells jingling
I set off a tingling

Poked through your tunic
While you reposed for a bit
Found only amber spirits
And a mound of sanguine stone fruit pits

I lap the jester’s nectar
Of honeyed sweat and frothing surf
Eheu! Scurvy festers
in the chest of this lowly serf
Deluded visions of love
creep up in the dark
A pestilence
A cancer
A plague on the heart

"Hark! Don’t antagonize me
My sovereign passion sets fools free
It sweeps mountains and caverns deep
It forestalls death and tames the sea"

Peeked into his chasmal chest and saw
A still born heart laid raw

His lemming legs run
Off to other queendoms
I’ve heard he haunts bedchambers
Recall, you may have seen him...

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from Croakus Pokus, released July 28, 2023
Written by The Croaks

Anna Reidister: lyrics, chords, acoustic gtr, lead and backing vox, dulcimer, bells, tambourine
Jasper Fleming: bass, coda
Haley Wood: violin, backing vox
Sammy DeSantos: drums
Alli Raina: backing vox

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ragged post-hot rock

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