[Intro]
[soft victrola crackle
Band warming up]
Step right up
Front row
Don’t blink
She’ll sip your drink
And steal your watch (politely)
[Verse 1]
She glides on stage in velvet gloves
Smiles like she knows your secrets
One lifted brow
You lose your card
She swears she barely peeked it
She purrs your name
Your brain goes blank
Your ring is gone
She’s gleaming
You clap
She curtsies
Time goes soft
You’re wide awake
But dreaming
[Chorus]
Lucy Darling
If you please
Makes your common sense say “freeze”
Turns your doubt to little doves
Shakes them out of borrowed gloves
Lucy Darling
What a shame
You came in sure
You leave half-tame
She rewrites all your memories
Lucy Darling
If you please
[Verse 2]
She talks like trouble in a glass
Sweet drawl
Sharp little edges
Quips that dance then double back
Like they jumped the balcony hedges
She strolls through logic
Rearranged
Like furniture at midnight
One snap
Your choices disappear
But somehow it feels right
[Chorus]
Lucy Darling
If you please
Makes your common sense say “freeze”
Turns your doubt to little doves
Shakes them out of borrowed gloves
Lucy Darling
What a shame
You came in sure
You leave half-tame
She rewires all your memories
Lucy Darling
If you please
[Bridge]
Did she ever touch the deck?
Did the coins just change their minds?
Is she cheating gravity
Or just cheating you
In kind? (oh!)
She winks
“It’s only theater
Dear
And I’m your favorite lie”
You laugh
You bow
You swear somehow
She just edited the sky
[Chorus]
Lucy Darling
If you please
Makes your common sense say “freeze”
Turns your doubt to little doves
Shakes them out of borrowed gloves
Lucy Darling
Spin the tale
Toast the tricks and tip the veil
When you think you’ve found the seams
She steals the ending from your dreams
Lucy Darling
If you please
[Outro]
[victrola crackle swells
Muted trumpet mimics a teasing laugh]
(if you please…)