Church - The Disillusionist lyrics

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In autumn he comes to this town<br />

When the peoples guard is down<br />

On a day like today<br />

Overcast and gray<br />

Bells were all ringing<br />

The birds stopped their singing<br />

The wind caught in the trees<br />

Screaming to be free<br />

He alights from the platform<br />

In his usual uniform<br />

His skin looks like he slept in it<br />

Or had something rotten kept in it<br />

And snakes stir in the thistles<br />

Back of cats neck bristles<br />

'Round vicious lips the fur is stained<br />

The disillusionist is back again<br />

They say that he's famous from the waist down<br />

But the top half of his body is a corpse<br />

His gold won't buy him sleep<br />

His poverty runs so deep<br />

In winter he cracks, in summer he warps<br />

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Hang around the backstage door<br />

But he knows what you're waiting for<br />

You rub yourself against his fame<br />

Already ready to bear the blame<br />

He asks you "Did you like my show?"<br />

As if he really wants to know<br />

Then doesn't wait for your reply<br />

He just pulls you back inside<br />

You've started feeling dizzy<br />

It isn't you or is he<br />

Persuade you mentally<br />

Undress you incidentally<br />

Down the swaying corridor<br />

People you feel sorry for<br />

But when he puts the gaze on you<br />

You're amazed at what you'll let him do<br />

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He can turn wine into water<br />

Mother against daughter<br />

Juggles busy deadlines<br />

Gets himself off headlines<br />

Surrounded by his minions<br />

Who never have opinions<br />

Performing little tricks for you<br />

Puts it in a fix for you<br />

Smashes your watch with a hammer<br />

Caresses you with camera<br />

And says the magic words<br />

That nobody's ever heard<br />

Now the slur is fading<br />

Reality all-pervading<br />

It only makes you want him more<br />

It only makes you VULNERABLE<br />

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And he does the Indian rope trick<br />

The one that makes you seasick<br />

And he keeps on filling up your cup<br />

But you keep on filling up<br />

And some of it's done with mirrors<br />

And some of it's done with scissors<br />

And some of it's done with cables<br />

And his hands under the table<br />

It doesn't matter you want to believe<br />

It doesn't matter if you have to leave<br />

You won't escape his orbit<br />

And the things that you must forfeit<br />

And the audience seems familiar<br />

Some of them in particular<br />

Bet you they are his plants<br />

When he plays the game of chance<br />

He reads the minds of jilted girls<br />

And the story really unfurls<br />

Cast a fortune for the man in the suit<br />

Who's suffering is very acute<br />

There's a rabbit in his hat<br />

But I thought I smelled a rat