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Blair Dunlop
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I've seen a trick or two in my life
Yeah, I've seen a trick or two
But a common theme in deceiving machines
Is the point at which you see through
I've seen a trick or two in my life
Yeah, I've seen a trick or two
But as far as I know you only show the things
That make you seem true
His words were long and twisted
Like his shadow in the night
And his Lucifers lit the lanterns
That shone over his pen in flight
Corpus was the sanctuary
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
Yeah, I've seen a trick or two
But a common theme in deceiving machines
Is the point at which you see through
I've seen a trick or two in my life
Yeah, I've seen a trick or two
But as far as I know you only show the things
That make you seem true
Walsingham came a-calling
A spy of him to create
So he dropped the pen and he fled instead
Over the Cambridge gates
A cool head on his shoulders
And a pipe always at hand
Corpus lay in the shadows
While he fought for the English brand
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Come quick as the crimson pours
Face down in a Deptford bar
But the slice of fries his blade
Seems to me to be all too bizarre
Either way the bill got paid
And Marlowe paid his 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 round
Penning in the Venetian sun
His brow not even scarred
Almost as hard to believe
As the very notion of a Stratford bard
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I've seen a trick or two in my life
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I've seen a trick or two in my life
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