Tea Party

Welcome to this wonderland

I can see it all there in your head

Smoke and mirrors catching

Daylight as it fades

And we're betting everything

On a pocket ace of spades

That you slipped up your sleeve-

And for a gambling man

You don't leave much to chance

Not anymore.

Smoke and mirrors, Hatter

They've always done you in

But it's different now-

The raven and the writing desk

Won't haunt you anymore

And you and me

Can sit down to tea

Without the rabbit on our tails.

And maybe time is different here

Who could really say, but

Having spent a whole year 

On this side of the looking glass-

Not the queen nor her axeman

Nor anyone at all

Could ever make me go back.