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Quiet Queen of Hearts

from Knock Knock by David Cline

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A quiet queen of hearts hidden in a deck of cards
Next to cigarettes inside a magicians tattered coat pocket
A jade jack of spades the nameless face in the parade
Of blacks and reds and twos to tens and the kings of all of them

Chance and luck and happenstance
Love and lust and red romance
Beating hearts in heaving chests
Two faded cards in a fraying deck

Shuffled by those calloused hands
Dealt to folks in foreign lands
Slipped up sleeves and home again

Those two faces so far apart the jack of spades and queen of hearts
Never met in all the tricks and gimmicks in the magicians repertoire
Flitting past each other life was loud with cheap slight of hand for a smarter crowd
And with every passing year they wondered the number of times that they would hear

Is this your card?
Is this your card?
Is this your this your this your card?

Is this your card?
Is this your card?
Is this your this your this your card?

Is it the quiet queen of hearts?

Quiet Queen of Hearts

They wandered in the smoke and mirrors of parlor tricks and bottled fears
The people all amazed at the same games the two had seen for years
The magician never revealed his secrets except to his deck of silent assistants
The jacks of spades watched his imagination fade away

Chance and luck and happenstance
Love and lust and red romance
Beating hearts in heaving chests
Two faded cards in a fraying deck

Shuffled by those calloused hands
Dealt to folks in foreign lands
Slipped up sleeves and home again

But on an any other kind of day the magician's magic got away from him
A mundane trick and one small slip saw the whole world rearranged
The jack the queen now in and out of place but staring face to face to face to face

Is this your card?
Is this your card?
Is this your this your this your card?

Is this your card?
Is this your card?
Is this your this your this your card?

Like magic plays on people's faith this songs disguising what I mean to say
The jack of spades is just a doppelganger for my name
Your my queen of hearts and I knew it right from the start
Since that night I lost myself with you beneath those city lights

Is this your card?
Is this your card?
Is this your this your this your card?

Is this your card?
Is this your card?
Is this your this your this your card?

The queen of hearts
The queen of hearts
Queen queen queen queen queen of hearts

The queen of hearts
The queen of hearts
Queen queen queen queen queen of hearts

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from Knock Knock, released June 28, 2014

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David Cline is a singer-songwriter from Kansas City, Kansas.

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