Voodoo Game from Scarlett's Guitar by The Mighty Frasers

Verse 1

A stranger woke me
From my favourite dream today
He said the one I love had plans to walk away
I cried and said no - that can’t be true
You’d stand by me and I’d stand by you
But people change, they rearrange
No doubt, the stranger’s you

Verse 2

And so you stand there
And shake your effigies
So low, you hiss and spit your black-magic therapy
You say I’m sunk in abject misery
And that I drag you down into a pit with me
It isn’t so, but I don’t know, right now
What is, you see


Chorus

And tell me, how can you aim
All your threats and blame
Like sticks and stones and rattling venom bones
Straight at my heart, feed as I fall apart
For shame, for shame – your voodoo game

Verse 3

God, I feel lost
In the alleys of my mind
I tail our ghosts, but it’s the blind leading the blind
I’m searching for that twisted tunnel-lane
That led me down, way down into this place of pain
Only dead-ends, I get the bends
And there, I break again

Lead Break – Chorus Structure

Verse 4

But I’d feel worse
To be trapped inside your head
With all those sharp, sheer cliffs of cowardice and dread
Those hovering vultures - watchful, bold they leer
Hard-by the minefield of your stunted boy-man fear
Your wasteland soul, a dry river bowl
Where once flowed honest tears

Chorus

And tell me, how can you aim
All your threats and blame
Like sticks and stones and rattling venom bones
Straight at my heart, feed as I fall apart
For shame, for shame – your voodoo game
I just won’t play your voodoo game
Your voodoo game
Your voodoo game
Your voodoo game
Your voodoo game

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