Jack Bruce - How's Tricks lyrics

The white hand in the darkened house
Rings a bell that makes the guests
Drop their cases in fright
A face that seems to laugh alone
Sit's in the flames that warm
The frozen stretches of night
The skeleton that smokes
His head half guillotined
Sit's there telling jokes
About places he has cleaned

How's tricks? How's tricks?
What kicks! It sticks loud ticks
The bow tie and the question mark
Set sail to beat the cards that
Rain around the chorus girls
The bullets from the golden gun
Appear to penetrate the flesh
Below the golden curls
Inside the clear white box
Lies a nervous bathing belle
She hope's he'll find the locks
That free her from the world

How's tricks? How's tricks?
What kicks! It sticks loud ticks

The rabbit with the faded smile
Is listening to the artist playing
In the mirrored room
The albums of forgotten songs
Grow dusty in the floodlit shelves
Somewhwre below the moon
Owls sit on the letters
Of his last name in lights
Demons and pacesetters laugh into the night

How's tricks? How's tricks?
What kicks! It sticks loud ticks