Tim Minchin, Bailey Ryon, Samantha Sturm, Karen Aldridge - Story 3: The Trick Started Well lyrics

The trick started well the moment the
Specially-designed dress was set alight
The acrobat swung into the air the crowd held
Their breath as she hurled over the sharks
And spiky objects one second
Two seconds they watched
As the flames crept up the dress
Three seconds four seconds she began to
Reach out her arms towards
The cage five seconds six seconds!
Suddenly, the padlocks pinged open
And the huge chains fell away
Seven seconds eight seconds the
Door flung open, and the escapologist
Reached out one huge
Muscled arm to catch his wife and
Their child nine seconds! Ten seconds!

Oh, I can't look!

Eleven seconds! And he grabs her
Hand, and and and suddenly
The flames are covered in foam before they
Can both be blown to pieces

Hooray! So the story does have
A happy ending after all!

No

No?

No maybe it was the thought of the
Child maybe it was nerves but the
Escapologist used just a touch too much foam
And suddenly, their hands became slippy
And she fell

No was was she okay? Did did she survive?

She broke every bone in her
Body except for the ones
At the ends of her little fingers she did
Manage to live long enough
To have their child, but
The effort was too great
"Love our little girl
" she said "Love our daughter with all your
Heart she was all we ever wanted"

Love our girl with everything
She is everything

And then, she died
And then, things got worse

What? "Worse"? Oh, no
Matilda not worse they can't get worse!

I'm afraid they did because the escapologist
Was so kind that he never
For one second blamed the evil sister
For what happened in fact
He asked her to move in and help look after
His daughter she was nothing but cruel to the
Little girl, making her wash
Iron, cook, and clean, and beating her
If she did a thing wrong
But always in secret
So that the escapologist never suspected
A thing and so the poor little girl grew up
With the meanest, cruelest
Horrible-est aunt you can possible imagine!