I have been duped, dare I say bamboozled
The Sting, the Prestige, the big unveil
Leaves me alone on stage with the “Dunce” hat
My trusting heart has not been broken
Though I wish to God it was
No it has been conned, a swift thief, a smooth talker
And a good looker, the sweet deal and oh yes
Too good to be to true

Cause when your heart is gone
It feels easy to fall back on cliché.
Like a lowest common denominator
That you never knew you had to strive for,
But apparently people do everyday
See they were Smooth Criminals, too cool for school
And they had a bargain, happiness in a contradiction
Man, a moment of doubt was my only shield
Its edges worn, the strap broken, tried and dented
A mirror would have done the job better,
Because every steal needs a little reflection

Like a temptress curved in all the right places
Enough skin to make the mind wander, like Hanzel and Gretel
What chance does a man have when she gives a little moan,
A sigh, a giggle, and its all watercolor blurs
Pheromones, testosterone, hormones, and telephone
Calls late into the night when sanity has gone to bed
And all I need to do is one small favor …
Oh and betray every instinct I have

I once saw a child given a ‘mallow and asked not to eat it
Cause in a few minutes additional ‘mallows would follow
And that’s it, that’s the game we play
Guardians of our own purity, watchmen of our greatest treasure
A mind rules where chastity belts and password protection
Seem to fail, when our identity is stolen our soul remembers
Beyond the man-made terms of virginity and wealth
There is the light that made us wonder, the light that we
Chased into the west, off of the earth, past the horizon
When horizons are a lacking term of only three dimensions
Past the center of our universe, the fastest thing we know of,
The ruler of time, the power of sense and reality, where lies
His Truth