Trickster

So-and-so Mary cannot leave her house today
Looks like she's had another fright
So-and-so Mary read the end is on its way
Kept saying, "what if they're right?
What if I can never leave?
Got no tricks left up my sleeve",
She folds into the night and cries her cry:

"For a trick I will fall
One of me sighs and longs
For a trick you will fall
One of me's already gone"

Black hat to be a thug or hooligan of old
Running from the crime, from that time
Running to a hand that's ready to fold
Stealing a new start is fine
Lay my bluff on the table
Begin to be in a new fable
Titled "Poker Face Leaves Again"

For a trick I will fall
One of me sighs and longs
For a trick you will fall
One of me's already gone

Maybe relying on surprises is yielding to some lie
But you gotta rely on something, babe
Maybe I will stop my nomadic ways tonight
If you can convince me to stay
I'd be okay if I didn't leave
Got no tricks left up my right sleeve
But my left hand holds a black hat behind my back

For a trick I will fall
One of me sighs and longs
For a trick you will fall
One of me's already gone