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Invocation

from Haunts & Wants by Joseph Houck

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INVOCATION

In the witching hour, by the candle light
Hell-bent, I labored through the night
And as I dozed on the pages of that very spell
Her spirit yawned awake in its mortal shell

I didn’t know what time it was
When stirred by the storm in the window pane, I
Was astounded, did I see?
She was standing right in front of me!

Some say you can’t will to life what you crave the most
Even if it haunts your soul like some demon ghost
And looking back now, I guess they’re right
Still I remember how we met that night

She was an angel in the flesh
But I the modern Prometheus
With blind ambition and vanity
How could it all end happily?

All the townsfolk
And their hounds woke
To the downed oak’s smolder

Such a swell joke
When the spell broke
Or was it something that I told her?

I didn’t know what time it was
I saw the swarm ‘round the windmill vanes
Their torches blazing, spirit free
How could it all end happily?

Lalalala-la-ta-da
Lalalala-la-la-la-la-la-la
Lalalalala la-la-la la-la-la

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from Haunts & Wants, track released July 28, 2023

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