Jester's Scheme

Verse 1

Floorboards

Squeaking

Greasy little gremlins start peaking

They crawl out from the dark pockets of my blue jeans

Hungry

Cold

Looking for some copper and gold

Stashing away my loose change in the washing machine

Pre-Chorus

This is not a dream (not a dream)

Just a jesters’ scheme (oh-oh-oh)

Painted faces in the twilight, giggling in between

Chorus

Jester and the Harlequin swinging from the curtain rod

Laughing at the monsters snoring underneath the pod

Bedroom beasts are snacking on my socks and pencil lead

Jump up on the windowsill hats upon their heads

Post-Chorus

Hey now oh wow spinning 'round the room (oh-oh)

Hey now oh wow bedtime coming soon (whoa-oh-oh)

Verse 2

Knights

Charging

Platypus is puffing and enlarging

Harlequin’s got checkerboard feet

Moon shoes

Fast

Blinking like a light in the past

My slippers do the splits and the victory is sweet

Pre-Chorus

This is not a dream (not a dream)

Just a jesters’ scheme (oh-oh-oh)

Painted faces in the twilight, giggling in between

Chorus

Jester and the Harlequin swinging from the curtain rod

Laughing at the monsters snoring underneath the pod

Bedroom beasts are snacking on my socks and pencil lead

Jump up on the windowsill hats upon their heads

Post-Chorus

Hey now oh wow spinning 'round the room (oh-oh)

Hey now oh wow bedtime coming soon (whoa-oh-oh)

Bridge

Starlight’s doing cartwheels tumble down the wall

Patchwork mouse with rubber boots tiptoes down the hall

Jester flips a pancake Harlequin takes a bow

Monsters start applauding we’re all family now

We're all family now

We're all family now

Chorus

Jester and the Harlequin swinging from the curtain rod

Laughing at the monsters snoring underneath the pod

Bedroom beasts are snacking on my socks and pencil lead

Jump up on the windowsill hats upon their heads

Post-Chorus

Hey now oh wow spinning 'round the room (oh-oh)

Hey now oh wow bedtime coming soon (whoa-oh-oh)

Outro

Tick-tock

Tick-tock

The giggles fade away

Painted shadows curling up until another day

Close my eyes

Close my eyes

Let the dreaming begin

Let the dreaming begin

Let it begin