Now You See It, Now You Don’t

NOW YOU SEE IT, NO YOU DON’T

Verse:

What happened during the night?
I don’t understand.
Was it a magic act, was it sleight
        of hand?
Have I been some sorcerer’s old fool.
Dazzled by the mirrors and smoke?
I loved magic as a child in school.
Funny, I no longer get the joke.

Chorus:

Now you see it, now you don’t.
Pardon my confusion.
Yesterday
I was love’s Exhibit A.
Was that an illusion?

Now you hear it, now you don’t.
Do my ears deceive me?
Yesterday
I could hear somebody say
“Good morning” when I woke up.
It never crossed my mind that she [he] might leave me.

        Did some magician wave his wand
        When my back was turned?
        “Absence makes the heart grow fond”
        (They say).
        Try telling that
            to someone who’s been burned.

Now you see it, now you don’t.
The rabbit’s been put back into the hat.
The show is over and I won’t
        pretend to know how it was done.
I only know that it was so much quicker than the eye.
Can you see my love anywhere?
Neither can I.