Love Potion

music and lyrics by Jonathan Tan

He studies the supernatural

The strange the inexplicable

Some say he’s sold his soul to the devil

All for naught but his genius

His craft is not alchemy

Neither witchcraft nor wizardry

While others mock and jeer at his eccentricity

and see a lonely man in his misery

Chorus:

But it’s not gold that he’s after

No precious metal sates the hearts of men

If he could transcend the mind

Create feelings from transmutations

Then he’d spend an eternity in damnation

Just to win her heart

With a love potion

The irony of the situation

Is that her husband pays his commission

To study the secrets of this dark religion

For powers beyond his imagination

But the truth is known to none

That for him there is only one

To save her from a fate of unspeakable torture

From marriage to a cruel and heartless master