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Peter Hammill
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The Mousetrap (Caught In)
After all is said and done* Not very much will have been either way: I'm a chronicler of action, I'm an actor in the play. I know the lines I have to speak, I know that I won't ever quit, corpse, or dry, But the performance gets so pointless And the days just drift on by.
Every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar In the third act of this twenty-ninth year of the show I'm aware of the latest leading lady and get mad at her... It's perfunctory, but why she'll never know.
When I began I had my hopes, Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com Believed that I could be a leading light of the stage, But now I've stunned myself to silence, Exhausted all my inner rage, Extinguished all my joy and violence, Trapped all my feelings in a cage.
And every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar I can see that I'm not really going anywhere; All these years I have skirted round experience like a scavenger. Can I really feel? I wonder if I dare? At the end of the run, will there be anyone who cares? And behind the actor's pose, heaven knows If there's anyone left in there.
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