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(Fish / Marillion)
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When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion
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Forwarned my audience leaves the stage, floating ahead
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Perfumed shift within the stammering silence, the face
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That launched a thousand frames betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career, career
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You played this scene before, you played this scene before
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I the mote in your eye, eye, eye, eye
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I the mote in your eye
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A misplaced reaction, reaction
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The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images
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In which you will always be the star, always be the star
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Untouchable, unapproachable, constant in the darkness, in the darkness, in the darkness
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Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction, with no flower to place before this gravestone
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And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin
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But that would be developing the negative view
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And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour
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The public act, let you model your shame on the mannequin catwalk, catwalk
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Let the cats walk, and the cat walks
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I've played this scene before
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I've played this scene before
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I the mote in your eye, eye, eye, eye
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I the mote in your eye
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A misplaced reaction, satisfaction
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A irritating speck of dust that came from absolutely nowhere
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You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs
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The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear
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Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity
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Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity
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You who I directed with lovers will
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You who I let hypnotise the lens
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You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare
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You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask
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Just like a greasepaint mask
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But now I'm the snake in the grass, the ghost of filmreels past
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I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun
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It's just begun, it's just begun
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Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets
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As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows
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Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips
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Retrieve the soliloque, maintain the obituary
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My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude
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Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt
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You've played this scene before
Incubus (Live) (1997 Remaster)
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