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Incubus

When footlights dim in reverence, to prescient passion

Forewarned my audience leaves the stage

Floating ahead, perfumed shift, within the stammering silence

The face that launched a thousand frames

Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career

You played this scene before

You played this scene before

I the mote in your eye, eye, eye, eye

I the mote in your eye

A misplaced reaction, reaction

The darkroom unleashes imagination

In pornographic images, in which you will always be the star

Untouchable, unapproachable, constant in a darkness, in a darkness

Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction

With no flower to place, before this gravestone

And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin

But that would only be developing the negative view

And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic color, the public act

Let you model your shame on the mannequin catwalk, catwalk

Let the cats walk, and the cat walks

I've played this scene before

I've played this scene before

I the mote in your eye, eye, eye, eye

I the mote in your eye

A misplaced reaction, satisfaction

You can't brush me under the carpet

You can't hide me under the stairs

The custodian of your private fears

You're leading actor of yesteryear

Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity

Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity

You, who I directed with the lovers will

You, who I let hypnotize the lens

You, who I let bathe in the spotlights glare

You, who wiped me from your memory

Like a greasepaint mask

Just like a greasepaint mask, a mask

But now, I'm the snake in the grass

The ghost of film reels past

I'm the producer of your nightmare

And the performance has just begun

It's just begun, begun, it's just begun

Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets

As you stutter paralyzed with rabbits eyes

Searing the shadows, flooding the wings

To pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips

Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary

My cue line in the last act

And you wait in silent solitude, waiting for the prompt

Waiting for the prompt

Waiting for the prompt

Waiting for the prompt

Waiting for the prompt

Waiting for the prompt

You've played this scene before

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