Peter Hammill - The Mousetrap (Caught in) lyrics

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Peter Hammill - The Mousetrap (Caught in) lyrics

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 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