Incubus

[ti:Incubus] [ar:Marillion] [al:Real To Reel] [by:季风网-【http://www.ip21.cn】] [offset:0] 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 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 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