Track 6 of _Fugazi_ ---
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've played this scene before, you've played this scene before
I, the mote in your eye, I, I, I
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 (Be the star)
Untouchable, unapproachable
Constant in the darkness, in the 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
I've played, this scene before, I've played, this scene before
I, the mote in your eye, I, I, I
I, the mote in your eye, a misplaced reaction, satisfaction
(A debilitating speck of doubt that came from absolutely nowhere)
You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs
The custodian of your private fears, your 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 a lover's will, you who I let hypnotize the lens,
You who I let bathe in the spotlight's 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
And the producer of your nightmare,
And the performance has just begun, Its just begun
(It's just begun)
Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets,
As you stutter, paralyzed, with rabbit's 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'll 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