The curtain draws back I stand alone Ready to say my piece but my entire memories gone Someone tell me my lines I have a life to live All the worlds a stage and all the men and women have to act out on it
Give me a curtsy and I'll take a bow for the appalling crowd Clapping you on as you bare it all Up in the balconies they're looking down I see the bourgeoisie in the box seats And the scavengers in the stalls We have it all Yes, we have it all
My voice travels on I stay behind The words move too fast for me to catch this time I said the wrong line And now I've paid the price All the worlds ain rage and I've been busy picking up the pieces lately
We're making money in the moonlight now But it's a sordid crowd Pushing too hard and I lose it all We gotta get away somehow 'Cause I see misery after midnight Disaster by the break of dawn We had it all Yes, we had it all
The addiction to the fiction makes the truth so hard to find The characters we play are changing all the time And like grand designs That never see the light The addiction to the fiction leaves us all so far behind
And at the curtain call we take a bow to an adoring crowd Clapping us on 'cause we gave it all Up in the balconies they're looking down And as they shower us in roses A tear begins to fall We did it all Yes, we did it all