| [00:00.00] |
The Mousetrap (Caught In) (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill |
| [00:01.06] |
After all is said and done |
| [00:10.35] |
Not very much will have been either way: |
| [00:19.41] |
I'm a chronicler of action |
| [00:24.30] |
I'm an actor in the play |
| [00:29.40] |
I know the lines I have to speak |
| [00:39.09] |
I know that I won't ever quit corpse or dry |
| [00:47.60] |
But the performance gets so pointless |
| [00:52.03] |
And the days just drift on by |
| [00:57.03] |
Every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar |
| [01:06.49] |
In the third act of this twenty-ninth year of the show |
| [01:15.89] |
I'm aware of the latest leading lady and get mad at her |
| [01:26.98] |
It's perfunctory but why she'll never know |
| [02:16.61] |
When I began I had my hopes |
| [02:27.45] |
Believed that I could be a leading light of the stage |
| [02:36.11] |
But now I've stunned myself to silence |
| [02:40.89] |
Exhausted all my inner rage |
| [02:45.14] |
Extinguished all my joy and violence |
| [02:49.24] |
Trapped all my feelings in a cage |
| [02:54.27] |
And every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar |
| [03:02.97] |
I can see that I'm not really going anywhere; |
| [03:11.78] |
All these years I have skirted round experience like a scavenger |
| [03:20.09] |
Can I really feel I wonder if I dare |
| [03:29.80] |
At the end of the run will there be anyone who cares |
| [03:40.59] |
And behind the actor's pose heaven knows |
| [03:46.23] |
If there's anyone left in there |
