[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