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Lyrics for The Actor by Donovan:
| | | Artist: | Donovan |
| | Album: | Love Is Only Feeling | | Track: | The Actor | | | | Date Added: | 18/10/2007 | | Views: | 73 | | | | Lyrics: | The Actor
I lived a life and cast myself a role
I played a part of my own devising
I
played it well, too well for healthy soul
Believing in my fantasizing
When all around me
cheered and chanted
I took the accolade
I sold the lonely loser's wisdom
Of clay and
wattle made
Of clay and wattle made.
The Actor
My character he loved the
crowded nights
The easy pleasures of the rise to fame
The hardest acting still was yet to
come
As high he rise, as far he fall again.
When all around me cheered and chanted
I
played the masquerade
The teeny girls they screamed and panted
Too many bows he
made
Too many bows he made.
The Actor
After a while the show came off the
road
Settling down for the very first time
Man in the mirror with his make-up
off
Gone from his lip the sad magical rhyme
No more around him cheered and chanted
He
shun the big parade
Now he sounding weird and slanted
A slave of his trade
A slave of
his trade.
The Actor
Phoenix he rises from the cleansing flame
Shedding the
skin of past pretending
Fully awakened he cast off his frown
Happily naked
uncontending
And all around him cheering, chanting
A wiser fool is he
The teeny kids
in new wave ranting
Slum heroes to be
Slum heroes to be.
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