Текст (слова) песни: Marillion - Incubus

(Fish / Marillion)

When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion
Forwarned 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, career

You played this scene before, you played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, eye, eye, eye
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, always be the star
Untouchable, unapproachable, constant in the darkness, 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 be developing the negative view
And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour
The public act, let you model your shame on the mannequin catwalk, catwalk
Let the cats walk, and the cat walks

Ive played this scene before
Ive played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, eye, eye, eye
I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction, satisfaction

A irritating speck of dust that came from absolutely nowhere

You cant brush me under the carpet, you cant 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 lovers will
You who I let hypnotise the lens
You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare
You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask
Just like a greasepaint mask

But now Im the snake in the grass, the ghost of filmreels past
Im the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun
Its just begun, its just begun

Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets
As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes, searing the shadows
Flooding the wings, to pluck elusive salvation from the understudys lips
Retrieve the soliloque, maintain the obituary
My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude
Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt

Youve played this scene before
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Berlin
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Between You And Me
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Born To Run
Brave
Bridge
Built-in Bastard Radar
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Charting The Single
Chelsea Monday
Cinderella Search
Costa Del Slough
Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven)
Deserve
Dry Land
Easter
Emerald Lies
Enlightened
Estonia
Forgotten Sons
Freaks
Fugazi
Garden Party
Gazpacho
Go!
Going Under
Goodbye To All That
Grendel
Hard As Love
He Knows You Know
Holidays In Eden
Holloway Girl
Holloway Girl (Mushroom Farm Demo)
Hooks In You
Hope For The Future
Hotel Hobbies
House
If My Heart Were A Ball, It Would Roll Uphill
Incommunicado
Incubus
Interior Lulu
Jigsaw
Just for the Record
King
Lady Nina
Living With The Big Lie
Made Again
Man Of A Thousand Faces
Map Of The World
Margaret (Live)
Market Square Heroes
Memory Of Water
No One Can
Now She Ll Never Know
One Fine Day
Out Of This World
Paper Lies
Punch & Judy
Quartz
Rich
Runaway
Script For A Jester`s Tear
Seasons End
Seasons End (Mushroom Farm Demo)
Separated Out
She Chameleon
Slainte Mhath
Splintering Heart
Sugar Mice
That Time of the Night (The Short Straw)
The Answering Machine
The Bell In The Sea
The Fruit Of The Wild Rose
The Great Escape
The Hollow Man
The King Of Sunset Town
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