The Web-Marillion

[ti:The Web] [ar:Marillion] [al:Script For A Jester's Tear] [by:] [offset:0] [00:10.69]The rain auditions at my window [00:13.47] [00:15.64]Its symphony echoes in my womb [00:21.45]My gaze scans the walls of this apartment [00:24.48] [00:26.88]To rectify the confines of my tomb [00:33.14] [00:43.06]I'm the cyclops in the tents [00:45.80] [00:46.61]I'm the soul without the cause [00:48.98] [00:50.36]Crying 'midst my rubber plants [00:53.60]Ignoring beckoning doors [00:55.88] [00:57.32]Clippings from ancient newspapers [01:00.19]Lie scattered across the floor [01:02.50] [01:04.05]Stained by the wine from a shattered glass [01:07.17] [01:07.80]Meaningless words [01:09.36]Yellowed by time [01:10.54] [01:11.15]Faded photos exposing the pain [01:14.45]Celluloid leeches bleeding my mind [01:17.33]Christ you've finished playing hangman [01:20.59] [01:21.27]You've cast the fateful dice [01:23.89] [01:25.02]Advice advice advice me this shroud shall not suffice [01:31.21] [01:35.90]And thus begins the web [01:38.09] [01:43.08]Attempting to discard these clinging memories [01:46.55] [01:48.54]I only serve to wallow in our past [01:53.97]I fabricate the weave with my excuses [01:57.65] [01:59.35]It's strands I hope and pray shall last [02:04.64] [02:10.20]Oh please do last [02:11.94] [02:20.85]Oh please do last [02:22.78] [02:38.21]The fly trap needs the insects [02:40.65] [02:41.83]Ivy caresses the wall [02:43.70] [02:45.33]Needles make love to the junkies [02:47.51] [02:48.32]The sirens seduce with their call [02:50.86] [02:52.17]Confidence has deserted me [02:55.17]With you it has forsaken me [02:58.72]Confused and rejected despised and alone [03:01.70]I kiss isolation on its fevered brow [03:05.79]Security clutching me [03:08.97]Obscurity threatening me [03:12.09]Christ your reasons were so obvious [03:15.21]As my friends have qualified [03:18.17] [03:19.98]I only laughed away your tears [03:22.60]But even jesters cry [03:25.30] [03:31.27]But even jesters cry [03:33.63] [03:38.25]I realize I hold the key to freedom [03:41.43] [03:43.11]Ohh I cannot let my life be ruled by threads [03:47.86] [03:48.68]The time has come to make decisions [03:52.42] [03:54.18]The changes have to be made [04:00.67] [05:25.76]I realize I hold the key to freedom [05:31.37] [05:32.11]I cannot let my life be ruled by threads [05:37.11] [05:38.29]The time has come to make decisions [05:41.72] [05:43.78]The changes have to be made [05:51.10] [06:01.35]Now I leave you [06:03.35] [06:04.03]The past does have its say [06:06.27] [06:07.39]You're all but forgotten [06:10.08]A mote in my heart [06:13.13] [06:14.07]Decisions have been made [06:19.24] [06:21.05]They've been made [06:22.16] [06:24.41]They've been made [06:29.29] [07:54.97]Decisions have been made [08:01.25] [08:04.67]I've conquered my fears all my fears [08:12.17] [08:17.41]The flaming shroud the flaming shroud [08:28.71] [08:32.88]Thus ends the web the web [08:36.81] [08:37.99]The web the web the web