The Mousetrap(Caught In)-Peter Hammill

[ti:The Mousetrap (Caught In) (2006 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:The Future Now] [by:] [offset:0] [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 [01:24.95] [01:26.98]It's perfunctory but why she'll never know [01:36.43] [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