The Mousetrap (Caught In)-Peter Hammill

[ti:The Mousetrap (Caught In)] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:The Future Now] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Mousetrap (Caught In) - Peter Hammill [00:07.66]After all is said and done [00:19.04]Not very much will have been either way: [00:28.47]I'm a chronicler of action [00:33.53]I'm an actor in the play [00:39.73]I know the lines I have to speak [00:51.28]I know that I won't ever quit corpse or dry [01:01.06]But the performance gets so pointless [01:06.28]And the days just drift on by [01:12.67]Every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar [01:22.82]In the third act of this twenty-ninth year of the show [01:33.95]I'm aware of the latest leading lady and get mad at her [01:45.67]It's perfunctory but why she'll never know [02:47.49]When I began I had my hopes [02:58.00]Believed that I could be a leading light of the stage [03:07.42]But now I've stunned myself to silence [03:11.44]Exhausted all my inner rage [03:16.96]Extinguished all my joy and violence [03:21.30]Trapped all my feelings in a cage [03:26.63]And every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar [03:34.68]I can see that I'm not really going anywhere; [03:43.16]All these years I have skirted round experience like a scavenger [03:51.67]Can I really feel I wonder if I dare [04:04.39]At the end of the run will there be anyone who cares [04:14.98]And behind the actor's pose heaven knows [04:24.50] [04:26.13]If there's anyone left in there