Incubus (1998 Digital Remaster)-Marillion

[ti:Incubus] [ar:Marillion] [al:Fugazi] [by:] [offset:0] [00:01.58]Incubus [00:13.81]When footlights dim in reverence to prescient passion [00:23.67]Forwarned my audience leaves the stage floating ahead [00:32.53]Perfumed shift within the stammering silence the face [00:37.96]That launched a thousand frames betrayed by a porcelain tear a stained career career [00:52.48] [00:56.73]You played this scene before you played this scene before [01:10.64]I the mote in your eye eye eye eye [01:13.70]I the mote in your eye [01:16.26]A misplaced reaction reaction [01:23.75] [01:50.83]The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images [01:59.50]In which you will always be the star always be the star [02:06.05]Untouchable unapproachable constant in the darkness in the darkness in the darkness [02:19.91]Nursing an erection a misplaced reaction with no flower to place before this gravestone [02:34.13]And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin [02:41.56]But that would be developing the negative view [02:48.74]And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour [02:56.04]The public act let you model your shame on the mannequin catwalk catwalk [03:05.90] [03:06.77]Let the cats walk and the cat walks [03:13.60] [03:24.77]I've played this scene before [03:31.13]I've played this scene before [03:38.50]I the mote in your eye eye eye eye [03:41.74]I the mote in your eye [03:43.99]A misplaced reaction satisfaction [03:52.10] [03:53.91]A irritating speck of dust that came from absolutely nowhere [03:59.46] [04:09.45]You can't brush me under the carpet you can't hide me under the stairs [04:21.80]The custodian of your private fears your leading actor of yesteryear [04:34.97]Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity [04:40.96]Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity [04:47.20]You who I directed with lovers will [04:53.31]You who I let hypnotise the lens [04:59.49]You who I let bathe in the spotlights glare [05:05.67]You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask [05:17.09]Just like a greasepaint mask [05:23.14] [06:16.99]But now I'm the snake in the grass the ghost of filmreels past [06:26.23]I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun [06:41.20]It's just begun it's just begun [06:59.99] [07:12.97]Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets [07:19.02]As you stutter paralysed with rabbits eyes searing the shadows [07:28.32]Flooding the wings to pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips [07:36.86]Retrieve the soliloque maintain the obituary [07:42.73]My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude [07:48.22]Waiting for the prompt waiting for the prompt [07:53.59] [08:11.95]You've played this scene before