Curtain Call

Album: The Black Album (1980)
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  • Can you taste the grit
    Between your teeth
    The heat of the lights
    The crack of the whip
    The snapping sound
    Of someone's nerves
    If you pay you get
    What you deserve

    Were coming up from the deep
    The lizard sheds it's skin
    Night obliterates the day
    And all the fun begins
    Shadow boxing with yourself
    Just seems to get you nowhere
    You don't want to cheat
    When playing solitare

    Three faces come alive
    Try and focus and be one
    Never let it be said that
    The jester comes undone
    A wreckless gambling pace
    With time enough to borrow
    Time enough to measure
    All of our tomorrows

    Curtain call and light go dim
    Tragedy, love all lie within
    Each player takes his chance to play
    And lives to fight another day

    What boundries to cross
    What chances for the taking
    Stepping in the angels wake
    Not to be foresaken

    No more will I roam
    Our childish dreams are soon outgrown
    But here we stand
    In our own theatreland
    Curtain call
    About to fall Writer/s: ALEKSANDR SAMODOUROFF, ARNULFO BERNAL, LOGAN BURNS
    Publisher: TUNECORE INC, TuneCore Inc.
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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