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Life on the silver screen
Behind which we have never seen
Names and faces changed
to protect the innocent
Re-arranged situations, if the same, are just coincidence
And don’t you find it distracting,
That
the actors are not the only ones acting?
What if that were us on the screen?
I think it is, just a different scene
Could
you watch your life roll by?
Dreams played out
before our eyes
Living these
Technicolor lies
And now,
the lights grow dim
From the left enters the eponym
The crowd turns from a bustle to a hush
As the leading roll
reveals her secret crush
As the story line begins to unfold
You feel your life begin to take hold (Sometimes I switch
these lines..)
What if that were us on the screen?
I think it is, just a different scene
Could you watch your
life roll by?
Dreams played out
before our eyes
Living these
Technicolor lies
Who can you fool?
You’re
not fooling anyone
By the time we reach the love scene
All is said and done, said and done
Said and done, said and
done
(and now the full last verse, not included in shorter versions)
Now the credits begin to roll
You feel yourself
loosing all control
The names scurrying up the screen
help you to recall a vivid dream..
You were standing on a silver
stage
Accepting awards for the performance that you gave
Your validation quickly comes to a close
Cause with real
life you’ve been juxtaposed
What if that were us on the screen?
I think it is, just a different scene
Could
you watch your life roll by?
Dreams played out
before our eyes
24 frames a second*
24/7, 365 days,
the sticky
floors,
the crackling sound,
the clarity of.. *(depends on how I ad-lib this section, but these are the lines I use
here)
Living these
Technicolor lies
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