Incubus

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Oooh-wah,     oooh-wah,     oooh-wah,     oooh-wah
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When footlights     dim in reverence     to prescient passion
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Forewarned, my audience leaves the stage,     floating ahead perfumed shift
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Within the stammering silence, the face that launched a thousand frames
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Betrayed  by a porcelain tear,    a stained career

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Oooh-wah,     oooh-wah
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You played     this scene before,    you played     this scene before
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I, the mote in your eye, I, I, I, I, the mote in your eye
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A misplaced reaction,    reaction

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The darkroom unleashes imagination in pornographic images
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In which you will always be the star, always be the star, untouchable
                Am
Unapproachable, constant in the darkness, in the darkness (in the darkness)
Bm
Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction
        Em
With no flower to place before this gravestone
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And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin
    Bm
But that would be developing the negative view
        Em
And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic colour
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The public act, let you model your shame on the mannequin catwalk, catwalk
                           Em
Let the cats walk (and the cat walks)

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Oooh-wah,     oooh-wah
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I've played     this scene before,    I've played     this scene before
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I, the mote in your eye, I, I, I, I, the mote in your eye
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A misplaced reaction,    satisfaction

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   "An irritating speck of dirt that came from absolutely nowhere"

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You can't brush me under the carpet, you can't hide me under the stairs
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The custodian of your private fears, your leading actor of yesteryear
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Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity
                              A
Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity
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You who I directed with a lover's will, you who I let hypnotise the lens
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You who I let bathe in the spotlight's glare
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You who wiped me from your memory like a greasepaint mask
                             A
Just like a greasepaint mask

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But now I'm the snake in the grass,    the ghost of film reels past
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I'm the producer of your nightmare and the performance has just begun
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It's just begun

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           It's just begun

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Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets
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As you stutter paralysed with rabbit's eyes
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Searing the shadows, flooding the wings
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To pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips
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Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary
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My cue line in the last act and you wait in silent solitude
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Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt
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Waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt, waiting for the prompt
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