
Date of issue: 14.10.1981
Song language: English
The Actor |
I lived a life and cast myself a role |
I played a part of my own devising |
I played it well, too well for healthy soul |
Believing in my fantasizing. |
When all around me cheered and chanted |
I took the accolade |
I sold the lonely loser’s wisdom |
Of clay and wattle made |
Of clay and wattle made. |
The actor, the actor, the actor. |
My character he loved the crowded nights |
The easy pleasures of the rise to fame |
The hardest acting still was yet to come |
As high he rise, as far he fall again. |
When all around me cheered and chanted |
I played the masquerade |
The teeny girls, they screamed and panted |
Too many bows he made |
Too many bows he made. |
The actor, the actor, the actor. |
After a while the show came off the road |
Settling down for the very first time |
Man in the mirror with his make-up off |
Gone from his lip, the sad magical rhyme. |
No more around him cheered and chanted |
He shun the big parade |
Now he sounding weird and slanted |
A slave of his trade |
A slave of his trade. |
The actor, the actor, the actor. |
Phoenix he rises from the cleansing flame |
Shedding the skin of past pretending |
Fully awakened, he cast off his frown |
Happily naked, uncontending. |
And all around him cheering, chanting |
A wiser fool is he |
The teeny kids in new wave ranting |
Slum heroes to be. |
And all around him cheering, chanting |
A wiser fool is he |
The teeny kids in new wave ranting |
Slum heroes to be |
Slum heroes to be. |
The actor, the actor, the actor. |
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