Not a step was taken as they talked,
not a word was spoken as they walked
into the theatre of love
The audience watched them from above
They sat down close to me and you.
I think they looked just like us, too.
The curtain fell, the band came on
to play their magic, creature songs
The singer's face was filled with fear,
I don't think, he was really there
And as he sang you almost cried,
you said he looked just like a child
The boy and girl had none to say
an old man screamed and ran away.
A bu*terfly came swirling by,
you tried to catch it, tell me - why?
In that electric crowded hall
as the singer climbed the wall
I fell in love with you again.
That's just the way thing goes, my friend.
The music-violent loud and clear,
came crashing down into our ears.
The singer's face was filled with fear,
I don't think he was really there.
(seven melodies)
"I live here in the theatre. This is my asylum. It is empty and bare when the curtain is pulled, it is quiet. We came down from the sky, like some spacemen or -women or something like that. And we filled up the stage, and the audience raged. Oh, it was wonderful! It was such a golden age. And where are you now? You poor victim of a kamikaze life! You're running wild in the streets with those chains on your feet, and your eyes burns like x-rays and your mouth bites like some kind of acid. Well, I'm watching you, love. Through this shimmering darkness. I can't see, but I feel, and it's all so unreal, and I'm falling down again, down to the stage. It's not easy to be here. I have to prove that I'm acting, that this clown isn't me, that these pills are just valium, so they'll just let me be. This is insanity, the way I'm put in this spotlight. This is playing with fire, yes, stupid, like that! Because I might be a k**erclown, k**ing you all, and you don't want that, do you?"
(applause)