Wall Of Voodoo - Tragic Vaudeville lyrics

This slab of stone Stares at me So seriously and yet I'm Laughing The gra** was soft And so I sat and painted what I'd been looking at Now starring in the tragedy Playing twice a day since its opening If movements we made fascinating Hide our hearts incinerating The final days Whose book of lust? Who found sin when they were looking for fun The visions of Your violet eyes So haunted and yet I'm not afraid Though I feel so weak I must remain On the stage of my tragic vaudeville Love come quickly don't fade away On the stage of my tragic vaudeville Maddness is the cure as we fade to gray This slab of stone Stares at me So seriously and yet I'm Laughing A face whose name I can't replace Steps I can't retrace Now starring in the tragedy Playing every night since its opening And on stage the violence, greed My obsessive roots drink deep On the stage of my tragic vaudeville Love come quickly don't fade away On the stage of my tragic vaudeville Maddness is the cure as we fade to gray