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[00:00.000]The Mousetrap (Caught In) - Peter Hammill
[00:07.660]After all is said and done
[00:19.049]Not very much will have been either way:
[00:28.479]I'm a chronicler of action
[00:33.539]I'm an actor in the play
[00:39.739]I know the lines I have to speak
[00:51.289]I know that I won't ever quit corpse or dry
[01:01.069]But the performance gets so pointless
[01:06.289]And the days just drift on by
[01:12.679]Every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar
[01:22.829]In the third act of this twenty-ninth year of the show
[01:33.959]I'm aware of the latest leading lady and get mad at her
[01:45.679]It's perfunctory but why she'll never know
[02:47.496]When I began I had my hopes
[02:58.006]Believed that I could be a leading light of the stage
[03:07.426]But now I've stunned myself to silence
[03:11.446]Exhausted all my inner rage
[03:16.966]Extinguished all my joy and violence
[03:21.306]Trapped all my feelings in a cage
[03:26.636]And every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar
[03:34.686]I can see that I'm not really going anywhere;
[03:43.166]All these years I have skirted round experience like a scavenger
[03:51.674]Can I really feel I wonder if I dare
[04:04.394]At the end of the run will there be anyone who cares
[04:14.983]And behind the actor's pose heaven knows
[04:26.132]If there's anyone left in there