Rogue

Scene I Prologue
 Scene II Shadowgraph
 smile, shape it look sincere
 coundtown to the flash
 pictures don't lie
 lie back relax, think of mother
 think of love or another
 locate these weights, lest they smother you
 or break you in two
 mask the child who's insecure
 prop him on the stage
 don't let him fall
 falling calling, run for cover
 go hide inside, find a lover
 subtract the act, we'll uncover you
 and all you've been through
 rogue
 to shatter all accord
 find a code alone
 and carry on
 on file and on trial, all your making
 we've got the shot, no retaking
 knee deep in sleep or in waking
 Scene III Wee Bit o' Vitriol
 waking up with your shoes on
 do you know where you are
 no time to piece it together
 just find you keys and your coat
 get yourself back in your car
 you can't ignore how it plagues you
 it's so easy to score
 still the child is lonely
 can't fit the pieces in
 and so keeeps coming back for more
 dressing down in the midnight
 gripping sin by its toes
 shedding mores as sheepskin
 so good so wrong in the dark
 a one act play of shadows
 whispering lies and offenses
 muscling reason from mind
 we want to cross all the borders
 we've built the prison, set the scales
 let's break the chains that bind
 Scene IV Borrowed and Blue
 enter a clumsy hobbledehay
 hobnobbing with the hoi polloi
 oh boy,
 now there's a role to play
 an as a chummy gadabout town
 exits arm round evening gown
 she goes down
 now there's a role to play
 and since the show's a hit
 it seems that we've been
 playing it every day
 (and thank you all again)
 Scene V Blush and Rouge
 still this morning's found you
 straining on the toilet with a hangover
 belly up for hour in your bed
 cursing your good evening
 and the painkillers
 waging war and raging in your head
 painting on a lipstick grin of Saturday
 callow thrusts surrendered to the blight
 split between the lobes of personality
 morning judge and victim of the night
 sleep sleep sleep
 (still you're stuck at the curb)
 sleep your life away
 (no one perfect in you)
 way into the ground
 dream
 (past the lamppost breezy)
 life a lullaby
 counting back time
 ninety-nine, ninety eight
 gone gone gone
 Scene VI Trance
 Scene VII Nightmare
 Scene VIII Solus (Recapitulation)
 Scene IX Soliloquy
 am I banished from the realm
 left here to face the night alone
 or is the sentence but to fear alone
 to wake and sleep
 from dawm to dusk in twilight zone
 yeah, there's Serling in the back
 crime, I feel I'm charged I feel I'm drained
 I hear the angels sing
 the choir strained
 the jury's in
 the sheep have left me shackled and chained
 o yes, I can't deny the weight
 and so the final show has come
 by slimmest path the broadest way
 now shall I cry to bow for this boquet
 or wrench my life from out the day to day
 to grip the chord at last
 and draw the curtain on this morality play
 Scene X Epilogue
 on an open road
 neither here nor there
 see we shuffle along
 under endless sky
 on the buried dead
 idly whistling our song
 in the cravan
 I'm a sham and I
 make to flee from the way
 every memory
 scar and fantasy
 leads me back should I stray
 on an on
 stepping in time
 this one's for England
 now smile, shape it...