Incubus [DVD]
Marillion

When footlights dim in reverence, to prescient passion
Forewarned my audience leaves the stage
Floating ahead, perfumed shift, within the stammering silence
The face that launched a thousand frames
Betrayed by a porcelain tear, a stained career

You played this scene before
You played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, eye, eye, eye
I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction, reaction

The darkroom unleashes imagination
In pornographic images, in which you will always be the star
Untouchable, unapproachable, constant in a darkness, in a darkness
Nursing an erection, a misplaced reaction
With no flower to place, before this gravestone

And the walls become enticingly newspaper thin
But that would only be developing the negative view
And you have to be exposed in voyeuristic color, the public act
Let you model your shame on the mannequin catwalk, catwalk
Let the cats walk, and the cat walks

I've played this scene before
I've played this scene before
I the mote in your eye, eye, eye, eye
I the mote in your eye
A misplaced reaction, satisfaction

You can't brush me under the carpet
You can't hide me under the stairs
The custodian of your private fears
You're leading actor of yesteryear
Who as you crawled out of the alleys of obscurity
Sentenced to rejection in the morass of anonymity

You, who I directed with the lovers will
You, who I let hypnotize the lens
You, who I let bathe in the spotlights glare
You, who wiped me from your memory
Like a greasepaint mask
Just like a greasepaint mask, a mask

But now, I'm the snake in the grass
The ghost of film reels past
I'm the producer of your nightmare
And the performance has just begun
It's just begun, begun, it's just begun

Your perimeter of courtiers jerk like celluloid puppets
As you stutter paralyzed with rabbits eyes
Searing the shadows, flooding the wings
To pluck elusive salvation from the understudy's lips
Retrieve the soliloquy, maintain the obituary
My cue line in the last act
And you wait in silent solitude, waiting for the prompt

Waiting for the prompt
Waiting for the prompt
Waiting for the prompt
Waiting for the prompt
Waiting for the prompt
You've played this scene before


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  100 Nights   80 Days   80 Days [Acoustic][*]   A Collection   A Collection [*]   A few words for the dead   A Legacy   A Man of a Thousand Faces   A State of Mind   A Voice From The Past   Abraham Martin And John (acoustic)   Afraid of Sunlight   Afraid of Sunlight [Acoustic Demo][#]   Afraid of Sunlight [DVD]   Afraid of Sunrise   Afraid of Sunrise [Album Version]   Afraid of Sunrise [Album Version] [Version]   After Me   After Me [Album Version]   After Me [Live]   Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Album Version]   Alone Again In the Lap of Luxury [Album Version] [...   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Previously Unrel...   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Radio Edit]   An Accidental Man   Angelina   Angelina [DVD]   Answering Machine   Assassing   Assassing [Alternative Mix]   Assassing [Single Version]   Asylum Satellite #1   Beaujolais Day   Beaujolais Day [#]   Beautiful   Beautiful [Album Version]   Beautiful [Album Version] [Version]   Beautiful [DVD]   Beautiful [Radio Edit]   Beautiful [Unplugged Version]   Bell in the Sea, the   Berlin   Berlin [Live]   Between You & Me   Between You and Me   Between You and Me [DVD]   Between You and Me [Mark Kelly Remix]   Beyond You   Beyond You [#][Demo Version]   Bike (excerpt)   Bitter Suite   Blackbird   Blind Curve   Born to Run   Brave   Brave [Album Version]   Brave [Album Version] [Version]   Bridge   Bridge [DVD]   Bridge [Live]   Built-in Bastard Radar   Cannibal Surf Babe   Cannibal Surf Babe [#][Version]   Cannibal Surf Babe [Studio Outtake][#]   Cathedral Wall   Charting the Single   Charting the Single [Live]   Chelsea Monday   Chelsea Monday [Live]   Chelsea Monday [Manchester Square Demo]   Childhood End? [Live]   Childhood's End?   Childhoods End? [#]   Childhoods End? [Live]   Cinderella Search   Costa del Slough   Cover My Eyes   Cover My Eyes (Pain & Heaven)   Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven)   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Acoustic Version]...   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Live]   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Mike Stone Remix]   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Racket Club Acous...   Cover My Eyes [Acoustic Version]   Cover My Eyes [DVD]   Deserve   Don't Hurt Yourself   Dream Sequence [Previously Unreleased Demo Recorde...   Dreamy Street   Drilling Holes   Dry Land   Dry Land [Live]   Dry Land [LP Version]   Easter   Easter [DVD]   Easter [Live]   Emerald Lies   Emerald Lies [Demo Version]   Enlightened   Especially True   Essence   Estonia   Estonia [Acoustic Studio Version][*]   Estonia [DVD]   Estonia [DVD]   Estonia [Positive Light Remix][*]   Exile On Princes Street   Exile on Princes Street [#]   Exile On Princess Street   Faith   Faith [Live]   Fake Plastic Trees   Fantastic Place   Forgotten Sons   Freaks   Freaks [Live]   Fruit of the Wild Rose   Fugazi   Gabriel's Message   Garden Party   Garden Party [Edited Version][Edit]   Gaza   Gazpacho   Genie   Go   Go!   Going under   Going Under [Extended Version]   Goodbye To All That   Great Escape   Grendel   Grendel [Fair Deal Studios Version]   Half the World   Happiness Is The Road   Hard As Love   Hard as Love [Demo Version]   Hard as Love [Instrumental]   He Knows You Know   He Knows You Know [Album Version]   He Knows You Know [Manchester Square Demo]   Heart of Lothian   Heart of Lothian [DVD]   Heart of Lothian [Extended Mix]   Heart of Lothian [Full Version]   Heart of Lothian [Single Version]   Holidays In Eden   Hollow Man   Holloway Girl   Holloway Girl [Live]   Hooks In You   Hooks in You [Live]   Hooks in You [Meaty Mix]   Hope for the Future   Hotel Hobbies   Hotel Hobbies [DVD]   House   How Can It Hurt   How Can It Hurt [*]   How Will You Go   I Saw Three Ships   I Will Walk on Water   I Will Walk on Water [*]   I Will Walk on Water [Alternative Mix][#]   I Will Walk on Water [Alternative Mix][#][*]   Icon   If My Heart Were a Ball   If My Heart were a Ball it would Roll Uphill   Incommunicado   Incommunicado [Album Version]   Incommunicado [Alternate Version]   Incommunicado [Alternative Version][Alternate Take...   Incommunicado [DVD]   Incommunicado [Live]   Incubus   Incubus [Demo Version]   Insomnia (Cathedral Wall)   Interior Lulu   Jigsaw   Just for the Record   Kayleigh   Kayleigh (Demo Version)   Kayleigh [#]   Kayleigh [Alternative Mix]   Kayleigh [Bob Harris Session] [Live]   Kayleigh [DVD]   Kayleigh [Edit]   Kayleigh [Extended Version]   Kayleigh [Live]   Kayleigh [Single Edit]   Kayleigh [Single Edit] [Edit]   Kayleigh [Single Version]   Keyleigh   King   King [DVD]   King Of Sunset Town   King of Sunset Town [Live]   Lady Nina   Lady Nina [Extended Version]   Lady Nina [Single Edit]   Lavender   Lavender [#]   Lavender [DVD]   Lavender [Live]   Lavender [Single Version]   Live Forever   Living With The Big Lie   Living With the Big Lie [Album Version]   Living With the Big Lie [Album Version] [Version]   Living With the Big Lie [DVD]   Living With the Big Lie [Live]   Living With the Big Lie [Previously Unlreleased De...   Lords of the Backstage   Lords of the Backstage [#]   Mad   Made Again   Made Again [Album Version] [Version]   Made Again [Unplugged Version]   Man of A Thousand Faces   Man of a Thousand Faces [DVD]   Map of the World   Marbles 1   Marbles 2   Marbles 4   Marbles III   Margaret   Margaret [Edited Live][Live]   Margaret [Live]   Market Sqaure Heroes [Battle Priest Version]   Market Square Heroe[s [Edited Re-recorded Version]   Market Square Heroes   Market Square Heroes [Alternative Version][Alterna...   Market Square Heroes [Live]   Market Square Heroes [Re-Recorded Version][Alterna...   Memory of Water   Memory of Water [Big Beat Mix][*]   Mirages   Mirages (demo)   Mirages [#][Demo Version]   Montreal   Most Toys   Neverland   No One Can   No One Can [Album Version]   No One Can [Album Version] [Version]   No One Can [Album Version] [Version]   No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#]   No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   No Such Thing   Nothing Fills the Hole   Now She'll Never Know   Now Wash Your Hands   Number One   Ocean Cloud   Older Than Me   One Fine Day   Out of this World   Out of This World [Studio Outtake [#][Version]   Out of This World [Studio Outtake][#]   Paper Lies   Pour My Love   Power   Pseudo Silk Kimono   Pseudo Silk Kimono [#]   Punch and Judy   Punch and Judy [Demo Version]   Quartz   Real Tears For Sale   Rich   River [Live][Instrumental]   Runaway   Runaway [Acoustic]   Runaway [Bonus Track] [Live][*]   Runaway [Live][*]   Script For a Jester's Tear   Seasons End   See It Like A Baby   Separated Out   Shadows On The Barley   Shadows on the Barley [#]   She Chameleon   She Chameleon [Demo Version]   She'll Never Know   Sláinte Mhath   Sláinte Mhath   Sláinte Mhath   Slainte Mhath   Slainte Mhath [Live]   Somewhere Else   Somewhere Else [DVD]   Sounds That Can't Be Made   Space [Live]   Splintering heart   Splintering Heart [DVD]   Splintering Heart [Live at the Moles Club][*]   Splintering Heart [Live]   State of Mind   Story From A Thin Wall   Story From a Thin Wall [#]   Sugar Mice   Sugar Mice in the Rain [#]   Sunset Hill   Sunset Hill [#]   Sympathy   Sympathy [*]   Sympathy [Acosutic Version]   Sympathy [Acoustic Version][*]   Sympathy [Racket Club Acoustic Session]   Thank You, Whoever You Are   That Time of the Night   That Time of the Night [Live]   The Answering Machine   The Bell In The Sea   The Bridge   The Damage   The Erin Marbles   The Fruit of the Wild Rose   The Great Escape   The Great Escape [Album Version]   The Great Escape [Demo Version]   The Great Escape [Orchestral Version]   The Great Escape [Spiral Remake]   The Hollow Man   The Hollow Man [Acoustic]   The Hollow Man [Album Version]   The Hollow Man [Album Version] [Version]   The Invisible Man   The King Of Sunset Town   The Last Century for Man   The Last of You   The Last Straw   The Last Straw: Happy Ending   The Man from the Planet Marzipan   The Memory of Water   The New Kings   The New Kings (I)   The New Kings (II)   The New Kings (IV)   The Only Unforgivable Thing   The Other Half   The Party   The Party [Album Version]   The Party [Album Version] [Version]   The Party [DVD]   The Party [Moles Club Demo][#]   The Party [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   The Pseudo-Silk Kimono   The Rakes Progress   The Release   The Sky Above The Rain   The Space . . .   The Space...   The Space... [Live]   The Uninvited Guest   The Uninvited Guest [12' Version]   The Web   The Wound   These Chains   This is the 21st Century   This Strange Engine   This Town   This Town [Live]   This Town [Moles Club Demo][#]   This Town [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   This Train Is My Life   Three Boats down from the Candy   Three Minute Boy   Throw Me Out   Thunder Fly   Tic-Tac-Toe   Tic-Tac-Toe [#]   Torch Song   Toxic [DVD]   Trap the Spark   Tumble Down the Years   Tux On   Under the Sun   Uninvited Guest   Uninvited Guest [DVD]   Uninvited Guest [Live]   Uninvited Guest [Live]   Voice In The Crowd   Voice in the Crowd [#]   Waiting To Happen   Waiting to Happen [Live]   Waiting to Happen [Moles Club Demo][#]   Waiting to Happen [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   Warm Wet Circles   Warm Wet Circles [DVD]   Warm Wet Circles [Live]   Warm Wet Circles [Single Version]   Waterhole   Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)   Waterhole [Expresso Bongo]   Waterhole [Expresso Bongo][#]   Web   Whatever Is Wrong With You?   When I Meet God   White Feather   White Feather [#]   White Feather [Live]   White Russian   White Russians [#][Demo Version]   White Russians [Live]   Winter Trees   Winter Trees [Instrumental]   Woke Up   Wrapped Up in Time   You Don't Need Anyone   You're Gone   You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

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