The Mousetrap (Caught In) letra

After all is said and done, not very much will have been either way:
I'm a chronicler of action, I'm an actor in the play.
I know the lines I have to speak,
I know that I won't ever quit, or corpse, or dry,
but the performance gets so pointless
and the days just drift on by.
Every time that I go to turn the pages of the calendar
in the third act of this twenty-ninth year of the show
I'm aware of the latest leading lady and get mad at her...
it's perfunctory, but why she'll never know.
When I began I had my hopes,
believed that I could be a leading light of the stage,
but now I've stunned myself to silence,
exhausted all my inner rage,
extinguished all my joy and violence,
trapped all my feelings in a cage.
Every time that i go to turn the pages of the calendar
I can see that I'm not really going anywhere:
all these years I have skirted round experience like a scavenger,
can I really feel? - I wonder if I dare?
At the end of the run, will there be anyone who cares?
And behind the actor's pose, heaven knows
if there's anyone left in there.

Peter Hammill - Letras

• (No More) The Submariner
• (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga
• A Better Time
• A Forest Of Pronouns
• A Headlong Stretch: i. Up Ahead
• A Headlong Stretch: ii. Continental Drift
• A Headlong Stretch: iii. The Twelve
• A Headlong Stretch: iv. Long Light
• A Headlong Stretch: v. Backwards Man
• A Headlong Stretch: vi. As You Were
• A Headlong Stretch: vii. Or So I Said
• A Louse Is Not A Home
• Again
• Been Alone So Long
• Candle
• Child
• Comfortable
• Crying Wolf
• Faint-Heart and the Sermon
• Ferret And Featherbird
• Fight
• Forsaken Gardens
• Four Pails
• Gog
• Happy
• I Once Wrote Some Poems
• Imperial Zeppelin
• Just Good Friends
• Lost And Found
• Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
• Man-Erg
• Material Possession
• Mediaevil
• Mirror Images
• Modern
• Mr. X (Gets Tense)
• My Experience
• My Favourite
• Nadir's Big Chance
• Narcissus (Bar & Grill)
• Nightman
• No Moon In The Water
• Nobody's Business
• None Of The Above
• Not For Keith
• Not The Man
• Nothing Comes
• Now Lover
• Now More Than Ever
• Oasis
• On The Surface
• Open your Eyes (The Locarno Song)
• Ophelia
• Other Old Clichés
• Our Oyster
• Painting By Numbers
• Palinurus (Castaway)
• Paradox Drive
• Patient
• People You Were Going To
• Personality
• Phosphorescence
• Planet Coventry
• Pompeii
• Porton Down
• Power Of Speech
• Primo on the Parapet
• Pushing Thirty
• Rain, 3 a.m.
• Ram Origami
• Re-Awakening
• Red Shift
• Reprise
• Rock and Rôle
• Rubicon
• Sci-Finance
• Seven Wonders
• Sharply Unclear
• She Wraps It Up
• Shell
• Shingle Song
• Sign
• Silver
• Since The Kids
• Sitting Targets
• Skin
• Sleep Now
• Slender Threads
• Smile
• Solitude
• Something About Ysabel's Dance
• Still In The Dark
• Still Life
• Stranger Still
• Stupid
• Summer Song (In the Autumn)
• Sun City Nightlife
• Sunshine
• Tapeworm
• Tenderness
• The Birds
• The Comet, The Course, The Tail
• The Cut
• The Future Now
• The Gift of Fire (Talk Turkey)
• The Great European Department Store
• The Great Experiment
• The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
• The Jargon King
• The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
• The Light Continent
• The Meanings Changed
• The Moebius Loop
• The Mousetrap (Caught In)
• The Noise
• The Old School Tie
• The Play's The Thing
• The Polaroid
• The Second Hand
• The Spirit
• The Tower
• The Unconscious Life
• This Book
• This Side Of The Looking Glass
• Time For A Change
• Time Heals
• Time To Burn
• Too Many Of My Yesterdays
• Traintime
• Trappings
• Two Or Three Spectres
• Under Cover Names
• Unrehearshed
• Viking
• Vision
• Vote Brand X
• What I Did
• What's it Worth?
• When Language Corrodes
• Where The Mouth Is
• Wilhelmina
• You Can't Want What You Always Get...
• You Hit Me Where I Live
• Your Word