wake me up when this movie is over after the fanfare and the crawl the only thing I've come here to see are the dancing shadows on the wall the dancing shadows on the wall
you're the voice, you're the shroud, you're the curtain you're the shelter I crave you're the hand that's waiting to lead me back to the bars of my cage back to the bars of my cage
all at once I see the truth of what I could never face knowing what I should've done the lessons that I've learned too late they deliver me now to my fate
I've been a fool, a saint, a sinner and a blind man I've been all of them and more my past it's a book that I threw in the garbage then I carried it out the back door I carried it out the back door
all at once I see the truth of what I could never face knowing what I should've done the lessons that I've learned too late and if you could see me now you'd never recognize the garbage man that I've become burning the trash of my life all of this once was mine but I threw it away