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The sirens rang out in the golden eternity

The people all ran to see who had pulled back the cloth

And to them we're all actors on this half finished scenery

Once more with conviction or don't say it at all

We go through the motions with such elegant forgery

The flickering light-posts are most surely the cause

But now that I've run too fast it's all just a blur to me

The devilish one

I am the Wizard of Oz

It's almost that time when the darkness enters in me

No well composed song could truly banish it all

Right left toward the fire that's burning me

An unbuttoned effigy

Won't you leave me to thaw

My mother and father are just fools who have nurtured me

Their well honored creed thrown out like notes in the wall

But now it's been done

Now it's just a murder to me

I'm one of them now so go and dig in your claws

I'll let you know when I'm a real person again

No no back door

No back door in this ocean, my friend

And as we drift out to other shores

We seem to find that what once saved us won't help us anymore

And as I raise my spyglass across the starboard hull

It's almost like I can finally

I can see the end

I can see the end

I'll let you know when I'm a real person again

I don't know why I've been told to be a servant again

As stars wave goodbye

And the earth passes under me

I've noticed the string that holds the full moon aloft

Now the sidewalks a sniper and the birds chirp conspiracies

I'm one with the now

So come and bring me it all