This is Your Life
When all the light in life has fled
When duty calls but you'd rather just be dead
When years and scars have walled you off from love
When you keep away the cold with a stiff black glove
Then it's all right to dream
As long as no one's there to hear you scream
The walls of sleep are thin
But you lie in lava while it hardens
Into a stony second skin
And every morning when you wake
Don't look in the mirror for sanity's sake
Throw on a costume; leave the room in disguise
Hide the facts of your life from prying eyes
If everyone had half a chance
They'd point and laugh and make you dance
Instead somehow you have the upper hand
But politics are everywhere
and a wish from the top is your command.
Yes, you're allowed to feel despair
After what you've lost, it's only fair.