John Wesley Harding - The Movie Of Your Life lyrics

In the movie of your life

They'll get some real jerk to be you

Edited so he can act

Cast because of his TVQ

In the movie of your life

You'll be less famous than he is

That'll be a strange turn of events

You'll be a cameo amongst the rushes

And you're learning all the lines

Though it was you who said them in the first place

Since then someone wrote them down

To pay for his new beach space

There's all these things you can't recall

And things you know you didn't say

But in the move of your life

The truth just flirts and runs away

And it's so plain to me

You're happy with this parody

But in a glittering instant you hold the light so we can see

That your joke's become your reality

All your tricks so limp and tame

You said you were a stage magician

But it's only moths in light

Heaven burnt out in collision

It's only seats that they're booking

In the movie of your life

The truth won't get a look-in

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Everyone knows that you're divine so we await your resurrection

And they say that you'll be just fine

After you dry out on the critical clothesline

And you know it's all made up

How come your face has ceased to be you?

All your doubts and greatest fears

They will be confirmed at the preview

Celluloid has shaped the day

And put the cat amongst the coughers

One business lunch on drugs

Now you're waiting for the next big offer

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