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Well I’m glad I stayed awake and did not sleep,
As I normally do at this hour of night, For this is more than a full moon through
my window,
A responsibility I assume for my act,
As I’ll sing, do what I must do,
To save my sanity, be my message; Though please don’t just believe me,
Say what you mean by you love me; Aren’t you scared,
Of being a small person saying big words? Aren’t you scared,
Walking on stage, with hardly a soul to
see your show?
Aren’t you scared,
As was Galileo Galilei, to have a fatwa
issued for your head?!
Oh please try and understand,
It’s only theatre so may as well,
exorcise our bad in the form of a kind act; When you know you got something
special to offer,
Then comes an unknown, like you,
And tells you in a voice green with envy, ‘Oh I wouldn’t be so sure!’
And you think well, what do you know, to
be fair,
Of lost souls on the heights of despair!
Now it’s hard to believe in your act,
As your friends may lie to you,
So you better know it when you’re good, You better know it when you’re bad!
So you go tell you your story,
As you would do good and throw it in
the sea;
Hoping for a new season of reason, As another Winter will come,
Yet another winter will come,
Yet another Winter...!

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from Legal Fiction, released February 2, 2007
Words: A. El-Motassem
Music: A. El-Motassem / M. Attias

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