Play For Today Songtext / Lyric

I read a play written today about a boy

Who hides in attics when the sun is up

Everyone is at work

What will I do? Where will I go?

Show me the way

The truth, the anger, show me rules of thumb

Show the way to grow old



Love is a guide

The endless river of the soul

But we are mean

The dried up riverbeds of rock and stone

Lust is my friend

She comes to me when I am tired



Life is a rope, death is a myth

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood

Work is a sentence, family's a drag

This house is a trap






I read a play written today about a girl

She gets on perfectly with young and old

Everybody loves her

What would she wear? Cut off her hair?

Wave as she slides

Gracefully into the working week

She hides her baggage inside



She's got a friend

An ugly monster that will eat your face

She has to cry

A heavy cat of wasted time

She's got a friend

A lonely monster that will prey on you



Life is a secret, death is a myth

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood

Work is a sentence, family's a drag

This house is a trap



Life is a secret, death is a myth

Love is a fraud, it's misunderstood

Work is a sentence, family's a drag

This house is a trap



I read a play written today about a boy

Tied in melancholy, takes the weight

Takes the weight of the world

I walked alone, loving a song

Walking the earth

The one-eyed sister who is twenty three

Dried and wrinkled, alone



I'll give you a month

To see past shadows in your secret night

I'll give you a week

To look Medusa in the eye

I'll give you a month

To notice heaven in the sight of stage



You'll keep inside of your head

You're sitting on the floor

You're pushing back the tide

So lift the mountain up

So tie writer's witness down

Assemble all your troops

Regards to all these metaphors

And suddenly she says, and suddenly she says

And away you too, and head for higher ground

And not the king of me

Take a chance and play for today

And build the sets and light the scene

A pretty air and we're upon the screen

And build the sets and light the scene

We'll break when we're on the sacred screen

The backstage of your life

Let's fill the glass and light to share the sun

The backstage of your life

Let's file the tables of the ones you love