Golden Handcuffs
Intro
Verse 1
Is this the real life? Is this just a play?
Living a script that I wrote every day.
Trapped in a mirror, a stranger in view,
Playing a part that I never quite knew.
I'm just a phantom, nobody will weep,
'Cause it's easy to fake when the water is deep.
Pre-Chorus
Every step was a lie, every word was a debt,
And the price of the acting is a lifetime of fret.
Interlude
Mama... I tried to be the man.
Built a house on sinking sand.
Mama... didn't mean to make you cry,
I just had to live before I had to die.
Movement
Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do the corporate dance?
Fit into the box, never take a second chance!
Boardroom meetings! Glass ceilings! Whispers in the dark!
"Does he fit the profile? Does he hit the mark?"
Magnifico-o-o-o-o!
Let her out! Let me out! We will not let you out!
(Ooh!) Let me out! We will not let you out! (Ooh!)
Never, never, never, never let me out!
No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
Oh, mama mia, mama mia, let me break the chain!
'Cause the boys in the club have got a monopoly on pain!
Chorus
So take your golden handcuffs and shove them to the floor!
I'm walking through the fire, I'm kicking down the door!
You think you can confine me in the roles you had designed?
I left your narrow kingdom and your architecture blind!
Outro
Nothing really matters...
Everyone can see.
Nothing really matters...
To me...
"It just has to be."