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-- Scenes from the life of our Millennium Actress
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Photos framed up on the wa--lls
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People will stop her to ask for an autograph
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-- Faces look up as she stares through the window
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Wondering which way the rain will fall
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Would you rather be someone that no one knows
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And no one cares about?
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No, no one cares about
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-- Cuts ever soft the frames of the reel
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Can’t save your face from the shame you must feel
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And even though you’re our Millennium Actress
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All that you’ve acted in
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All that you love still belongs to someone else but not you
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To someone else but not you
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The beasts that you ran from when you took to the country
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Have found a new reason to hunt you down
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The walls of your home won’t protect you from being caught now
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-- Don’t let our demons divide us alone
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The flowers have wilted, the tea has soured
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You were always the one in the poster that I loved and I adored
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That I loved and I adored
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-- Peer through the lens at the end of a rope
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Hasn’t endeared me to this fake new world
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You say you’re all actors, but have you learned how to act calm?
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You think that I’m someone you feel that you know
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Outside of my face in the photograph
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The Millennium Actress that died long before you were born
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Long before you were born
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-- Don’t let the light that bleeds through the film
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Trick you to think that I’m here and I’m real
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Cause even though I’m your Millennium Actress
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All that I’ve acted in, all that I love still belongs to someone else but not me
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To someone else but not me
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Someone else but not me
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Someone else but not me
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