[Intro – Theatrical Organ, Audience Murmur, Dramatic Guitar Stabs]
Curtain twitching in the wind
Another scene about to begin
Spotlight flickers like a thought
Between what’s real and what is not
[Verse 1]
Lines rehearsed but half forgot
Improv life, ready or not
Every gesture overdone
When the crowd thinks it’s all fun
Backstage chaos, quiet sweat
Every cue I can’t forget
Stagehands whisper, count me in
For the next time I begin
[Pre-Chorus]
But somewhere in the chaos I recall
A voice that cuts through it all
[Chorus]
What Snagglepuss said
(Keeps going through my head)
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
(Play some Pink Floyd)
Exits shine a stop sign red
(Still ringing overhead)
A line I can’t avoid
(Play some Pink Floyd)
[Refrain]
Exit!
(Stage left)
Exit!
(Stage right)
Take a break
(From the spotlight)
Make a break
(For broad daylight)
[Verse 2 – Groove Tightens, Bass Prominent]
Every act just blends to one
Underneath the burning sun
Costume changes, name tag too
But I still feel strangely new
Audience dissolves to smoke
Every joke becomes a cloak
Hiding something I can’t say
In the role I play each day
[Pre-Chorus]
And in the wings where silence grows
That strange old wisdom softly flows
[Chorus]
What Snagglepuss said
(It rattles in my head)
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
(Reality deployed)
Curtains drawn in shades of red
(Still echoing instead)
Some cosmic twisted ploy
(Play some Pink Floyd)
[Refrain]
Exit!
(Stage left)
Exit!
(Stage right)
Slip away
(Out of sight)
Fade to gray
(Out of light)
Exit!
(No applause tonight)
Just the fade
(Of spotlight)
[Bridge – Psychedelic Breakdown, Reverb Guitar + Synth Swells]
Is it acting if I stay?
Or just forgetting how to play?
Every mask becomes my face
Every space becomes the stage
Time dissolves into the cue
Nothing left I didn’t do
But somewhere in the painted scene
I’m not sure what I mean
[Build – Rising Drums, Choir-like Vocals]
Cue the silence, cue the break
Every line begins to shake
Curtain breathing, open wide
Something waiting just outside
[Final Chorus – Full, Anthemic]
What Snagglepuss said
(It lives inside my head)
Heavens to Murgatroyd!
(The walls of sound deployed)
Exit signs in burning red
(Still glowing where I tread)
Play the truth I can’t avoid
(Play some Pink Floyd)
[Refrain – Final Repeat, Layered Vocals]
Exit!
(Stage left)
Exit!
(Stage right)
Slip away
(Out of sight)
Into night
(Out of light)
Exit!
No more role to play
Just fade away
[Outro – Soft Piano, Curtain Closing Sound]
What Snagglepuss said…
Still echoes in the head…
Exit… stage left…
[Silence]
From the album “Exit Strategy“