So Close…..
close but yet so far from achieving my dreams, wanted to experience the bliss that true happiness brings,
had potential energy like leaning back on a swing, but now my placement here has me about to crack at the seams,
I'm unpacking these themes, while wearing black in this scene, it's difficult to breath I'm about to collapse from the heat,
but I have to stay moving and react to the beat, so it’s a good thing that I can practically act in my sleep,
to a full house every night, that’s why Manhattans unique , the allure of Broadway drove me to move and pack up my jeep,
with my contract complete, let me make something clear, I was promised the position of lead puppeteer,
but once the directors cousin all of a sudden up and appeared, he manipulated the situation and then dumped me abruptly HERE ,
so now every chance I get I verbally bash that liar , after he put me in the background controlling a giraffe on fire,
inside this puppet it’s hot I just sweat, pant and perspire, because I've been placed right next to a giant amplifier,
the lead gets to use rods but in my hands are wires, that are so hard to move I can barely stand I’m tired!,
what transpired was I met my agent Sam at a diner, and raised concerns about the performer of the phantoms attire,
I told him I didn't want to be half naked up on stage, after the director told me I’d have nothing but drawers on my legs,
it was manipulation causing a contract dispute for four days, he was just stalling until his cousin got off of his tour dates,
so now here I am miserable, how much more can I take, I’d like to see bruises and welts adorning his face,
wish an accident would happen so I could perform in his place, every day backstage I unleash a swarm of complaints,
then one day in the second act I hear a horrible noise, the lighting rigs crash leaving the set sort of destroyed,
three dead actors and I'm the only one to survive, because my puppets position was way off to the side,
saved by the malice of someone that I often despised, YES! now I have a way off of this unfortunate ride,
so happy and elated they got just what they deserved, but the show can't go on I have to move back to the suburbs,
now it's many years later, time goes by fast, when I tell the other cashiers I used to act, they quietly laugh,
I got exactly what I wanted, but now it's only alive in the past, and not a day goes by that I don't wish I was back inside that giraffe /