• The theater is filled to the brim with dank air
    Raving and spitting the mouth of the chair

    Then call to the stage a suburbanite clone
    Flanking and ranking, he's never alone

    What do we ask more from him than the rest?
    Is it is stature that passes our test?

    Who is this rip off protectionist drab
    Middle aged mollusk working off that flab

    To his wife, the kids, and the dog in the yard
    To the idiotic neighbors who come to play cards

    Just an actor, playing separate roles
    Looking to others to fill his life's holes

    Let me grab my coat, dear Mary, and would you say bye to the kids for me? I have to get to work early this morning, last time I was late, boss gave me a warning. I can't risk losing this job, middle management corporate slob. Rush hour ruling our biological clocks, And sweet Mary, how about washing my socks?

    That slick wife on the stairs
    That nobody chances to care

    The children are all at play
    The husband is working, today

    I suppose she could feed the dog
    But with a risk to choke on the smog

    Perming her hair for the twentieth time
    Still bored to death and just a quarter 'til nine

    Call to the light this woman of gray
    Pick out her scars, so she can then say

    Only an actor playing separate roles,
    Looking to others to fill her life's holes

    John, my love could you buy me a dress, the neighbors are coming, I want to look my best. To one-up that Jenny, she's a rich little snob, I heard some gossip about her, today, I heard that her man was secretly gay. and that p***k husband Benny, is cheating with a mail man named Bob. She always beats me at the auction house bids, and dear John, could you pick up the kids?

    That ungrateful maggot, the boy
    Cares for nothing but a shiny new toy

    They spoiled him with cheap figure and dime
    Negligence fiscal an innocent crime

    Stuffing his face with cake and of pies
    Give in to him or deal with his cries

    Wasting away with the cold television nanny
    New children are lost, how many more, how many?

    Call to the fore, this punk little kid
    So he can answer for all that he did

    Simply an actor, playing different roles
    Looking to others to fill his life's holes

    Hey mommy can I buy that new superman action figure, never mind how my allowance gets bigger and bigger. I want this, I need that, lets buy me furry little pet rat. Oh daddy, daddy better do what I say, or I'll cry and I'll cry, it won't ever go away. So purchase my toys and candies with cash, supplies are limited so you better act fast.

    The sister is staring at her t-shirt with frown
    Raging about how she looks like a clown

    Crying and complaining how life isn't fair
    The kids at her school laugh and they stare

    At the middle class white girl starting to whine
    The world is for me, she says "mine mine mine"

    But don't get discouraged and keep peace in store
    worse comes to worst, you can join with the corps

    Devoted to fitting in with the popular crowd
    This is mindless marching, thinking isn't allowed

    Another actor playing different roles
    Looking to others to fill her life's holes

    Mom can I buy, that new diamond coat, so I can be the prom queen, and finally gloat. At all of those boys who stand in the aisle, I am a mindless doll brainless and while I stare at the popular mob, bereft of my identity, I have been robbed. So can I please stay out after ten, but mom I want to stay with my brain dead new friends. We're going to the park to make out with hot guys, Don't tell dad, but I stole all his five's.

    This act, this play, the faces of mask
    Clones of an illusion melded to ourselves
    And what we project to others is not to delve
    Carving out uniqueness is an impossible task

    We are all here, to follow the blind
    The gray mesh mob screaming
    Is this hell we have built or are we dreaming
    For dollars and cents, we traded our mind