Marillion Lyrics

Album: Brief Encounter

Script For A Jester's Tear Lyrics

(Derek Disck/Steve Rothery/ Pete Trewavas/ Micheal Pointer/Mark Kelly) 

So here I am once more

In the playground of the broken hearts

One more experience, one more entry in a diary, self-penned 

Yet another emotional suicide 

Overdosed on sentiment and pride 

Too late to say I love you 

Too late to restage the play

Abandoning the relics in my playground of yesterday

I'm losing on the swings

I'm losing on the roundabouts 

I'm losing on the swings

I'm losing on the roundabouts 

Too much, too soon, too far to go, too late to play

The game is over, the game is over

So here I am once more

In the playground of the broken hearts

I'm losing on the swings

I'm losing on the roundabouts

The game is over

Yet another emotional suicide 

Overdosed on sentiment and pride

I'm losing on the swings

I'm losing on the roundabouts, roundabouts, the game is over

Too late to say I love you

Too late to restage the play

The game is over

I act the role in classic style 

Of a martyr carved with twisted smile

To bleed the lyric for this song 

To write the rites to right my wrongs 

An epitaph to a broken dream

To exercise this silent scream

A scream that's born from sorrow

I never did write that lovesong

The words just never seemed to flow

Now sad in reflection did I gaze through perfection 

And examine the shadows on the other side of morning 

And examine the shadows on the other side of morning 

Promised wedding now a wake

Promised wedding now a wake, awake

The fool escaped from paradise 

Will look over his shoulder and cry

Sit and chew on daffodils and struggle to answer "Why?" 

As you grow up and leave the playground 

Where you kissed your prince and found your frog

Remember the jester that showed you tears, the script for tears

So I'll hold our peace forever when you wear your bridal gown

In the silence of my shame the mute that sang the sirens' song

Has gone solo in the game

I've gone solo in the game, but the game is over

Can you still say you love me

Can you still say you love me 

Can you still say that you love me

Do you love me

Do you love me

Do you love me

Do you love me, the jester's tear

Can you still say you love me

Can you still say you love me

Can you still say that you love me?

The jester's tear, the jester's tear 

Do you love me