Rule the Stage - An Ad-Lib Ending Song (Shadow Milk Cookie)
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[Verse 1] Curtain snaps; I take the role Every line costs heart and soul Curtain calls still feed the crown No lead role is handed down Then one script declared me dead Strings pulled tight inside my head I read once, then tore the page Not tonight, not on my stage [Pre-Chorus] Fair turns foul in time Foul turns fair in rhyme No cue owns the role No quill owns the soul [Chorus] Cut the script, cut the lie Let the death-line dry and die Mark the page, cross the doubt Make the writer strike it out Rule the stage, rule the role No false line can claim my soul Break the end, break the act Make the author face that fact [Verse 2] Sugar glass behind the grin Kept the panic sealed within One black page could flood the face One doom line could shake the place Then the cape flew open wide No set line could stay inside True masters skip the written cue Directors blink when lines turn new [Pre-Chorus] Fair turns foul in time Foul turns fair in rhyme No cue owns the role No quill owns the soul [Chorus] Cut the script, cut the lie Let the death-line dry and die Mark the page, cross the doubt Make the writer strike it out Rule the stage, rule the role No false line can claim my soul Break the end, break the act Make the author face that fact [Bridge] Life’s a shadow, brief and small Stage-world outlasts mortal fall Roles are roles, then roles are through I don’t reprise what I once knew [Ad-Lib Break] Hoo, ha, call it doom I call falsehood out the room Ha, hoo, hear the crowd My own line is spoken loud [Final Chorus] Cut the script, cut the lie Let the death-line dry and die Mark the page, cross the doubt Make the writer strike it out Rule the stage, rule the role No false line can claim my soul Break the end, break the act Make the author face that fact Cut the script, cut the claim Turn the death-line into shame Raise the curtain, strike the thread Leave the prophecy lying dead Heart and soul in every line Authors bend to match my sign No line tops the final act No pen gets the ending back