Script for a Jester’s Tear - Marillion

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

Im losing on the swings

Im losing on the roundabouts

Im losing on the swings

Im 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

Im losing on the swings

Im losing on the roundabouts

The game is over

Yet another emotional suicide

Overdosed on sentiment and pride

Im losing on the swings

Im 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 thats 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 Ill 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

Ive 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 jesters tear

Can you still say you love me

Can you still say you love me

Can you still say that you love me?

The jesters tear, the jesters tear

Do you love me