An Actor's Revenge

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"An Actor's Revenge" on Your Blues and Notorious Lightning and Other Works

Lyrics

An actor will seek revenge.
I don't know why and I don't know when.
There'll be talk. There'll be action.
Boys demanding satisfaction
From girls. Oh, you'd hate to play a girl!
An actor will seek revenge...

He came on too strong.
He was weird and he was wrong.
A bloodless cop at dawn
Throwing everybody out.
The kids twist and shout until the womb fucking wrecks it!

A boulevardier might say -
"Tomorrow's another day."
Alright, yes, but it's also just another mess!
Crime and Punishment - no, that's not what I meant!

An actor will seek revenge.
I don't know why and I don't know when.
There'll be talk. There'll be action.
Boys demanding satisfaction
From girls. Oh, you'd hate to be a girl!
An actor will seek revenge
Upon the ones who fed him those ridiculous lines
Saying - "What we really need now is an emotional history
Of the Lower Eastside, cause it was wild! It was wild!"
Oh no, here we go again...

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Notes

The title "An Actor's Revenge" seems to echo a quote made by Gabriel Byrne, who said, "Acting is the shy man's revenge." Following the logic of this quote, an actor's revenge would be, assumedly, shyness. "An Actor's Revenge" (translated from the Japanese "Yukinojo henge") is also the titled of a 1963 film by Kon Ichikawa.