Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston - Phantom Of My Own Opera lyrics
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I'm the phantom of my own Opera oh don't I know it and I think of you, sweetheart I'm lurking in the shadows of my memory we were going to have a circus in the bar but the creature lurks among us the ghost of our past the gho-o-ost of our love and if I had my own way I always say that phrase I thought it was a phase but it wasn't and so here I am in my baggy-clown costume perform any funny trick and throw a kiss to the audience and I'm wearing a mask but you don't have to ask who I'm thinking about and there's a monkey in the background hung by a rope from the ceiling and I'm the villain, acting fierce and stretching whiskers toothsomely the phantom wears a black coat long trousers and a derby stands erect and cracks the whip loudly I'm the phantom of my own opera I perform all the parts and I think of you, sweetheart I'm even the audience and I can't help thinking we were going to have a circus in the bar can't pull the curtain I can't help remembering turn a somersault after singing a verse and the song is never ending and I never quit rehearsing a performance of a sad and twisted art and if I had my own way I don't know what I'd do I probably wish it was you