No Part for An Extra lyrics

A worlds that once was

Plucked from it in youth

An unripe harvest gleaned

Hastily had with no regard

Whisked from roots deep

A new land far away

Left behind, the old

Ahead the new and set

Roles defined, engrained

A tripfall to the novel

To walk a new stage

With players fretting

Well rehearsed, stardom

Making way day to day

Learning their doubts

Only to occasion the past

A brief moment passing

The old overtakes new

But alas time takes it too

Years erase the faces

The clock gears tick on

The scenery changes

A new act, old trimmings

The lighting reminds

From time to time

A play is always the same

The cast, the plot, the end

No matter how it's done

There's no part for an extra

Cast off, rendered dispensable