Roles lyrics

Why is it that men eagerly emulate acts

Roles that evoke emotions grand

That actors play roles grandeous

Filled with drama and idealisms

Those unobtainable by right

And those by society's ambitions

Made by those restricting others

That they maintain gotten gains

Defended like primates know

Star players of sport that enforce

Competition for the most elite

Yet often thwarted early by goals

Goals that ensure status elsewhere

Yet many fans live through, on

Through the feats of their idols

Transience in short careers kept

Then gone and easily replaced

By braggards living through them

Emotions rule humanity still

They in their pursuit bring rage

That steals a being's wit away

And replaces it with irrationality

Unknown in meager life confined

That is why such gain is got

By those who dare, they that pay

To live life beyond meager means

As if in competition's survival

Instincts mistaken in life's journey

And traded for safety in being

Willingly giving daily labour's gain

To imagine, to boast by association

And actors all have roles idealic

Yet in roles they never truly are

So the mystery that comes forth

Are the bounds to pretend away

That cling to aspirations dear