In your hands there's a photograph
  you look up, she begins to laugh
  so cold as she walks away
  and you know that it's time to pay
  you're caught in a web you spun yourself
  face to face with your failure this very day
  you call out her name you can't help yourself
  but you need love like you need a - kick in the head
  
  you worked hard for the things you own
  fancy cars and a country home
  gave it all for a glittering prize
  to be a face people recognise
  on the walls of your home there are works of art
  but you stare at the picture - on the floor
  the face of a man with an aching heart
  it's no fun to be famous anymore
  
  (you said )
  this is a sad day
  and I would gladly give it all away
  in exchange
  for a floating life
  
  shed your tears for a shallow dream
  let your cry be a primal scream
  a song through the mists of time
  a serenade to your concubine
  you were wrong to believe she could set you free
  you're trapped by the trappings - of success
  and you know the she'll never let you be
  'til the world knows the secrets - you confessed
  
  (you said)
  I see her cruel face
  my heart is nothing but an empty space
  and on this sad day
  I would gladly give it all away
  in exchange
  for a floating life
  
  neither asleep nor awake
  losing control you start to shake
  as the day begins to break
  
  they're gonna shoot you down in flames
  when that girl starts naming names
  there's nowhere to hide from your shame