The Actor
Robbie Williams
Rudebox (2006)

Principle actors to the stage please
Act one is about to begin
In 8 seconds

First you can't act
now you can't stop
(What's my motivation)
I used to like you a lot
(I was the class nerd)
Exactly who I'm supposed to be
(I'm totally Strassberg)
You play a doctor on tv
(What you're doing is soo brave)

Deep down you're dirty but you try
(I'm a good person)
The truth would break you so you lie
(I want my work to matter)
It's in the choices that you make
(I want to inspire)
No talent just fate

I don't know where you begin
I end
We start
Again
Beneath you love
We all watch the actor acting
The actor acting
The actor acting

Good from far
But far from good
(All I have is my instinct)
You live to act
I wish you would
(Its not acting it's reacting)
Act like you not from outta space
(When I'm on stage I feel alive)
You know ambition isn't grace
(For me its the craft)

Made of sex
Maida Vale
(I do better in NY)
You are the alpha male
(I'm just too pretty for that role)
You are the good
You are the great
(The words have power)
Now let me fill you with my hate

I don't know where you begin
I end
We start
Again
Beneath the love
we all watch the actor acting

Monroe,
(Monroe)
Barrymore,
(Barrymore)
Mansfield,
(Mansfield)
D-d-d-d-Dame d-Dame d-Dame Judi Dench,
(Judi Dench)
Madonna Ritchie,
(Ritchie)
Ritchie, Ritchie, Ritchie.
Streep, Close, Hepburn, Burt Reynolds
Niven, Danson, Bundy, Bardot
Joaquin, Joaquin, Joaquin...
Swank

I don't know where you begin
I end
We start
Again
Beneath the love
We all watch the actor acting
The actor acting

I don't know where you begin
I end
We start
Again
Beneath the love
We all watch the actor acting
The actor acting

In the future
Everybody will be anonymous
For fifteen minutes
(actor acting, actoracting, actor acting)
You are
(actor acting, actor acting, actor acting)
We all are
A test card
The stars of CCTV,
We are the nature of the beast