Carte Blanche - Frankie Big Face

Can you hear me?
Can you see me now?
I’m just beyond the shadows of your heart
Can you feel the pain?
Can you taste it on your tongue?
The race was over
The race was over before you had begun

Running wild with blind devotion
Rags and bones and veiled emotions
Sticking to the script you wrote and
Never looking back

Criss and cross across an ocean
Constant state of locomotion
Try to keep my head afloat and
Stay on track

Tricks and turns and grand illusion
Hot pursuit and cold preclusion
Fire up the motorboat and
Get the secrets back

M is for my malocclusion
C is for my bone contusion
Q is for your pithy quote and...
I may be getting off-track

Will I ever have a say in who I am and where I go?
Carte blanche to leave it all behind and exit the show?

Bleeding hearts lack premonition
And stoke the fires of false perdition
Don your navy overcoat and
Dye your blues pitch black

Nothing trumps the stated mission
Fight like hell, maintain position
Say the pledge you learned by rote and
Hail the Union Jack

Will there ever be a time when I can say what’s mine is mine?
Carte blanche to live a life of my own design?

Can you hear me?
Can you see me now?
I’m just beyond the shadows of your heart
Can you feel the pain?
Can you taste it on your tongue?
The race was over

Can you hear me?
Can you see me now?
You're just beyond the shadows of my heart
I can feel the pain!
I can taste it on my tongue!
The race was over long before I had begun
The race was over before I had begun