Outside Door - David Wilcox

My movie house it holds me prisoner

All boarded up on a dead end street

In my darkest doubts I’m the only visitor

Sunk down inside those dusty seats

This world of mine in two dimensions

It shocks my brain with all I feel

That flickering lie will build the tension

And I brace for pain like it was real

I can’t stop the scene from playing

Trying ain’t worth dying for

It won’t change, but I’m not staying

I just found the outside door

The old film that rolls, I know the story

For all my years it’s been the same

I’ll see my old moment of glory

Fall to my fear and find my shame

It leaves my heart empty and shallow

No happy end and no relief

In that endless dark my cave of shadows

I still suspend my disbelief

Standing in the morning wonder

Never seen the sun before

Broke the spell that I was under

I just found the outside door

There’s no silver screen no satin curtain

My state of mind plays this whole show

The illusion seems to be so certain

That I’m trapped inside with nowhere to go

Inside my war with dark projection

I try to scream but have no voice

There is a door an outside exit

We can be free we have a choice