Awards Night - Richard Walters

All my life leading up to this

Foreign in the street kids

While my mother and my father are watching it

Twenty nights say you’re twenty five

Thats the company line

But a lion’s just a lion with the fight out of it

See me shake in my tired old frame

Borrow white suit

My eyes staring knives at you

Saying this is a war

This is a war

This is a war

Between my body and my heart

This is a war

Between integrity and art

Suck my blood

Get your teeth in deep

Theres some left in me

But I’m getting pretty old and I will cease to be

Do you hear

How the orchestra breaks

Every line of space

Every minute, every second that I put in place

See me shake in my tired old frame

Borrow white suit

My eyes staring knives at you

Saying this is a war

This is a war

This is a war

Between my body and my heart

This is a war

Between integrity and art

This is a war

Between my body and my heart

This is a war

Between integrity and art

This is a war

This is a war

This is a war

This is a war