Off Screen - VNV Nation

The lighting is set, are we ready to play out the scene?

Discarding direction, instinctively playing the leads

Cast in dangerous roles, cameos of us in our lives

Try to outshine the spotlights, lines we’ve improvised

Precious lies, words that we say to ease our minds

Hide our face behind a mask contrived

To lose ourselves a thousand times inside

This is where we draw the line

There’s nothing else to give but what you see

Only sacrifice in blood and tears

Silver flickering lights, impressions unfold on the screen

Silhouetted in half-truths, bathe in the glow of a silver dream

Living life off the stage, tragedy to victory

Shadows of past lives in the final scenes

Precious lies, words that we say to ease our minds

Hide our face behind a mask contrived

To lose ourselves a thousand times inside

This is where we draw the line

There’s nothing else to give but what you see

Only sacrifice in blood and tears

Precious lies, words that we say to ease our minds

Hide our face behind a mask contrived

To lose ourselves a thousand times inside

This is where we draw the line

There’s nothing else to give but what you see

Only sacrifice and tears

Precious lies, words that we say to ease our minds

Hide our face behind a mask contrived

To lose ourselves a thousand times inside

This is where we draw the line

There’s nothing else to give but what you see

Only sacrifice in blood and tears