Stand In

When I was young and dumb, you were the world

It got to be too much for you, you left

I should've seen someone, getting close to no-one

Always in the spotlight, never shining me

I found a call library and polled the sum

We'd built a pedestal too big to become

I should've seen someone, too young to watch the young ones

Pendulum from stand in to fend only for lonesome

Thrust into the spotlight, and just as much by me

You're right, it lacks, but someone else makes all the rules

Just shine, I'll clap, bitter sad but not a fool

And gone or back, don't call me, I'll be cruel