Hi,
I thought this was about a career in television that had become a sham and the guy was living on his old successes. Maybe "As I search for a face that I know" is about finding someone who is genuine and doesn't see his reputation, the successful media type and just looks up to him. The face that I know sees the human inside?
"Working the ropes" is part of what you do in theatre to change the scenes. He was busy with his career when he lost the friend and now he has started to belive "the smoke and mirrors", the illusions of his stage/television career. He can't even trust himself. He sees the career and his life as just "a joke, a fix a lie".
The tower crane driver? Maybe this is the nearest he can get to god and faith? Just pick me up and lift me out of this crap. Is that the prayer that he sends up?
Hi, I thought this was about a career in television that had become a sham and the guy was living on his old successes. Maybe "As I search for a face that I know" is about finding someone who is genuine and doesn't see his reputation, the successful media type and just looks up to him. The face that I know sees the human inside? "Working the ropes" is part of what you do in theatre to change the scenes. He was busy with his career when he lost the friend and now he has started to belive "the smoke and mirrors", the illusions of his stage/television career. He can't even trust himself. He sees the career and his life as just "a joke, a fix a lie".
The tower crane driver? Maybe this is the nearest he can get to god and faith? Just pick me up and lift me out of this crap. Is that the prayer that he sends up?