Evan Alexander Moore - Background Actors Lyrics

He's clogging up the room
The air is filled to the brim
With all the destruction and all the depravity
And all the construction hymns

See there's blood leakin' out my fingertips
The children are at it again
Get em quiet, put them on a diet
And just try to keep them in frame

Everybody's gonna look down on you
Like some alien specimen
But I ain't no Sigourney Weaver
I ain't Richard Dreyfuss circa 1977

But I just want a job and I want some security
I'm a goddam human not a commodity
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party

Well the film set's closin' up its doors
Everybody's cashin' checks at Wells Fargo
And I'm OK, with being part of the machine
But I don't wanna be a part of your movie scene

I just got some shit I need to own
And I gotta do it all alone
No one can hear you scream into your space heater
So don't ask me nothing, and I won't ask you neither

But I just want a job and I want some security
I'm a goddam human not a commodity
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party

Well there, ain't no lights and cameras out here shootin' babe
And I don't, see nothing wrong standin' out here in the sun
And there's a lot of time, that you're gonna spend out on your feet babe
So ya better get used to standin' out in the sun

And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party
And I don't wanna be a background actor for your party