I'm so afraid
Of mistakes that I've made.
Shaking every time that I awake,
I feel like a cardboard cut-out man.
So build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the story line is kind.

I've aged and aged since the first page.
I've lived every line that you wrote.
Take me down, take me down,
From the shelf above your head
And build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the story line is kind.

I live where I'm left,
On the shelf like the rest.
And the epilogue reads like a sad song.
Please pick up your camera
And use me again.
And build me a time
When the characters rhyme
And the storyline is kind
Yea