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.