Forgot My Own Entrance

Forgot my own entrance
Came in through the staff door
Everybody's waiting
I'm still asking what the clap's for

Had a speech in the pocket of a jacket at the cleaner
Had a driver with a sign but he spelled it even meaner
Had a plan to look mysterious, arrived with a sandwich
Got a stain on the comeback, that's a brand I can manage
You can laugh at the timing, I was born off beat
Still can fit a whole paragraph between your two feet
If perfection's the ticket, I'm outside with a friend
But we made a better party at the wrong end again

Forgot my own entrance
Came in through the staff door
Everybody's waiting
I'm still asking what the clap's for

Now the stage hand is waving like I'm landing a plane
And the intro's on its fourth loop, everybody knows my name
I was fixing up a shoelace, I was helping move a chair
Funny how you find your people when you're not yet in the glare
Take the cape off the entrance, let the regular guy through
Got a pocket full of verses and a half-eaten truth
I can miss the big arrival, I can still deliver lines
If the joke is on the rapper, let the rapper get his time

Wrong door
Right room
Forgot my own entrance
Still showed up for you

Forgot my own entrance
Came in through the staff door
Everybody's waiting
I'm still asking what the clap's for

I'm still asking what the clap's for

I'm still asking what the clap's for

Still showed up for you

I'm still asking what the clap's for