Do you want to judge me
Or do you want to judge my art
No, of course it's me
You've come to try

You'd like me to be just a pretty face
Or a grinning bete noire
But I'm neither
That's a problem for you

Did I notice the world's gone mad around me
Leni at the end of time
Who pays your bills and what do you do?
Leni at the end of time

The world around me has always been mad
Where have you been? Did I know people were dying?
Do you even know people die?
What could I have done if I did

In a world there is no luxury for this
Leni at the end of time
I followed my muse, I followed nothing else
Leni at the end of time

I leave you so unsatisfied
That I'm unrepentant and still alive
How I will outlive you all
And how I outclass you all

Congratulate yourselves
On what you would have done
But you never did, never had to try
To think, to fight, to live, to die or what

Another charming movie actress
A B-movie villainess
No, thank you, I do not want it
Talk to me when you give back your grants

Did I notice the world gone mad around me
Leni at the end of time
I followed my muse I followed nothing else
Leni at the end of time