Album: Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling

Going Through The Motions (Buffy, Demons)

Buffy:

Every single night

The same arrangement

I go out and fight the fight

Still I always feel

This strange estrangement

Nothing here is real

Nothing here is right

I’ve been making shows of trading blows

Just hoping no one knows

That I’ve been

Going through the motions

Walking through the part

Nothing seems to penetrate my heart

I was always brave

And kind of righteous

Now I find I’m wavering

Crawl out of you grave

You find this fight just

Doesn’t mean a thing

Vampire:

She ain’t got that swing

Buffy:

Thanks for noticing

Demon and vamps:

She does pretty well with fiends from hell

But lately we can tell

That she’s just

Going through the motions

Faking it somehow

Demon:

She’s not even half the girl she-ow…

Buffy:

Will I stay this way forever

Sleepwalk through my life’s endeavor

Handsome young victim man:

How can I repay-

Buffy:

-Whatever

I don’t want to be

Going through the motions

Losing all my drive

I can’t even see if this is really me

And I just want to be

Alive