By Jack Joseph Smith
Original Scan
AI Interpretation
The speaker describes a limelight crowded with arrivals, money, exhaustion, and rapid death, then urges true friendship.
The closing They gives others responsibility for the arrangement but does not identify them. Friendship becomes the speaker's answer to the exhaustion and danger already described.
Rows from 'It is wicked in the limelight / Ever time the door opens' to 'High strung and fast death / Make true friends / And that's the way / They wanted it'.
A bleak view of fame and its costs; Ever and vanishefrom are kept as typed.