And if I show you my dark side
will you still hold me tonight?
And if I open my heart to you
and show you my weak side
what would you do?

Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone?
Would you take the children away
and leave me alone?
And smile in reassurance
as you whisper down the phone?
Would you send me packing
or would you take me home?

Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings
Thought I oughta tear the curtain down
I've held the blade in trembling hands
prepared to make it but

Just then the phone rang
I never had the nerve to make the final cut

 — Roger Waters, "The Final Cut"

"You gave me these emotions, but you didn't tell me how to use them."

 — The Creature (Robert DeNiro), "Frankenstein (1994)"