Fear: Another Lyrical Essay?

"What do you fear, milady?"
"A cage. To stay behind bars until use and old age accept them and all chance of valor has gone beyond recall or desire."
Aragorn and Eowyn in The Two Towers

I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. - Romans 8:15

"Dear God.... How did I come to this? ...Five curtain calls! I was an ACTOR once, darn it. Now look at me... LOOK AT ME." - Dr. Lazarus, Galaxy Quest

"I'm a codfish!" - Capt. Hook

Nothing really matters
Anyone can see
Nothing really matters
Nothing really matters to me
- Queen, Bohemia Rhapsody

So you live from day to day, and you dream about tomorrow, oh.
And the hours go by like minutes and the shadows come to stay
So you take a little something to make them go away
And I could have done so many things, baby
If I could only stop my mind from wondrin' what
I left behind and from worrying 'bout this wasted time
- Eagles, Wasted Time

I don't know what's right and what's real anymore
And I don't know how I'm meant to feel anymore
And when do you think it will all become clear?
'Cuz I'm being taken over by the Fear
- Lily Allen, The Fear