I promise you, I won't leave a clue:
no tell-tale remark, no print from my shoe.
Still a steady trail to the water's edge -
I will keep my pledge to the end;
I intend to go free
No more rushing around, no more travelling chess;
I guess I'd better sit down, you know I do need the rest...
Yes, it's time to resign with equanimity and placidity
from the game.
I can't explain;
I can't relate...
Have I done it all too late?
Now is the time for the commission to report;
till lately, I thought: I'd been planted.
Trying hard to make it all come real,
permission to feel is ungranted.
But, now it's happening, I'd like to keep it private if I can;
last words, last look, make a final stand.
Now my number's come up on the Pools,
guess I'll board Titanic for a cruise...
Now is the time to make my status clear,
too late, I fear, and lonely,
as friends and enemies traverse the stage,
all in a rage disown me.
And all the pip-props shatter into dust about my ears;
memory and conscience, hope and fear.
As I crawl out further on the limb
something tells me I am crawling in
to unknown prophecies and lives -
the rainbow's end is hemmed around with knives...
As I stand on the boards and the stage lights grow dim,
shall I go out of doors, or shall I maybe go in?
Have I reached the point when I should take my cue
and follow you and your signs?
I can't remember my line
at the prompter cat calls
and the cards all fall
in the strike
All the pages are thin, all the corners are curled.
Does the starshine fall in through my window on the world?
or am I living our (the seeds of doubt) a chronicle of revenge?
The willow bends
as do my hands -
do your understand?
And will you still be my friend in the end?
......... When my mouth falls slack
and I can't summon up another tune,
shall I then look back and say
I did it all
too soon
In The End
Peter Hammill
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Lyrics by Peter Hammill
(In The) Black Room (No More) The Sub Mariner (On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga A Louse Is Not A Home A Way Out Accidents Act Five Act One Act Six Again Again Airport Autumn Autumn [*] Been Alone So Long Been Alone So Long Betrayed Birds Birthday Special Breakthrough Candle Central Hotel Child Crying Wolf Curtains Description Dont Tell Me Down in the Sewer Dropping The Torch Easy to Slip Away Empress's Clothes Faculty X Faint-Heart and the Sermon Ferret and Featherbird Flight Fogwalking Forsaken Gardens Four Pails Future Now Gaia German Overalls Glue Golden Promises Green Fingers Handicap And Equality Happy Happy [#][*] Happy Hour Hesitation His Best Girl I Once Wrote Some Poems I Will Find You I Will Find You Imperial Walls Imperial Zeppelin Imperial Zeppelin (chris Judge Smith) In Slow Time Institute of Mental Health, Burning Jargon King Just Good Friends Labour Of Love Losing Faith in Words Lost And Found Man-Erg Modern My Experience My Favourite No Moon In The Water Nobody's Business Not For Keith Not The Man Oasis Ophelia Ophelia Paradox Drive Patient People You Were Going To Pompeii Porton Down Re-Awakening Re-Awakening [#][*] Red Shift Red Shift [BBC Radio One John Peel Session][*] Rubicon Rubicon [BBC Radio One John Peel Session][*] Seven Wonders (Bonus Track) She Wraps It Up Shingle Song Sign Sitting Targets Slender Threads Solitude Something About Ysabel's Dance Spirit Still Life Stranger Still Summer Song (In the Autumn) Sunshine Sunshine [#][*] Tapeworm The Birds The Birds [#][*] The Comet, The Course, The Tail The Future Now The Institute of Mental Health, Burning The Jargon King The Lie (bernini's St Theresa) The Old School Tie The Spirit The Unconscious Life This Side Of The Looking Glass Time For A Change (chris Judge Smith) Time Heals Time to Burn [Instrumental] Traintime Two Or Three Spectres Viking Vision What I Did What's It Worth Wilhelmina
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