The Web
Marillion

(Derek Disck/Steve Rothery/ Pete Trewavas/ Micheal Pointer/Mark Kelly/Brian Jellyman)

The rain auditions at my window
Its symphony echoes in my womb
My gaze scans the walls of this apartment
To rectify the confines of my tomb

I'm the cyclops in the tenement
I'm the soul without the cause
Crying midst my rubber plants, ignoring beckoning doors
Clippings from ancient newspapers lie scattered cross the floor
Stained by the wine from a shattered glass
Meaningless words
Yellowed by time
Faded photos exposing pain
Celluloid leeches bleeding my mind
Christ, you've finished playing hangman
You've cast the fateful dice
Advice, advice, advice me, this shroud will not suffice
And thus begins the web

Attempting to discard these clinging memories
I only serve to wallow in our past
I fabricate the weave with my excuses
Its strands I hope and pray shall last
Oh please do last
Oh please do last

The flytrap needs the insects
Ivy caresses the wall
Needles make love to the junkies
The sirens seduce with their call
Confidence has deserted me, with you it has forsaken me
Confused and rejected, despised and alone, I kiss isolation on its fevered brow
Security clutching me
Obscurity threatening me
Christ, your reasons were so obvious as my friends have qualified
I only laughed away your tears, but even jesters cry
But even jesters cry

I realise I hold the key to freedom
Oh I cannot let my life be ruled by threads
The time has come to make decisions
The changes have to be made

I realise I hold the key to freedom
I cannot let my life be ruled by threads
The time has come to make decisions
The changes have to be made

Now I leave you
The past does have its say
You're all but forgotten
A mote in my heart
Decisions have been made
They've been made

Decisions have been made
I've conquered my fears, all my fears
The flaming shroud, the flaming shroud
Thus ends the web, the web, the web, the web, the web


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  100 Nights   80 Days   80 Days [Acoustic][*]   A Collection   A Collection [*]   A few words for the dead   A Legacy   A Man of a Thousand Faces   A State of Mind   A Voice From The Past   Abraham Martin And John (acoustic)   Afraid of Sunlight   Afraid of Sunlight [Acoustic Demo][#]   Afraid of Sunlight [DVD]   Afraid of Sunrise   Afraid of Sunrise [Album Version]   Afraid of Sunrise [Album Version] [Version]   After Me   After Me [Album Version]   After Me [Live]   Alone Again In The Lap Of Luxury   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Album Version]   Alone Again In the Lap of Luxury [Album Version] [...   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Previously Unrel...   Alone Again in the Lap of Luxury [Radio Edit]   An Accidental Man   Angelina   Angelina [DVD]   Answering Machine   Assassing   Assassing [Alternative Mix]   Assassing [Single Version]   Asylum Satellite #1   Beaujolais Day   Beaujolais Day [#]   Beautiful   Beautiful [Album Version]   Beautiful [Album Version] [Version]   Beautiful [DVD]   Beautiful [Radio Edit]   Beautiful [Unplugged Version]   Bell in the Sea, the   Berlin   Berlin [Live]   Between You & Me   Between You and Me   Between You and Me [DVD]   Between You and Me [Mark Kelly Remix]   Beyond You   Beyond You [#][Demo Version]   Bike (excerpt)   Bitter Suite   Blackbird   Blind Curve   Born to Run   Brave   Brave [Album Version]   Brave [Album Version] [Version]   Bridge   Bridge [DVD]   Bridge [Live]   Built-in Bastard Radar   Cannibal Surf Babe   Cannibal Surf Babe [#][Version]   Cannibal Surf Babe [Studio Outtake][#]   Cathedral Wall   Charting the Single   Charting the Single [Live]   Chelsea Monday   Chelsea Monday [Live]   Chelsea Monday [Manchester Square Demo]   Childhood End? [Live]   Childhood's End?   Childhoods End? [#]   Childhoods End? [Live]   Cinderella Search   Costa del Slough   Cover My Eyes   Cover My Eyes (Pain & Heaven)   Cover My Eyes (Pain And Heaven)   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Acoustic Version]...   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Live]   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Mike Stone Remix]   Cover My Eyes (Pain and Heaven) [Racket Club Acous...   Cover My Eyes [Acoustic Version]   Cover My Eyes [DVD]   Deserve   Don't Hurt Yourself   Dream Sequence [Previously Unreleased Demo Recorde...   Dreamy Street   Drilling Holes   Dry Land   Dry Land [Live]   Dry Land [LP Version]   Easter   Easter [DVD]   Easter [Live]   Emerald Lies   Emerald Lies [Demo Version]   Enlightened   Especially True   Essence   Estonia   Estonia [Acoustic Studio Version][*]   Estonia [DVD]   Estonia [DVD]   Estonia [Positive Light Remix][*]   Exile On Princes Street   Exile on Princes Street [#]   Exile On Princess Street   Faith   Faith [Live]   Fake Plastic Trees   Fantastic Place   Forgotten Sons   Freaks   Freaks [Live]   Fruit of the Wild Rose   Fugazi   Gabriel's Message   Garden Party   Garden Party [Edited Version][Edit]   Gaza   Gazpacho   Genie   Go   Go!   Going under   Going Under [Extended Version]   Goodbye To All That   Great Escape   Grendel   Grendel [Fair Deal Studios Version]   Half the World   Happiness Is The Road   Hard As Love   Hard as Love [Demo Version]   Hard as Love [Instrumental]   He Knows You Know   He Knows You Know [Album Version]   He Knows You Know [Manchester Square Demo]   Heart of Lothian   Heart of Lothian [DVD]   Heart of Lothian [Extended Mix]   Heart of Lothian [Full Version]   Heart of Lothian [Single Version]   Holidays In Eden   Hollow Man   Holloway Girl   Holloway Girl [Live]   Hooks In You   Hooks in You [Live]   Hooks in You [Meaty Mix]   Hope for the Future   Hotel Hobbies   Hotel Hobbies [DVD]   House   How Can It Hurt   How Can It Hurt [*]   How Will You Go   I Saw Three Ships   I Will Walk on Water   I Will Walk on Water [*]   I Will Walk on Water [Alternative Mix][#]   I Will Walk on Water [Alternative Mix][#][*]   Icon   If My Heart Were a Ball   If My Heart were a Ball it would Roll Uphill   Incommunicado   Incommunicado [Album Version]   Incommunicado [Alternate Version]   Incommunicado [Alternative Version][Alternate Take...   Incommunicado [DVD]   Incommunicado [Live]   Incubus   Incubus [Demo Version]   Incubus [DVD]   Insomnia (Cathedral Wall)   Interior Lulu   Jigsaw   Just for the Record   Kayleigh   Kayleigh (Demo Version)   Kayleigh [#]   Kayleigh [Alternative Mix]   Kayleigh [Bob Harris Session] [Live]   Kayleigh [DVD]   Kayleigh [Edit]   Kayleigh [Extended Version]   Kayleigh [Live]   Kayleigh [Single Edit]   Kayleigh [Single Edit] [Edit]   Kayleigh [Single Version]   Keyleigh   King   King [DVD]   King Of Sunset Town   King of Sunset Town [Live]   Lady Nina   Lady Nina [Extended Version]   Lady Nina [Single Edit]   Lavender   Lavender [#]   Lavender [DVD]   Lavender [Live]   Lavender [Single Version]   Live Forever   Living With The Big Lie   Living With the Big Lie [Album Version]   Living With the Big Lie [Album Version] [Version]   Living With the Big Lie [DVD]   Living With the Big Lie [Live]   Living With the Big Lie [Previously Unlreleased De...   Lords of the Backstage   Lords of the Backstage [#]   Mad   Made Again   Made Again [Album Version] [Version]   Made Again [Unplugged Version]   Man of A Thousand Faces   Man of a Thousand Faces [DVD]   Map of the World   Marbles 1   Marbles 2   Marbles 4   Marbles III   Margaret   Margaret [Edited Live][Live]   Margaret [Live]   Market Sqaure Heroes [Battle Priest Version]   Market Square Heroe[s [Edited Re-recorded Version]   Market Square Heroes   Market Square Heroes [Alternative Version][Alterna...   Market Square Heroes [Live]   Market Square Heroes [Re-Recorded Version][Alterna...   Memory of Water   Memory of Water [Big Beat Mix][*]   Mirages   Mirages (demo)   Mirages [#][Demo Version]   Montreal   Most Toys   Neverland   No One Can   No One Can [Album Version]   No One Can [Album Version] [Version]   No One Can [Album Version] [Version]   No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#]   No One Can [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   No Such Thing   Nothing Fills the Hole   Now She'll Never Know   Now Wash Your Hands   Number One   Ocean Cloud   Older Than Me   One Fine Day   Out of this World   Out of This World [Studio Outtake [#][Version]   Out of This World [Studio Outtake][#]   Paper Lies   Pour My Love   Power   Pseudo Silk Kimono   Pseudo Silk Kimono [#]   Punch and Judy   Punch and Judy [Demo Version]   Quartz   Real Tears For Sale   Rich   River [Live][Instrumental]   Runaway   Runaway [Acoustic]   Runaway [Bonus Track] [Live][*]   Runaway [Live][*]   Script For a Jester's Tear   Seasons End   See It Like A Baby   Separated Out   Shadows On The Barley   Shadows on the Barley [#]   She Chameleon   She Chameleon [Demo Version]   She'll Never Know   Sláinte Mhath   Sláinte Mhath   Sláinte Mhath   Slainte Mhath   Slainte Mhath [Live]   Somewhere Else   Somewhere Else [DVD]   Sounds That Can't Be Made   Space [Live]   Splintering heart   Splintering Heart [DVD]   Splintering Heart [Live at the Moles Club][*]   Splintering Heart [Live]   State of Mind   Story From A Thin Wall   Story From a Thin Wall [#]   Sugar Mice   Sugar Mice in the Rain [#]   Sunset Hill   Sunset Hill [#]   Sympathy   Sympathy [*]   Sympathy [Acosutic Version]   Sympathy [Acoustic Version][*]   Sympathy [Racket Club Acoustic Session]   Thank You, Whoever You Are   That Time of the Night   That Time of the Night [Live]   The Answering Machine   The Bell In The Sea   The Bridge   The Damage   The Erin Marbles   The Fruit of the Wild Rose   The Great Escape   The Great Escape [Album Version]   The Great Escape [Demo Version]   The Great Escape [Orchestral Version]   The Great Escape [Spiral Remake]   The Hollow Man   The Hollow Man [Acoustic]   The Hollow Man [Album Version]   The Hollow Man [Album Version] [Version]   The Invisible Man   The King Of Sunset Town   The Last Century for Man   The Last of You   The Last Straw   The Last Straw: Happy Ending   The Man from the Planet Marzipan   The Memory of Water   The New Kings   The New Kings (I)   The New Kings (II)   The New Kings (IV)   The Only Unforgivable Thing   The Other Half   The Party   The Party [Album Version]   The Party [Album Version] [Version]   The Party [DVD]   The Party [Moles Club Demo][#]   The Party [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   The Pseudo-Silk Kimono   The Rakes Progress   The Release   The Sky Above The Rain   The Space . . .   The Space...   The Space... [Live]   The Uninvited Guest   The Uninvited Guest [12' Version]   The Wound   These Chains   This is the 21st Century   This Strange Engine   This Town   This Town [Live]   This Town [Moles Club Demo][#]   This Town [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   This Train Is My Life   Three Boats down from the Candy   Three Minute Boy   Throw Me Out   Thunder Fly   Tic-Tac-Toe   Tic-Tac-Toe [#]   Torch Song   Toxic [DVD]   Trap the Spark   Tumble Down the Years   Tux On   Under the Sun   Uninvited Guest   Uninvited Guest [DVD]   Uninvited Guest [Live]   Uninvited Guest [Live]   Voice In The Crowd   Voice in the Crowd [#]   Waiting To Happen   Waiting to Happen [Live]   Waiting to Happen [Moles Club Demo][#]   Waiting to Happen [Moles Club Demo][#][*]   Warm Wet Circles   Warm Wet Circles [DVD]   Warm Wet Circles [Live]   Warm Wet Circles [Single Version]   Waterhole   Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)   Waterhole [Expresso Bongo]   Waterhole [Expresso Bongo][#]   Web   Whatever Is Wrong With You?   When I Meet God   White Feather   White Feather [#]   White Feather [Live]   White Russian   White Russians [#][Demo Version]   White Russians [Live]   Winter Trees   Winter Trees [Instrumental]   Woke Up   Wrapped Up in Time   You Don't Need Anyone   You're Gone   You've Got To Hide Your Love Away

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