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(Fragments of) A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers / Sleepwalkers (BBC radio One John Peel session / 1977)
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Still waiting for my saviour
Storms tear me limb from limb
My fingers feel like seaweed
I'm so far out and too far in
On the table lies blank paper
And my tower is built on stone
I only have blunt scissors
I only have the bluntest home
I've been the witness, and the seal of death
Lingers in the molten wax that is my head
I prophesy disaster
And then I count the cost
I shine, but shining, dying
I know that I am almost lost
No time now for contrition
The time for that's long past
The walls are thin as tissue
And if I talk I'll crack the glass
So I only think on how it might have been
Locked in silent monologue
In silent scream
I am much too tired to speak
As the waves crash on the bleak
Stones of the tower, I start to freak
And find that I am overcome
(Overcome)
Where is God that guides my hand?
How can the hands of others reach me?
Where will I find what I've broke?
Or who is going to teach me?
I may be awake but I see
No way out of here
Crashing sea has now been history
Chance has lost my
When and if...
Tonight, before you lay down
To the sweetness of your sleep
Oh, do you question the surrender
To the drop of lovers' leaf?
Or does the anesthetic darkness
Take hold on its very own?
Oh, does your body rise in service
With not even one dissenting groan?
These waking dreams of life and death
In the mirror are twisted and buckled
Flashes flicker, catch a breath
And then a skin-whitening at the knuckles
The army of sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose
And though I am a talker, I can phrase no excuse
Not to rise again
In the chorus of the night-time I belong
And I, like you, must dance to that moonlight song
And in the end I, too, must pay the cost
Of this life; if all is lost then none is known
And how could we lose what we've never owned?
Oh, I'd search out every knowledge that I could find
Unravel all the mysteries of mind
If I only had time
If I only had time
But soon my time is ended
Ended
Ended