歌曲 | Lunatic in Knots |
歌手 | Peter Hammill |
专辑 | What, Now? |
作词 : Hammill | |
Unchain me from this lunatic | |
before he drags me to my knees; | |
I'd have to be some kind of Houdini | |
to unpick knots like these. | |
While I was sleeping half a lifetime away | |
someone moved the scenery, | |
all my blocks went astray. | |
So I awoke uneasy | |
and, as I spoke, grew queasy... | |
I don't remember much about last night | |
but I suspect I went too far, | |
became just a passenger in my actions, | |
asleep at the wheel of the car. | |
While I was sleeping someone stole in my room, | |
rearranged the pictures | |
and threw my bookmarks away. | |
The shadow's swiftly deepening | |
in the tidepull of the moon | |
while the lunatic | |
does his party tricks | |
but what makes him tick | |
he's still most reluctant to say. | |
Before the facts there's no pat explanation... | |
only this Other implies | |
whatever I did was Not I. | |
While I was sleeping | |
off the wake of the wake | |
I was less at home in my dreams than in my mistakes. | |
The lunatic's been creeping | |
settling and setting on my face | |
and we're bound together | |
we're tied and tethered | |
I don't know whether | |
the bond is one I can break. | |
After the act there's no hidden intention, | |
just fumbling around for the plot, | |
tying myself up tighter and tighter in knots. | |
So many angels, | |
however many can there by, ghosts and djinns | |
dancing on the head of a pin? | |
How many questions are left unresolved? | |
Exactly where do I begin | |
now that the walls are closing in? | |
Who's the lunatic | |
and who's the sensible soul deep within the skin, | |
hanging on and listening in...? | |
Unchain me from this lunatic | |
restrain him in his cage | |
keep him away from me | |
keep him away from the stage. | |
Unchain me from this lunatic | |
whose every action shouts me down; | |
keep him away from me, | |
keep me away from this clown. | |
Unchain me from this lunatic | |
restrain him in his cage | |
keep him away from me | |
keep him away from me | |
keep me away from his rage | |
While I was sleeping | |
the lunatic stirred. | |
I've no alibi | |
for his beady eye. | |
Oh, I talk my head off... | |
he's a man of few words. |
zuò cí : Hammill | |
Unchain me from this lunatic | |
before he drags me to my knees | |
I' d have to be some kind of Houdini | |
to unpick knots like these. | |
While I was sleeping half a lifetime away | |
someone moved the scenery, | |
all my blocks went astray. | |
So I awoke uneasy | |
and, as I spoke, grew queasy... | |
I don' t remember much about last night | |
but I suspect I went too far, | |
became just a passenger in my actions, | |
asleep at the wheel of the car. | |
While I was sleeping someone stole in my room, | |
rearranged the pictures | |
and threw my bookmarks away. | |
The shadow' s swiftly deepening | |
in the tidepull of the moon | |
while the lunatic | |
does his party tricks | |
but what makes him tick | |
he' s still most reluctant to say. | |
Before the facts there' s no pat explanation... | |
only this Other implies | |
whatever I did was Not I. | |
While I was sleeping | |
off the wake of the wake | |
I was less at home in my dreams than in my mistakes. | |
The lunatic' s been creeping | |
settling and setting on my face | |
and we' re bound together | |
we' re tied and tethered | |
I don' t know whether | |
the bond is one I can break. | |
After the act there' s no hidden intention, | |
just fumbling around for the plot, | |
tying myself up tighter and tighter in knots. | |
So many angels, | |
however many can there by, ghosts and djinns | |
dancing on the head of a pin? | |
How many questions are left unresolved? | |
Exactly where do I begin | |
now that the walls are closing in? | |
Who' s the lunatic | |
and who' s the sensible soul deep within the skin, | |
hanging on and listening in...? | |
Unchain me from this lunatic | |
restrain him in his cage | |
keep him away from me | |
keep him away from the stage. | |
Unchain me from this lunatic | |
whose every action shouts me down | |
keep him away from me, | |
keep me away from this clown. | |
Unchain me from this lunatic | |
restrain him in his cage | |
keep him away from me | |
keep him away from me | |
keep me away from his rage | |
While I was sleeping | |
the lunatic stirred. | |
I' ve no alibi | |
for his beady eye. | |
Oh, I talk my head off... | |
he' s a man of few words. |