Friday afternoon-Peter Hammill

[ti:Friday afternoon] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:Pno, Gtr, Vox] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Friday afternoon - Peter Hammill [00:00.02]Written by：Peter Hammill [00:00.04] [00:35.29]Why wait for life to happen [00:41.79] [00:42.99]When right before our eyes [00:46.34]Blind fate unwraps it's patterns [00:53.28]I just said see you soon [00:57.00] [00:57.76]My piano was in tune [01:01.71] [01:02.80]When you walked out of the room [01:06.87]It felt like any normal Friday [01:09.63] [01:15.50]At concert pitch 440 [01:20.90]The pressure's many tons [01:23.13] [01:23.76]The weight of life befalls me [01:28.21]I wish [01:28.99] [01:29.91]I could pretend [01:30.76] [01:32.62]My piano's on the mend [01:36.81]You treated it like a friend left it to settle [01:42.11]Down over the weekend [01:43.64] [01:51.05]You've got a ticket on the terraces for the game [01:55.13]On Saturday [01:56.79]And afterwards you might go for a beer [02:01.44] [02:04.14]On Sunday afternoon you'll take the family to the park [02:09.21] [02:09.72]And later [02:10.34] [02:11.03]When it's getting dark [02:12.56]You'll say we've still got that old spark [02:15.93]You'll say oh aren't we just so lucky [02:19.16]To be here [02:23.21] [02:56.36]So stupid [02:57.26] [03:00.92]And so senseless [03:03.93] [03:05.73]Sometimes we're pulled up short [03:08.54] [03:11.38]Quite shockingly defenceless [03:15.87] [03:16.61]I don't know what to do [03:19.19] [03:22.47]My piano's out of tune [03:26.89] [03:29.33]It's not as if I can assume that it's ever [03:35.10]Going to get any better now [03:36.77] [03:57.66]A liquid lunch appointment [03:59.23] [03:59.98]When the working week is done [04:02.13] [04:03.06]There's time for one more just before he goes [04:07.06] [04:09.18]A quick glance at the watch and now it's time [04:12.97]To head for home [04:14.44]And so it's goodbye to the ladies [04:17.92]Grabs the keys [04:19.33]To his Mercedes thinking [04:21.88]Maybe I should get a cab but no [04:24.23] [04:31.16]Blind drunk [04:31.88] [04:35.02]He met you head on [04:37.27] [04:39.84]On a normal Friday afternoon