Happy Hour-Peter Hammill

[ti:Happy Hour] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:Pno, Gtr, Vox] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Happy Hour - Peter Hammill [00:00.02]Written by：Peter Hammill [00:00.04] [00:21.23]Fuelled by alcohol [00:22.86] [00:25.57]Shooting out words like a rocket [00:29.68]Like a prophet out of Babylon [00:31.30] [00:33.01]Method acting the absurd [00:34.73] [00:36.55]Shoot me those highballs [00:38.76] [00:40.85]Till I'm lit up like I'm plugged in a socket [00:45.01]Lock me eyeball to eyeball [00:47.89] [00:49.48]Let's not bother with the words [00:51.56] [00:54.12]Oh bring on the clowns [00:55.62] [00:58.46]Bring on the night [00:59.28] [01:02.22]Pour me double vision in black and white [01:04.62] [01:05.71]I'm falling [01:08.22] [01:09.54]Falling [01:12.42] [01:13.19]Don't give me that look [01:15.06]I'm falling [01:17.25] [01:20.39]It's the oldest trick in the book [01:21.97] [01:24.26]My chickadee my passion flower [01:27.00] [01:32.74]Show me the way to the happy hour [01:36.98]I don't like to see that [01:38.19] [01:40.96]Oh no I don't like the way the hand is shaking [01:44.09]Shape making like an acrobat [01:46.06] [01:48.80]On his way to the trapeze [01:50.59] [01:52.74]My friends in the crowd [01:54.97] [01:56.98]Are all taking bets [01:58.39] [02:00.41]They're taking away the safety net [02:04.08]And I'm falling [02:07.06] [02:08.41]I'm falling [02:10.97] [02:12.05]Don't give me that look [02:14.15]I'm falling [02:16.81] [02:18.16]Only falling [02:21.01]It's the oldest trick in the book [02:24.84] [02:25.41]Vertigo on the high wire tower [02:28.68] [02:32.68]Is this really what they mean by happy hour [02:38.61]The line between the social and the [02:41.05] [02:41.94]Suicidal so fine he might not know when he's crossed it [02:46.28] [02:49.13]When he's lost it [02:49.87] [02:50.92]When the social kick becomes the gauging stick of survival [02:59.19] [03:15.55]So here's to the circus [03:17.37] [03:19.71]Let's drink [03:20.84]To the game of forgetting [03:23.19]The marionette strings that jerk us [03:24.93] [03:26.83]The real world just like just outside the door [03:30.54] [03:32.61]I know that my legs have gone [03:35.93] [03:37.62]And I know that the light here is far from perfect [03:41.60] [03:42.32]But I've rehearsed it so I'll carry on [03:45.50] [03:46.37]Until I wind up on the floor [03:47.78] [03:49.84]My friends in the bar [03:52.53] [03:54.74]Will stand me a round [03:56.29] [03:58.20]They'll toast me on my way to the underground [04:01.49]I'm falling [04:03.07] [04:06.01]I'm falling [04:08.45] [04:09.62]Don't give me that look [04:11.27]I'm falling [04:14.22] [04:15.39]Only falling [04:17.59] [04:18.30]It's the oldest trick in the book [04:20.43] [04:22.90]My chickadee [04:24.67]My passion flower [04:26.32] [04:32.00]Leave me the way to the happy hour [04:35.25] [04:39.70]Vertigo on the high wire tower [04:44.67] [04:48.40]Is this really what they mean [04:49.88] [04:51.59]By the happy hour [04:52.56] [04:59.96]Put on the greasepaint [05:00.67] [05:07.68]We're greasepaint [05:09.03] [05:11.01]For the happy hour [05:12.42] [05:16.92]Put on the greasepaint [05:19.30]Ready for happy hour [05:23.27] [05:26.39]Put on the greasepaint [05:27.95] [05:37.48]Put on the greasepaint [05:39.28] [05:43.01]For happy hour