Shades Off (Poem)-Ian Hunter

[ti:Shades Off (Poem)] [ar:Ian Hunter] [al:Once Bitten Twice Shy] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Shades Off (Poem) - Ian Hunter [00:01.88]Where do you go [00:03.82]When you've somewhere to run [00:05.00] [00:06.38]But the time isn't right [00:07.44] [00:08.44]And there's things to be done [00:09.69] [00:10.81]And you're trapped half-way up [00:14.13] [00:14.69]You don't want to go back [00:15.94] [00:16.88]So you keep going on [00:17.94] [00:19.44]Compromising the lack [00:20.38] [00:22.88]And you see the green fields [00:24.07]As you travel on by [00:25.19] [00:26.38]And you look at the things [00:27.50]You'd forgotten to try [00:29.13] [00:30.38]And you wish you were young [00:31.69]And you wish you were old [00:33.37] [00:34.44]For the songs always sung [00:35.75] [00:36.69]And the stories been told [00:37.75] [00:40.56]And you thought you were different [00:41.88] [00:42.56]But what did it mean [00:43.57] [00:44.63]For you tricked yourself trying [00:46.19] [00:47.32]Life's still unseen [00:49.01] [00:50.44]As it is as it was [00:52.57] [00:53.38]As it always will be [00:54.44] [00:56.25]Will you find out [00:57.13]At all what it is to be free [00:58.47] [01:01.60]See it never was easy to live with a head [01:03.91]So I kept to the back room [01:06.29] [01:06.85]And I live there instead [01:07.91] [01:09.60]What comes from the front-room [01:10.78]Is only for friends [01:11.72] [01:13.47]I have a bay window [01:14.60] [01:16.79]But that's where it ends [01:17.72] [01:20.41]And it's here I see pictures [01:21.60]And my madness is clear [01:22.79] [01:24.85]And there's no longer logic [01:25.66]So therefore no fear [01:28.22] [01:30.47]And I'm almost dead [01:31.47]With uncontrollable light [01:32.60] [01:35.16]Sometimes when I've written a song [01:37.60]It's alright