In The End-Peter Hammill

[ti:In The End (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.81]In The End (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill [00:03.16] [00:59.07]I promise you I won't leave a clue: [01:04.18] [01:10.24]Tell-tale remark print from my shoe [01:15.60] [01:21.25]Still a steady trail to the water's edge [01:27.36] [01:28.14]I will keep my pledge to the end; [01:33.74] [01:38.85]I intend to go free [01:44.96] [01:59.07]No more rushing around no more travelling chess; [02:04.13] [02:08.75]I guess I'd better sit down you know I do need the rest [02:13.69] [02:18.84]Yes it's time to resign with equanimity and placidity [02:25.68] [02:26.79]From the game [02:27.82] [02:31.71]I can't explain [02:32.88] [02:35.70]I can't relate [02:36.87] [02:43.10]I done it all too late [02:46.18] [03:08.03]Now is the time for the commission to report; [03:10.83] [03:11.59]Till lately I thought: I'd been planted [03:14.55] [03:16.90]Trying hard to make it all come real [03:19.71] [03:20.60]Permission to feel is ungranted [03:23.04] [03:28.46]But now it's happening I'd like to keep it private if I can; [03:32.79] [03:34.39]Last words last look make a final stand [03:37.18] [03:38.64]Now my number's come up on the Pools [03:41.72] [03:42.79]Guess I'll board Titanic for a cruise [03:45.68] [03:47.54]Now is the time to make my status clear [03:50.21] [03:51.02]Too late I fear and lonely [03:53.61] [03:55.88]As friends and enemies traverse the stage [03:58.59] [03:59.45]All in a rage disown me [04:02.50] [04:06.52]And all the pip-props shatter into dust about my ears; [04:10.51] [04:12.15]Memory and conscience hope and fear [04:15.26] [04:16.12]As I crawl out further on the limb [04:19.23] [04:20.12]Something tells me I am crawling in [04:22.80]To unknown prophecies and lives [04:26.95] [04:31.67]The rainbow's end is hemmed around with knives [04:37.07] [04:59.20]As I stand on the boards and the stage lights grow dim [05:05.09] [05:09.79]Shall I go out of doors or shall I maybe go in [05:16.03] [05:21.45]Have I reached the point when I should take my cue [05:27.61]And follow you and your signs [05:31.03] [05:34.74]I can't remember my line [05:36.31] [05:37.45]At the prompter cat calls [05:40.39] [05:41.58]And the cards all fall [05:44.55] [05:45.64]In the strike [05:47.00] [05:53.53]All the pages are thin all the corners are curled [05:58.07] [06:01.74]Does the starshine fall in through my window on the world [06:06.76] [06:09.86]Or am I living our (the seeds of doubt) a chronicle of revenge [06:17.56] [06:22.12]The willow bends [06:23.37] [06:25.03]As do my hands [06:26.57] [06:29.03]Do your understand [06:30.13] [06:32.30]And will you still be my friend in the end [06:37.58] [06:40.06]When my mouth falls slack [06:45.98] [06:47.42]And I can't summon up another tune [06:54.65] [06:57.78]Shall I then look back and say [07:04.96] [07:06.75]I did it all [07:10.85] [07:14.12]Too soon