In The End (Kansas)-Peter Hammill

[ti:In The End (Kansas) - Peter Hammill] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.74]In The End (Kansas) - Peter Hammill [00:02.36] [01:12.36]I promise you I won't leave a clue: [01:16.83] [01:23.33]No tell-tale remark no print from my shoe [01:27.80] [01:34.22]Still a steady trail to the water's edge [01:40.83]I will keep my pledge to the end; [01:44.52] [01:51.21]I intend to go free [01:55.67] [02:06.63]No more rushing around no more travelling chess; [02:12.16] [02:17.35]I guess I'd better sit down you know I do need the rest [02:23.19] [02:28.98]Yes it's time to resign with equanimity and placidity [02:35.53] [02:36.14]From the game [02:37.40] [02:41.27]I can't explain; [02:42.86] [02:44.80]I can't relate [02:46.82] [02:52.21]Have I done it all too late [02:55.26] [03:14.34]Now is the time for the commission to report; [03:17.32]Till lately I thought: I'd been planted [03:20.14] [03:22.28]Trying hard to make it all come real [03:25.63]Permission to feel is ungranted [03:28.28] [03:32.73]But now it's happening I'd like to keep it private if I can; [03:37.34] [03:38.19]Last words last look make a final stand [03:40.94] [03:42.05]Now my number's come up on the Pools [03:44.75] [03:45.87]Or let board Titanic for a cruise [03:48.69] [03:52.43]Now is the time to make my status clear [03:54.91] [03:55.46]Too late I fear and lonely [03:57.99] [04:00.02]As friends and enemies traverse the stage [04:02.55] [04:03.24]All in a rage disown me [04:05.99] [04:09.67]And all the pip-props shatter into dust about my ears; [04:13.29] [04:14.76]Memory and conscience hope and fear [04:17.61] [04:18.60]As I crawl out further on the limb [04:20.99] [04:22.21]Something tells me I am crawling in [04:24.83]To unknown prophecies and lives [04:28.28] [04:32.39]The rainbow's end is hemmed around with knives [04:39.72] [05:04.68]As I stand on the boards and the stage lights grow dim [05:11.21] [05:17.53]Shall I go out of doors or shall I maybe go in [05:24.22] [05:31.13]Have I reached the point when I should take my cue [05:36.90] [05:37.48]And follow you and your signs [05:40.72] [05:43.55]I can't remember my line [05:46.15] [05:47.64]At the prompter cat calls [05:49.82] [05:51.58]And the cards all fall [05:55.13] [05:55.76]In the strike [05:57.33] [06:09.02]All the pages are thin all the corners are curled [06:12.10] [06:15.73]Does the starshine fall in through my window on the world [06:19.36] [06:22.97]Or am I living our (the seeds of doubt) a chronicle of revenge [06:30.28] [06:33.43]The willow bends [06:34.70] [06:36.95]As do my hands [06:38.44] [06:40.42]Do you understand [06:41.75] [06:45.07]And will you still be my friend in the end [06:49.72] [06:53.22]When my mouth falls slack [06:57.84] [06:59.02]And I can't summon up another tune [07:03.55] [07:04.53]Shall I then look back and say [07:11.19] [07:14.23]I did it all [07:17.50] [07:21.57]Too soon