A Crisis In Mid Life

[ti:A Crisis In Mid Life] [ar:The Tangent] [al:Prog Rocks!] [by:] [offset:0] [00:02.48]A Crisis In Mid Life - The Tangent [00:05.96]Written by：Andy Tillison [00:08.45] [00:50.46]Feeling the sway of the bridge beneath me [00:53.18] [00:54.39]I watch the windsock strain [00:56.22] [00:58.32]Stepping with care as thought there's nothing beneath me [01:01.29] [01:02.34]Cause I'm alone again [01:03.97] [01:22.66]Feeling the strain of the lateral movement [01:24.99] [01:26.41]My escape is clear [01:28.19] [01:30.64]Follow the road in one of two directions [01:33.01] [01:34.35]Can I control the fear [01:35.90] [01:38.43]And I can feel it pulling the paranoia's rife [01:44.08] [01:45.79]There's nothing like a crisis in mid life [01:50.09] [02:04.56]Feeling the weight of my divided passions [02:06.84] [02:08.51]Coming and going like rain [02:10.59] [02:12.31]Taking my chances in my predictable fashions [02:14.96] [02:16.13]As all my plans go down the drain [02:19.02] [02:20.58]And I can feel it pulling the paranoia's rife [02:26.18] [02:28.38]Look in both directions I'm balanced on the knife [02:33.95] [02:35.85]There's nothing like a crisis in mid life [02:39.97] [02:46.69]The burble of canned music finds its way into my heart [02:50.36] [02:53.98]The soundtrack to the epg but I don't know where to start [02:59.25] [03:02.29]And all the people and all the humour [03:05.25] [03:06.16]And all the culture all the music all the things that we once knew [03:10.71] [03:11.44]Are wrapped in packets twelve by twelve on the shelves [03:16.36] [06:22.35]When we were young we had songs for our problems [06:25.26] [06:26.24]We had the money to pay [06:28.11] [06:30.27]Kids like us to write anthems for our teen years [06:33.65] [06:34.26]And blow our problems away [06:36.04] [06:38.33]But now we're in the middle [06:40.22] [06:41.78]Our heroes bought houseboats with their wives [06:44.76] [06:45.74]There's no one left to sing along with [06:48.55] [06:49.51]As we make the crossing of our middle lives [06:52.30] [06:53.77]There's nothing like a crisis [06:56.29] [06:57.88]There's nothing like a crisis [07:00.20] [07:01.32]There's nothing like a crisis in mid life