Dropping The Torch-Peter Hammill

[ti:Dropping The Torch (2006 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Dropping The Torch - Peter Hammill [00:00.84]We play games [00:05.66] [00:08.08]And every move [00:09.49] [00:12.30]Is noted down [00:16.74]As a subsequent 'cause [00:20.11] [00:24.45]And effectively chains our freedom [00:30.40] [00:34.91]And will to live [00:37.84] [00:40.28]We settle in to simple [00:46.74]Survival [00:48.02] [00:54.40]Hanging on our pleasures [00:57.07] [00:59.82]Grimly we must never let them go [01:06.25]Our prison walls [01:08.25] [01:11.73]Are slowly built [01:13.18] [01:17.02]Stone by stone and day by day [01:23.91] [01:29.12]No provision for escape [01:31.80] [01:34.22]Entombed alive in safety [01:37.34]And decay [01:42.35]Time sets around us [01:45.13] [01:46.55]In killing frames [01:48.07] [01:49.08]Black border round our names [01:50.90] [01:52.99]Our fingers lose their grip [01:56.12]And the torch slips [02:02.89]The enemy [02:04.56] [02:08.16]For everyone [02:09.30] [02:12.39]Is everyone [02:18.34]Inside [02:20.35] [02:23.87]I feel the hand of security [02:27.90]Creep on me [02:30.19] [02:31.34]With ice cold fingers [02:35.40] [02:37.89]And crush my flower of freedom [02:44.24] [02:48.72]I've lost the course of my adventure [02:52.04] [02:54.89]All the things I'd meant to do [02:56.88] [02:57.65]Are lost [03:00.90] [03:02.94]There is only one flame each [03:05.12] [03:06.19]To keep alive [03:07.34] [03:08.48]In the wind [03:09.62] [03:12.48]But finally we snuff them out [03:14.57] [03:16.34]All by ourselves [03:21.21] [03:22.68]We set traps [03:27.71] [03:29.14]And in the end [03:29.94] [03:33.16]Fall into our own snares [03:39.19] [03:43.56]And have nowhere to go [03:47.08] [03:50.95]Time ever moves more slowly [03:54.14] [03:57.70]Life gets more lonely [03:59.72] [04:00.69]And less [04:02.98] [04:04.36]Real