Touch And Go ('Thin Man Ballads'-Version)-Peter Hammill

[ti:Touch And Go ('Thin Man Ballad] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:The Thin Man Sings Ballads] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Touch And Go ('Thin Man Ballads'-Version) - Peter Hammill [00:26.11]Between the light and the shadow [00:28.42] [00:30.73]Out of the corner of my eye [00:33.54] [00:35.72]I saw your feathers all ruffled [00:37.84] [00:40.65]Anticipating the sky [00:42.46] [00:45.21]You've got no reason to stay [00:47.39] [00:48.58]Day by day your impatience has grown [00:52.45] [00:56.19]I'm caught between the devil and the deep blue sea I know [01:04.30] [01:05.80]I'm reaching out [01:07.23] [01:09.67]But we are touch and go [01:11.23] [01:16.35]Making a meal of the moment [01:19.09] [01:19.77]I might cook up a story or two [01:23.14] [01:25.02]But the dish of the day's getting colder [01:27.95] [01:29.76]And I know that pretty soon [01:32.26] [01:32.88]You'll pick up your bed and walk [01:37.81] [01:40.06]Open your wings and fly away from me [01:48.92]Across the leaden hammer-headed sky [01:55.16] [01:55.97]While I can't breathe a word [01:59.77]No matter how I try [02:01.77] [02:05.08]So scared [02:06.95] [02:10.32]It shows [02:11.25] [02:15.12]That we are touch and go [02:20.93] [02:50.07]I never brought myself to tell you [02:52.32] [02:53.57]How you kept all my demons at bay [02:56.81] [02:58.50]But my silence came out as indifference [03:01.49] [03:02.80]And now my diffidence has driven you away [03:05.86] [03:08.85]You'll be the one with the wings [03:11.48] [03:13.53]I'm going down in flames [03:15.85] [03:20.40]Still mouthing out the mystery my angel of your name [03:28.14] [03:29.57]How touch and go our tenderness became [03:35.13] [03:38.87]So scared to show [03:42.42] [03:43.98]I know we're touch and go [03:47.36] [03:48.48]So touch and go [03:51.04]So much I can't explain [03:54.16] [03:59.21](So much is unexplained )