REACHING FOR THE RAIL

 

Lyrics - Richard Wright / Anthony Moore

Music - Richard Wright / Anthony Moore

 

I'm ill with a fever, I feel like a child
I lay in the dark 'til morning came
It's so unoriginal
And I feel it worse at night
I know it's not terminal
But I'm near half-dead fright
And freezing cold.

But sooner than woke up
To find it all unchanged
I'll sleep through the day til the daylight ends.
'Cos it's all so familair
As it comes around again
The same taste to everything
The same unbroken chain
That still remains.

With morning I rise
A dream that won't leave me
You're sad, naked and pale

And you're reaching for the rail

You took a look inside, how could you peel away
Or break the shell, the hurt you've hidden so well
For all your days.

And you're going down
As you slip beneath the waves
Won't make a sound
Won't even leave a trace before you.

I hear an appalling sigh from the streets below
And it's creeping fear congealed in stone
That paves the crazy road.
And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly
At the heartbreak it's easy to deal with
Just take these and you'll really never feel it.

 

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