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A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers (Medley) (2005 Digital Remaster)
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Still waiting for my saviour
Storms tear me limb from limb
My fingers feel like seaweed
I'm so far out, I'm too far in
I am a lonely man
My solitude is true
My eyes have borne stark witness
And now, my nights are numbered, too
I've seen the smiles on dead hands
The stars shine, but they're not for me
I prophesy disaster
And then, I count the cost
I shine but, shining, dying
I know that I am almost lost
On the table, lies blank paper
And my tower is built on stone
I only have blunt scissors
I only have the bluntest home
I've been the witness and the seal of death
Lingers in the molten wax that is my head
When you see the skeletons
Of sailing-ship spars sinking low
You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancients myths
Are solemnly directed straight at you
No time now for contrition
The time for that's long past
The walls are thin as tissue
And if I talk, I'll crack the glass
So, I only think on how it might have been
Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream
I am much too tired to speak
And as the waves crash on the bleak
Stones of the tower, I start to freak
And find that I am overcome
"Unreal, unreal", ghost helmsmen scream
And fall in through the sky
Not breaking through my seagull shrieks
No breaks until I die
The spectres scratch on window-slits
Hollowed faces and the mindless grins
Only intent on destroying what they've lost
I crawl the wall 'til steepness ends
In the vertical fall
My pain has sailed into the sea
No joking hopes at dawn
White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask
Lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark
And parallel my isolated tower
No paraffin for the flame
No harbour left to gain