Insufficient Data

Weard / Raymond / Bensusan

Available on the album 'Fallout' by Roy Weard and Last Post.

All lyrics copyright That Legendary Wooden Lion

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I know you tried so very hard to understand me

You’ve done equations but the problem is unsolved

Common denominator, slipping through your hands - you’re unresolved

You fed your information into a computer

You ran a program on my actions and my deeds

You paid a grass to act out as a snoop – he came up weeds

But tonight, as I stumble into slumber

I feel that I’m no different at all

All alone, as I bundle up my blunders

I can be the smiling fool

The grinning ghoul

The know it all

The silent pool.

I think you take it all so serious in your world

You just can’t see the orbit you are moving in

Too much reliance on the clothes, the car, the new girl – and the sin!

Sometimes I turn on the light and catch you crying

That candid photograph reveals more than you see

Somewhere, inside your head, a mirrored fear of dying – and of me.

Still tonight, as you undress undercover

We can’t see if you are different to us

All alone, so distraught, we can’t discover

Why you’re making so much fuss,

So little trust

Such macho thrust

Turning to rust

You read your Eyesenk and your DIY psychology

Your Readers Digest world is so far from my own

When I don’t fit into the pattern you predict you’re really thrown – and all alone.

We’re all like snow flakes, on a heated window

A transient pattern that is fading as we go

Close up we’re different, but from a long way off – we look like snow

But tonight, as the moon sets on the snowscape

We cannot feel there’s any space between us all

All alone, all confused and all encumbered

By the weight that drags you down

That turns you round

That makes you frown

That kills all sound.

But tonight

Time is creeping slowly

It’s your life that drags you down

All alone

You stand there so bewildered

It’s your life that drags you down

And tonight

Someone holds a hand out to you

It’s your life that drags you down

You reach out

Grasp a hand so warmly

Stop your life dragging you down

And turn around