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Peter Hammill - Dropping The Torch Lyrics

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  • We play games and every move
  • is noted down as a subsequent cause
  • and effectively chains our freedom and will to live:
  • we settle in to simple survival,
  • hanging on our pleasures grimly...
  • we must never let them go...
  • Our prison walls are slowly built,
  • stone by stone and day by day
  • no provision for escape,
  • entombed alive in safety
  • and decay.
  • Time sets around us in killing frames,
  • black border round our names.
  • Our fingers lose their grip
  • and the torch slips.
  • The enemy for everyone
  • is everyone, inside -
  • I feel the hand of security
  • creep on me with ice-cold fingers
  • and crush my flower of freedom;
  • I've lost the course of my adventure,
  • all things I'm meant to do are lost.
  • There is only one flame each
  • to keep alive in the wind.
  • but finally we snuff them out
  • all by ourselves.
  • We set traps and, in the end,
  • fall into our own snares
  • and have nowhere to go.
  • Time ever moves more slowly:
  • life gets more lonely
  • and less real

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