Shades Off (Poem) Songtext / Lyric

(Ian Hunter)



Where do you go when youve somewhere to run

But the time isnt right and theres things to be done

And youre trapped half-way up, you dont want to go back

So you keep going on - compromising the lack



And you see the green fields as you travel on by

And you look at the things youd forgotten to try

And you wish you were young and you wish you were old

For the songs always sung and the stories been told






And you thought you were different but what did it mean

For you tricked yourself trying - lifes still unseen

As it is, as it was, as it always will be

Will you find out at all what it is to be free



See it never was easy to live with a head

So I kept to the back room and I live there instead

What comes from the front-room is only for "friends"

I have a bay window but thats where it ends



And its here I see pictures and my madness is clear

And theres no longer logic so therefore no fear

And Im almost dead with uncontrollable light

Sometimes when Ive written a song - its alright...