Rick Wright

Im ill with a fever, I feel like a child
I lay in the dark til morning came.
Its so unoriginal
And I feel it worse at night
I know its not terminal
But Im near half-dead fright
And freezing cold.
But sooner than woke up
To find it all unchanged
Ill sleep through the day til the daylight ends.
Cos its all so familiar
As it comes around again
The same taste to everything
The same unbroken chain
That still remains.
With morning I rise,
A dream that wont leave me,
Youre sad, naked and pale
And youre reaching for the rail
You took a look inside, how could you peel away
Or break the shell, the hurt youve hidden so well
For all your days.
And youre going down
As you slip beneath the waves,
Wont make a sound
Wont even leave a trace before you.
I hear an appalling sigh from the streets below
And its creeping fear congealed in stone
That paves the crazy road.
And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly
At the heartbreak, its easy to deal with,
Just take these and youll really never feel it.
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