[Part I: Eyewitness (0:00 - 2:21)]

[Verse 1]
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 born stark witness
And now my nights are numbered too

[Chorus]
I've seen the smiles on dead hands
The stars shine, but they're not for me

[Verse 2]
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 hone

[Chorus]
I've been the witness and the seal of death
Lingers in the molten wax that is my head

[Post-Chorus]
When you see the skeletons
Of sailing-ship spars sinking low
You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancient myths
Are solemnly directed straight at you

[Part II: Pictures/Lighthouse (2:21 - 5:32)]

[Instrumental]
*Eddies/rocks/ships/collision/remorse*

[Part III: Eyewitness (5:32 - 6:28)]

[Verse 3]
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

[Chorus]
So I only think on how it might have been
Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream


[Post-Chorus]
I'm 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

[Part IV: S.H.M (6:28 - 8:26)]

[Verse 4]
"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
Are only intent on destroying
What they've lost

[Verse 5]
I crawl the wall till steepness ends
In the vertical fall
My pail 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


[Part V: Presence of the Night (8:26 - 12:15)]

[Intro]
"Alone, alone", the ghosts all call
Pinpoint me in the light
The only life I feel at all
Is the presence of the night

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
Would you cry if I died?
Would you cry if I died?
Would you catch the final words of mine?
Would you catch my words?
I know that there's no time
I know that there's no rhyme (False signs find me)

[Verse 6]
I don't want to hate, I just want to grow
Why can't I let me live and be free?
But I die very slowly alone
I know no more ways, I am so afraid
Myself won't let me just be myself
And so I am completely alone

[Part VI: Kosmos Tours (12:15 - 13:34)]

[Instrumental Break 12:15 - 13:18]

[Verse 7]
The maelstrom of my memory
Is a vampire and it feeds on me
Now, staggering madly
Over the brink I fall

[Part VII: (Custard's) Last Stand (13:34 - 16:22)]

[Verse 8]
Lighthouses might house the key
But can I reach the door?

[Verse 9]
I want to walk on the sea
So that I may better find a shore
But how can I ever keep my feet dry?
I scan the horizon
I must keep my eyes on all parts of me

[Verse 10]
Looking back on the years
It seems that I have lost my way
Like a dog in the night, I have run to a manger
Now I am the stranger, I stay in
Ah, well

[Verse 11]
All of the grief I have seen
Leaves me chasing solitary peace
But I hold experience in my head
I'm too close to the light
I don't think I see right for I blind me

[Part VIII: The Clot Thickens (16:22 - 19:13)]

[Verse 12]
Where is the God that guides my hand?
How can the hands of others reach me?
When will I find what I grope for?
Who, who, who is going to teach me?
I am me, me are we, we can't see
Any way out of here
Crashing sea, atrophied history
Chance has lost my Guinevere

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
I don't want to be one wave in the water
But sea will drag me deep
One more haggard drowned man!
I can see the lemmings coming
But I know I'm just a man
Do I join or do I founder?
Which can is the best I may?
(That's it, master)

[Part IX: Land's End (Sineline) (19:13 - 21:14)]

[Verse 13]
Oceans drifting sideways
I am pulled into the spell
I feel you around me
I know you well
Stars slice horizons
Where the lines stand much too stark
I feel I am drowning
Hands stretch in the dark

[Verse 14]
Camps of panoply and majesty
What is freedom of choice?
Where do I stand in the pageantry
Whose is my voice?
It doesn't feel so very bad now
I think the end is the start
Begin to feel very glad now
All things are a part
All things are apart
All things are a part

[Part X: We Go Now (21:14 - 23:12)]

[Guitar Solo: Robert Fripp]

[Outro]
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