Paradox Drive letra

The thought crossed my mind -
how curious, why should I want so much shut-eye?
Fighting the darkness and furious,
oh, but I once more fall into the song...
just the normal unconsciousness;
could that be wrong?
All out into action then all down into sleep -
check that attraction, it must be more than skin deep.
I've checked the twenty-four hours,
I've done the stay-up-all-night;
in a certain way that's power,
but it's not wired up right.
Up for the pleasure, then it's dead to the world;
our lives surely measured by the unconscious third...

Living on Paradox Drive,
we must be living on Paradox Drive.

The thought crossed my mind, how curious -
why should I want so much shut-eye?
Fighting the darkness and furious...
oh, but I once more dropped off to the deep,
the sweet comfort of a life on my own asleep.
Up for the pleasure or dead to the world,
a life surely measured by the unconscious third...

Living on Paradox Drive,
we must be living on Paradox Drive.

I've checked the twenty-four hours,
I've done the stay-up-all-night;
in a certain way that's power,
but it's not wired up right,
it still isn't right.

Peter Hammill - Letras

• (No More) The Submariner
• (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga
• A Better Time
• A Forest Of Pronouns
• A Headlong Stretch: i. Up Ahead
• A Headlong Stretch: ii. Continental Drift
• A Headlong Stretch: iii. The Twelve
• A Headlong Stretch: iv. Long Light
• A Headlong Stretch: v. Backwards Man
• A Headlong Stretch: vi. As You Were
• A Headlong Stretch: vii. Or So I Said
• A Louse Is Not A Home
• Again
• Been Alone So Long
• Candle
• Child
• Comfortable
• Crying Wolf
• Faint-Heart and the Sermon
• Ferret And Featherbird
• Fight
• Forsaken Gardens
• Four Pails
• Gog
• Happy
• I Once Wrote Some Poems
• Imperial Zeppelin
• Just Good Friends
• Lost And Found
• Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
• Man-Erg
• Material Possession
• Mediaevil
• Mirror Images
• Modern
• Mr. X (Gets Tense)
• My Experience
• My Favourite
• Nadir's Big Chance
• Narcissus (Bar & Grill)
• Nightman
• No Moon In The Water
• Nobody's Business
• None Of The Above
• Not For Keith
• Not The Man
• Nothing Comes
• Now Lover
• Now More Than Ever
• Oasis
• On The Surface
• Open your Eyes (The Locarno Song)
• Ophelia
• Other Old Clichés
• Our Oyster
• Painting By Numbers
• Palinurus (Castaway)
• Paradox Drive
• Patient
• People You Were Going To
• Personality
• Phosphorescence
• Planet Coventry
• Pompeii
• Porton Down
• Power Of Speech
• Primo on the Parapet
• Pushing Thirty
• Rain, 3 a.m.
• Ram Origami
• Re-Awakening
• Red Shift
• Reprise
• Rock and Rôle
• Rubicon
• Sci-Finance
• Seven Wonders
• Sharply Unclear
• She Wraps It Up
• Shell
• Shingle Song
• Sign
• Silver
• Since The Kids
• Sitting Targets
• Skin
• Sleep Now
• Slender Threads
• Smile
• Solitude
• Something About Ysabel's Dance
• Still In The Dark
• Still Life
• Stranger Still
• Stupid
• Summer Song (In the Autumn)
• Sun City Nightlife
• Sunshine
• Tapeworm
• Tenderness
• The Birds
• The Comet, The Course, The Tail
• The Cut
• The Future Now
• The Gift of Fire (Talk Turkey)
• The Great European Department Store
• The Great Experiment
• The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
• The Jargon King
• The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
• The Light Continent
• The Meanings Changed
• The Moebius Loop
• The Mousetrap (Caught In)
• The Noise
• The Old School Tie
• The Play's The Thing
• The Polaroid
• The Second Hand
• The Spirit
• The Tower
• The Unconscious Life
• This Book
• This Side Of The Looking Glass
• Time For A Change
• Time Heals
• Time To Burn
• Too Many Of My Yesterdays
• Traintime
• Trappings
• Two Or Three Spectres
• Under Cover Names
• Unrehearshed
• Viking
• Vision
• Vote Brand X
• What I Did
• What's it Worth?
• When Language Corrodes
• Where The Mouth Is
• Wilhelmina
• You Can't Want What You Always Get...
• You Hit Me Where I Live
• Your Word