Shades Off (Poem) - Ian Hunter

Where do you go

When you've somewhere to run

But the time isn't right

And there's things to be done

And you're trapped half-way up

You don't 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

You'd 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

Life's 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 that's where it ends

And it's here I see pictures

And my madness is clear

And there's no longer logic

So therefore no fear

And I'm almost dead

With uncontrollable light

Sometimes when I've written a song

It's alright