Peter Hammill

Nothing Comes

Peter Hammill


Consternation out of the box 
as the conversation runs onto the rocks; 
in full expectation nothing comes as a shock. 
It's all plain sailing in the dry dock; 
it's all downhill from here, in the rubble, taking stock... 
with no sense of feeling nothing comes as a shock. 

You remind me of the girlfriend I never had: 
never fitted the equation, I was never quite one of the lads. 
Still I remember that my feelings were always touch and go 
once I thought I knew all that, now I just don't know. 

The wrap's about to happen, the scene is already blocked, 
black-out's already plotted and the cameras are locked: 
when everything's over nothing comes as a shock. 

I remember that my feelings were always touch and go 
once I thought I knew it all, now I just don't know.