Peter Hammill

Stupid

Peter Hammill


I'm 
(so stupid) 

Along this pilgrim's accidental progress 
I'd bump into the walls as like as not; 
It's no surprise I didn't notice when I lost the plot. 

I went and did something 
(so stupid, so dumb) 

Error-message ever more intensive, 
red lights were burning on the air - 
no I can't say that I was consequentially unaware 

when I did something 
(so stupid, so dumb) 
I saw it coming 
(so stupid) 
now all I want to know is how come 
(how come?) 
we're all fingers and thumbs? 

Confused but not entirely aimless, 
though you might find comfort here is faint; 
if we lived lives that were quite blameless then we'd all be saints; 
I don't think so. 

Get a life: 
you've got to do something 
(so stupid) 
we all do something 
(so dumb) 
self-seed our own destruction 
nobody understands it, how come we're all fingers and thumbs?