Lost for Words - John Wetton

Sweet surrender on your slippery slide

I’m a street offender moving to the winning side

It scares me senseless that I’m tongue-tied and neglected

Todo incommunicodo — absolutely speechless

Back at Pete’s apartment overlooking Portman Square

Lacking in the speech department reason why I’m there

Black stretch limo and a dodgy politician

Looking like a helpless dead duck, terribly bad luck

Going round and round

Barking up the wrong tree

Searching high and low

Underneath the back seat

Going round and round

Always landing upside down

Lost for words and never knowing what to say

Lost for words and does it matter anyway?

Lost for words 'cause when I think it’s over

Always there going round and round

Going up and down

Going round and round

All this talking without a sound

I’m not urging any virgin

I’m determined to be patient

But it’s hard to be pragmatic

When the train has left the station

I’m gonna need the service of the lexicon magician

Dancing on a very fine line

Definitely out there

Going round and round

Where on earth could I be?

Searching high and low

Running down a back street

Going round and round

Always landing upside down

Lost for words and never knowing what to say

Lost for words and does it matter anyway?

Lost for words ‘cause when I think it’s over

Always there going round and round

Going up and down

Going round and round

All this talking without a sound

Going round and round

Because I stutter and I’m tongue-tied

Searching high and low

I’m always living on the outside

Going round and round

Always landing upside down

Lost for words and never knowing what to say

Lost for words and does it matter anyway?

Lost for words 'cause when I think it’s over here we go again

Lost for words

Lost for words and never knowing what to say

Lost for words and does it matter anyway?

Lost for words 'cause when I think it’s over

Lost for words 'cause when I think it’s over

Lost for words

Always there going round and round

Going up and down

Going round and round

All this talking without a sound