Careering - Peter Hammill

I don’t know, can’t you see

I’m just passing through, fast as you —

Don’t ask me

Careering out of control

Disappearing down the black hole

Careering — the white man’s soul

Stands stark naked in the floodlight glare

Stands stark raving on the strap

I’ve had the feeling that I’ve been there

But I can’t quite believe it

I don’t know, can’t you see

I’m just passing through, fast as you

So don’t ask me

Careering, simply day to day

Engineering everything I say

Careering for the work and the pay

I’m just a passenger passing through

I’m just an average chap

(We are normal.)

If I said I hadn’t got a clue

There’d still come the questions

I don’t know, can’t you see

I’m just another case of wasted space

So don’t ask me

Careering, my apprenticeship

No nearer than my pension slip;

Careering down the Cresta Run

I screw it up just like anyone;

Careering — pointless anyway

To do it just for the work and the pay

Look here:

I don’t know, can’t you see

I’m so near the end, get it straight, friend —

Don’t ask me

Don’t ask me

Don’t ask me