Hesitation - Peter Hammill

This is no time to hesitate

The line slips into overload;

The mixture too thick

The touch too close to the motherlode

Time — there’s so little time

To do anything that’s not useless…

You tried for a little while

To hide your face from the future

Now you thought it was released

You find that it’s captured

It sticks to your hand, you can’t let it go

What you knew as pain has turned into rapture

But nothing goes away, it just changes…

You know it’s the right tempo, the right place

But something’s gone wrong with the cardiograph

Oh, your day shadow and your night face

You thought it was forever — but it doesn’t last

This is no time to hesitate

It’s no time to look for another road;

The shiver begins

The touch too cold on the motherlode

This is no time for hesitation

Hesitation, hesitation, hesitation

Time, there’s so little time

To do away with the tension;

I try for a little while

To put it all in suspension

Well I thought I was released

I find that I’m captured

The groove sticks, it won’t let me go

The glass stain is now seen as fractured

And try as I may I can’t change

But I know it’s the wrong tempo, wrong place

And something’s gone wrong with the autograph

Oh, the day shadow and the night face

Conspire into prophecy…

This is no time for hesitation

Oh, this is no time for hesitation

Oh, this is no time for hesitation

Oh, this is no time for hesitation, oh no

Yeah, this is no time for hesitation

Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no…