Paradox Drive - Peter Hammill

The thought crossed my mind —

How curious, why should I want so much shut-eye?

Fighting the darkness and furious,

Oh, but I once more fall into the song…

Just the normal unconsciousness;

Could that be wrong?

All out into action then all down into sleep —

Check that attraction, it must be more than skin deep.

I’ve checked the twenty-four hours,

I’ve done the stay-up-all-night;

In a certain way that’s power,

But it’s not wired up right.

Up for the pleasure, then it’s dead to the world;

Our lives surely measured by the unconscious third…

Living on Paradox Drive,

We must be living on Paradox Drive.

The thought crossed my mind, how curious —

Why should I want so much shut-eye?

Fighting the darkness and furious…

Oh, but I once more dropped off to the deep,

The sweet comfort of a life on my own asleep.

Up for the pleasure or dead to the world,

A life surely measured by the unconscious third…

Living on Paradox Drive,

We must be living on Paradox Drive.

I’ve checked the twenty-four hours,

I’ve done the stay-up-all-night;

In a certain way that’s power,

But it’s not wired up right,

It still isn’t right.