Lyrics All Said And Done - Peter Hammill

All Said And Done

Wouldn’t make you stay this evening;
Though I scrabble around for any I can say
So hard to take our leave
So hard to stop believing
I guess we know this silence well enough
And you’ll be going by and by;
I’m scared that anything I offer
Might be taken for a lie
All said and done
And there’s no way to make it any different
I hold my tongue as you’re walking away
So goodbye comes —
Oh, I don’t want to make it difficult
But nothing’s easy when there’s nothing left to say
Now we only talk as though time were heavy weather
With a storm-cloud brewing on each hasty phrase…
All the words in the world wouldn’t put us back together
Maybe we had our opportunities…
Most of those chances passed us by;
I’m scared that anything I offer
Might be taken as a bribe
All said and done
And there’s no way to make it any different
I hold my tongue as you’re walking away
So goodbye comes —
Oh, I don’t want to make it difficult
But nothing’s easy when there’s nothing left to say