Lyrics Paradox Drive - Peter Hammill

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 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.