
Date of issue: 16.05.1988
Record label: RESTLESS
Song language: English
Under Cover Names |
No thanks for the memory, no thanks at all, |
no way we can wipe the slate or contrive escape |
from the names we’re called. |
No thanks for the memory, here it comes again, |
this life running on the spot, though we hide a lot |
with our cover names. |
We can no more change the past than shed our skins. |
But we keep on thinking that we might go someplace |
where not a soul knows what has gone before, |
with such headfuls of self-accusation |
that we don’t even know our own names anymore. |
No thanks for the memory, |
no thanks. |
Call them by a different name and turn about — |
we can no more change our spots than wash them out. |
No thanks for the memory, locked in the frame. |
No way we can change the pattern of things that happened |
under cover names. |
And we keep on skirting round the true confession, |
with fresh identities and best-laid plans; |
And we keep on working to outreach the shadow, |
but the shadow will outrun the man. |
With such headfuls of self-accusation, |
that no pseudonyms can hide our shame, |
lost in a jungle of our own creation, |
lost in a labyrinth of cover names… |
We can no more change the past than live again. |
We can no more shed our skins than know our real names. |
Nobody knows our real name, |
nobody knows their real name, |
we hide under cover names… |
No thanks for the memory. |
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