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[ti:The Second Hand (2006 Digital Remaster)]
[ar:Peter Hammill]
[al:The Future Now]
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[00:00.000]The Second Hand (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill
[00:16.962]See the old man acting like a fool
[00:20.262]Yeah he's running from the ambulance
[00:24.972]When he was a youngster he broke all the rules –
[00:28.452]Now he says that was just accident
[00:41.121]Always had the feeling he was going to die young
[00:44.441]So now he feels repentant;
[00:48.581]But the judge was progressive and the jury was hung
[00:52.411]He got a suspended sentence
[00:56.101]So he ran from his future he ran from his past
[01:00.491]Yes he ran from the desert of the hour-glass
[01:04.501]But the sea of time is a rising flood
[01:07.731]And he's swamped by the wave
[01:14.430]His arms go limp by his side
[01:16.540]He only came for the ride
[01:22.400]He thought he'd hold back the tide
[01:24.960]Canute
[01:45.594]One eye on the main chance and one eye on the clock
[01:49.514]Oh when did his brain go
[01:53.204]And when does a veteran get to be a crock
[01:56.714]No gold at the end of this rainbow
[02:01.334]He always boxed clever with his shadowy hopes
[02:04.684]But now he's in trouble with his back on the ropes
[02:08.754]And the hands of time are bunched into fists:
[02:12.654]Yeah he's out for the Count
[02:18.914]The sword has sunk in the lake
[02:22.864]And now he's watching dawn break
[02:26.984]And now he waits for the stake
[02:29.504]Dracul
[03:02.132]This boy's a fool
[03:06.112]This fool's a man
[03:10.092]All men are ruled
[03:13.812]By the Second Hand