Lyrics:

With my face drained of colour and my brain of blood
Like Billy Budd I'm lashed to the grating
With senses growing duller and with quaking heart
I make a start at temperature equating
And my lungs suck useless air

Like paraplegic dancers in formation team
My understanding seems hidebound in its movements
Contemplating answers that could break my bonds
To be half wrong would be, in me, improvement
But my comprehensive faculties are impaired

And it seems absurd, but now all I've heard
Fades in empty words and is worthless
As the Human Laugh rocks the cenotaph
But the joke is half-true, and mirthless

Trying to trace a reason from the spinning words
But all I've heard seem at odds with their meanings
Phonetically pleasing but delivered in such haste
That in their place my mind commences screaming

On the verge of belief I crash onto the reef
And a cynical thief steals my senses
So I cling to the pew with dimensions askew
And recognition refuses present tenses
All the lives of the saints demonstrate that my faint
Is a minor complaint, but the end is
Nowhere in sight
Why can't I find me a way to go?

I don't want to die in the nave
But I know it may be with me some day
So I've got to find a way I can save up
My energies, and find a cause to pray
To something for something
To which I can give my creed

I'd gladly succumb to the wave
If I thought the water taught a way to light
I'd gladly succumb - I'm not brave
And it's easy to believe what the preacher says
Except for the conflict raging between my head and my brain
I don't want to die, but just the same, some day...

Waiting for a moment that I know will come
When I'll have to run and find another sermon
Everyman and Noman and the talking priest
Still, I am at least holding all the doors open
Inside me all outside is shared

As the cracked bells peal it all seems unreal
But the seventh seal stays unbroken
And the Offertory plate tenders no escape
Still I refuse to scrape up a token
Of esteem for these false alleyways of the course
I must try to divorce sense from sensing
Tell me again, tell me the way to go

So when I talk to myself
Although I take good care to listen
My heart grows ever more faint
There's something missing?