Текст песни «Legendary Pink Dots - Friend»

@ transcribed by erwin@phy.ucsf.edu

I have a friend who only I can see.
He stays discrete, that doesn't mean he's hiding.
Indeed he's here right now and I believe
He likes you very much because he's smiling.
But my friend would never advertise
He stays inside and whispers secrets
That should stay that way.

Sometimes he will take me to a place
Where everyone accepts me and I'm happy.
I rip this metal mask off from my face
I hold my head up high and no one slaps me.
But they always come and take me down.
My friend steps back, won't make a sound.
I fall back again.

Strait on 'till morning
Out here nothing matters
There is the road on my right
there is a wall on my left
and I walk slowly backwards
my arm stretched out in the hope that someone will stop
and carry me to a place that simply isn't HERE

But although the highway's full of lights
Well, I could be transparent
I think it's been days, months, years.
This road is my past.
This road is my now.
And I'm out here, and nothing matters.

Sometimes I close my eyes and I see a face
but it's not a face that I know and it's always different
and I know nothing except this road and it's endless, backwards.

I'm trying to attract the light to me
and it comes to me
but it blinds me
and it flies past my shoulder
over and over again
1000 times a night
an endless night
blazing impatient lights flying past me
as the night presses down on my tired body
but there is no place to rest
and there is no time to stop
nothing exists excepts this lonely road and it's endless, it's backwards
and I'd like to turn around,

but I can't.

(The live version is very different.
Among other things, it has a more upbeat end:
So I say to myself, why don't you turn around,
see where you're going? So I do.)