In the End Peter Hammill

[Verse 1]
I promise you, I won't leave a clue:
No tell-tale remark, no print from my shoe
Still, a steady trail to the water's edge...
I will keep my pledge to the end:
I intend to go free

[Verse 2]
No more rushing around, no more travelling chess;
Guess I'd better sit down, you know I do need the rest...
Yes, it's time to resign with equanimity and placidity
From the game
I can't explain;
I can't relate...
I done it all too late?

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[Verse 3]
Now is the time for the commission to report;
Till lately, I thought I'd been planted
Trying hard to make it all come real
Permission to feel is ungranted
But now it's happening I'd like to keep it private if I can;
Last words, last looks, make a final stand
Now my number's come up on the Pools
I guess I'll board the Titanic for a cruise...