Optical Illusion

Album: 24 Carrots (1980)
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  • In my darkest hour just before the dawn
    There's no sound from the empty street
    But sleep won't seem to come to me
    All your words in my head

    Linger on and on
    They've come to steal my time away
    Till the night is gone
    I must be losing my shine

    Like an old dusty Burgundy wine
    In a cellar cool and damp
    Dull beneath a yellow lamp
    No one turning the key

    To come and get me today
    The more I think about you now
    The more I'm feeling that way
    I see you there, everywhere

    Optical illusions
    Telephone, let it ring
    I don't want intrusions in my life
    I know tomorrow I'll find

    There's nothing here at all
    Just some trick your mind will play
    With shadows on the wall
    I see you here, feel you near

    Optical illusions
    Nothing real that I feel
    Just some confusion of my time
    In my darkest hour, when all the blinds were drawn

    You're just some mirage I saw
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