Arriving Somewhere but Not Here

Album: Deadwing (2005)
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  • Never stop the car on a drive in the dark
    Never look for the truth in your mother's eyes
    Never trust the sound of rain upon a river
    Rushing through your ears

    Arriving somewhere
    But not here

    Could you imagine the final sound as a gun
    Or the smashing windscreen of a car?
    Did you ever imagine the last thing you'd hear as you're fading out
    Was a song?

    Arriving somewhere
    But not here

    All my designs
    Simplified
    And all of my plans
    Compromised
    And all of my dreams
    Sacrificed

    Ever had the feeling you've been here before?
    Drinking down the poison the way you were taught
    Ever thought from here on in your life begins
    And all you knew was wrong?

    Arriving somewhere
    But not here

    All my designs
    Simplified
    And all of my plans
    Compromised
    And all of my dreams

    Did you see the redness block your part?
    Did the scissors cut a way to your heart?
    Did you feel the end before the sons of mothers
    Tearing you apart?

    Arriving somewhere
    But not here Writer/s: Colin Edwin Balch, Gavin Richard Harrison, Richard Barbieri, Steven Wilson
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management, Downtown Music Publishing, Universal Music Publishing Group
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Cori from TennesseeI agree with Snake; this song performed live is ALWAYS a highlight of their shows and I'm blessed to have seen them live several times.

    They are FABULOUS in concert.
  • Snake Plissken from South Of HeavenIf you seen this performed live you are truly blessed!
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