Lloyd Cole - Shelf Life lyrics

I am consumed by delusions of grandeur I'm fallen prey to the beautiful girl I have seen romance in the obvious quarters And I have painted myself into that world I have constructed my own personal Babel But many pa**ages remain out of print Leaving me in an unresolved sentence Without an idea of where it went I have developed an unnatural candour In contradiction to all I hold dear I think of myself as tall and silent This little voice is all that I hear Now the night's drawing in I'm your unworthy friend At the untimely end of a lifetime Thinking I might hold on to my first marriage I learned the language of the self obsessed It was only later at the post-grad parties That it rewarded me with great success No longer waiting for my prayers to be answered No longer waiting for my publisher's call No longer charming in my reminiscence Only immersed in a faint afterglow Now the night's drawing in I'm your unworthy friend At the ungodly end of a lifetime