Peter Hammill - Close to Me lyrics

I got no sense of danger When I met her at first Though with hindsight's cold certainty I was always a target From the very start She'd been training her sights on me I only later discovered To her family and friends She'd refer to me constantly As if our casual acquaintance Were a bigger thing But I'm not part of her history No I'm not part of the action I've no part in the plot In all honesty She was never that close to me When I heard of the stories She'd been spreading around The malevolent fantasies I broke off any contact Thought that was civilised How could I have been so naive? I've been dumb and defenceless While she's been dogging my steps Homicidally She got dangerously close you see She got dangerously close to me