Peter Hammill - How Far I Fell lyrics

(Here's the old man and his not-so-childlike bride; here's the humbling of us all, delusion never dies; here's the story: anyone can fall at any time at all. We're born to be fools in life.) I was the king of the mountain, I had everything that money couldn't buy: at the summit of ambition I was ready for the sky. I viewed the world from this, my citadel... oh, how I fell. Silent and sleeping, the volcano, so I thought that I stood square upon my feet. I ignored the warning tremors in my hubris, I repeat – I never saw you coming, Jezebel... oh, how I fell. As I look back now on the tears I was to cry I am holding on to the vestiges of pride, I am holding on, but I will never be the one to tell how far I fell. (Here's the old man and his not-so-childlike bride; here's the humbling of us all, delusion never dies; here's the story: anyone can fall at any time at all. We're born to be fools in life.) A fool and his money are soon parted and there's nothing like an old fool, so they say: once the plastic had been melted quickly you were on your way, leaving me drowning in the wishing-well – oh, how I fell. You'll never know how deep you cut me, although anyone can see the state I'm in. So I pay the price of such unoriginal sin... but I will never bring myself to tell how far I fell.