Peter Hammill - All Said and Done lyrics

All the words in the world wouldn't make you stay this evening; though I scrabble around for any I can say, so hard to take our leave, so hard to stop believing. I guess we know this silence well enough, and you'll be going by and by; I'm scared that anything I offer might be taken for a lie. All said and done, and there's no way to make it any different. I hold my tongue as you're walking away. So goodbye comes – oh, I don't want to make it difficult but nothing's easy when there's nothing left to say. Now we only talk as though time were heavy weather with a storm-cloud brewing on each hasty phrase... all the words in the world wouldn't put us back together. Maybe we had our opportunities... most of those chances pa**ed us by; I'm scared that anything I offer might be taken as a bribe. All said and done, and there's no way to make it any different. I hold my tongue as you're walking away. So goodbye comes – oh, I don't want to make it difficult but nothing's easy when there's nothing left to say.