Stumbled
Peter Hammill
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Wash your hands clean Don't let anybody see the dirty work Keep those secrets locked away from sight forever Hidden safely where your darker side still runs berserk So much stored-up resentment All that background fallout from so long ago It's still here to haunt you in a trunk locked in the attic Are the clothes that dressed the actions You discarded but you can't outgrow There's a false wall in the basement Where you hide away the history you dare not put on show And when the hammer Hits the nail upon the thumb Then the unvarnished truth is what you stumble on On your best behavior Keep on playing out the lily white But you'll always be stuck there Going round and round in circles The mistakes which you repeat Form up the framework Which defines your life You couldn't quantify the depths you'd have to plumb Or the damage you've collaterally done Still, your own footprints are the tracks you stumble on And it's less by design than by random occurrence That you filled up your time, that you built up the current To spark the life you've led, the person you've become With the end in sight the excuses are all gone The truth is, this conclusion's What you've stumbled on Behind you lies the wreckage That you've stumbled from
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Written by: FREDDIE KING, SONNY THOMPSON
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