The Final Cut — Pink Floyd

Through the fish-eyed lens of tear stained eyes____

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I can barely define the shape of this moment in time.

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And far from flying high in clear blue skies___,

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I'm spiralling down to the hole in the ground where I hide.

If you negotiate the minefield in the drive,

And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes,

And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall,

Dial the combination, open the priesthole

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And if I'm in I'll tell you what's behind the wall.

There's a kid who had a big hallucination

Making love to girls in magazines.

He wonders if you're sleeping with your new found faith.

Could anybody love him

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Or is it just a crazy dream___

And if I show you my dark side

Will you still hold me tonight

And if I open my heart to you

And show you my weak side,

What would you do

Would you sell your story to Rolling Stone

Would you take the children away

And leave me alone

And smile in reassurance

As you whisper down the phone,

Would you send me packing,

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Or would you take me home

Thought I oughta bare my naked feelings,

Thought I oughta tear the curtain down.

I held the blade in trembling hands,

Prepared to make it but just then the phone rang,

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I never had the nerve to make the final cut.