Reaching For The Rail-Richard Wright

[00:43.091]I'm ill with a fever, I feel like a child [00:53.000]I lay in the dark till morning came. [01:01.078]It's so unoriginal [01:06.088]And I feel it worse at night [01:12.005]I know it's not terminal [01:16.094]But I'm near half-dead fright [01:21.081]And freezing cold. [01:28.038] [01:29.018]But sooner than woke up [01:32.006]To find it all unchanged [01:37.731]I'll sleep through the day til the daylight ends. [01:45.082] [01:47.034]'Cause it's all so familiar [01:52.014]As it comes around again [01:56.077]The same taste to everything [02:02.000]The same unbroken chain [02:06.097]That still remains. [02:11.826] [02:34.038]With morning I rise, [02:37.042]A dream that won't leave me, [02:42.083]You're sad, naked and pale [02:47.000]And you're reaching for the rail [02:54.056] [02:59.021]You took a look inside, how could you peel away [03:07.241]Or break the shell, the hurt you've hidden so well [03:13.092]For all your days. [03:17.011]And you're going down [03:22.021]As you slip beneath the waves, [03:27.032]Won't make a sound [03:32.014]Won't even leave a trace before you. [03:42.028] [04:14.040]I hear an appalling sigh from the streets below [04:22.036]And it's creeping fear congealed in stone [04:27.087]That paves the crazy road. [04:32.091]And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly [04:42.024]At the heartbreak, it's easy to deal with, [04:47.098]Just take these and you'll really never feel it. [05:00.067]