The Last Straw / Happy Ending lyrics

Hotel hobbies padding dawn's hollow corridors

A typewriter cackles out a stream of memories

Drying out a conscience, evicting a nightmare

Opening the doors for the dreams to come home

We live our lives in private shells

Ignore our senses and fool ourselves

To thinking that out there there's someone else cares

Someone to answer all our prayers, all our prayers

Are we too far gone, are we so irresponsible?

Have we lost our balls or do we just not care?

We're terminal cases that keep taking medicine

Pretending the end isn't quite that near

We make futile gestures, act to the cameras

With our made-up faces and our PR smiles

And when the angel comes down, down to deliver us

We'll find out after all, we're only men of straw

But everything is still the same

Passing the time and passing the blame

We carry on in the same old way

We'll find out we left it too late one day

To say what we meant to say

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water

Those problems seem to arise the ones you never really thought of

The feeling you get is similar to something like drowning, hey

Out of your mind, you're out of your depth

You should have taken soundings

Clutching at straws

We're clutching at straws

We're clutching at straws

And if you ever come across us, don't give us your sympathy

You can buy us a drink and just shake our hands

And you'll recognise by the reflection in our eyes

That deep down inside we're all one and the same

We're clutching at straws

We're still drowning

Clutching at straws

We're still drowning, yeah

Clutching at straws

We're clutching at straws (I'm still drowning)

We're clutching at straws (I'm still drowning)

• Artist:Marillion
• Album:Clutching at Straws