MARILLION - The Last Straw lyrics

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(fish, steve rothery, mark kelly, pete trewavas, ian mosley)<br><br>Hotel hobbies padding dawns hollow corridors<br>A typewriter cackles out a stream of memories<br><br>Drying out a conscience, evicting a nightmare<br>Opening the doors for the dreams to come home<br><br>We live out lives in private shells<br>Ignore our senses and fool ourselves<br>To thinking that out there there's someone else cares<br>Someone to answer all our prayers, all our prayers...<br><br>Are we too far gone, are we so irresponsible<br>Have we lost our balls, or do we just not care<br>We're terminal cases that keep talking medicine<br>Pretending the end isn't quite that near<br>We make futile gestures, act to the cameras<br>With our made up faces and pr smiles<br>And when the angel comes down, down to deliver us<br>We'll find out that after all, we're only men of straw<br><br>But everything is still the same<br>Passing the time passing the blame<br>We carry on in the same old way<br>We'll find out we left it too late one day to say what we meant to say<br><br>Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the water<br>Those problems seem to arise the ones you never really thought of<br>The feeling you get is similar to something like drowning<br>Out of your mind, you're out of your depth, you should have taken soundings<br>Clutching at straws, we're clutching at straws, we're clutching at straws<br><br>And if you ever come across us don't give us your sympathy<br>You can buy us a drink and just shake our hands<br>And you'll recognise by the reflection in our eyes that deep down inside we're all one and the same<br><br>We're clutching at straws<br>We're still drowning<br>Clutching at straws<br>We're still drowning, yeah clutching at straws<br>I'm still drowning<br>We're clutching at straws<br>I'm still drowning