Lyrics
TOO MUCH AND NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH
V1
in the placid morning
after dreamed delight
there’s no need to dwell on the oncoming night.
or the many disappointments of the dead -
that futile flagellation
is no kind of consolation…
a maddened vision of the world on fire
it doesn’t do to see that stuff
though it seems like something I could talk about all day
‘too much and nowhere near …
too much and nowhere near enough’
V2
in the lurid Twilight of the Common Man
it behoves us all
to do the things we can
for the weak endure
the suffering we must
and this boiling information’s reaching super saturation
The crystal shattered in the half-drowned world:
the nihilism was no bluff
and it’s far too big to feel it in the usual way
‘too much and nowhere near …
too much and nowhere near enough’
I will make a map of the mind the things you will see all the ways we can be
see all the ways we are trying to be
onto the fire: the map of the mind
V3
in the stricken winter; through the coming storm
we must try our best to keep our verses warm
let the maudlin nonsense I left on the bed
be a sort of Jeremiad to the kind of time that I had
the Revelations really do reveal
and who can stand this kind of guff?
but there will be a song about it anyway
‘too much and nowhere near …
too much and nowhere near enough’
i will take you with me when I go
and no more shall we fear
i will light a candle in your name
and wipe away your tears
we will meet the ones we used to know
through all the ends of days
i will take you with me when I go
(these are the things you say)
