Lunatic In Knots

Unchain me from this lunatic

Before he drags me to my knees;

I'd have to be some kind of Houdini

To unpick knots like these.

While I was sleeping half a lifetime away

Someone moved the scenery,

All my blocks went astray.

So I awoke uneasy

And, as I spoke, grew queasy...

I don't remember much about last night

But I suspect I went too far,

Became just a passenger in my actions,

Asleep at the wheel of the car.

While I was sleeping someone stole in my room,

Rearranged the pictures

And threw my bookmarks away.

The shadow's swiftly deepening

In the tidepull of the moon

While the lunatic

Does his party tricks

But what makes him tick

He's still most reluctant to say.

Before the facts there's no pat explanation...

Only this Other implies

Whatever I did was Not I.

While I was sleeping

Off the wake of the wake

I was less at home in my dreams than in my mistakes.

The lunatic's been creeping

Settling and setting on my face

And we're bound together

We're tied and tethered

I don't know whether

The bond is one I can break.

After the act there's no hidden intention,

Just fumbling around for the plot,

Tying myself up tighter and tighter in knots.

So many angels,

However many can there by, ghosts and djinns

Dancing on the head of a pin?

How many questions are left unresolved?

Exactly where do I begin

Now that the walls are closing in?

Who's the lunatic

And who's the sensible soul deep within the skin,

Hanging on and listening in...?

Unchain me from this lunatic

Restrain him in his cage

Keep him away from me

Keep him away from the stage.

Unchain me from this lunatic

Whose every action shouts me down;

Keep him away from me,

Keep me away from this clown.

Unchain me from this lunatic

Restrain him in his cage

Keep him away from me

Keep him away from me

Keep me away from his rage

While I was sleeping

The lunatic stirred.

I've no alibi

For his beady eye.

Oh, I talk my head off...

He's a man of few words.