Faculty X (2006 Digital Remaster)

Faculty X (2006 Digital Remaster) - Peter Hammill

Hope by and by hope by and by -

Motes in the eye portcullis is shut

A skull isn't much

Of a castle to live in

When the change is going to come

The change has got to come

Explosions in the brain attest to it

Evolution down the drain - let all the rest do it

Oh yeah the only result is cumulative drek

It won't be the **

It won't be the sex

It's got to be the Faculty X

Looking for a method I play a straight bat

Throw away the chances to slip

Yeah you talk about the average -

I don't care about that

And my words are only giving me lip

When I know that the change has got to come

That the change has got to come

That the change has got to come

That the change has got to come

That the change has got to come

Or what am I living for or why am I here

I running I give in more

Far away from the near

Go meta-physical world

The sign that protects

It wasn't the last

It won't be the next

It's Faculty X

Reading seeks sages

Prophets and obocurantist tracts

Draining the elixir to the dregs

Active yeast in the bottom is on the attack

And it leaves me without any legs to stand on

Still I hope that the change will come

Meanwhile I don't know

I think I'll have to go

Yeah go for the governing

Body my consciousness elect

It won't be so clear it won't be direct

It's all that I fear it's all I suspect

And I'll disappear in Faculty Ex -

I pluck all these characters out of thin air

I push them down into the lungs;

I infuse them with meaning as much as I dare

Stretch out for the shoreline and wait

For the wave