Peter Hammill
Call that a Conversation?
Oh, spit it out, there's no way we'll see eye to eye –
My simple truth is your warped confusion;
As off different planets we spin eccentric jive
I don't remember what I said
I don't think you do either
Slippery of tongue though you claim my speech may be
All of the words you've been putting in my mouth just flatter to deceive
I never said the half of that
You're utterly mistaken
Call that a conversation?
Yeah, you said it
All my meaning, quite misread it...
This conversation let's forget it now
I can't believe what you just said
Call this a conversation?
Let's call it quits
Let's just say it's
A measure of the distance between our worlds
I don't remember what I said
I don't think you do either;
You make what you will of meaning –
Call that a conversation?
More likely just the space between words
When the meanings have all changed