All The Tiredness – Peter Hammill

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All the tiredness that you've held in waiting,

in abeyance,

now comes rushing in.

Floods the bloodstream, burrows in the brainstem,

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grinds down bone-deep,

Am Em
the exhaustion's stored from way back when.

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All the tiredness you've postponed forever,

buried treasure,

the price you pay for simply keeping your hand in.

Am Amsus2 Am Amsus2 Am Em
Hold the darkness back for a moment.

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Hold the darkness back for just as long as you can.

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So, suddenly very slow,

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suddenly can't outrun the undertow.
No, suddenly I don't know
anything but this sense of letting go.
Low, down to the ground I go,
beaten down by the years of body blows.
Though I made it through the shows
something got left behind, a debt I owe....

Edim Edim Em
All the tired - ness

Edim Em
held in store

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All the tired - ness

G Em
saved up from before

All the tiredness my old friend

All the tiredness mounts up in the end
All the tiredness wears you down in the end
All the tiredness mounts up in the end.

All the tiredness