Periscope - Kevin Godley

Think I’m going to need some help

In the days to come

My neighbors are watching the house

In case I do a bad thing

They think I’ve lost it

They avoid me like the plague

And take the long way around me

In case they catch what I’ve got

And I’m sorry if I

So sorry if it’s treason but it seems

Everybody I know, everybody I know

Is glued to a screen, is glued to a screen

And they’re all following someone

But the only one following me

Is my shadow — Shadow

And I can’t stop looking at the sky

Can’t stop looking

I can’t stop looking

Can’t stop looking at the sky

I’ve been looking for a way out

But I think I’ve found a way in

Silence is the golden rule

I’ve given up thinking

Silence is the golden rule

I’ve given up talking

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

I’m tired of coming second

And never being right

I’m sick of always being

The speck of darkness in the light

And when they shut schools

And when the mob rules

I’ll set up in the basement

And build a periscope

And I’ll board up all the windows

Put cameras on the roof

And deny everything I stood for

Grew hair and grew up for

So they can’t

Blow a hole in the truth

Blow a hole in the truth

I’ll watch the books burn

And keep my mouth shut

And play a never-ending kill game

In my obsolete head

I’ve given up breathing

I’ve given up sleeping

I’ve stopped believing

And I wonder whose skies I’ve been watching

All through this waste of a lifetime

You know there’ll never be a way out

'Cause the sky’s always been looking at me

Gold is the silent rule

We’re not important anymore

Gold is the silent rule

How does it feel?

Hear that sound, read that sign

It’s the start of a whole new era

And the end of mine

The end, the end, the end, the end, the end…

I think I’m going to need some help

I think I’m going to need some help

I think I’m going to need some help

I think I’m going to need some help

I think I’m going to need some help

I think I’m going to need some help

I think I’m going to need some help

I think I’m going to need some

I think I’m going to need some

I think I’m going to need some help

Help

Help me

Help me me me me me me

I think I’m going to need some help