All Said And Done - Peter Hammill

Wouldn’t make you stay this evening;

Though I scrabble around for any I can say

So hard to take our leave

So hard to stop believing

I guess we know this silence well enough

And you’ll be going by and by;

I’m scared that anything I offer

Might be taken for a lie

All said and done

And there’s no way to make it any different

I hold my tongue as you’re walking away

So goodbye comes —

Oh, I don’t want to make it difficult

But nothing’s easy when there’s nothing left to say

Now we only talk as though time were heavy weather

With a storm-cloud brewing on each hasty phrase…

All the words in the world wouldn’t put us back together

Maybe we had our opportunities…

Most of those chances passed us by;

I’m scared that anything I offer

Might be taken as a bribe

All said and done

And there’s no way to make it any different

I hold my tongue as you’re walking away

So goodbye comes —

Oh, I don’t want to make it difficult

But nothing’s easy when there’s nothing left to say