Grief Disguised as Joy - Terry Hall

Close your eyes

Before you sleep

It helps to keep

Dreams alive

A diamond sky

Beyond your reach

Some distant beach

Like paradise

How come the chosen few don’t choose you

As they weave that mortal coil?

How come the ones who laugh, leave you 'til last

Then give you grief disguised as joy?

Tomorrow so close

So give up your ghosts

Untouched by love

And getting late

Oh Catherine wheel

How does it feel

To twist and fly

As others die?

How come the chosen few don’t choose you

As they weave that mortal coil?

How come the ones who laugh, leave you 'til last

Then give you grief disguised as joy?

You play with fire

I’ve been there too

And the first hundred years are the toughest

So it gets better?

A little better?

A bitter better

But don’t expect to want everything you get