Closing Up

Witness (UK)

It's cold out here mother

What you doing to me

This isn't my idea of good company

It seems like I've heard everything I need to have heard

But I still don't understand a word

The humour here is dry

I don't get the joke

I seem to attract the weirdest folk

Our minds are of the same kind,

They're tired and worn

We were born in a strange time to be born



Closing up on reasoning

Closing up on the middle ground

Into the night-time mind

and the day-time grind

and the finding strength

and the first light of morning

and before I risk

all that to relying on luck

I'm closing

Closing up, I'm closing up



Well I drink another drink

But I pace my self

If I want a good life

I must take care of my health

Think about tomorrow

Tie up all the loose ends

Never forget who are my real friends.



Closing up on reasoning

Closing up on the middle ground

Into the night-time mind

and the day-time grind

and the finding strength

and the first light of morning

and before I risk

all that to relying on luck

I'm closing

Closing up, I'm closing up



Did you here about the man

Who wrote the story of his life

On the back of his hand

He gotta start his life over again

Look round for someone to blame

When it all got washed up in the rain

He gotta start his life over again



Closing up on reasoning

Closing up on the middle ground

Into the night-time mind

and the day-time grind

and the finding strength

and the first light of morning

and before I risk

all that to relying on luck

I'm closing

Closing up, I'm closing up