A Curious Feeling

My name is unimportant
And my job you could call mean
But i like the work and i do it well
That's enough for me.
I think there was a time when i
Could do, and did, much more.
I have dreams in which i captain the ship
And hear the ocean roar.
I've lived alone for all i can remember
That only means some six or seven years.
I would rather be nobody else,
I'm happy as i am.
All i need is in my way
And you see no one expects too much from me.
People cry, but no one asks me to advise them.
They want to know but they don't ask me how.
That's for someone else and not for me, i don't know.
Lucky me.
My friends think that i should be trying
To find out who i was.
But i feel that road would bring me pain
And too much would be lost.
How i am is how i'm meant to be now,
Anyhow there's things i see more clearly
Than those whose heads are searching in the clouds
To make discoveries,
And maybe fail to see
What's on the ground beneath their feet, not hard to find.
People cry, but no one asks me to advise them
They want to know but they don't ask me how,
That's for someone else and not for me, i don't know.
Lucky me.
No one asks me to advise them.
They want to know but they don't ask me how.
That's for someone else and not for me, i don't know.
Lucky me - oh.

I feel it leading me
Away to i don't know where.
I might be back someday,
But the people and things will change
And no one will remember me then.
Don't need no sympathy,
For soon i'll forget everything.
I feel it fading now,
And i see in the eyes of my love
Tears for how it might have been.
It sure felt good for a while.
Yes it was good for a while.
I found somebody to take my hand
To the promised land of the loved.
Now as the night draws in,
A dark with no promise of dawn,
I feel my eyes grow dim,
As i see in the eyes of my love
Tears for how it might have been.
It sure felt good for a while.
Yes it was good for a while.
I found somebody to take my hand
To the promised land of the loved.
Yes it was good for a while.
It sure felt good for a while.
I found somebody to take my hand
To the promised land of the loved.

How strange i never noticed
Your eyes, or the colour of your hair.
It seems to me you grow more beautiful
In every way.
With every single passing day.
Love crept in unseen,
Found me wanting
I didn't even have the sense to know
What i was missing,
Or what i was soon to feel for
You the laughter,
You a reason to live.
You the object of all the love i can give,
And all that i possess.
You who meant nothing when i was younger
It seems a memory from another life.
Did you ever think we'd meet this way,
Feel this way.
Did you really even care?
Some changes i foresaw,
But not this one.
This feeling i would not have understood.
Strange to think
I might have lived my whole life without
You the laughter,
You a reason to live.
You the object of all the love i can give,
And all that i possess.
You who meant nothing when i was younger.

(it's a curious feeling)
It's a curious feeling to see the edge receding,
It seems the more i know, the more i don't know,
Does this ever end?
If you listened to fanatics of the left or right,
You'd think they'd solve it all,
But they don't convince me.
Some statesmen, gurus, men of science and of philosophy,
All have an answer but they won't agree.
So if anybody tells you stories
Of how they're gonna change your world
Be they the aga khan, the ex shah of iran,
Or the man from u.n.c.l.e.,
Say i don't believe you cos i know we don't need you.
In the name of religion or of any politician,
I'm sure we've heard it all.
If races always ran to form they never would be run,
Where would be the fun?
And if ever a man could understand everything there was,
He'd have no reason to carry on.
So when anybody tells you stories
Of how they're gonna change your world,
Be they the aga khan, the ex shah of iran,
Or the man from u.n.c.l.e.,
Say come with me then to the garden of eden.
Put back our bites from the apple of the tree of knowledge,
Be like the beasts again.