Before You Know It - Isildurs Bane, Peter Hammill

Pace your tread out carefully

Before you know it

What will be is written

In the footprints that you leave behind you

Before you know it the unconscious steps you take define you

Black-balled at the country club

Tracked down by the security fence

Slack jawed, all the pressure’s

Heading down on you

Back down from the mountaintop

Slack rope over Niagara Falls

Hack down all the jungle that’s

Encroaching on you

Stacked up possibilities

Smacked down in your prime

Random fortune, pack up, now it’s time

Look what’s coming for you, look out

It’s coming for you

Black sheep of the family

Baksheesh in your hand, greased and ready

Slapped cheek in reply, now it’s coming to you

Look what’s coming for you now

You’re learning not to shoot from the hip

Concerned that interlopers

Might read your lips

You’re learning there are pages

Missing from the script