On Reflection (John Peel Session) - Gentle Giant

In my way did I use you, do you think I really abused you

On reflection now it doesn’t matter:

How can you say I made you need me more than anyone else

Who can say it right now it’s finished over:

It’s my act, it’s my calling, I explained exactly the falling

Different ways of life can never even:

Be the same when you saw me, could you always take me the

Same way As I came and went I tried to remember you:

Still you stay

Tied in your way

Changing times

Watching the signs

How:

Could you see in me what you thought about all you want me to be

Now:

On reflection why should have I changed my ways for you

All around all around

Cry my sympathy’s with you but I never lied to you all in all

It seems it’s just an experience:

Placed my cards on the table told of everything I was able

Understanding still not anything different:

Find another to lean on, start again for I should have long

Gone, on reflection now it’s just an experience

Soon the pain will have ended, together never intended, as I

Come and go I’ll try to remember you

Look back it’s not your game, together just in name

I’ll remember the good things how can you forget all the years

That we shared in our way:

Things were changing my life, taking your place in my life and

Our time drifting away:

All around all around