The Man from the Planet Marzipan - Marillion

I am the man from the planet Marzipan

Good to see you

My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light

And all my arms and all my legs are much too long

Much too long

My head is in a state, unaccustomed to the weight

I wear this mild expression, I’m an alien to aggression

Music only does me in my skins so thin

There’s so much that I can’t take in

There’s so much that I can’t take in

There’s so much that I daren’t take in

Can you feel through my skin to me?

Can you feel through my skin to me?

Throw a tarpaulin over me

I look like a rotary washing line

I am the face of 2069

I have trouble with my breathing

My net-curtain lungs

And the thoughtlessness of other people’s careless tongues

The air’s so thin

Oh my skin

The air’s so thin

Oh my skin

I am the man from the planet Marzipan

My eyes are screwed up tight, unaccustomed to the light

I wear this mild expression, I’m an alien to aggression

The air’s so thin

Oh my skin

Oh my skin.

I’m so close.

I’m so close to a breakdown

A constant crisis in the heart

What the hell is going on here?

Earth creatures.

Amazing, beautiful and mad

Monkeys trying to be stars

Monkeys carrying their Gods around

Lies and murder in the name of heaven

Seen it all before in the kindergartens of the Universe

It would be quaint if it wasn’t so damned scary

I can’t listen and I can’t watch

I can see inside the machine

I can see the join!

I can see the join

Can you feel through my skin to me?

Can you see through my skin?

It’s all here in my skin, you see

It’s all here in my skin

Here in my skin!

If you really look

It’s a nursery book