| Song | Sharply Unclear |
| Artist | Peter Hammill |
| Album | Roaring Forties |
| 作词 : Hammill | |
| You've never shown a trace of human frailty, | |
| no-one could ever catch you on the hop: | |
| Each post-modern take on the action | |
| would find you already, in principle, totally hot, | |
| all self-referential commentary | |
| and a marketing man's sense of talk shop. | |
| The sharper the image you cut | |
| the more you seem unreal; | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself, | |
| transparently ideal. | |
| Yeah, we all know that hard-boiled look, | |
| you cooked it up to face down the stares; | |
| I feel like I'm walking on eggshells around you, | |
| as though you're already no longer quite there. | |
| You acknowledge your trauma, | |
| your neurosis is stripped and laid bare. | |
| The sharper the image you cut the more you disappear; | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself, | |
| somehow this transparency's unclear. | |
| All the mirrors in your playroom, | |
| they twist your psycho-epidermis into shape. | |
| No doubt you emerged in your make-up believing | |
| quite simply, believing that you'd got it taped | |
| but the vacancy you offered | |
| is already a Cheshire Cat gape. | |
| The sharper the image you cut the more you disappeared; | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself – are you still really here? | |
| And the sharper the image you cut the more you seemed a fake, | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself, transparently opaque... | |
| And the sharper the image you cut the less you seemed alive; | |
| so sharp, but this open book's transparently jive. | |
| You were so sharp you cut yourself, | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself; | |
| you were so sharp you made yourself transparent | |
| and transparently unclear. |
| zuò cí : Hammill | |
| You' ve never shown a trace of human frailty, | |
| noone could ever catch you on the hop: | |
| Each postmodern take on the action | |
| would find you already, in principle, totally hot, | |
| all selfreferential commentary | |
| and a marketing man' s sense of talk shop. | |
| The sharper the image you cut | |
| the more you seem unreal | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself, | |
| transparently ideal. | |
| Yeah, we all know that hardboiled look, | |
| you cooked it up to face down the stares | |
| I feel like I' m walking on eggshells around you, | |
| as though you' re already no longer quite there. | |
| You acknowledge your trauma, | |
| your neurosis is stripped and laid bare. | |
| The sharper the image you cut the more you disappear | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself, | |
| somehow this transparency' s unclear. | |
| All the mirrors in your playroom, | |
| they twist your psychoepidermis into shape. | |
| No doubt you emerged in your makeup believing | |
| quite simply, believing that you' d got it taped | |
| but the vacancy you offered | |
| is already a Cheshire Cat gape. | |
| The sharper the image you cut the more you disappeared | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself are you still really here? | |
| And the sharper the image you cut the more you seemed a fake, | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself, transparently opaque... | |
| And the sharper the image you cut the less you seemed alive | |
| so sharp, but this open book' s transparently jive. | |
| You were so sharp you cut yourself, | |
| so sharp you could cut yourself | |
| you were so sharp you made yourself transparent | |
| and transparently unclear. |