| Song | Meanwhile My Mother |
| Artist | Peter Hammill |
| Album | Singularity |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| 作词 : Hammill | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| waiting for what? | |
| I don't know... | |
| The recall of a favourite memory, | |
| or perhaps for a painful one to go? | |
| She doesn't let that much show. | |
| Meanwhile, above her head | |
| all my monologues flows. | |
| "What's that you're saying, dear?" | |
| Wading through time like it's treacle, | |
| her eyes looking into mine although | |
| she won't even notice me go. | |
| In the meantime I pack her things up | |
| and get them ready to store; | |
| in between times I take a good look around, | |
| for we'll not be visiting here much more. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| distance encamped in her eyes, | |
| not quite oblivious but | |
| close to a state of inertia | |
| in which she won't even realise | |
| how everything's passing her by. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| lost in a world of her own, | |
| turns to look out of the window | |
| down to the verdant earth below. | |
| Some journeys we make alone | |
| somehow we'll leave all we've known. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| waiting for what? | |
| Time to go. |
| zuo ci : Hammill | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| waiting for what? | |
| I don' t know... | |
| The recall of a favourite memory, | |
| or perhaps for a painful one to go? | |
| She doesn' t let that much show. | |
| Meanwhile, above her head | |
| all my monologues flows. | |
| " What' s that you' re saying, dear?" | |
| Wading through time like it' s treacle, | |
| her eyes looking into mine although | |
| she won' t even notice me go. | |
| In the meantime I pack her things up | |
| and get them ready to store | |
| in between times I take a good look around, | |
| for we' ll not be visiting here much more. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| distance encamped in her eyes, | |
| not quite oblivious but | |
| close to a state of inertia | |
| in which she won' t even realise | |
| how everything' s passing her by. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| lost in a world of her own, | |
| turns to look out of the window | |
| down to the verdant earth below. | |
| Some journeys we make alone | |
| somehow we' ll leave all we' ve known. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| waiting for what? | |
| Time to go. |
| zuò cí : Hammill | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| waiting for what? | |
| I don' t know... | |
| The recall of a favourite memory, | |
| or perhaps for a painful one to go? | |
| She doesn' t let that much show. | |
| Meanwhile, above her head | |
| all my monologues flows. | |
| " What' s that you' re saying, dear?" | |
| Wading through time like it' s treacle, | |
| her eyes looking into mine although | |
| she won' t even notice me go. | |
| In the meantime I pack her things up | |
| and get them ready to store | |
| in between times I take a good look around, | |
| for we' ll not be visiting here much more. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| distance encamped in her eyes, | |
| not quite oblivious but | |
| close to a state of inertia | |
| in which she won' t even realise | |
| how everything' s passing her by. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| lost in a world of her own, | |
| turns to look out of the window | |
| down to the verdant earth below. | |
| Some journeys we make alone | |
| somehow we' ll leave all we' ve known. | |
| Meanwhile, my mother, | |
| waiting for what? | |
| Time to go. |