| Song | Not For Keith |
| Artist | Peter Hammill |
| Album | The Calm (After The Storm) |
| Download | Image LRC TXT |
| 作词 : Hammill | |
| In Germany, his days finally caught him; | |
| I won't insult his memory with long-distance grief. | |
| Tears and wakes weren't his style: | |
| not him, | |
| not for Keith. | |
| He'd have laughed in my face | |
| if he saw it get mournful, | |
| he'd pull me up short and say "Life carries on" | |
| in that gentle way of being cruelly scornful... | |
| now he's gone. | |
| "I want to see it all, and eat it" | |
| was as close to ethos as he came; | |
| though he knew he couldn't beat it, | |
| he never gave of himself | |
| anything less than best in the game. | |
| Oh, one for the game... | |
| I never did say, I never quite found time – | |
| he taught me a lot, and I carry it still. | |
| I never thanked him at all for his friendship | |
| and now I never will. | |
| The diaries we write are those that we crave for, | |
| we never put the P.S. at the foot of the final page. | |
| He deserved more time, | |
| but he never was made for middle age, | |
| not for middle age. | |
| Not for Keith. |
| zuo ci : Hammill | |
| In Germany, his days finally caught him | |
| I won' t insult his memory with longdistance grief. | |
| Tears and wakes weren' t his style: | |
| not him, | |
| not for Keith. | |
| He' d have laughed in my face | |
| if he saw it get mournful, | |
| he' d pull me up short and say " Life carries on" | |
| in that gentle way of being cruelly scornful... | |
| now he' s gone. | |
| " I want to see it all, and eat it" | |
| was as close to ethos as he came | |
| though he knew he couldn' t beat it, | |
| he never gave of himself | |
| anything less than best in the game. | |
| Oh, one for the game... | |
| I never did say, I never quite found time | |
| he taught me a lot, and I carry it still. | |
| I never thanked him at all for his friendship | |
| and now I never will. | |
| The diaries we write are those that we crave for, | |
| we never put the P. S. at the foot of the final page. | |
| He deserved more time, | |
| but he never was made for middle age, | |
| not for middle age. | |
| Not for Keith. |
| zuò cí : Hammill | |
| In Germany, his days finally caught him | |
| I won' t insult his memory with longdistance grief. | |
| Tears and wakes weren' t his style: | |
| not him, | |
| not for Keith. | |
| He' d have laughed in my face | |
| if he saw it get mournful, | |
| he' d pull me up short and say " Life carries on" | |
| in that gentle way of being cruelly scornful... | |
| now he' s gone. | |
| " I want to see it all, and eat it" | |
| was as close to ethos as he came | |
| though he knew he couldn' t beat it, | |
| he never gave of himself | |
| anything less than best in the game. | |
| Oh, one for the game... | |
| I never did say, I never quite found time | |
| he taught me a lot, and I carry it still. | |
| I never thanked him at all for his friendship | |
| and now I never will. | |
| The diaries we write are those that we crave for, | |
| we never put the P. S. at the foot of the final page. | |
| He deserved more time, | |
| but he never was made for middle age, | |
| not for middle age. | |
| Not for Keith. |