Evidently Goldfish

By Peter Hammill (1990)
On album In A Foreign Town / Out Of Water 2023 (2023), Out of Water (1990)

In A Foreign Town / Out Of Water 2023
Check the honesty of what's on offer,
true detective or a fake fakir?
All the evidence is circumstantial –
as mud the evidence is clear.
Paranormal the investigation –
where do things go when they disappear?
All the evidence has been trumped up…
as mud the evidence is clear,
I think we're on to something here,
I think we're into something,
I don't know but maybe we're all goldfish
in the mental sphere.

Evidently goldfish,
never questioning environment;
self-evidently goldfish,
we swim in circular experience.

Church of logical deliberation,
school of accidental wheels in gear,
surface knowledge is a serious matter,
a little consciousness is dangerous, dear;
all the evidence must be summed up –
as mud the evidence is clear,
as mud the evidence is clear,
I think we're into something, I don't know but
maybe we're all goldfish in the mental sphere.

Evidently goldfish
never question their environment;
self-evidently goldfish,
we swim in circular experience;
evidently goldfish,
round and round and round and round
within our consciousness
in the mental sphere.

As mud the evidence is clear.

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