all around the alphabet
to hide a sadder tale of someone sad at
circling the circumference
show me the way from the periphery
but everybody is wrapped
in a warm embrace
with their arms around the answers
while i'm wrapped up
in my own rigamarole because

i can't have that in my life
but soon I'll find
i won't have that in my life

right or righteous? - i can't say
another day, another dilemma
don't have the time, thirst, wish, itch
or urge to fit
or that's my story and I am
stuck with it!

i can't have that in my life
but soon I'll find
i won't have that in my life

you're deep in conversation
where you really swim
and in the shallow water
i'm the first one in
a straight-forward answer
is out of the question
why her whole body joins in
in the way she smiles but
it's all too much of a muchness for me

i can't have that in my life
but soon I'll find
i won't have that in my life

i'm the man who missed a sitter
the pearly-gate crasher
the king's new clothes hanger
sceptic kind of sucker
straight man gone solo
drunk or canned laughter
i'm sorry -
what was the question again?