Last In The Line

Tethered to a past of significant action

I'm tied to the mast until the storm settles down

Look to blue skies behind the horizon

Over crumpled pages that still influence me now

I won't let them influence now

Chequered history arouses suspicion

And a little word you say makes it all slow right down

I'm imagining how it might have happened

Faded images that still influence me now

I won't let them influence now

But I can't think of myself as the last in the line

I keep on wondering how you were spending your time

Before I came along and stepped into your life

Severing the ties to false indiscretion

You need no alibi for all that you have done

Under blue sky we'll reach calmer waters

And pale reflection will never influence now

I won't let them influence now

I can't think of myself as the last in the line

I keep on wondering how you were spending your time

Before I came along and stepped into your life

She looked like a magazine cover to me

I looked like a newspaper story she'd seen

All covered in fingerprints from the places I had been

But it together and it's not what it seems to be

I can't think of myself as the last in the line

I keep on wondering how you were spending your time

Before I came along and stepped into your life

Meaningless influence won't affect me now