"Freeze" lyrics - RICHARD THOMPSON

Another day without a dream
Without a hope, without a scheme
Another day that finds you crawling on your knees
You raise your face up to the sun
You blow a kiss to kingdom come
You say goodbye to everyone
And then you Freeze

What if your life was somehow changed
Full of the wonderful and strange
You run with Alice chasing rabbits into holes
Your life was narrow, it was mean
Now it's a technicolour dream
Rainbows in your hair, and sparks fly off your soles

No going forward or backward
Glued are the old brothel creepers
Dark are the thoughts that invade you
Dark as the shades on your peepers

Like a bird about to fledge
Like the man out on the edge
You walk right out to the ledge
And then you Freeze
You're standing up there and you found
That it's a long way to the ground
But the building's burning down
But you just Freeze

Easy to stand at the crossroads
There've been so many before you
A friendly breeze there might push you
Make up your troubled mind for you

You can't go forward can't go back
You're stuck in neutral aren't you Mac?
You never risked a hair upon your head before
Sometimes it's good to say, What if?
As you're standing on the cliff
You're gonna find out in a jiff
Unless you Freeze

Where are the arms of that lover
Where are the arms of that priest
How can you tell if you're living
If you never arm-wrestle the beast?