Paralysed

Graham Parker · The Up Escalator [1980]

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I'll wait for someone to tell me what I already know

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And I'll wait for my grip to fail me then I'll just let it go

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She's so hard to please so I just freeze

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Nailed down by whispers, looks and sighs

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And I'm so paralysed, I am so paralysed



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I wait for you to disown me when you leave I won't look

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I wait for someone to phone me with the phone off the hook

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I get up to leave but I just deceive

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You all the time pretending i'm

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So paralysed I'm so paralysed

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I'm so paralysed I'm just paralysed



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I wait for mistakes to happen so I can't put them right

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I wait for someone to latch on, but no-one's that bright

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I say it can't be done, let's turn and run

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Completely normal in my own eyes

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To be so paralysed



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Got the fear of falling from a great height

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Can't open my parachute stiff with fright

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I woke up naked in the high street

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With lead boots on both feet



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I was paralysed I'm so paralysed

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I'm so paralysed



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Em d em d

She's so hard to please so I just freeze

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Nailed down by whispers, looks and sighs

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And I'm so paralysed, I am so paralysed

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Got me so paralysed, I'm so paralysed

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I am so paralyse, I am so paralysed



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