Story From A Thin Wall Lyrics - Marillion

I heard the battle raging on the other side of the wall 

Buried my head in a pillow and tried to ignore it all 

Every night when I hear you, I dream of breaking down your door 

An avenging knight in shining armor to rescue you from it all 

From the family business 

When I see you in the supermarket 

With sunglasses in the shade 

Averting your eyes from the staring questions 

How were those bruises made 

It's family business 

Children clutching to your legs 

They've got so much they want to say 

But daddy's sitting home drunk again 

So they bite their lips and pray 

And daddy don't like no strangers prying 

And noses in his private affairs 

And if anyone asks from the social 

Well, you fell down the stairs 

It's family business 

So I'll become an accessory 

And I don't have an alibi 

To the victim lying on my doorstep 

The only way I could justify 

It's family business 

'Cause every day it's getting harder 

Try to see, to go away 

To all the people that surround you 

You have to sit down and explain 

To be the writing on the wall inside 

To be the pledge you call your own 

And if you run into the day 

You sure, you know you'll find a home 

You sure, you know you'll find a home 

The traffic lights shine upon 

And the broken home 

Everyone could be so far away 

And the white lines lead the way 

The writing on the wall 

They're carving out the martyrs 

Could've been the same this way 

Could've been the same this way 

Tell them I'm the same today 

We could have been much younger 

It could have been much longer 

Until the real time too far 

You run away today 

Tomorrow, you take away the time 

You took away a mind 

Something to the light she said 

Everyone's burning 

We could have been much younger