Reaching For The Rail Lyrics - Broken China - Richard Wright

I'm ill with a fever, I feel like a child 

I lay in the dark 'til morning came. 

It's so unoriginal 

And I feel it worse at night 

I know it's not terminal 

But I'm near half-dead fright 

And freezing cold. 

But sooner than woke up 

To find it all unchanged 

I'll sleep through the day til the daylight ends. 

'Cause it's all so familiar 

As it comes around again 

The same taste to everything 

The same unbroken chain 

That still remains. 

With morning I rise, 

A dream that won't leave me, 

You're sad, naked and pale 

And you're reaching for the rail 

You took a look inside, how could you peel away 

Or break the shell, the hurt you've hidden so well 

For all your days. 

And you're going down 

As you slip beneath the waves, 

Won't make a sound 

Won't even leave a trace before you. 

I hear an appalling sigh from the streets below 

And it's creeping fear congealed in stone 

That paves the crazy road. 

And all are succumbing and they look so hopelessly 

At the heartbreak, it's easy to deal with, 

Just take these and you'll really never feel it.