How Can I Be Free

The dangling curtains at my door Cast a shadow on the floor Dancing visions pass my eye Telling neither truth nor lie Touching like a hypnotising rhyme Everything that I once knew Is flitting close and passing through Faces from behind I see They passing close and toughing me Casting dark reflections on my mind. Oh, how can I be free? Oh, how can I be free? When the walls are closing in on me Oh, how can I be free? I'll raise my glass up to my face And see if I can drown a taste That swims inside this head of mine Never travelling in a line And never really close enough to see A dream world passing through my brain Never to return again Shadows I can't seem to place And every image I can't trace Reflecting from the walls and touching me Oh, how can I be free? Oh, how can I be free? When the walls are closing in on me Oh, how can I be free? I'll bow my head and dry my eyes Watch the seabird as she flies Across the clouds in certain line To leave the touch of time behind Caring not for reason or for style A dream explodes inside my head But still I'm tied here to this bed Of neon light and stop-watch boom Where dreamers cannot find the room To close their eyes and drift awhile Oh, how can I be free? Oh, how can I be free? When the walls are closing in on me Oh, how can I be free?