Famous Last Words Songtext
von Peter Hammill

It′s a little too late, we're sorry
It′s a little too late
It's a little too late

If I close my eyes I can pretend
The best is still before me, the worst is at an end
Time for goodbyes to the audiences that adored me
Oh, they never realised just how much I came to despise
All their eagerness

Famous last words, maybe just overheard
Is that your best testament?
Or are you coining a phrase just to see how it plays
When you're at your wit′s end?
Famous last words, to the last you′ll self-serve...
What a waste of your breath


When you close your eyes will you pretend
That nothing bad has happened, that we are still close friends?
So many lies after all the illusions are shattered
Still at all costs you must hide
The emptiness where your true feelings used to reside

Famous last words, they're so over-rehearsed
They just sound like pretence
Yet you′ll go out in style, to the last in denial
Of what anything's meant
Famous last words, to the last you′ll self-serve...
What a waste of all that breath

It's a little too late, we′re sorry
It's a little too late, we're sorry
It′s a little too late, we′re sorry
It's a little too late, we′re sorry
It's a little too late, we′re sorry
It's a little too late, we′re sorry
It's a little too late, we're sorry