Planet Coventry Songtext
von Peter Hammill

You find you′re standing alone
Not so splendid isolation
In the green room the talk is on
Righteous indignation
And you might as well have landed
In some strange and distant galaxy
The rules are unspoken
On the planet Coventry

What reaction can you gauge
Naked on the stage?
The gravity's not so great
But the atmosphere′s chilling

You made some serious mistakes
The day you pushed yourself for the grilling
And the jigsaw pieces take a look
A jumble of asymmetry
All the corners are cut
On the planet Coventry


Out of order, out of reach
Breathless on the beach
No reaction you can gauge
Only silence from the front row
Silence from the back row
Silence and you're naked on the stage

(Wake up, wake up...)

You dream you know the old dreams -
That's an alien situation
In the glasshouse the mite is ill
In dangerous mutation
And you might as well have landed
In a different reality
The rules are all broken
On the planet Coventry

Out of order, out of reach
Breathless on the beach

One more putter before the chop
Dried up in the dock
Headless chicken, total block
Tongue of Gordian knots
No reaction on this stage
Only silence from the front row
Silence from the back row


Silence from the prompter
Silence all the rage
Only silence and you′re naked on the stage

You wake up and you′re naked on the stage