What I Did Songtext
von Peter Hammill

A pretty pass in the rear-view mirror,
it′s coming on the overtake...
I've got to stop panicking, got to stay cool,
got to learn to live with my mistakes.
Overdue debt to the taxman,
I tried to have and eat my cake.

I think I must have been crazy in retrospect;
all the lines run together
but they just don′t seem to connect.
I think I must have been crazy
to do all the things I did...
try to keep the pot on a gentle simmer,
but something blows off the lid.

I want to update my memory,
I want to rewrite my past...
Ooh, now I found out: no chance.


I think I must have been crazy
(Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, yeah)
to do the stuff I did.
I think I must have been crazy, crazy, crazy.
(Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, yeah)
to do the stuff I did.
I think I must have been crazy, crazy, crazy...

I think I must have been crazy
but that's the price we pay –
every lucky throw of the dice
will come back to us one of these days.

I want to update my memory,
I want to rewrite my past,
I don't like what it′s telling me,
it all floods back so fast;
I guess I was my own worst enemy,
now I′ve come to a pretty pass.
A pretty pass, a pretty pass,
there's nothing pretty in the past.

I think I must have been crazy
(Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy, yeah)
to do the stuff I did.
I think I must have been crazy, crazy, crazy...
Crazy to do what I did.