Keep It - Dexys Midnight Runners

The world lives in your front room

You’re sitting happy in gloom

Fate worries you, you will not give her room

You give credit for might, inspiration and sight

But you miss the point

You won’t join the fight

You think to use is to lose so your clinging, pulling pleading

Try and keep it safe

Keep it cozy but it feels so out of place

You’re feeling a loss but youre not fit to make it

You offered so much but youre frightened to take it

It never was really proved, never was understood

But there really is no virtue in the good

The shoutings so loud that they’d do better to mime

You’re deafened and you cannot hear the rhyme

But secrets in whispers pull you, try to tempt you

Try and keep it safe

Keep it cozy but it feels so out of place

You’re feeling a loss but youre not fit to make it

You offered so much but youre frightened to take it

You beg for help and advice, how to handle your life

But you dare not move, you cannot pay the price

Chances slip, you just chatter, flatter, to forget what matters

Spout your lines, read all your books

You hear the sounds, miss all the hooks

Your best is what you least understand

You hate the graft, won’t join the race

You’re scared to scar your pretty face

Safe now cause your head is in the sand

Keep it