What I Did
by Peter Hammill
From the album: Sitting Targets
Track 10 of 11 on Sitting Targets (1981).
Duration: 3:37
Lyrics for What I Did
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.