I Need to Keep You in My Life

[Verse 1]
I need to keep you in my life
To keep an image of you in my mind
Of driving in twilight over Pennines

[Verse 2]
The world seems to stand still in your house
And all the weight of it all is kept out
And kept out and degaussed and deloused, oh

[Verse 3]
I won’t let you become avatar’d
The grains that make you up are too charged
And too hard and too large to be five-starred

[Verse 4]
There is a reality beyond the
The one we’ve chosen to read as gospel
And never is that truer than in your light

[Outro]
I need to keep you in my life
I need to keep you in my life
In my life, in my life, in my life