The Hermit Lyrics

I often think of life and what it is

That makes me both submissive and defiant

And why am I avoiding the strife

And choose to be reluctantly compliant

I live inside my shell

Oblivious to rumble outside

I write I spell

The words not known to those for whom I fight

I want to break the spell

I try to learn what I can call my own

I toil I scale

The spiky walls that stand around my home

Misunderstood by those with me today

For whom I write may only know tomorrow

I feel sometimes that I could run away

To those who'd understand and feel my sorrow

I live inside the shell

The languages collide inside my head

It hurts like hell

To silence one when no-one listens in another yet

There is so much to tell

The words I spill don't even scratch the surface

It may be well

There will be left enough for future purpose

I crouch in my shell

A hermit in his glory and his shame

The time will tell

If progeny will recognize my name