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The Strand Lyrics by Fates Warning

Inside Out

1994

[Verse 1]
The more I try
The more I feel I'm missing
The more I run
The more my feet keep slipping
The more I think
The more I tend to worry
The more I look
I see my thoughts before me

[Chorus]
And I dream of a strand
As I struggle on the waves
And I see the end of a passing day
As I see the strand
In the corners of my mind
Windows offer the view
Of a coming day

[Verse 2]
The more I stretch
The more these walls confine me
The more I beg
The less it all seems likely
The more I mind
The matter that surrounds me
The more I find
My thoughts before me

[Chorus]
And I dream of a strand
As I struggle on the waves
And I see the end of a passing day
As I see the strand
In the corners of my mind
Windows offer the view
Of a coming day

[Bridge]
Drifting on an open sea
Shipwrecked clinging to broken beams
Water's to my neck
And I strain to catch my breath
Drifting in the boundaries
I've built deep within me
Water's to my neck
I strain to catch my breath
I'm tired of treading again
And I'm swimming to the strand

[Instrumental Break]

[Chorus]
And I dream of a strand
As I struggle on the waves
And I see the end of a passing day
As I see the strand
In the corners of my mind
Windows offer a view
Of a coming day

[Outro]
Drifting on an open sea
Shipwrecked clinging to broken beams
Water's to my neck
And I strain to catch my breath
I'm tired of treading again
I'm swimming to the strand

[Instrumental Outro]

About “The Strand” by Fates Warning

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"The Strand" appears on "Inside Out" in 1994.

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