I've only wound up betrayed.
It's all been absolutely worthless –
all the efforts I've made
to be gentle and kind
are repaid with contempt,
degraded by sympathy
and worthless kindness
and love that isn't meant.
I'm through with joy and company,
I've done with pretty words,
betrayed – there's no hiding-place
anywhere in the world.
— Peter Hammill 'Betrayed'
