For Nothing

So the great affair is over
but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant
and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon
or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing
if you really want to go that far.

 — Leonard Cohen 'Death Of A Ladies' Man'

Like A Stray Dog In The Night, I'll Shuffle Off Alone

We all make our futures
but I have lost mine; 

I'm hoping for a miracle 

but finding no sign....
— Peter Hammill 'This Side Of The Looking-Glass'

Adrift

Adrift without a course,

it's very lonely here, 

our only conjecture 

what lies behind the dark.
 — Peter Hammill 'Childlike Faith in Childhood's End'

Between The Shadows Of His Memory

Imagine blue dissolve into the empty night

 — Neil Young 'Touch The Night'

Done

When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

When the day is done
Hope so much your race will be all run
Then you find you jumped the gun
Have to go back where you'd begun
When the day is done

When the night is cold
Some get by but some get old
Just to show life’s not made of gold
When the night is cold

When the bird has flown
Got no-one to call your own
Got no place to call your home
When the bird has flown

When the game’s been fought
Newspaper blown across the court
Lost much sooner than you would have thought
Now the game’s been fought

When the party’s through
Seems so very sad for you
Didn’t do the things you meant to do
Now there’s no time to start anew
Now the party’s through

When the day is done
Down to earth then sinks the sun
Along with everything that was lost and won
When the day is done

 — Nick Drake 'Day Is Done'

Losing My Religion