Power - Marillion

You carry me around

Like loose change jingle-jangling

At the bottom of your bag

You don’t seem to feel it though

As you swing down the street

Walking that unique birthday-candle glow

In broad daylight

In broad daylight

And you don’t even know

The way I love you

You never knew power, did you?

You thought that power was in a strong arm

People pass the laws and gold

Tsunamis and mushroom clouds

Oh babe that’s nothing

You think it’s kind of sweet

The stammer and the tremble in my voice

But don’t mistake it for weakness

Or some kind of incompleteness

'Cause round about now

I can feel it tingle-tangling

It’s coiled up inside me

And it’s ready to blow

You never knew power, did you?

Thought it fizzed in the overhead lines

Burning steel and bone to carbon

A Saturn-5 in a vertical climb

You never knew power, did you?

Thought it roared like Niagara Falls

Or melted stone under volcanoes

Earthquake, thunder, lightning, storms

The way I love you

Is something you don’t understand

The way I love you

Took more than I could imagine, even now

You never knew power

All the time you felt so strong

But now you can’t function

Awake or asleep

As the meaningless world falls away from your feet

And the Universe ceases its light-speed retreat

Life was sweet in the meteor shower

Of the star-high divine

When you sparkled and fell

From heaven to hell

And ten years grinding by in every hour

In every hour

I know all about power

Listen to the rain

You might feel a tremble

You might feel it