Peter Hammill - Evidently Goldfish

Check the honesty of what's on offer,
True detective or a fake fakir?
All the evidence is circumstantial -
As mud the evidence is clear.
Paranormal the investigation -
Where do things go when they disappear?
All the evidence has been trumped up...
As mud the evidence is clear,
I think we're on to something here,
I think we're into something,
I don't know but maybe we're all goldfish
In the mental sphere.

Evidently goldfish,
Never questioning environment;
Self-evidently goldfish,
We swim in circular experience.

Church of logical deliberation,
School of accidental wheels in gear,
Surface knowledge is a serious matter,
A little consciousness is dangerous, dear;
All the evidence must be summed up -
As mud the evidence is clear,
As mud the evidence is clear,
I think we're into something, I don't know but
Maybe we're all goldfish in the mental sphere.

Evidently goldfish
Never question their environment;
Self-evidently goldfish,
We swim in circular experience;
Evidently goldfish,
Round and round and round and round
Within our consciousness
In the mental sphere.

As mud the evidence is clear.