One-Armed Man (Play On) Lyrics

[Instrumental Intro]

[Verse 1]
Submerged in endless (trailing on, trailing on)
I watch them fade by (sigh, sigh)
Lifeless and blank-faced (paining on, paining on)
I see (the face I used to be)
They want to feel this (straining on, straining on)
They want to sense this (now, now)
Drunk with existence (waking me, waking me)
I'll show you someone you can feel

[Chorus]
(Play on, play on)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, they play on)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, play on) (I'll never, ever look back)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, they play on)
And search and strain and drink and stagger

[Interlude]

[Verse 2]
They want to feel this (straining on, straining on)
They want to sense this (now, now)
Drunk with existence (wake me, wake me)
I'll show you someone you can feel

[Chorus]
(Play on, play on)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, they play on)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, play on) (I'll never, ever look back)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, they play on)
Play on, they play on and on

[Instrumental Break]

[Bridge]
Zombies staring, looking my way
Crying out for something they can't
Fill their stomachs with enough
To satisfy the hunger growing
Needing something real
Needing something real
Needing something, needing something
Needing something real

Zombies staring, looking my way
Crying out for something they can't feel
(Play on, stray on, in these wicked days on)
Play on and understand that
In your drunken stupor you are dying
(Play on, stray on, in these wicked days on)

Zombies staring, looking my way
Reaching out for something, anything
Anything to keep them numbing
Keep them plunging, far from knowing

[Chorus]
(Play on, play on)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, they play on)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, play on) (I'll never, ever look back)
And search and strain and drink and stagger
(Play on, they play on
They play on, they play on, they plan, they play on)
I'll never, I'll never, I'll never, I'll never look back

[Instrumental Outro]