Far from the Harbour Wall
Rick Wright Lyrics

A part of herself, she thought love was dying,
She believed that love was fading away from her, losing its significance and meaning on a personal level.

The game of opposites, a hateful lie.
The idea of opposition and duality in relationships, either romantic or otherwise, is a false and destructive concept.

She can't hang on at all, she's giving up the fight.
She has become overwhelmed and exhausted with trying to hold on to something that seems to be slipping away and is now surrendering to defeat.

She's locked in a wall of ice,
She feels trapped and isolated, as if encased in a freezing wall of ice, unable to move or escape the situation.

Through half the day and half the night, on a path that's been prescribed.
She is moving through her life, half in daylight and half in darkness, along a path that has been predetermined for her and which she feels powerless to change.

Nothing comes, but she can't leave her life
While she feels stuck and unfulfilled, she cannot leave or alter her life and its circumstances completely.

Or hear the falling rain, or the heart race in her.
She is so consumed by her troubles that she cannot even appreciate the simple pleasures in life, like the sound of rainfall or the sensation of her own heartbeat.

And dark as it grows at night, with fear of light's change
As the night draws closer and everything becomes darker, she becomes more apprehensive and anxious about the possibility of change and uncertainty associated with light.

She's drowning away
She is sinking deeper into her struggles and is unable to find a way to stay afloat.

In what she can do and what she contains and her heart it so low.
Despite having talents and inner resources, she is feeling deeply unhappy and discontented, with her heart weighed down by her difficulties.

Now, because I could not cope with the pain,
At this point, the singer interjects with their own perspective of not being able to handle the suffering.

How things are not the same, she's got no remedies.
Despite her efforts, things seem to remain unchanged and she does not see any way to remedy the situation.

A heartbreaking fall and I fear a change of course
The despair and disappointment she feels from her struggles is causing a figurative fall, and the singer is worried that this may lead to a significant change in her life path.

I feel like we were born insane,
The singer expresses a feeling of being born with an inherent madness or craziness that causes them and possibly others to suffer.

I hear the love, I fear the love
The singer hears talk of love but is afraid of it, as it seems to bring more complications and turmoil than happiness.

For the heart is low, see how it grows apart.
As the heart sinks deeper into despair, the distance between the self and the world around them becomes greater.

And deep from the other side, we live so plain
From another perspective, life may seem mundane and ordinary, lacking the passion or meaning we long for.

We have no night, we have no day, we have no falling rain.
Life feels bleak and empty, lacking the beauty of natural phenomena such as night, day, or rain falling from the sky.

Not love in our eyes, not love in our stare, felt more like inner sea, had no quality
Love is absent from our gaze and inner world, and instead feels like a vast, featureless sea that lacks any depth or quality.

So says those who drown at night, far from the harbour wall, far from the harbour wall.
These feelings are expressed by those who feel like they are drowning in darkness and isolation, far away from the safety and security of a harbor wall.