Hedge maze
Hedge maze
Hedge maze (hedge maze)
Hedge maze (hedge maze)

Whoever heard of a maze with stairs
Or nine floors on top of each other
Walls that go up
Walls that go down
Walls that burrow deep underground
Come out of the ceiling
Many different paths and yet there’s only one way out

Contestant four fifty five went mad
Tried to pull out her nostrils’ tonsils
On level six
Quadrant eighteen
There’s a cult that worships the leaves
Thinks God is a green man
Twenty men passed through last week and none returned

One day I swear on my life it moved
Sections shifted now maps are useless
There in the sky
Richie Benauds
Laugh about a waitress who died
Legs stuck in a gearwell
Up in their glass box they’ll never know the meaning of fear
A life spent
Trapped inside a never ending hedge maze
Never thought it was a game to play
Never thought there’d be another way

Trapped inside a never ending hedge maze
Never thought you’d get to have your say
Never thought you’d see the light of day

Trapped inside a never ending hedge maze
Trapped inside a never ending hedge maze
Trapped inside a never ending hedge maze

Hoggey Struzan, fifty seven
She’s gone but not to heaven
Thinks the bramble dome is home
But wishes she was back in Devon

Jerrick Furze of Wolverhampton
Friends said he looked like Spamton
Rictus smile been there a while
A raging flame but where’s the lantern

Teesside Teenaugh, mathematician
Thinks they should try attrition
Routes brute forced ’til break of dawn
Strike twenty three of ninety million

Bramble Bob, assimilated
Skin green, flesh foliated
Pando man without a plan
Became the very thing he hated

Out of the maze
Out of the maze
Out of the maze
Finally found my way
Out of the maze
Out of the maze
Out of the maze
Finally found my way

So suddenly the clues unravelled
They came from ancient wounds
And pointed to roads less travelled
Feedback loop
One fell swoop
Hedge maze
Just a phase

Can’t you see
You’ve only grown this complex
Because you made it complex
And got yourself perplexed
Can’t you see
You’ve only wound up lost
Because you said you’d get lost
And shouldered all the cost

So all along there was no hedge maze
And if there ever was
Its architect shared your face
Self-fulfilled
Far from thrilled
Hedge maze
Wasted days

Time to play
Time to play
Time to play
Time to play

A new day dawned and dappled verdant walls
And you emerged from Tenpole-wardened halls
A smile, a tear, and you were on your way
Not going back
Not going back

And then you heard a thousand plaintive cries
Youth’s pantheon pleading ''don’t leave us behind''
But they’ve got no more comfort, just malaise
You will not fade
No, not today
Not going back
Not going back

This is the best day I’ve had in a while and I can tell you I’ve had many whiles
And I still hope there’s many whiles I get to spend with you
Making my way down cobbled streets got places to go and people to meet
And if you wanna join in that’s sweet this life’s got room for two

This is the best day I’ve had in a while and I can tell you I’ve had many whiles
And I still hope there’s many whiles I get to spend with you
Making my way down cobbled streets got places to go and people to meet
And if you wanna join in that’s sweet this life’s got room for two

This is the best day I’ve had in a while and I can tell you I’ve had many whiles
And I still hope there’s many whiles I get to spend with you
Making my way down cobbled streets got places to go and people to meet
And if you wanna join in that’s sweet this life’s got room for two
This life’s got room for two
This life’s got room for two
This life’s got room for two

No more escaping barefoot in the night
No more reliving dark and lonely days
And to the ones still fighting woodwose fights
You’ll find your way
Out of your maze
Not going back
Not going back

Life is not a never ending hedge maze
Life is not a never ending hedge maze
Life is not a never ending hedge maze
Life is not a never ending