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“A Question of Degree” was released as a single in 1979, and was included in the 1989 and 1994 reissues of Chairs Missing. It, like the other bonus tracks on the album, were ommited from the 2006 remastering, as the band claimed they diluted the “conceptual clarity of the original statements”.
Once a question of degree
Now circumstances corner me
Demanding my attention
Leaving little choice
Posing several questions
Distilling in once voice
Confusion not in words
I didn't want a problem
I didn't simply fall out
I was thrown at great speed
From a passing car
I didn't touch the ground
'Till I landed at your door
Oh, don't touch my luggage
I can easily manage
To struggle inside
I can easily manage
To struggle inside
I hide my shaking
Thus protect my pride
I can surely manage
To tremble inside
Gathering myself
And spreading it around
Rivers are submerging
Flowing underground
I can surely manage
To struggle inside
I can surely manage
To struggle inside
Can I really manage
To survive outside?
Can I really manage
To survive outside?
Can I?
Can I?
Can I?
Can I?
A Question of Degree was written by Colin Newman & Graham Lewis.
A Question of Degree was produced by Mike Thorne.
Wire released A Question of Degree on Sat Jun 02 1979.