Birthday Special Peter Hammill

Proffer me the candy, yes, I understand is fine; blow another candle out and throw another line… Birthday girl, I've got something for you, there's ice in the cauldron, look out now; birthday girl, here

You Hit Me Where I Live Peter Hammill

You say it's nothing special, that's just the way it is... you hit me where I live. Though I drink the cup it leaves me thirsting – what on earth am I supposed to do?

Just Good Friends Peter Hammill

Drawing back the curtains, sluggish city daylight in the afternoon... here's that special silence, just before you walk out of the hotel room.

Golden Promises (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Besieged in the battlements of Babylon, still looking for the hat-peg to hang your head upon - now you've found a place you think is Avalon: you can talk to anyone here. You can throw your arms...

Losing Faith In Words (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

I just can't see why you can't see what I mean, but I can't make things any plainer, the words get in the way - is that quite what I mean? If not now, then certainly sooner or later we've got a...

Fogwalking (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Everything clumsy slow-motion, I look for the source. Buildings loom up like icebergs on collision course. I don't want to go in there, I just want to be alone, unpick the stitches of time i...

The Spirit (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Such distance to the tips of the fingers, the ganglion loom jerks inside; the body grows steadily stranger but the spirit won't be denied. That sharp halogen flash jars the eyeball, the limbs ...

Golden Promises Peter Hammill

Besieged in the battlements of Babylon,Still looking for the hat-peg to hang your head upon -Now you've found a place you think is Avalon:You can talk to anyone here.You can throw your arms around ...

Losing Faith In Words Peter Hammill

I just can't see why you can't see what I mean,but I can't make things any plainer, the words get in the way -is that quite what I mean?If not now, then certainly sooner or laterwe've got a problem...

Jargon King Peter Hammill

He prescribes the subjectHe proscribes outsidersHis terms have a golden ring.He wants to find some orderQuantifying chaosIn words that all the children sing.He tabulates the lexiconVocabulary minim...

Fogwalking Peter Hammill

Everything clumsy slow-motion,I look for the source.Buildings loom up like icebergsOn collision course.I don't want to go in there,I just want to be alone,Unpick the stitches of timeIn LondonIn the...

The Spirit Peter Hammill

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Imperial Zeppelin Peter Hammill

Pack your bags, we're leavingearth, where hate is seething;nothing's worth believing....There's no time, make up your mind!Imperial Zeppelin....Quick, the engines are turning,cabin lights are burni...

Candle Peter Hammill

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Happy Peter Hammill

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Solitude Peter Hammill

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Vision Peter Hammill

I have a vision of you, locked inside my head;it creeps upon my mind, and warms me in my bed...A vision shimering, shiftingmoving in false firelight;a vision of a vision,protecting me from fear at ...

Re-Awakening Peter Hammill

If you catch me running along by the sea, with bare feet inthe sand, then you'll know I am dreaming my life out in a wayyou won't understand.I'm slipping right out of your mind, this I know, and I ...

Sunshine Peter Hammill

Oh, suddenly things begin to come clear in my mindas I look into the land laid bare by your eyes;E-S/M attractions are working behind my thought,I can't help my feelings, the way that my emotionsar...

Child Peter Hammill

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Summer Song (In The Autumn) Peter Hammill

And tomorrow you'll be in yesterday's news: someone who you loved has left you ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By PETER HAMMILL Lyrics © WINDSWEPT HOLDINGS LLC, CARLIN AMERICA INC,

Viking Peter Hammill

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The Birds Peter Hammill

In a moment of weakness I embodied the sicknessAnd when everyone winds me up I just can't wind downAnd the April rain soaks my jokes to a pulpThe sun makes my eyes burnAnd it must be my turnTo fly ...

I Once Wrote Some Poems Peter Hammill

I once wrote some poems of stillness and silence,standing by rivers of reflected light:my thoughts were on being loved and yet unloved, too -I surrendered to the warmth of the night.And now I feel ...

Ferret And Featherbird Peter Hammill

Time has come between us:In the passing months I've felt you slip awayAs your words and mine came like nursery rhymesTill there was nothing left to say.Distance came between us long ago,As our memo...

Tapeworm Peter Hammill

When I was a child they made me readWord-daggers of quiver and squirmNow in the stumbling dark I see I amA worm silently fruiting your gardenMy sister my child night casts ominousMeanings on the pu...

Again Peter Hammill

I stretch my handsClutch vacant laughterIn silence and sweet, sweet painWithout demandBut with a longingFor what will never come againI smell your perfumeOn the sheets in the morningIt linger like ...

The Comet, The Course, The Tail Peter Hammill

They say we are endowed with Free Will - at least that justifies our need for indecision.But between our insticts and the lust to killwe bow our heads in submission.They say that no man is an islan...

The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning Peter Hammill

It was the first day of July;no wind breathed in the skywhen a pin-striped suitsaw that the Institute of Mental Health was burning.He stood upon the cornerwhere the sun was warmer...looking across ...

Open Your Eyes Peter Hammill

I was sitting in the dance-hall,but my mind was far awayso when the usherette walked overI didn't know quite what to say.I tried to look coolbut I knew that I blew it somehow.Her fishnet tights too...

Nobody's Business Peter Hammill

Look out through your dark hair,tell me the colour of your eyes when they're cool;look out through the dark agesand tell me what's covert, transfixing you.Oh, you're nobody's business,oh, you're no...

Been Alone So Long Peter Hammill

Been alone so longthat I've forgotten what it's liketo feel somebody next to meand hear her breathing peacefullywhen I wake up at night.Been alone so longthat I've forgotten what to say -if I meet ...

Pompeii Peter Hammill

The golden dream, the seat of all decorum,a satellite to match the light of Rome;its silver children chatter in the Forum,the bath-house, and the brothels, and their homesabout the latest fashions ...

Shingle Song Peter Hammill

You can see in the 1st light that's graced as dawnThat there's nothing in my heart but painAs I stand, facing sea, knowing that you're goneAll the elements rage to explainThat I should really be on...

Airport Peter Hammill

I stand on the tallest buildingand stare down at the grey runwayand the tail-smoke of the Boeing jetthat's taking you so far away.Believe me, I don't want you to leave me;look in my eyes and you'll...

People You Were Going To Peter Hammill

Your father has just left your mother,Gone off to live with his latest lover:She sits there, just staring.So you get back to your own flatBecause the atmosphere in thereIs so bad you can't bear it....

Two Or Three Spectres Peter Hammill

spoken by Hugh Banton: "Oh, why didn't you say, more Stevie Wonder?""Sod the music," said the man in the suit,"I understand profit and without that, it's no use.Why don't you go away and write comm...

Shell Peter Hammill

Turn a card, turn a page,the action sure to start,second-stage reactionto illogical thoughts on random lines –in a Borges dream we move towardthe writing of lives.Leave it out, leave it in, no edit...

Not For Keith Peter Hammill

In Germany, his days finally caught him;I won't insult his memory with long-distance grief.Tears and wakes weren't his style:not him,not for Keith.He'd have laughed in my faceif he saw it get mourn...

Faith Peter Hammill

Each moment is preciousthose that I spend with you are a prize –I count myself lucky just being alivewhile you're in my eyes.Seeing's believing and I believe in youI can't conceal it, just what I f...

Dropping The Torch Peter Hammill

We play games and every moveis noted down as a subsequent causeand effectively chains our freedom and will to live;we settle in to simple survival,hanging on our pleasures grimly...we must never le...

After The Show Peter Hammill

He made a bit of money,that's something you might like to know...He'll be drinking in the cafe on the cornerafter the show.He's been so many people,he wore them all like poisoned vests,still playin...

Stranger Still Peter Hammill

Stranger still in another town,How normal to sit out the dance,Eating the good meal by myself,Toasting the empty glass;And they're already setting outThe next place,Already forgetting about the las...

If I Could Peter Hammill

Oh, you must be crazy to stay here And I'll be crazy when you go Though there's so much I want to tell you All the words come out too slow I've been locked in my problems You seemed prepared to wa...

Wilhelmina Peter Hammill

Willie, what can I say to you to hold true inYour changing life? You've come into a cruelWorld : little girls can lose their way in theGrowing night -- I hope you'll be alright.Willie, try to stay ...

Ophelia Peter Hammill

That token drag on your cigarette,That well-known face in the fire,It could be someone you can't forget,Someone you've learnt to admire.And it's strangeHow the feeling goes;All change -Down the riv...

Autumn Peter Hammill

So here we are, alone -Our children have grown up and moved away.Living their own lives, they say...It all seems very strange to me.I don't understand their ways:Our children amaze me all the timeA...

Sleep Now Peter Hammill

Sleep now:another day in your young lives is done,go to sleep now.Tomorrow brave new worlds will surely come,and trouble deep;you're such a wonder, such a mystery to me.Somewhereyour future friends...

Sitting Targets Peter Hammill

We can talk about it in the car;We can talk about it with the drive.Keep your eyes on the road up ahead,(Don't forget what we said about)Staying alive.If we'd been stuck just a few hours moreI'd ha...

Porton Down Peter Hammill

Won't hear a sound at Porton Down,The clear liquids keep their silence,Buried underground at Porton DownThe fast form of the final violence.Quite right to be worried about the proliferationOf nucle...