Ferret And Featherbird Peter Hammill

Time has come between us: In the passing months I've felt you slip away As your words and mine came like nursery rhymes Till there was nothing left to say.

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.

Lost And Found Peter Hammill

No more imagined insults and no more bloated pride - I'll see you at the wedding, I'll see you on the other side and I'll hold my peace forever but I'll hold my passion more...

Dropping The Torch Peter Hammill

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

Birthday Special Peter Hammill

I've got something to say, and it ain't the usual sort of sob-story that you hear every day. I've got something to ask, and I know that now's the time, now all the rooms of the party are dark.

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 ages and tell me what's covert, transfixing you.

Airport Peter Hammill

I stand on the tallest building and stare down at the grey runway and the tail-smoke of the Boeing jet that's taking you so far away.

The Comet, The Course, The Tail Peter Hammill

But between our insticts and the lust to kill we bow our heads in submission.

Candle Peter Hammill

Look at the candle, as it's life is bought, as the wick just rolls of and dies; look at the wax-drops as they cease from their goal and the game they were playing loses its joy and the youth which they

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 homes about the latest fashions

Autumn Peter Hammill

I don't understand their ways: Our children amaze me all the time And I often wonder why they make me feel So sad and suddenly old.

Wilhelmina Peter Hammill

Babies all turn to People, and people can really be strange : they Change and, changing, bring pain. Try to treat your parents well because they care, And what more can you do?

Vision Peter Hammill

I have a vision of you, locked inside my head; it creeps upon my mind, and warms me in my bed...

Child Peter Hammill

I don't know quite what's happening and my eyes don't see too clear; all I know is I need you here, if only to shield me from the mood of the world and hold me and say it doesn't matter.... but I'm like

Crying Wolf Peter Hammill

You turn out the lights and sit alone, Trying to pretend that it's anguish, Start at the ring of a telephone, Throw down all your food at the banquet, Keep a close eye on all you own, While leaving it

People You Were Going To Peter Hammill

And the people you were going to America with Just left on the dawn plane Without you, Without you.

Re-Awakening Peter Hammill

I'm slipping right out of your mind, this I know, and I accept the fact lazily, for I must go into the next field, where grass is green and I'll find peace. Let me sleep! Let me dream! Let me be!

Been Alone So Long Peter Hammill

Been alone so long that I've forgotten what it's like to feel somebody next to me and hear her breathing peacefully when I wake up at night.

Summer Song (In The Autumn) Peter Hammill

So many words have been spoken which you didn't understand and so couldn't believe. And the song that you're humming is yesterday's tune - Someone who you love is leaving you.

The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning Peter Hammill

Flames were roaring, singing like a thunderstorm; smoke was pouring straight up to the sky; windows smashing, Gothic doors and lintels fall; timbers crashing and we both know why.

Tapeworm Peter Hammill

When I was a child they made me read Word-daggers of quiver and squirm Now in the stumbling dark I see I am A worm silently fruiting your garden My sister my child night casts ominous Meanings on the purity

Two Or Three Spectres Peter Hammill

Why don't you go away and write commercial songs; come back in three years, that shouldn't be too long…" He's a joker and an acrobat, a record exec. in a Mayfair flat with Altec speakers wall to wall,

Sign Peter Hammill

Oh, no-one knows where you've gone to In the pagan night And the neon reflections Spread cadmium white. You came here looking for something But this wasn't it, quite.

Ophelia Peter Hammill

And it's strange How the feeling goes; All change - Down the river Ophelia goes.

The Birds Peter Hammill

In a moment of weakness I embodied the sickness And when everyone winds me up I just can't wind down And the April rain soaks my jokes to a pulp The sun makes my eyes burn And it must be my turn To fly

Not For Keith Peter Hammill

Tears and wakes weren't his style: not him, not for Keith.

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

Again Peter Hammill

I stretch my hands Clutch vacant laughter In silence and sweet, sweet pain Without demand But with a longing For what will never come again I smell your perfume On the sheets in the morning It linger like

Golden Promises Peter Hammill

You can throw your arms around your nearest neighbour And the smiling ones'll tell you that you've saved her, That she's saved you...

Golden Promises (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

You can throw your arms around your nearest neighbour and the smiling ones'll tell you that you've saved her, that she's saved you...

Solitude Peter Hammill

Silently I rest in the tall green grassand look steadily upwards.Birds sing ceaselessly around me,and the blue of the sky surrounds me strangely.Out here, life is at its essence,and watches the world with

Viking Peter Hammill

Looking out forward over the prow of our long ship, pulling our oars and listening to the foam; helmets and sheepskins salt-damp in the sea-mist: We're going home.

Shingle Song Peter Hammill

elements rage to explain That I should really be on my way, But there is something Which ensures I must stay Beneath the roar of the seething surf, Beneath the caterwaul of scattered call wind Thoughts and

Shell Peter Hammill

The character uncertainty as he contemplates his lot and tries to move with urgency though he's rooted to the spot.

Nadir's Big Chance Peter Hammill

I'm gonna scream, gonna shout, gonna play my guitar until your body's rigid and you see stars.

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 out The next place, Already forgetting about the last

A Perfect Date Peter Hammill

You're a sucker for the punch and the telegraph bells are ringing; now it's coming to the crunch as you stumble on the Jaffa Gate.

Sleep Now Peter Hammill

Tomorrow brave new worlds will surely come, and trouble deep; you're such a wonder, such a mystery to me.

Happy Peter Hammill

We walked around and talked a while; In your smile I found that I was happy. I want to tell you; it seems a thing to do; I want to show I truly care.

Breakthrough Peter Hammill

The visitors hide no aces up their sleeves And the classroom pulses to many different drums. If only a breakthrough in time would come There'd be some chance for the visited ones.

Jargon King Peter Hammill

We don't understand He must be clever He must be clever He must be right He must be right We don't understand Closed the ranks and barricades Imposed the secret language Complexity all catch-phrased Word-drugged

Faith Peter Hammill

Seeing's believing and I believe in you I can't conceal it, just what I feel for you. Seeing's believing, I know that you'll see me through.

Imperial Zeppelin Peter Hammill

Of course we all know very well it wouldn't work, but what the hell - every dice deserves a throw, and when we get back home below we can say we had a go!

Sitting Targets Peter Hammill

Keep your eyes on the road up ahead - I don't seem to be able to use mine And I'm losing control of my body And I'm running scared...

Sunshine Peter Hammill

Refrain I'd like to run on the clouds of my liberty, but for you I'd get hooked and float six inches mud-free.

Energy Vampires Peter Hammill

This guy says that he wrote all my songs, this girl says she's had my baby – me, I don't know them from Adam and Eve, sometimes I really believe I'm going crazy.

Porton Down Peter Hammill

Quite right to be worried about the proliferation Of nuclear bombs and power stations, But there's a deterrent that's going to Unearth us yet...

Central Hotel Peter Hammill

And I won't be going back, Not if I can help it. I can't help it, I can't help it If I still am what I was; I can't help it, I can't help it, Can't stop the therefore because I can't help it.

Just Good Friends Peter Hammill

Now I just can't stand all the pain, all the constant make and mend: how long must we pretend that we're just good friends? I gave you my devotion, hiding nothing up my sleeve.

The Spirit (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

And they call that living a normal live, but normality's not standardised. Though the body gets ever more root-bound the spirit won't be denied Yes, the spirit survives.