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.

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.

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?

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?

You Hit Me Where I Live Peter Hammill

There was something in the conversation, ancient languages were breaking through; I was falling for infatuation – how about you?

Airport Peter Hammill

Believe me, I don't want you to leave me; look in my eyes and you'll see them filled with pain. Imagine just how sad I'll be in some future day when I turn and no longer see your face.

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

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

Just Good Friends Peter Hammill

Each time we're so close I assume that we'll never be again. Oh, how long can we pretend that we're just good friends?

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

Fogwalking Peter Hammill

Everything clumsy slow-motion, I look for the source. Buildings loom up like icebergs On collision course.

Fogwalking (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Everything clumsy slow-motion, I look for the source. Buildings loom up like icebergs on collision course.

Imperial Zeppelin Peter Hammill

We will try to do some good, I don't know why we really should, I only wish that we could! Down below they'll see and know all about Imperial Zeppelin! Imperial Zeppelin! Imperial Zeppelin

A Perfect Date Peter Hammill

A perfect date to hesitate, I hope it won't be too long. 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.

Skin Peter Hammill

Under the skin you search for paradise, under the skin some kind of parasite remains concealed. Under the skin a true identity, a memory will soon be revealed, under the skin.

Shell Peter Hammill

Leave it out, leave it in, no edits – with a shout, with a grin I said it was a certainty that I'd arrive in an Escher sketch we walk around the drawing of lines.

The Comet, The Course, The Tail Peter Hammill

And the knowledge that we gain in part always leads us closer to the very start, and to the founding questions: How can I tell that the road signed to hell doesn't lead up to heaven?

Sleep Now Peter Hammill

One tune of childhood I sing my little girls... Sleep now, one day I'll tell you how my life has been.

Sitting Targets Peter Hammill

Keep your eyes on the road up ahead While I try to forget what's been going wrong (What's been going on...)

Ophelia Peter Hammill

You're treading water, the price is steep, You say you'll cope with it all; You've made some promises you can't keep, You throw yourself against the wall, You throw yourself against the wall.

Breakthrough Peter Hammill

If only a breakthrough in time would come There'd be some chance for the visited ones. We could talk about tomorrow As though we believed in that.

Jargon King Peter Hammill

He wants to find some order Quantifying chaos In words that all the children sing. He tabulates the lexicon Vocabulary minimised Bow down to the Jargon King.

Central Hotel Peter Hammill

I found myself lying on the balcony, Stripling terror, naked to the bone; The secret asteroid jungle nearly done for me - I saw it all just a moment ago.

Faith Peter Hammill

Each moment is precious those that I spend with you are a prize – I count myself lucky just being alive while you're in my eyes.

If I Could Peter Hammill

wait Now that I know I'm going to lose you All the words come out too late There's no promise I can give you That you wouldn't know was fake I know, I just want to be with you There's no show that

Re-Awakening Peter Hammill

If you catch me running along by the sea, with bare feet in the sand, then you'll know I am dreaming my life out in a way you won't understand.

Happy Peter Hammill

...I forget, all I know is you looked happy. 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.

Open Your Eyes Peter Hammill

I was sitting in the dance-hall, but my mind was far away so when the usherette walked over I didn't know quite what to say. I tried to look cool but I knew that I blew it somehow.

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

Shingle Song Peter Hammill

You can see in the 1st light that's graced as dawn That there's nothing in my heart but pain As I stand, facing sea, knowing that you're gone All the elements rage to explain That I should really be on

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.

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.

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

My Experience Peter Hammill

But I just can't stop it, why don't you tell me what's wrong? My heart goes like a rocket, the feeling's so strong. I just can't stop it, why don't You tell me what's wrong?

Candle Peter Hammill

So does my mind fly as I fight my thought - and I lose, for I cannot find: sent my eyes long miles, they do not know home!

Birthday Special Peter Hammill

I've got something to ask, and I know that now's the time, now all the rooms of the party are dark.

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.

Golden Promises Peter Hammill

It's so weak-kneed To go for the golden promises, Mail-order Oly vows; You go for the golden promises - I think you really ought to know better by now.

Golden Promises (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

It's so weak-kneed to go for the golden promises, mail-order holy vows; you go for the golden promises - I think you really ought to know better by now.

Nobody's Business Peter Hammill

Look back at the photos you've saved, dead mementoes of your modelling days; I look through all my cuttings of you, but they all seem so lost, so dead, out of phase. Oh, you're nobody's business....

Wilhelmina Peter Hammill

Willie, what can I say to you to hold true in Your changing life? You've come into a cruel World : little girls can lose their way in the Growing night -- I hope you'll be alright.

Sunshine Peter Hammill

Oh, suddenly things begin to come clear in my mind as 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 emotions are

Stranger Still Peter Hammill

Excess refraction in the mirror Only leads to the quantum jump Oh, but it leaves me in limbo; How strange, what a stranger I become.

People You Were Going To Peter Hammill

That is the way that I feel now On finding that your love belongs To someone else and not I.

Ferret And Featherbird Peter Hammill

Over the miles I ceased to smile Because nothing felt the same. That's how it seemed a week ago, Far off in time and space. Time and distance are between us now, They form a bond to make things sure.

Two Or Three Spectres Peter Hammill

"Sod the music," said the man in the suit, "I understand profit and without that, it's no use.

Nadir's Big Chance Peter Hammill

I've been hanging around, waiting for my chance to tell you what I think about the music that's gone down to which you madly danced – frankly, you know that it stinks.

Sign Peter Hammill

I hear you make your excuses As you usually do. Sign the picture, get out of the frame; Sign the picture, and throw it away; Sign the picture, sign the picture, Throw the picture away...

Pompeii Peter Hammill

I see the tall and bending of your streets but now they echo only leather tourist feet and waking, ashen, grey-blue blinding death your sudden winding-sheet.