| 21. Peter Hammill - Golden Promises |
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How was it that we first met? ...I forget, all I know is you looked happy. We walked around and talked a while; In your smile I found that I ...
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| 22. Peter Hammill - Empress's Clothes |
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She's here now, perfume coiled like a thuggie scarf - such a powerful drug to make you so naked and clean. And you want to tell her there's so...
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| 23. Peter Hammill - Fogwalking |
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Where are all the joys of yesterday? Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared? Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and...
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| 24. Peter Hammill - Central Hotel |
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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...
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| 25. Peter Hammill - His Best Girl |
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Trapped like a rabbit by the future glare, onrushing headlights that blind you, a frightened runaway, at least you know I care, I will seek, I...
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| 26. Peter Hammill - Tapeworm |
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Spring came far too early this year: May flowers blooming in February. Should I be sad for the months, or glad for the sky? The birds don't...
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| 27. Peter Hammill - Time For A Change |
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Thinking back, it seems that I can lie beside you as I never truly did, in afterglow - no afterwords at all. Only writing love songs when it's...
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| 28. Peter Hammill - People You Were Going To |
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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. ...
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| 29. Peter Hammill - Reprise |
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Watch for the silent moments, only waiting to be saved. Wait for the Liemaker; he comes again and sinks his barbs through honesty; roll him over...
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| 30. Peter Hammill - Curtains |
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The Fall of the House of Usher - An Opera by (1991) Libretto by Chris Judge Smith from the tale by Edgar Allen Poe The Characters: THE CHOIR -...
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| 31. Peter Hammill - Sign |
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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) ...
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| 32. Peter Hammill - The Lie (bernini's St Theresa) |
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Genuflection / erection in church. Sacristy cloth / moth-eaten shroud. Secret silence / sacred secrets accumulate dust, aggravate the eye. ...
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| 33. Peter Hammill - Re-awakening |
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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. ...
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| 34. Peter Hammill - Faint-heart And The Sermon |
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With my face drained of colour and my brain of blood like Billy Budd I'm lashed to the grating; with senses growing duller and with quaking...
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| 35. Peter Hammill - Jeunesse D'oree |
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The youth are voting with their feet - Such a shame that the dance-beat gets so complicated. Pretty, pretty it seems... On second glance, the look...
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| 36. Peter Hammill - Given Time |
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Halfway between the zoo and the temple of your Art... but what do you do with this motion of the heart? Who'll be looking for you when it all...
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| 37. Peter Hammill - Thunder |
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Time for a change: I felt bad, things looked strange. Home, home on the range... Yes, it's time for a change. "Well, young man, when you grow...
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| 38. Peter Hammill - Description |
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My, friends, I never really thought you'd go, but, then, we know that's the way it happens here. Now time is like cat's cradle in my hands: we...
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| 39. Peter Hammill - Happy |
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This is no time to hesitate, the line slips into overload; the mixture too thick, the touch too close to the motherlode. Time - there's so little...
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| 40. Peter Hammill - Time Heals |
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Along the track the wires are humming in bursts of code like far-off drums.... Fathering the message: further up the line someone's shouting ...
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