| 41. Peter Hammill - Forsaken Gardens |
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Manheim; rainy Saturday with no money nor friend, only Tequila can end the boredom. Try to reach London for a pocket of hope; we're children, we...
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| 42. Peter Hammill - Ferret And Featherbird |
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He casts himself as an adventurer, all foot on floor and hell for leather; She never told him what he meant to her- Perhaps that's for the better....
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| 43. Peter Hammill - Glue |
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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...
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| 44. Peter Hammill - Film Noir |
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There's a smokescreen on the horizon, fireships under sail tonight.... Here's the Armada of Souls, here's the flotilla from God knows where: from...
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| 45. Peter Hammill - Wilhelmina |
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Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably toJerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that...
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| 46. Peter Hammill - In Slow Time |
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I was thinking about thinking but it really didn't get me very far, so I thought I'd throw a Tarot but I only got the Priestess and the Star. ...
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| 47. Peter Hammill - Flight |
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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...
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| 48. Peter Hammill - Red Shift |
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We think we're fireproof, we never think that we'll get burned; we think we're fireproof, we never think, so well get burned; we think we're...
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| 49. Peter Hammill - Labour Of Love |
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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...
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| 50. Peter Hammill - Rubicon |
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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 ...
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| 51. Peter Hammill - I Will Find You |
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Pack your bags, we're leaving earth, where hate is seething; nothing's worth believing.... There's no time, make up your mind! Imperial...
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| 52. Peter Hammill - Sunshine |
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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 ...
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| 53. Peter Hammill - Losing Faith In Words |
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It was nothing, it came from nowhere at all, it was a casual remark, not a curtain-call. Late for breakfast - black coffee, brandy-laced... that...
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| 54. Peter Hammill - What's It Worth_ |
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What's it worth to be safe? What's the way to be sane? I could throw myself at the garden on my hands, prune the lawn and mow the roses, but I...
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| 55. Peter Hammill - Stranger Still |
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Summer song in the autumn, for you didn't catch the colour of the falling leaves. So many words have been spoken which you didn't understand and...
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| 56. Peter Hammill - Out Oyster |
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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 flat ...
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| 57. Peter Hammill - The Lie |
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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...
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| 58. Peter Hammill - In The Black Room |
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Sweetheart, I want to hold back nothing, sweetheart, I want to give my all. Roll on the feminine side, the lion lies down with the lamb. ...
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| 59. Peter Hammill - Oasis |
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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...
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| 60. Peter Hammill - Imperial Zeppelin (chris Judge Smith) |
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Pack your bags, we're leaving earth, where hate is seething; nothing's worth believing.... There's no time, make up your mind! Imperial...
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