| 1. Peter Hammill - Incomplete Surrender |
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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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| 2. Peter Hammill - Act Two |
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I stretch my hands, clutch vacant laughter in silence and sweet, sweet pain; without demand, but with a longing for what will never come...
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| 3. Peter Hammill - Again |
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The visitors find the children gone from school: aged relations sling their guns across the desks... there'll be no break-time for them unless ...
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| 4. Peter Hammill - Act Six |
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(Immediately afterwards, Madeline Usher enters, in a trance) MADELINE Carriages at seven I shall wear the flower he gave me It's so cold here ...
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| 5. Peter Hammill - The Spirit |
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Silence. Omens... For pain shall come and change shall run down through my heart and shake my knees and NOW it is coming, all round is the...
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| 6. Peter Hammill - Act Three |
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THE VOICES House. Wet Vaults. Caissons. We breathe... OF THE Undercroft. Abutments. Stones. Wood. Breathe... HOUSE Buttresses. Bressumers....
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| 7. Peter Hammill - A Louse Is Not A Home |
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CHORUS Late that evening the Lady Madeline again succumbed to the power of her dark afflictions. Her brother and her friend sat by her and...
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| 8. Peter Hammill - Solitude |
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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...
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| 9. Peter Hammill - Act One |
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CHORUS Three endless days of bitter grief passed and Montresor abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend. Then came a sudden change in Usher's ...
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| 10. Peter Hammill - Act Four |
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THE CHORUS The chorus has often an unenviable role to play, often a distasteful task to perform; summoned as witness to uncounted crime, she's the...
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| 11. Peter Hammill - Traintime |
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I have a vision of you, locked inside my head; it creeps upon my mind, and warms me in my bed... A vision shimering, shifting moving in false...
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| 12. Peter Hammill - The Birds |
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He prescribes the subject he proscribes outsiders his terms have a golden ring. He wants to find some order quantifying chaos in words that...
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| 13. Peter Hammill - Act Five |
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(The following morning) MADELINE That must be Montresor... Good morning! Oh, how lovely to see you - since Roderick told me you were coming I...
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| 14. Peter Hammill - Candle |
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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...
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| 15. Peter Hammill - German Overalls |
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There's no time for dull regrets no-one underwrites your debts. No satisfaction guaranteed, but this much I believe we make the lives we lead. ...
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| 16. Peter Hammill - Breakthrough |
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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...
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| 17. Peter Hammill - Now More Than Ever |
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Beside the pool of clear water, fed by a secret spring, your lips are sealed, but in your body language angels sing. I swear on the Bible, ...
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| 18. Peter Hammill - Summer Song |
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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,...
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| 19. Peter Hammill - Ophelia |
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This one's authentic, son of a gun, a soundtrack from China in the universal tongue.... The world is our oyster to plunder at will though the...
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| 20. Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets |
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I saw your picture in the Evening Standard: you were wearing your battle dress. I really must confess that I shed a silent smile for you - it...
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