Sleep Now Peter Hammill

Sleep now: another day in your young lives is done, go to sleep now. Tomorrow brave new worlds will surely come, and trouble deep; you're such a wonder, such a mystery to me.

Re-Awakening Peter Hammill

Let me sleep! Let me dream! Let me be! Reawakening isn't easy when you're tired. Don't push me: I was taught self-expression when I was a child, and so I know the best way to go is slow.

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.

I Once Wrote Some Poems Peter Hammill

And now I feel like dying, and if the water were still here, it would hold me close. I once wrote a poem while walking on gravestones, as cobbles, rain and tear lashed down my face....

Airport Peter Hammill

All I can now cry is goodbye, love, goodbye. In a week, in a month, in a year, in a lifetime how I'll feel none can tell. All I know is now you're going there's really no-one here to help.

Autumn Peter Hammill

Now we're left with an empty home, From our nest all the birds have flown for foreign skies.

Golden Promises Peter Hammill

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 can talk to anyone here.

People You Were Going To Peter Hammill

The people in the downstairs flat Are no longer there now because they left The gas tap on, they're all dead.

Golden Promises (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

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 can talk to anyone here.

Shingle Song Peter Hammill

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 gestures unspoken, unheard And now

Candle Peter Hammill

Flames sucks at air now and its breath comes short as it wavers to half its size; vacuum closes in and it attacks the soul.

Summer Song (In The Autumn) Peter Hammill

You walking in sunshine by the sea with gull crying overhead; but now the skies are cloudy, and the love you had is dead.

Not For Keith Peter Hammill

He'd have laughed in my face if he saw it get mournful, he'd pull me up short and say "Life carries on" in that gentle way of being cruelly scornful... now he's gone.

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.

Skin Peter Hammill

You'd have it all right now if you got to choose in your private world, such a tiny world. Under the skin you search for paradise, under the skin some kind of parasite remains concealed.

Wilhelmina Peter Hammill

Life's hard now you know, It gets harder, and hope is but a single strand; We pass it on and hope you'll understand....

Ferret And Featherbird Peter Hammill

Time and distance are between us now, They form a bond to make things sure. Nothing ever shatters, You know what happens: Time and distance make a love secure.

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

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.

Happy Peter Hammill

Now at every time we meet we walk the streets, I'm with you and I feel happy. Just thought I'd tell you. It seems a thing to do, I want to prove I truly care. But how long will all this last?

Viking Peter Hammill

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Breakthrough Peter Hammill

We could talk about it right now, And it would come as a shock To feel the fingernail grow on the trigger finger - Still the visitors clock us Waiting for the breakthrough, Waiting for the breakthrough

If I Could Peter Hammill

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 wait Now

Again Peter Hammill

As the darkness Slides away the day Shows what was And makes what is now I see your picture As though it were a mirror But there's no part of you Outside the frame Except the change that you game to me

Faith Peter Hammill

Don't let me down, now that I've fallen completely for you.

Imperial Zeppelin Peter Hammill

Quick, the engines are turning, cabin lights are burning, now there's no returning.... We'll have love a mile above... Imperial Zeppelin, Imperial Zeppelin, Imperial Zeppelin!

My Experience Peter Hammill

You keep your mouth shut, but it's too late for that now: The word got out. In translation it's lost, in desperation it's mimed; Is this Paradise lost, or Paradise time after time? Ref.

Sign Peter Hammill

Now she turns her attention And her camera on you: This could be all of the moments That you'll ever live through, Oh, but your heart beats the rhythm Of primeval tattoo...

Child Peter Hammill

if only to shield me from the mood of the world and hold me and say it doesn't matter.... but I'm like a child whose dreams are shattered, Crowding round me: images of broken thought, lines of my life now

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.

Energy Vampires Peter Hammill

But now I'm serious, let's be serious, I'm not selling you my soul, try to put it in the records but I've got to keep my life my own. One thing I've not got a lot of is time and it's slipping away...

Stranger Still Peter Hammill

No, I know how to behave In the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands; If I've become a man of the world somehow That's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

Losing Faith In Words Peter Hammill

If not now, then certainly sooner or later we've got a problem with communication - look, I scrabble with my hands I try to get some head-room from the elevation but you just don't understand Most of the

Losing Faith In Words (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

If not now, then certainly sooner or later we've got a problem with communication - look, I scrabble with my hands I try to get some head-room from the elevation but you just don't understand

Porton Down Peter Hammill

The culture moves on - Now it's bacterial, truly insane. Porton Down waits to fever the brain.

Two Or Three Spectres Peter Hammill

Now I bet you thought that was a hard line to sing but I've done it anyway, it's my thing! Groupies offer their bodies, the hangers-on their coke; it's all very jolly – what a joke!

Jargon King Peter Hammill

He prescribes the subjectHe proscribes outsidersHis terms have a golden ring.He wants to find some orderQuantifying chaosIn words that all the children sing.He tabulates the lexiconVocabulary minim...

Fogwalking Peter Hammill

Everything clumsy slow-motion,I look for the source.Buildings loom up like icebergsOn collision course.I don't want to go in there,I just want to be alone,Unpick the stitches of timeIn LondonIn the...

The Spirit Peter Hammill

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Solitude Peter Hammill

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Vision Peter Hammill

I have a vision of you, locked inside my head;it creeps upon my mind, and warms me in my bed...A vision shimering, shiftingmoving in false firelight;a vision of a vision,protecting me from fear at ...

Sunshine Peter Hammill

Oh, suddenly things begin to come clear in my mindas 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 emotionsar...

The Birds Peter Hammill

In a moment of weakness I embodied the sicknessAnd when everyone winds me up I just can't wind downAnd the April rain soaks my jokes to a pulpThe sun makes my eyes burnAnd it must be my turnTo fly ...

The Comet, The Course, The Tail Peter Hammill

They say we are endowed with Free Will - at least that justifies our need for indecision.But between our insticts and the lust to killwe bow our heads in submission.They say that no man is an islan...

The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning Peter Hammill

It was the first day of July;no wind breathed in the skywhen a pin-striped suitsaw that the Institute of Mental Health was burning.He stood upon the cornerwhere the sun was warmer...looking across ...

Open Your Eyes Peter Hammill

I was sitting in the dance-hall,but my mind was far awayso when the usherette walked overI didn't know quite what to say.I tried to look coolbut I knew that I blew it somehow.Her fishnet tights too...

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 agesand tell me what's covert, transfixing you.Oh, you're nobody's business,oh, you're no...

Been Alone So Long Peter Hammill

Been alone so longthat I've forgotten what it's liketo feel somebody next to meand hear her breathing peacefullywhen I wake up at night.Been alone so longthat I've forgotten what to say -if I meet ...

Fogwalking (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

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 want to be alone, unpick the stitches of time i...

The Spirit (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

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 sharp halogen flash jars the eyeball, the limbs ...