If I Could Peter Hammill

I can make And in the morning when I wake and find you dressing Well, I know that it's on your mind to go for good Well, I know that all this time I have kept you guessing Oh, but I'd tell you if

Stranger Still Peter Hammill

No, nothing could be less strange In entropy No change, no change, no change. No danger in a normal life, Better steady down the adrenalin pump.

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.

Lost And Found Peter Hammill

I'll be holding the door and waiting for the princess - I could say I'm waiting for the world but when it comes right down to it I'm simply waiting for the girl.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

Golden Promises Peter Hammill

If you choose to throw your soul around the attitude Reasoning and independent thought go down the tube As you go slavening after every inane platitude - How weak you find yourself here.

Golden Promises (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

If you choose to throw your soul around the attitude reasoning and independent thought go down the tube as you go slavening after every inane platitude - how weak you find yourself here.

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.

People You Were Going To Peter Hammill

Can you imagine the way you'd feel If all these things had happened to you And the doctor says you're dying?

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.

Ophelia Peter Hammill

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.

Jargon King Peter Hammill

All questions become so simple If we eat the inane answer If we all agree to ju-ju speak We fit into the formula We all without exception Approve the rule.

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.

Sitting Targets Peter Hammill

If we'd been stuck just a few hours more I'd have cracked up, I'd say.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Fogwalking Peter Hammill

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

Vision Peter Hammill

I have a vision of you, locked inside my head; it creeps upon my mind, and warms me in my bed...

Fogwalking (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

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

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

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.

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!

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....

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?

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.

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.