Peter Hammill piosenki

See the old man acting like a fool, Yeah, he's running from the ambulance. When he was a youngster he broke all the rules - Now he says that was just accident. Always had the feeling he was going to die young, So now he feels repentant; But the judge was...

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 pump in overdrive; The body grows seemingly weaker But the s...

And the future spread before us like a feast, we saw clearly to the curve of the horizon, felt like everything we’d wanted was in reach, all we so eagerly awaited And the perfume on the air, oh, I could taste it.... (Decline and fall, decline and fall is comi...

So: onto the familiar top steps! In cloud-scud moonlight glow The Tower reels. I, the blind man, Feeling for a path I know... Don't you know that I'm only feeling for how to feel? Rats run. Snakes coil. Fathers Stare out at the whispering night; Rub...

I'm in command, I'm in control, I am the captain of my soul. Still, I'm uncertain in one major role... Oh, I drift through the unconscious life, Shift through the unconscious life, Lift up my unconscious eyes: Beyond all normal pain and pleasure We sho...

Away from the past, this chance is the last, We are changing completely, We are moving the feast, we are motion. I've seen you become the bride of the sun, You surrender so sweetly, Sacrificing yourself to devotion. This book is ended and I put it down,...

All humans are siblings, this is a truth that I've assumed; all fighting over the legacy of a lifelong and timeless family feud in the name of I don't know what. I don't believe in God but if I did I'd surely say there is only one Power up above us, one face r...

The stars in the heavens still shine up above me: how lovely they'd seem if you were with me but you're gone through the looking-glass and I am left to pass these nights alone. I'm lost, I'm dumb, I'm blind, I am drunk with sadness, sunk by madne...

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 up What do you want to be?" "Please, sir, if that's alright I'd really rather like to learn how to be me." S...

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 gone and dead; Only paying words out in strings of half-forgotten sentiments... I mean... I meant... I never...

Time to burn, we could talk all the problems through... Are the promises still unbroken, do the spoken words still ring true ? Oh, and where are you ? Time to burn, wakes and weddings, celestial choirs, and while one hand shakes on the bargain see the other st...

So many years ago, I thought you were the one - Who knows when people change, surrender into strangeness, Adrift upon their lives, encompassed by the past? Who knows which one becomes the last goodbye? Don't try to tell me nothing dies. Don't try to tell...

Between the light and the shadow, out of the corner of my eye I saw your feathers all ruffled, anticipating the sky.... You've got no reason to stay, day by day your impatience has grown. I'm caught between the devil and the deep blue sea, I know. I'm reach...

Along the tracks the wires are humming In bursts of code like far-off drums. Fathering the message: Further up the line someone's shouting Down the passage of time. The corridor restrains the window, No view without the eye within. Bold upon the thresh...

He could have been so great, he could have had it all, He had it on a plate, but he threw it at the wall. And he can't know why, but he still said "yes" To the easy lie and the poisoned vest... The trappings of success. They offered him the deal (Here's...

[Spoken by Hugh Banton:] "Oh, why didn't you say, more Stevie Wonder?" "Sod the music," said the man in the suit, "I understand profit and without that, it's no use. Why don't you go away and write commercial songs; Come back in three years, that shouldn...

No thanks for the memory, no thanks at all, No way we can wipe the slate or contrive escape From the names we're called. No thanks for the memory, here it comes again, This life running on the spot, though we hide a lot With our cover names. We can no m...

I mark the high days and the holidays red-letter on the page; fast-forward into memory, prepare to be upstaged. The envelopes I push against so rapidly become a wrap to keep me safe and warm but soon enough I’ll be undone. And if, for instance, I had spent a...

Time for the unrehearsed entrance, Show a leg you can break, Down the cocktail While it's laughing at you for heaven's sake... I can't be your protector From these deliberate mistakes. Between the "can't" and the "maybe" A lifetime's hovering in the wi...

I said steady up, settle down, make way for the Idiot Boy. He's here to sell you some kind of a story; Like a stuck-up sore thumb he'll be coming on bashful and coy, All of the while pumping up his vainglory. I said give it up, slap it down, idolise the I...