Peter Hammill piosenki

You don't have to say a thing, the silence is sweet; we've been together today in a way we might never repeat. Oh, your head on the pillow, the distance in your eyes - already you might be rehearsing the word ''Goodbye". When the evening comes of this perfect...

"I know you haven't got the thread of the story so far. Just throw your luggage into the back of the car. We'll drive around until you think I've gone too far but you can't go home, no, there's no way home. You haven't lost the plot but there's detail you lack...

We play games and every move Is noted down as a subsequent cause And effectively chains our freedom and will to live; We settle in to simple survival, Hanging on our pleasures grimly... We must never let them go. Our prison walls are slowly built, Ston...

My heart flew in my mouth The moment that your eyes locked mine. I blurted something out Along these lines: We're earthbound But we all long for flight... My heart's worn on my sleeve: I'd offer all I could contrive If only you'd believe You flood my...

My friends, I never really thought you'd go, But, then, we know that's the way it happens here. Now time is like cat's cradle in my hands: I gather up the strands much too slowly. The refugees are gone...they take their separate paths, Obliterate the pas...

Best to say nothing at all, No shot from the hip; You might say something appalling, A confidence tripped off the tongue. Better to keep the mouth zipped, Your silence preserved. Go through the night with your lips sealed, For truth is best served by di...

The lady was in waiting For whatever story might unfold Anticipating that somehow base metal would turn into gold Yeh, she was always looking for a brighter spot, Eager to tap into the motherlode At the edge of the road. A world of separation, Treasuri...

Memory extends its empire, Holds the frame but blurs the line. Some other time invades the sense, A moment caught and lost, second sight. Suddenly I feel you near me, Worlds away and close as this. One stolen kiss upon my lips And the moment slips away...

She's here now, perfume coiled like a thuggie scarf - Such a powerful drug to make you so naked and clean. And you want to tell her So much to disclose This idea you've got to sell her A new set of empress's clothes. Who was that woman in the masquerade...

Hunched in the corner of the dressing-room, Trying to get back to the real... Uh-oh, here they come, ready for their meal: Energy Vampires, crawling out of the wall, They want to steal my vitality, They want to drink it all. This guy says that he wrote...

To live, to be alive and to consider The plane that shapes the smooth out of the rough... When every expectation is delivered Will that be enough? This alone will have to be enough. Not that but this, Not why but how, Not if but when, Not soon but now...

Flat on my back, I can feel myself falling Into a singular state of mind; As if through a fog, I can hear someone calling. I know I'm cutting it fine, Thinking that maybe it's time to cross the line. The last thing I need's any outside assistance; Whate...

Everyone you hold takes a piece of you away; Everyone you know pricks the image of the human clay And everybody's laughing - The joke goes mouth to mouth and slips away. Everyone you hold leaves you something of themself; Everyone you told spreads your s...

Check the honesty of what's on offer, True detective or a fake fakir? All the evidence is circumstantial - As mud the evidence is clear. Paranormal the investigation - Where do things go when they disappear? All the evidence has been trumped up... As mu...

Hope by and by, hope by and by - Motes in the eye, portcullis is shut... A skull isn't much Of a c-c-castle to live in When I know that the change is going to come, The change has got to come. Explosions in the brain attest to it. Evolution down the dr...

With my face drained of colour And my brain of blood, Like Billy Budd I'm lashed to the grating. With senses growing duller And with quaking heart I make a start At temperature equating And my lungs suck useless air. Like paraplegic dancers In forma...

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. Seeing's believing and I believe in you I can't conceal it, just what I feel for you. Seeing's believing, I know that you'll...

Streets half-familiar that I once called home... The breath of phantoms now fogs the light; The skin I shuffled strangely outgrown. Fallen, the city of night Lost geographics of mortar and lime Formed the arena for fight or flight; All's buried under th...

I see What isn't there and what might be: All the pages falling open. Out of my grasp The future floods my fingers: The blood that binds the bone For us a given, unforgiving known. (All I've known unknowing) Although I'm stumbling onward on the words...

"If I close my eyes I can pretend The best is still before me, the worst is at an end. Time for goodbyes to the audiences that adored me; They never realised Just how much I came to despise all their eagerness." Famous last words, Made in jest, overhear...