Peter Hammill piosenki

We bite off our tongues While chewing the fat; Though the fire in our lungs is celestial Our delivery falls flat. Would a time come to be silent? Oh, we never spoke of that. We talked out of turn In the school of hard knocks; Although willing to learn...

He'll be young forever if he keeps this up... So the bedroom playboy's never going to grow up. The heart is a secret garden To which there are no short cuts. Only green young fingers make the garden bloom; For the serious young man now is always too soon...

All men are born equal at the moment they arrive: Check the limbs and senses we require to survive. But some come deaf and dumb and blinded, Some have damage to their brains; Parents constantly reminded That they'll never play the normal children's games....

How was it that we first met? 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 the thing to do, I want to show I truly care. Now at every time we mee...

Fuelled by alcohol, Shooting out words like a rocket, Like a prophet out of Babylon Method acting the absurd... Shoot me those highballs Till I'm lit up like I'm plugged in a socket; Lock me eyeball to eyeball, Let's not bother with the words. Oh, brin...

Here it comes up on the screen, The propaganda of the military-industrial machine. By now we find there's little choice: When our masters tell us "smile" we rejoice. With the nuclear shield safely in place We're assured of the survival of the human race....

Hair in the gate, let's take a minute To find out where this character's lost his way... Unless I'm much mistaken I'm at the limit Of what I can and can't say. Something untoward seems to be occurring, The best that I can do is play along For much as I...

This is no time to hesitate, The line slips into overload; The mixture too thick, The touch too close to the motherlode. Time - there's so little time To do anything that's not useless... You tried for a little while To hide your face from the future....

Foot down in the GTi Cabriolet To the villa in the South of France For vacation; Keep your head down, baby, Keep your hair in golden curls And you will always be his, And you will always be his best girl. Fast forward on the handycam video; Top that tan up,...

(Here's the old man and his not-so-childlike bride; Here's the humbling of us all, delusion never dies; Here's the story: anyone can fall at any time at all. We're born to be fools in life.) I was the king of the mountain, I had everything that money cou...

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. And now I feel like dying, And if the water were still here, It woul...

Trapped like a rabbit by the future glare, onrushing headlights that blind you, a frightened runaway, at least you know I care, I will seek, I will search, I will find you. We are written in the star-crossed sky, the spirit music reminds you... you can run an...

You 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 that I know I'm going to lose you all the words...

And if language explodes In our faces like shrapnel All self-defence is blown away. In the end this reasoning's sound: How can we be found If we're lost for words? Oh, still in the search for the words... I've said my piece, I'll take my leave now,...

Already there’s no case for special pleading, no points to score, no blow by blow. I look around the room that we’ll be leaving. Even while you’re here beside me I already know I miss you so. How soon we make our move towards hereafter where we will reap wha...

Strange to behold Is the stone of this wall Broken by fate. The strongholds are bursten, The work of giants decaying; The roofs are fallen, The towers are tottering, Mouldering palaces roofless, Weather-marked masonry shattering. Shelters time-scarre...

Pack your bags, we're leaving Earth, where hate is seething, Nothing's worth believing. There's no time, make up your mind! Imperial Zeppelin... Quick, the engines are turning, Cabin lights are burning, Now there's no returning. We'll have love a mile...

With the sense of anticipation burning on his skin And the train of consequences running at full throttle, Before the touch, before the kiss, This moment just before their history begins, He'd give anything to put this in a bottle. No sense of time, no s...

Dance the dance Dance the dance Till show time The show goes on. Dance the dance Dance the dance In slow time If that's what you want. Dance the dance In the back of the car Dance the dance In the cocktail bar Till show time let it ride. Dance...

I promise you, I won't leave a clue: no tell-tale remark, no print from my shoe. Still a steady trail to the water's edge - I will keep my pledge to the end; I intend to go free No more rushing around, no more travelling chess; I guess I'd better sit dow...