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Peter Hammill - A Louse Is Not A Home
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Peter Hammill - The Birds
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Peter Hammill - Again
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Peter Hammill - The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
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Peter Hammill - Time Heals
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Peter Hammill - Been Alone So Long
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Peter Hammill - Faint-Heart and the Sermon
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Peter Hammill - I Once Wrote Some Poems
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Peter Hammill - Mirror Images
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Peter Hammill - Patient
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Peter Hammill - Shingle Song
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Peter Hammill - Vision
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Peter Hammill - (No More) The Submariner
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Peter Hammill - (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga
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Peter Hammill - A Better Time
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Peter Hammill - A Forest Of Pronouns
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: i. Up Ahead
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: ii. Continental Drift
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: iii. The Twelve
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: iv. Long Light
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: v. Backwards Man
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: vi. As You Were
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: vii. Or So I Said
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Peter Hammill - Candle
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Peter Hammill - Child
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Peter Hammill - Comfortable
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Peter Hammill - Crying Wolf
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Peter Hammill - Ferret And Featherbird
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Peter Hammill - Fight
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Peter Hammill - Forsaken Gardens
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Peter Hammill - Four Pails
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Peter Hammill - Gog
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Peter Hammill - Happy
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Peter Hammill - Imperial Zeppelin
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Peter Hammill - Just Good Friends
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Peter Hammill - Lost And Found
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Peter Hammill - Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
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Peter Hammill - Man-Erg
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Peter Hammill - Material Possession
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Peter Hammill - Mediaevil
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Peter Hammill - Modern
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Peter Hammill - Mr. X (Gets Tense)
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Peter Hammill - My Experience
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Peter Hammill - My Favourite
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Peter Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance
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Peter Hammill - Narcissus (Bar & Grill)
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Peter Hammill - Nightman
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Peter Hammill - No Moon In The Water
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Peter Hammill - Nobody's Business
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Peter Hammill - None Of The Above
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Peter Hammill - Not For Keith
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Peter Hammill - Not The Man
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Peter Hammill - Nothing Comes
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Peter Hammill - Now Lover
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Peter Hammill - Now More Than Ever
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Peter Hammill - Oasis
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Peter Hammill - On The Surface
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Peter Hammill - Open your Eyes (The Locarno Song)
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Peter Hammill - Ophelia
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Peter Hammill - Other Old Clichés
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Peter Hammill - Our Oyster
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Peter Hammill - Painting By Numbers
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Peter Hammill - Palinurus (Castaway)
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Peter Hammill - Paradox Drive
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Peter Hammill - People You Were Going To
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Peter Hammill - Personality
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Peter Hammill - Phosphorescence
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Peter Hammill - Planet Coventry
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Peter Hammill - Pompeii
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Peter Hammill - Porton Down
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Peter Hammill - Power Of Speech
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Peter Hammill - Primo on the Parapet
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Peter Hammill - Pushing Thirty
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Peter Hammill - Rain, 3 a.m.
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Peter Hammill - Ram Origami
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Peter Hammill - Re-Awakening
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Peter Hammill - Red Shift
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Peter Hammill - Reprise
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Peter Hammill - Rock and Rôle
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Peter Hammill - Rubicon
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Peter Hammill - Sci-Finance
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Peter Hammill - Seven Wonders
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Peter Hammill - Sharply Unclear
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Peter Hammill - She Wraps It Up
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Peter Hammill - Shell
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Peter Hammill - Sign
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Peter Hammill - Silver
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Peter Hammill - Since The Kids
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Peter Hammill - Sitting Targets
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Peter Hammill - Skin
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Peter Hammill - Sleep Now
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Peter Hammill - Slender Threads
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Peter Hammill - Smile
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Peter Hammill - Solitude
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Peter Hammill - Something About Ysabel's Dance
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Peter Hammill - Still In The Dark
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Peter Hammill - Still Life
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Peter Hammill - Stranger Still
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Peter Hammill - Stupid
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Peter Hammill - Summer Song (In the Autumn)
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Peter Hammill - Sun City Nightlife
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Peter Hammill - Sunshine
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Peter Hammill - Tapeworm
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Peter Hammill - Tenderness
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Peter Hammill - The Comet, The Course, The Tail
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Peter Hammill - The Cut
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Peter Hammill - The Future Now
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Peter Hammill - The Gift of Fire (Talk Turkey)
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Peter Hammill - The Great European Department Store
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Peter Hammill - The Great Experiment
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Peter Hammill - The Jargon King
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Peter Hammill - The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
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Peter Hammill - The Light Continent
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Peter Hammill - The Meanings Changed
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Peter Hammill - The Moebius Loop
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Peter Hammill - The Mousetrap (Caught In)
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Peter Hammill - The Noise
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Peter Hammill - The Old School Tie
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Peter Hammill - The Play's The Thing
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Peter Hammill - The Polaroid
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Peter Hammill - The Second Hand
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Peter Hammill - The Spirit
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Peter Hammill - The Tower
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Peter Hammill - The Unconscious Life
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Peter Hammill - This Book
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Peter Hammill - This Side Of The Looking Glass
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Peter Hammill - Time For A Change
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Peter Hammill - Time To Burn
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Peter Hammill - Too Many Of My Yesterdays
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Peter Hammill - Traintime
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Peter Hammill - Trappings
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Peter Hammill - Two Or Three Spectres
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Peter Hammill - Under Cover Names
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Peter Hammill - Unrehearshed
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Peter Hammill - Viking
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Peter Hammill - Vote Brand X
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Peter Hammill - What I Did
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Peter Hammill - What's it Worth?
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Peter Hammill - When Language Corrodes
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Peter Hammill - Where The Mouth Is
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Peter Hammill - Wilhelmina
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Peter Hammill - You Can't Want What You Always Get...
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Peter Hammill - You Hit Me Where I Live
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Peter Hammill - Your Word
Primo on the Parapet
Peter Hammill
to walk on hollow legs, leaving no footprint;
to drift like a ghost through the quarters of lost desire;
breathing underwater,
still running through the fire.
Four horsemen drive the coach of Holocaust home;
and with what sense of history do we view our bright new world,
with the video nasty blasting through the set
of our next door neighbour?
Do we learn to forget? Do we learn just to forget?
And raw barbarity seeps, spore in soil?
And no-one's an innocent, no-one's entirely immune....
Oh, still we wait for a saviour, there are no saints as yet.
Just that gilt badge of survival,
we learn to forget.
The blindest eye is turned on the beast we clothe,
drab in the uniform of silent acquiescence.
I'll raise this toast to Primo, climbing up upon the parapet
with one final word of caution:
we must learn not to forget.
There's pain in remembrance,
but we must learn not to forget.
Here's a toast to Primo,
let's learn not to forget.
Here's a toast to Primo,
forgive but don't forget.
Here's a toast to Primo,
let's learn not to forget.
One last word of caution
from the very rim of the parapet.
One last word in remembrance...
we must learn not to forget.