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Peter Hammill - Again
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Peter Hammill - Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
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Peter Hammill - The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
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Peter Hammill - A Louse Is Not A Home
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Peter Hammill - Been Alone So Long
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Peter Hammill - Man-Erg
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Peter Hammill - Palinurus (Castaway)
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Peter Hammill - Sharply Unclear
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Peter Hammill - Shingle Song
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Peter Hammill - The Comet, The Course, The Tail
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Peter Hammill - Under Cover Names
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Peter Hammill - Unrehearshed
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Peter Hammill - Vision
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Peter Hammill - (No More) The Submariner
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Peter Hammill - A Better Time
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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: vii. Or So I Said
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Peter Hammill - Fight
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Peter Hammill - Forsaken Gardens
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Peter Hammill - Gog
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Peter Hammill - Happy
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Peter Hammill - Material Possession
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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 - Nightman
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Peter Hammill - No Moon In The Water
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Peter Hammill - Not For Keith
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Peter Hammill - Nothing Comes
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Peter Hammill - Now Lover
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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 - Other Old Clichés
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Peter Hammill - Painting By Numbers
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Peter Hammill - Patient
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Peter Hammill - Personality
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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 - Primo on the Parapet
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Peter Hammill - Re-Awakening
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Peter Hammill - Reprise
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Peter Hammill - Seven Wonders
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Peter Hammill - Shell
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Peter Hammill - Smile
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Peter Hammill - Solitude
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Peter Hammill - Still In The Dark
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Peter Hammill - Stupid
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Peter Hammill - Summer Song (In the Autumn)
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Peter Hammill - Tenderness
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Peter Hammill - The Cut
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Peter Hammill - The Future Now
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Peter Hammill - The Great European Department Store
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Peter Hammill - The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
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Peter Hammill - The Jargon King
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Peter Hammill - The Moebius Loop
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Peter Hammill - The Second Hand
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Peter Hammill - The Spirit
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Peter Hammill - This Book
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Peter Hammill - Time For A Change
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Peter Hammill - Time Heals
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Peter Hammill - Time To Burn
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Peter Hammill - Trappings
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Peter Hammill - Two Or Three Spectres
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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 - (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga
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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: vi. As You Were
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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 - Faint-Heart and the Sermon
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Peter Hammill - Ferret And Featherbird
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Peter Hammill - Four Pails
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Peter Hammill - I Once Wrote Some Poems
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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 - Mediaevil
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Peter Hammill - Mirror Images
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Peter Hammill - Modern
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Peter Hammill - Narcissus (Bar & Grill)
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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 The Man
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Peter Hammill - Now More Than Ever
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Peter Hammill - Ophelia
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Peter Hammill - Our Oyster
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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 - Phosphorescence
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Peter Hammill - Power Of Speech
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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 - Red Shift
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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 - She Wraps It Up
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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 - Something About Ysabel's Dance
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Peter Hammill - Still Life
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Peter Hammill - Stranger Still
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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 - The Birds
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Peter Hammill - The Gift of Fire (Talk Turkey)
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Peter Hammill - The Great Experiment
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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 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 Tower
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Peter Hammill - The Unconscious Life
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Peter Hammill - This Side Of The Looking Glass
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Peter Hammill - Too Many Of My Yesterdays
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Peter Hammill - Traintime
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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 - You Hit Me Where I Live
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Peter Hammill - Your Word
A Better Time
Peter Hammill
already there's the breath of the wind which bleaches bare the bones
of the deadlines we set, of the jokes we don't get
and forgetfulness that furrows the brow...
no I'll never find a better time
to be alive than now.
So I wake up, to remainder the dream
of personality and posture and face
for nothing can remain as it seems
in some perfect state of pure grace....
all we prize and protect only cause and effect
but I suspect the furrow may be guiding the plough
and I'll never find a better time
to be alive than now.
No better, no worse, much the same,
we wait on the why and the when;
no question but we'll go as we came
with no shift in the shape of the zen
and it is as it is and we take as we find
always next season's buds on the bough...
but I'll never find a better time
hard though it is to allow
I'll never find a better time
to be alive than now.
This is the life and we've only time
to be alive right now.