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Peter Hammill - Wilhelmina
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Peter Hammill - Lost And Found
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Peter Hammill - The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
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Peter Hammill - The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
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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 - A Louse Is Not A Home
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Peter Hammill - Again
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Peter Hammill - Been Alone So Long
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - Mirror Images
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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 - Patient
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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 - Shingle Song
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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 Birds
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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 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 Heals
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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 - Vision
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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 - 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
Pushing Thirty
Peter Hammill
the kind that go up everyone's nose,
so much back-slapping that the vertabrae
are fatally exposed...
Me, I'm pushing thirty, pulling sixteen,
though much of what's around me is dead...
they got so shirty when I tried to glean
the meaning from what they'd said:
``If you wanna be a viable artist when you're twenty-five
you'd better be a meat-head by the time you're 'twenty-one.''
But now I'm pushing thirty and I'm still alive,
so tell me who, tell me who has won?
See the survivors in the upcoming acts,
they and the moguls make a regular killing -
others take it lying on their backs,
young blood is always so willing.
Me, I'm pushing thirty, that's the way it is,
too late to change my mind.
They play it dirty in the record biz
and you've got to toe the line
if you wanna be an A & R man when the singing's done
you'd better make sure that you hedge your bets.
Me I'm pushing thirty and still having fun,
I haven't stopped, haven't stopped that yet!
All the writers watch each other for the way to go,
follow each other like lemmings -
swear they're all waiting for Nicky Lowe
to turn out like David Hemmings...
Me, I'm pushing thirty and the steady zone,
perhaps I should retire,
but even if it all deserts me and I'm left alone
I still know that I'm fuelled by fire...
In this rubish world you've got to keep that under the lid,
'`cos they all hope it'll disappear...
but even though I'm pushing thirty,
maybe on the skids,
I still can be, I still can be Nadir