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Peter Hammill - Faint-Heart and the Sermon
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Peter Hammill - A Forest Of Pronouns
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Peter Hammill - Again
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Peter Hammill - Forsaken Gardens
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Peter Hammill - Gog
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Peter Hammill - Lost And Found
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Peter Hammill - My Favourite
- 8
Peter Hammill - Nadir's Big Chance
- 9
Peter Hammill - Still Life
- 10
Peter Hammill - The Comet, The Course, The Tail
- 11
Peter Hammill - The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
- 12
Peter Hammill - Time Heals
- 13
Peter Hammill - Time To Burn
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Peter Hammill - Too Many Of My Yesterdays
- 15
Peter Hammill - (No More) The Submariner
- 16
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 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 - 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
- 30
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 - Four Pails
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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
- 37
Peter Hammill - Just Good Friends
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Peter Hammill - Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
- 39
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 - 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
- 55
Peter Hammill - Now More Than Ever
- 56
Peter Hammill - Oasis
- 57
Peter Hammill - On The Surface
- 58
Peter Hammill - Open your Eyes (The Locarno Song)
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Peter Hammill - Ophelia
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Peter Hammill - Other Old Clichés
- 61
Peter Hammill - Our Oyster
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Peter Hammill - Painting By Numbers
- 63
Peter Hammill - Palinurus (Castaway)
- 64
Peter Hammill - Paradox Drive
- 65
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
- 69
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 - 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 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 Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
- 113
Peter Hammill - The Jargon King
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Peter Hammill - The Light Continent
- 115
Peter Hammill - The Meanings Changed
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Peter Hammill - The Moebius Loop
- 117
Peter Hammill - The Mousetrap (Caught In)
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Peter Hammill - The Noise
- 119
Peter Hammill - The Old School Tie
- 120
Peter Hammill - The Play's The Thing
- 121
Peter Hammill - The Polaroid
- 122
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
- 126
Peter Hammill - This Book
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Peter Hammill - This Side Of The Looking Glass
- 128
Peter Hammill - Time For A Change
- 129
Peter Hammill - Traintime
- 130
Peter Hammill - Trappings
- 131
Peter Hammill - Two Or Three Spectres
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Peter Hammill - Under Cover Names
- 133
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?
- 139
Peter Hammill - When Language Corrodes
- 140
Peter Hammill - Where The Mouth Is
- 141
Peter Hammill - Wilhelmina
- 142
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
Material Possession
Peter Hammill
every gain ill-gotten,
the golden apples on the tree are all potentially rotten.
Pluck the fruit and bear no mind,
so the poison bloom advances -
the hand that clasps too tight will never grasp its chances.
All the things that you've got will not be worth a lot
if the owning becomes an obsession
meaning nothing more than mere material possession.
Broken, lost, the precious thing,
does that make your life so empty?
stars shine alike upon the ditch and on the land of Plenty.
the thing that's gone was always going to be gone,
what's left is some remembered pleasure -
only their loss confirms the things we ever learned to treasure.
And the things that you claim are only ever yours in name -
do you think that they'll leave an impression?
Only flesh and bone are the true material possessions.
Your lighter's worth a watch, your watch would buy a car,
your car is worth a house with rooms to rattle round in.
Try to make the house a home that's yours and yours alone:
you dredge a lake of dreams to fill with tears and drown in.
Now the flame will soon be dowsed and time is running out,
the wheel will turn full circle, then we'll all be foundlings.
And all the things that we own are never ours alone,
no, they just pass through our hands in succession -
shake the spirit, shake the blood, shake the flesh and shake the bone
shake free from material possession.
Every loss is treasure trove, every gain is faded,
every taste and every touch will finally be jaded.
When in the end all life is spent,
what we bought was mere digression:
the price we pay shaking free from material possession.
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