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Peter Hammill - Again
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Peter Hammill - Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
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Peter Hammill - Sharply Unclear
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Peter Hammill - The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: ii. Continental Drift
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: iv. Long Light
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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 - Mr. X (Gets Tense)
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Peter Hammill - Shingle Song
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Peter Hammill - Solitude
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Peter Hammill - The Comet, The Course, The Tail
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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: iii. The Twelve
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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 - Faint-Heart and the Sermon
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Peter Hammill - Fight
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Peter Hammill - Gog
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Peter Hammill - Happy
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Peter Hammill - Man-Erg
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Peter Hammill - Material Possession
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Peter Hammill - Mirror Images
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Peter Hammill - Modern
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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 - Palinurus (Castaway)
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Peter Hammill - Paradox Drive
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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 - Sci-Finance
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Peter Hammill - Seven Wonders
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Peter Hammill - Shell
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Peter Hammill - Since The Kids
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Peter Hammill - Smile
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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 - Sun City Nightlife
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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 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 Heals
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Peter Hammill - Time To Burn
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Peter Hammill - Trappings
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Peter Hammill - Under Cover Names
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Peter Hammill - Unrehearshed
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Peter Hammill - When Language Corrodes
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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 - Ferret And Featherbird
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Peter Hammill - Forsaken Gardens
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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 - 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 - 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 - She Wraps It Up
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Peter Hammill - Sign
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Peter Hammill - Silver
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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 - 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 Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
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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 - Time For A Change
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Peter Hammill - Too Many Of My Yesterdays
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Peter Hammill - Traintime
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Peter Hammill - Two Or Three Spectres
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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 - Where The Mouth Is
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Peter Hammill - You Hit Me Where I Live
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Peter Hammill - Your Word
(No More) The Submariner
Peter Hammill
In my dreams, brief shelter from the rain
I try to catch the fireglow
With Dinky Toys, I thought that I was stirling
With cricket bat, I saw myself as Peter May
Now, with all these images returning
I wonder who I am today?
As a child, I refought the war
With plastic planes and imagination
I sank tirpitz, blew up the mohne dam, these and more
I was the saviour of the nation
Oh! To be the captain of a ship of war
The pilot of a tempest or a york
To hold my trench against the Panzer Korps
Instead of simply being one who talks
And reminisces of his fantasies
As though life was nothing but to lose
These only antecede the knowledge that, eventually
He must choose
It's a hallmark of adulthood
That our options diminish
As our faculties for choice increase
Till we choose everything and nothing
Too late, at the finish
In my youth, I held belief: My faith and thought were strong
But now I'm stripped of every leaf, and it robs me
Of the sight of right and wrong
Oh! To be the son of Che Guevara
One unit in the serried ranks of black
A papist or an orangeman, a eunuch
Then doubt would never cast the dagger in my back
Oh! To be King John or Douglas Bader
Humphrey bogart or Victor Mature
Which one is false and easy
Which one harder?
Of that, of this, of me
I'm really not too sure