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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
Time Heals
Peter Hammill
can lie beside you as I never truly did,
in afterglow -
no afterwords at all.
Only writing love songs when it's gone and dead;
only paying words out: strings of half-forgotten sentiments...
I mean...
I meant...
I never really quite could say the way it was.
The first time that we met I said 'I bet that she's the one',
but I was talking to myself then, as always.
As time went by our steps entwined, unwritten lines drew taut
and I tried to find a way to make it all safe...
Into the play - what a production! -
into the days and ever more suction:
you hold me close, but hold me farther
away from yourself - I make me a martyr,
for pain and love go hand in hand....
And hand in hand go you and my friend,
you are his and I am yours and just cannot evade you;
my days a dream, my nights unseemly,
stolen moments all I live for,
but theft is no way to persuade you
to come with me, leave him behind you;
my hurtful eyes try to remind you
it's all I can do to keep from screaming
'I love you, I love you!' - I wish I was dreaming,
but the steps we take all leave footprints....
Sooner or later the whole thing will be blown:
you will leave him or I'll be left here, alone.
Either way someone loses someone
but I won't mind that, I just would quite like to know
who we love the most - well, I guess that's ourselves.
The days are strange, at night we're strangers,
lie in bed and lie inside our heads,
we come no closer than as dancers.
Your eyes are change, your presence danger,
won't look me in the face and yet you
kiss and make up the answer
to all the questions that fly unanswered, unreasoned -
death in the sky, death in the season.
If you leave me now, it might nearly kill me....
Remember me?
Remember we three?
It all seemed so important at the time,
we came so close to wrecking all our lives,
and now it's all just song lines.
Time heals,
time heals -
oh, but I still bear the weals.
Thinking back, it seems that I
can lie beside you as I never truly did,
in afterglow -
no afterwords at all.
Only writing love songs when it's gone and dead,
only paying words out: streams of half-forgotten sentiments...
I mean...
I meant...
I never really quite could say
the way it was.