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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 - Magog (In Bromine Chambers)
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Peter Hammill - The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
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Peter Hammill - A Headlong Stretch: iv. Long Light
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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 - Sharply Unclear
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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 - Under Cover Names
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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: 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 - Forsaken Gardens
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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 - 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 - 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 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 - Unrehearshed
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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
Forsaken Gardens
Peter Hammill
Where, now, is the happiness and laughter that we shared?
Gone, like our childhood dreams, aspirations and beliefs;
time is a thief, and he ravages our gardens,
stripping saplings, felling trees,
trampling on our flowers, sucking sap and drying seeds.
In the midnight candle-light of experience
all colour fades, green fingers grey.
Time, alone, shall murder all the flowers,
still, there's time to share our plots and all that we call 'ours'.
How much worse, then, if we all deny each others' needs
and keep our gardens privately?
Its getting colder, wind and rain leave gashes;
looking back, I only see the friends I've lost.
Fires smoulder, raking through the ashes
my hands are dirty, my mind is numb,
I count the cost of 'I':
"I need to get on, I've got to tend my garden;
got to shut you out, no time to crave your pardon now".
Now I see the garden that I've grown is
just the same as those outside;
the fences that, erected to protect, simply divide....
There's ruination everywhere,
the weather has played havoc with the grass...
does anyone believe his garden's really going to last?
In the time allotted us, can any man keep miserly his own?
Is there any pleasure in a solitary growth?
Come and see my garden if you wil,
I'd like someone to see it all before each root is killed.
Surely now its time to open up each life to all,
tear down the walls, if it's not too late!
There is so much sorrow in the world,
there is so much emptiness and heartbreak and pain.
Somewhere on the road we have all taken a wrong turn...
how can we build the right path again?
Through the grief, through the pain,
our flowers need each other'srain....