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Peter Hammill - A Louse Is Not A Home
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Peter Hammill - The Birds
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Peter Hammill - Again
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Peter Hammill - The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning
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Peter Hammill - Time Heals
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Peter Hammill - Faint-Heart and the Sermon
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Peter Hammill - I Once Wrote Some Poems
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Peter Hammill - Mirror Images
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Peter Hammill - Patient
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Peter Hammill - Shingle Song
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Peter Hammill - Vision
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 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 Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
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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 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 - 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 - Wilhelmina
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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
Faint-Heart and the Sermon
Peter Hammill
And my brain of blood
Like Billy Budd
I'm lashed to the grating
With senses growing duller
And with quaking heart
I make a start
At temperature equating
And my lungs suck useless air
Like paraplegic dancers
In formation team
My understanding seems
Hidebound in its movements
Contemplating answers
That could break my bonds
To be half wrong
Would be, in me, improvement
But my comprehensive faculties are impaired
And it seems absurd, but now all I've heard
Fades in empty words and is worthless
As the Human Laugh rocks the cenotaph
But the joke is half-true, and mirthless
Trying to trace a reason
From the spinning words
But all I've heard
Seem at odds with their meanings
Phonetically pleasing
But delivered in such haste
That in their place
My mind commences screaming
On the verge of belief I crash onto the reef
And a cynical thief steals my senses
So I cling to the pew with dimensions askew
And recognition refuses present tenses
All the lives of the saints demonstrate that my faint
Is a minor complaint, but the end is
Nowhere in sight
Why can't I find me a way to go?
I don't want to die in the nave
But I know it may be with me some day
So I've got to find a way I can save up
My energies, and find a cause to pray
To something for something
To which I can give my creed
I'd gladly succumb to the wave
If I thought the water taught a way to light
I'd gladly succumb I'm not brave
And it's easy to believe what the preacher says
Except for the conflict raging between my head
And my brain
I don't want to die, but just the same
Some day
Waiting for a moment
That I know will come
When I'll have to run
And find another sermon
Everyman and Norman
And the talking priest
Still, I am at least holding all the doors open
Inside me all outside is shared
As the cracked bells peal it all seems unreal
But the seventh seal stays unbroken
And the Offertory plate tenders no escape
Still I refuse to scrape up a token
Of esteem for these false
Alleyways of the course
I must try to divorce sense from sensing
Tell me again
Tell me the way to go
So when I talk to myself
Although I take good care to listen
My heart grows ever more faint
There's something missing?