A Perfect Date Peter Hammill

A perfect date to hesitate, I hope it won't be too long. You're a sucker for the punch and the telegraph bells are ringing; now it's coming to the crunch as you stumble on the Jaffa Gate.

Faith Peter Hammill

Each moment is precious those that I spend with you are a prize – I count myself lucky just being alive while you're in my eyes.

Crying Wolf Peter Hammill

You turn out the lights and sit alone, Trying to pretend that it's anguish, Start at the ring of a telephone, Throw down all your food at the banquet, Keep a close eye on all you own, While leaving it

Lost And Found Peter Hammill

On through the ring of changes I'll be at my side in a single bound, lost and found... looking to be lost and found. La Rossa extends her hands - in the morning light the stigmata don't show.

Shell Peter Hammill

Turn a card, turn a page, the action sure to start, second-stage reaction to illogical thoughts on random lines – in a Borges dream we move toward the writing of lives.

Skin Peter Hammill

There's a shiver down the spine of the body map... how come everything gets so physical?

Porton Down Peter Hammill

Won't hear a sound at Porton Down, The clear liquids keep their silence, Buried underground at Porton Down The fast form of the final violence.

Stranger Still Peter Hammill

No danger in a normal life, Better steady down the adrenalin pump. Excess refraction in the mirror Only leads to the quantum jump Oh, but it leaves me in limbo; How strange, what a stranger I become.

Tapeworm Peter Hammill

When I was a child they made me read Word-daggers of quiver and squirm Now in the stumbling dark I see I am A worm silently fruiting your garden My sister my child night casts ominous Meanings on the purity

Two Or Three Spectres Peter Hammill

Why don't you go away and write commercial songs; come back in three years, that shouldn't be too long…" He's a joker and an acrobat, a record exec. in a Mayfair flat with Altec speakers wall to wall,

Wilhelmina Peter Hammill

You've come into a cruel World : little girls can lose their way in the Growing night -- I hope you'll be alright. Willie, try to stay a child sometime, for as long As you feel you can learn.

Ferret And Featherbird Peter Hammill

That's how it seemed a week ago, Far off in time and space. Time and distance are between us now, They form a bond to make things sure.

Vision Peter Hammill

I have a vision of you, locked inside my head; it creeps upon my mind, and warms me in my bed...

My Experience Peter Hammill

It was nothing, it came from nowhere at all, it was a casual remark, Not a curtain-call. Late for breakfast - black coffee, brandy-laced... That look on your face.

Child Peter Hammill

don't know quite what's happening and my eyes don't see too clear; all I know is I need you here, if only to shield me from the mood of the world and hold me and say it doesn't matter.... but I'm like a

The Birds Peter Hammill

In a moment of weakness I embodied the sickness And when everyone winds me up I just can't wind down And the April rain soaks my jokes to a pulp The sun makes my eyes burn And it must be my turn To fly

Airport Peter Hammill

In a week, in a month, in a year, in a lifetime how I'll feel none can tell. All I know is now you're going there's really no-one here to help.

Happy Peter Hammill

We walked around and talked a while; In your smile I found that I was happy. I want to tell you; it seems a thing to do; I want to show I truly care.

Just Good Friends Peter Hammill

A casual affair is all that you can spare from your emotional change; a calendar of meetings, strangers on the street the best we ever arrange.

Birthday Special Peter Hammill

me the candy, yes, I understand is fine; blow another candle out and throw another line… Birthday girl, I've got something for you, there's ice in the cauldron, look out now; birthday girl, here comes a

Again Peter Hammill

I stretch my hands Clutch vacant laughter In silence and sweet, sweet pain Without demand But with a longing For what will never come again I smell your perfume On the sheets in the morning It linger like

Fogwalking Peter Hammill

I've been kicking around like a dog, Lost myself in the blank mass of fog, It's some kind of service. All humanity's fall-out is there, Slumped in doorways And mouthing cold air - I have heard this.

Imperial Zeppelin Peter Hammill

We'll have love a mile above... Imperial Zeppelin, Imperial Zeppelin, Imperial Zeppelin!

Re-Awakening Peter Hammill

If you catch me running along by the sea, with bare feet in the sand, then you'll know I am dreaming my life out in a way you won't understand.

Fogwalking (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

I've been kicking around like a dog, lost myself in the blank mass of fog, it's some kind of service.

The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning Peter Hammill

It was the first day of July; no wind breathed in the sky when a pin-striped suit saw that the Institute of Mental Health was burning.

Pompeii Peter Hammill

The golden dream, the seat of all decorum, a satellite to match the light of Rome; its silver children chatter in the Forum, the bath-house, and the brothels, and their homes about the latest fashions

The Spirit (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Yeah, the ash-mark stands out on the forehead as the vacuum sneaks up on the eyes; the body becomes a constant traitor but the spirit won't be denied.

The Comet, The Course, The Tail Peter Hammill

Though the path of the comet be sure, its constitution is not so its meaning is possibly more than the tracing of a tail in one brief shot at glory.

Sitting Targets Peter Hammill

If we'd been stuck just a few hours more I'd have cracked up, I'd say.

The Spirit Peter Hammill

Yeah, the ash-mark stands out on the forehead As the vacuum sneaks up on the eyes; The body becomes a constant traitor But the spirit won't be denied.

Losing Faith In Words Peter Hammill

If not now, then certainly sooner or later we've got a problem with communication - look, I scrabble with my hands I try to get some head-room from the elevation but you just don't understand Most of the

Losing Faith In Words (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

If not now, then certainly sooner or later we've got a problem with communication - look, I scrabble with my hands I try to get some head-room from the elevation but you just don't understand

Sleep Now Peter Hammill

Tomorrow brave new worlds will surely come, and trouble deep; you're such a wonder, such a mystery to me.

Breakthrough Peter Hammill

If only a breakthrough in time would come There'd be some chance for the visited ones. We could talk about tomorrow As though we believed in that.

You Hit Me Where I Live Peter Hammill

You're a duelist in your own fashion, eyes that run me through. You say that it's a mixed blessing, but I should take the gift you give... you hit me where I live.

I Once Wrote Some Poems Peter Hammill

I once wrote a poem while walking on gravestones, as cobbles, rain and tear lashed down my face.... I then felt my whole world was fading as memories jostled and fell into place.

After The Show Peter Hammill

He made a bit of money, that's something you might like to know... He'll be drinking in the cafe on the corner after the show.

Sign Peter Hammill

Hey, take a Polaroid, exit, And well you might. Sign the picture, get out of the frame; Sign the picture, and throw it away. Sign the picture, sign the picture, Throw the picture away.

Energy Vampires Peter Hammill

One thing I've not got a lot of is time and it's slipping away... I've got a life to live too. Ah, here they come... Vampires!

People You Were Going To Peter Hammill

Yes, the haze that's been forming round your window-panes Is now protracted and poisoned And you cannot feel a portion of the world outside.

Ophelia Peter Hammill

You heard a noise in the firegrate, You look to see who goes there - It's just the stranger, he's come too late And even he's unprepared To find the cupboard so bare And it's strange...

Solitude Peter Hammill

ceaselessly around me,and the blue of the sky surrounds me strangely.Out here, life is at its essence,and watches the world with innocent eyes;far from grime, far from rushing people it seems that I have found a

Jargon King Peter Hammill

He prescribes the subject He proscribes outsiders His terms have a golden ring. He wants to find some order Quantifying chaos In words that all the children sing.

Open Your Eyes Peter Hammill

I told her I was dancing but she didn't seem to hear; she asked if I wanted to learn judo, then she threw me out on my ear before I'd even had time to take a bow.

Nadir's Big Chance Peter Hammill

Now's my big break – let me up on the stage, I'll show you what it's all about; enough of the fake, bang your feet in a rage, tear down the walls and let us out!

Summer Song (In The Autumn) Peter Hammill

You remember the happiness you had as you laughed along in the sun but now your eyes are coming dull, there's a numbness on your tongue....

Not For Keith Peter Hammill

I never did say, I never quite found time – he taught me a lot, and I carry it still. I never thanked him at all for his friendship and now I never will.

Dropping The Torch Peter Hammill

We play games and every move is noted down as a subsequent cause and effectively chains our freedom and will to live; we settle in to simple survival, hanging on our pleasures grimly... we must never let

Autumn Peter Hammill

Now there's only my wife and me; We used to have a family - now that's gone And only memories linger on... It all seems very wrong to me.