My Experience Peter Hammill

Time after time It's been my experience that when the row gets serious A certain silence will fall... But I just can't stop it, why don't you tell me what's wrong?

Vision Peter Hammill

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

Shingle Song Peter Hammill

You can see in the 1st light that's graced as dawn That there's nothing in my heart but pain As I stand, facing sea, knowing that you're gone All the elements rage to explain That I should really be on

Sunshine Peter Hammill

Oh, suddenly things begin to come clear in my mind as I look into the land laid bare by your eyes; E-S/M attractions are working behind my thought, I can't help my feelings, the way that my emotions are

Energy Vampires Peter Hammill

Uh-oh, here they come, ready for their meal: Energy Vampires, crawling out of the wall, they want to steal my vitality, they want to drink it all.

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

I Once Wrote Some Poems Peter Hammill

I once wrote some poems of stillness and silence, standing by rivers of reflected light: my thoughts were on being loved and yet unloved, too - I surrendered to the warmth of the night.

Child Peter Hammill

I 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

Open Your Eyes Peter Hammill

I was sitting in the dance-hall, but my mind was far away so when the usherette walked over I didn't know quite what to say. I tried to look cool but I knew that I blew it somehow.

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.

Nadir's Big Chance Peter Hammill

I've been hanging around, waiting for my chance to tell you what I think about the music that's gone down to which you madly danced – frankly, you know that it stinks.

Candle Peter Hammill

So does my mind fly as I fight my thought - and I lose, for I cannot find: sent my eyes long miles, they do not know home!

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

Believe me, I don't want you to leave me; look in my eyes and you'll see them filled with pain. Imagine just how sad I'll be in some future day when I turn and no longer see your face.

If I Could Peter Hammill

Oh, you must be crazy to stay here And I'll be crazy when you go Though there's so much I want to tell you All the words come out too slow I've been locked in my problems You seemed prepared to

Just Good Friends Peter Hammill

I gave you my devotion, hiding nothing up my sleeve. If I walked clean out of your life would you even notice me leave? So much tangled-up emotion, should I stay or should I go?

Golden Promises Peter Hammill

So I do my best and I do my nut, I try to explain all these angles But you turn away.

Golden Promises (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

So I do my best and I do my nut, I try to explain all these angles but you turn away.

Lost And Found Peter Hammill

No more imagined insults and no more bloated pride - I'll see you at the wedding, I'll see you on the other side and I'll hold my peace forever but I'll hold my passion more...

Dropping The Torch Peter Hammill

I feel the hand of security creep on me with ice-cold fingers and crush my flower of freedom; I've lost the course of my adventure, all the things I'd meant to do are lost.

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

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.

Sleep Now Peter Hammill

One tune of childhood I sing my little girls... Sleep now, one day I'll tell you how my life has been.

Solitude Peter Hammill

The lovely white clouds glideacross the sky and into my dreams...I feel as though I had died some time ago:now I'll wander with the clouds through eternal space. ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind

You Hit Me Where I Live Peter Hammill

When I try to speak I find my bursting heart full of you. You say it's only natural, you say forget and forgive... you hit me where I live.

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

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.

Nobody's Business Peter Hammill

Look back at the photos you've saved, dead mementoes of your modelling days; I look through all my cuttings of you, but they all seem so lost, so dead, out of phase. Oh, you're nobody's business....

The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning Peter Hammill

Ashes to ashes and dust to dust: my chains began to rust as the Institute was burning, burning, burning. (Chris Judge Smith)

Not For Keith Peter Hammill

He'd have laughed in my face if he saw it get mournful, he'd pull me up short and say "Life carries on" in that gentle way of being cruelly scornful... now he's gone.

Stranger Still Peter Hammill

No, I know how to behave In the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands; If I've become a man of the world somehow That's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.

People You Were Going To Peter Hammill

My chance of heaven has just blown away Upon a passing cloud and there is nothing that I can do Without you. The people you were going to Have left, gone far away And you're lonely.

Wilhelmina Peter Hammill

So hold my words : people all turn to children, Spiteful children, and they're really so cruel... cruel fools!

The Comet, The Course, The Tail Peter Hammill

What can I say when, in some obscure way, I am my own direction?

Sitting Targets Peter Hammill

Keep your eyes on the road up ahead - I don't seem to be able to use mine And I'm losing control of my body And I'm running scared...

Two Or Three Spectres Peter Hammill

Now I bet you thought that was a hard line to sing but I've done it anyway, it's my thing! Groupies offer their bodies, the hangers-on their coke; it's all very jolly – what a joke!

Jargon King Peter Hammill

He prescribes the subjectHe proscribes outsidersHis terms have a golden ring.He wants to find some orderQuantifying chaosIn words that all the children sing.He tabulates the lexiconVocabulary minim...

Fogwalking Peter Hammill

Everything clumsy slow-motion,I look for the source.Buildings loom up like icebergsOn collision course.I don't want to go in there,I just want to be alone,Unpick the stitches of timeIn LondonIn the...

The Spirit Peter Hammill

. ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By HAMMILL, PETER Lyrics © EMI Music Publishing

Imperial Zeppelin Peter Hammill

Pack your bags, we're leavingearth, where hate is seething;nothing's worth believing....There's no time, make up your mind!Imperial Zeppelin....Quick, the engines are turning,cabin lights are burni...

Happy Peter Hammill

. ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By PETER HAMMILL Lyrics © WINDSWEPT HOLDINGS LLC, CARLIN AMERICA INC, R & M MUSIC PRODUCTIONS INC

Summer Song (In The Autumn) Peter Hammill

And tomorrow you'll be in yesterday's news: someone who you loved has left you ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By PETER HAMMILL Lyrics © WINDSWEPT HOLDINGS LLC, CARLIN AMERICA INC,

Viking Peter Hammill

Five years we roam; now we're going home ------------- Lyrics Powered by LyricFind Written By PETER HAMMILL Lyrics © WINDSWEPT HOLDINGS LLC, CARLIN AMERICA INC, R & M MUSIC PRODUCTIONS INC

Ferret And Featherbird Peter Hammill

Time has come between us:In the passing months I've felt you slip awayAs your words and mine came like nursery rhymesTill there was nothing left to say.Distance came between us long ago,As our memo...

Been Alone So Long Peter Hammill

Been alone so longthat I've forgotten what it's liketo feel somebody next to meand hear her breathing peacefullywhen I wake up at night.Been alone so longthat I've forgotten what to say -if I meet ...

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 homesabout the latest fashions ...

Birthday Special Peter Hammill

I've got something to say,and it ain't the usual sort of sob-storythat you hear every day.I've got something to ask,and I know that now's the time,now all the rooms of the party are dark.Proffer me...

Fogwalking (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Everything clumsy slow-motion, I look for the source. Buildings loom up like icebergs on collision course. I don't want to go in there, I just want to be alone, unpick the stitches of time i...

The Spirit (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Such distance to the tips of the fingers, the ganglion loom jerks inside; the body grows steadily stranger but the spirit won't be denied. That sharp halogen flash jars the eyeball, the limbs ...