Тексты песен «Hammil Peter»


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Hammil Peter - A Better Time

As surely as the countdown begins our time is not our own Already there's the breath of the wind which bleaches bare the bones Of the deadlines we set, of the jokes we don't get And forgetfulness that furrows the...

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Hammil Peter - A Better Time (Acapella)

As surely as the countdown begins our time is not our own Already there's the breath of the wind which bleaches bare the bones Of the deadlines we set, of the jokes we don't get And forgetfulness that furrows the...

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Hammil Peter - A Headlong Stretch

I. Up Ahead Passage assured On the good ship Goodbye Dare I raise up my eyes To stare into the rigging? (Preparing to go/come home..) All we could have done We're at pains to explain But all our might in the main Is...

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Hammil Peter - A Kick To Kill The Kiss

He'd like you to call him lucky, The original self-made man; No sense of wide-screen vision, No gender strangeness he can understand. Roll on the old, old story, You can call it original sin; Yeh, stamp that one in his...

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Hammil Peter - A Louse Is Not A Home

Sometimes it's very scary here; sometimes it's very sad; Sometimes I think I'll disappear; betimes I think I have. There's a line snaking down my mirror : Splintered glass distorts my face, And though the light is...

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Hammil Peter - A Motor-Bike In Afrika

A motor-bike in Africa, Riding the white line, Oblivious of snakes stretched out Across the way like trip-wire, Shouting 'The road is mine!' Tracing the line of the skeleton coast, Ghost riders from the Sud-West: The...

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Hammil Peter - A Perfect Date

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. I think you know how it happens...

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Hammil Peter - A Place To Survive

It's easy to say, when you're so down, That everything's pointless; Your eyes burn, your ears howl, Your limbs are disjointed. Barren fields, the barren earth, never more will it flower-- Rub your face and your hands in...

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Hammil Peter - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers

Eyewitness Still waiting for my saviour, storms tear me limb from limb; My fingers feel like seaweed... I'm so far out I'm too far in. I am a lonely man, my solitude is true My eyes have borne stark witness and now my...

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Hammil Peter - A Way Out

Out of joint, out of true, out of love, Out of the blue, out of order, out of orbit, Out of control, Out of touch, out of line, out of sync And out of time, out of gas, out of tread, out of Road. Out of date, out of...

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Hammil Peter - Accidents

This meeting is a coincidence Which deserves a second look: We've seen the chapter of accidents Become the longest in the book. I see your face in the picture for better or worse, All power to the accident! Oh, the...

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Hammil Peter - Act Five

(Dawn the next day) CHORUS Late that evening the Lady Madeline Again succumbed to the power Of her dark affliction. Her brother and her friend sat by her And Montresor, although familiar with many Of the gross and...

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Hammil Peter - Act One

(The road to the House of Usher) THE CHORUS The chorus has often an unenviable role to play, often a distasteful task to Perform: Summoned as witness to uncounted crime, she's the silent accomplice of all, Then she...

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Hammil Peter - After The Flood

Continuing the story, humanity stumbles - Gone is the glory, there's a far distant rumble. The clouds have gathered and exploded now: Axes shattered, there is no North or South. Far off, the ice is foundering slowly,...

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Hammil Peter - After The Show

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 He's been so many people He wore them all like poisoned vests Still playing the soliloquy from...

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Hammil Peter - Afterwards

You stare out in yellow eyes larger than my mind; In viscous pools of joy, relaxing, we glide... It's all too beautiful For my mind to bear. And, as we shimmer into sleep, something's unshared. But, seeing the flower...

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Hammil Peter - Again

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 lingers like the...

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Hammil Peter - Airport

I stand on the tallest building And stare down at the grey runway And the tail-smoke of the Boeing jet That's taking you so far away. Believe me, I don't want you to leave me; look in my eyes and you'll see them filled...

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Hammil Peter - Alice (Letting Go)

When you told me that you loved me I had no reason to doubt it So I went about my life in such a selfish way And never really thought about it. Oh do I have to let go? Oh I had my chance and I've blown it, Cos I loved...

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Hammil Peter - All Said And Done

All the words in the world Wouldn't make you stay this evening Though I scrabble around for any I can say... So hard to take our leave, So hard to stop believing. I guess we know this silence well enough, And you'll be...