Тексты песен «Hammill, Peter»


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Hammill, Peter - (On Tuesday She Used To Do) Yoga

On Tuesday she used to do yoga, while I'd sit and watch the box in a vegetable way but always ready to say to myself that I was an artist implying that she was not. It's funny the way that self-pity can take over from...

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Hammill, 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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Hammill, 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 Out of date, out of...

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Hammill, Peter - Act Five

CHORUS Late that evening the Lady Madeline again succumbed to the power of her dark afflictions. Her brother and her friend sat by her and Montresor, although familiar with many of the gross and wonderful phenomena of...

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Hammill, Peter - Act Four

(The following morning) MADELINE That must be Montresor... Good morning! Oh, how lovely to see you - since Roderick told me you were coming I have been so excited. Now you are here, all will be well once more. I was not...

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Hammill, Peter - Act One

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 turns and comments on the action. She...

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Hammill, Peter - Act Six

CHORUS Three endless days of bitter grief passed and Montresor abandoned any attempt to cheer his friend. Then came a sudden change in Usher's demeanour, whose significance he was soon to comprehend. Now Usher stands...

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Hammill, Peter - Act Three

(Immediately afterwards, Madeline Usher enters, in a trance) MADELINE Carriages at seven I shall wear the flower he gave me It's so cold here deep beneath the lapping water... The water The water My love Head against...

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Hammill, Peter - Act Two

THE VOICES House. Wet Vaults. Caissons. We breathe... OF THE Undercroft. Abutments. Stones. Wood. Breathe... HOUSE Buttresses. Bressumers. Spandrels. We Breathe... Columns and Pillars. Shafts. Arches. Capitals...

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Hammill, 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 linger like the...

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Hammill, 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...

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Hammill, 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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Hammill, Peter - Autumn

So here we are, alone - our children have grown up and moved away, living their own lives, they say... It all seems very strange to me. I don't understand their ways: our children amaze me all the time and I often...

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Hammill, Peter - Been Alone So Long

Been alone so long that I've forgotten what it's like to feel somebody next to me and hear her breathing peacefully when I wake up at night. Been alone so long that I've forgotten what to say-- if I meet somebody who...

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Hammill, Peter - Betrayed

When I began I was full of altruistic dreams, believed in princes and princesses, kings and queens - now I find they're all human inside, all bitterness and pride, so why shouldn't I be like that too? It seems that I've...

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Hammill, Peter - Birthday Special

I've got something to say, and it ain't the usual sob-story that 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 the candy, yes, I...

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Hammill, Peter - Breakthrough

The visitors find the children gone from school: aged relations sling their guns across the desks... there'll be no break-time for them unless they talk about tomorrow as though it's already on its way. Amen, oh yes,...

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Hammill, Peter - Candle

Look at the candle, as it's life is bought, as the wick just rolls of and dies; look at the wax-drops as they cease from their goal and the game they were playing loses its joy and the youth which they played in runs...

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Hammill, Peter - Careering (Don't Ask Me)

I don't know, can't you see I'm just passing through, fast as you don't as me. Careering out of control disappearing down the Black Hole, careering - the white man's soul. Stands stark naked in the floodlight glare,...

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Hammill, Peter - Central Hotel

I found myself lying on the balcony, stripling terror, naked to the bone; the secret asteroid jungle nearly done for me - I saw it all just a moment ago. I know I'd better watch out for the Central Hotel... I'm not...