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.

Fogwalking (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Everything clumsy slow-motion, I look for the source. Buildings loom up like icebergs on collision course.

Golden Promises (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

Besieged in the battlements of Babylon, still looking for the hat-peg to hang your head upon - now you've found a place you think is Avalon: you can talk to anyone here.

Losing Faith In Words (2006 Digital Remaster) Peter Hammill

I just can't see why you can't see what I mean, but I can't make things any plainer, the words get in the way - is that quite what I mean?

The Spirit 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.

Lowdown (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

The time is too short But never too long To reach ahead To project the image Which will in time become a concrete dream Another cigarette Another day From A to B Again avoiding C, D, and E 'Cause E is

Necromancer (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

Oh the sweet addiction Of forbidden fruit Oh the strange affliction That has taken root Oh the hidden cancer Cancer of the soul Oh the necromancer Inside us all I have never seen this many People gathered

Photographic (2006 Digital Remaster) Depeche Mode

A white house A white room The program of today The lights on, switched on Your eyes are far away The map represents you And the tape is your voice Followed all along you 'Til you recognize the choice

Champs (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

The taste of champions The pace, the pace The speed, the need The need to seed The chance to die Chorus Another dead, don't cry Another dead, don't cry You've still got speed You'll maybe bleed But there's

Reuters (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

Our own correspondent is sorry to tell Of an uneasy time that all is not well On the borders there's movement In the hills there is trouble Food is short, crime is double Prices have risen since the government

Shout (2006 Digital Remaster) Depeche Mode

She was silent trying to be Like the girl who acted on the TV Always knowing when to say Wishing for a moment so that they could see Staring in the night A picture in my room And I think that she knew

Trespasser (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

saw your trespasser He wandered uninvited to your door He seemed to know his way around Although I'd never seen his face before Pausing for a moment underneath your window ledge He turned around to see the

Hipposong (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

I was surrounded by a large hippopotamus And nine of its friends who declared quite a lot of us Are feeling rather blue And we don't know what to do I turned away but the large hippopotamus Said that his

Puppets (2006 Digital Remaster) Depeche Mode

operator baby I'm in control Watch your action Close reaction And everything you're thinking babe inside your head Conversation, my creation Nothing that you do You do unless I said You don't know the

Nodisco (2006 Digital Remaster) Depeche Mode

I saw you in the picture I saw you play the part This ain't nodisco There's a thousand watts in you You take this too far This ain't nodisco Sometimes when I wonder if you're taking a chance This ain't

Strange (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

There's something strange going on tonight There's something going on that's not quite right Joey's nervous and the lights are bright There's something going on that's not quite right Verse 2 There's something

Peter On The White Sea (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

When I took my boat out to the White Sea I had no care in the world Not a cloud disturbed the sky I was dreaming only of how it might be Then dark fell into the day And the wind began to rise Peter on

Fragile (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

Tears fall in slivers, you broke my shades The light's too bright, let me bury my heart Filter emotions of green, cowardice gives blue A restricted view, let me open my heart I have a fleeting love, scorching

Brazil (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

It's true darling I'll walk you home I'll be your date forever I love you girl I love you Until they split the atom So many times There's nothing left There's nothing left at all I know I'm right 'Cause

Waarom (2006 Digital Remaster) Andre Hazes

Waarom, zeg mij waarom ben ik alleen en altijd eenzaamWaarom, zeg mij waarom noemt niemand mij eens bij mijn voornaamIk heb ook nooit een vrouw die mij eens helpt of met me uitgaatWaarom, zeg mij w...

Mannequin (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

Well, you're a waste of spaceNo natural graceYou're so bloody thinYou don't even beginChorusTo interest meNot even curiosityIt's not animosityIt's just you don't interest meVerse 2Well, you're an e...

Foreshadowing (2006 Remaster) Duncan Sheik

wanna sing of hope We've heard those empty promises Sound like such a joke And so I stumble So hard to say, so difficult Sometimes I am not able To separate my dreams from false cliches [Chorus:] But the

Pink Flag (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

I was sold up the river to the red slave trade The stores were gathered, the plans were laid Synchronised watches at 18:05 How many dead or alive in 1955 The pink flag was screaming, bugle boys sucked

Ice MacHine (2006 Digital Remaster) Depeche Mode

Ice Machine Running through my head secretly The shout of the boys in the factory I'll ring you on the telephone silently Like blood, like wine in the darkroom scene Darkroom scene A letter once composed

Feel Like (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

I feel as volatile as the weather Over fields of Scottish heather The night before Hallowe'en You know I feel like A catamaran in summer The beat of a reggae drummer The flag of a brigantine This is the

New Life (2006 Digital Remaster) Depeche Mode

I stand still stepping on the shady streets And I watch that man to a stranger You think you only know me when you turn on the light Now the room is lit with danger Complicating, circulating New life,

Mixed Blessing (2006 Digital Remaster) Al Stewart

She never learned her lesson She had to have it all It was a real mixed blessing I don't believe she saw She liked to keep them guessing Sometime later on She'd gather her possessions and be gone When the

Straight Line (2006 Digital Remaster) Wire

My mind is unwilling and your flesh is so weak Do my movements betray the secrets I think I always stand by walls and try to humour fools Am I moving in a straight line Am I moving in a straight line Am

Pastime Paradise (2006 Digital Remaster) Billy MacKenzie

them will come to be How many of them are you and me Dissipation Race relations Consolation Segregation Dispensation Isolation Exploitation Mutilation Mutations Miscreation Confirmation to the

Jacob's Ladder (2006 Digital Remaster) Huey Lewis And The News

I met a fan dancer Down in Southside Birmingham She was running from a fat man Selling salvation in his hand Now he's trying to save me When I'm doing all right The best that I can Just another fallen

The Comet, The Course, The Tail Peter Hammill

While the comet spreads its tail across the sky it nowhere near defines the course it flies, nor does it find its own direction.

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

After The Show Peter Hammill

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 Hamlet close to his chest.

Two Or Three Spectres Peter Hammill

"Sod the music," said the man in the suit, "I understand profit and without that, it's no use.

Sign Peter Hammill

Oh, no-one knows where you've gone to In the pagan night And the neon reflections Spread cadmium white. You came here looking for something But this wasn't it, quite.

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

Skin Peter Hammill

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

Breakthrough Peter Hammill

The visitors find the children gone from school: Aged relations sling their guns across the desks...

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.

A Perfect Date Peter Hammill

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.

Central Hotel Peter Hammill

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.

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.

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.

Stranger Still Peter Hammill

Stranger still in another town, How normal to sit out the dance, Eating the good meal by myself, Toasting the empty glass; And they're already setting out The next place, Already forgetting about the last

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.

Viking Peter Hammill

Looking out forward over the prow of our long ship, pulling our oars and listening to the foam; helmets and sheepskins salt-damp in the sea-mist: We're going home.

Ophelia Peter Hammill

That token drag on your cigarette, That well-known face in the fire, It could be someone you can't forget, Someone you've learnt to admire.

Birthday Special Peter Hammill

I've got something to say, and it ain't the usual sort of 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.

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.

Summer Song (In The Autumn) Peter Hammill

Summer song in the autumn, for you didn't catch the colour of the falling leaves. So many words have been spoken which you didn't understand and so couldn't believe.