(Hammill) 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 barr...

i 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 manmy solitud...

Lighthouses might house the key but can I reach the door? I want to walk on the sea so that I may better find a shore but how can I ever keep my feet dry? I sc...

'Alone, alone' the ghosts all call, pinpoint me in the light The only life I feel at all is the presence of the night Would you cry if I died? Would you catch ...

'Unreal, unreal' ghost helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky, not breaking through my seagull shrieks no breaks until I die: the spectres scratch on windo...

Where is the God that guides my hand? How can the hands of others reach me? When will I find what I grope for? Who is going to teach me? I am me / me are we / w...

( Hammill ) No time now for contrition; the time for that's long past The walls are thin as tissue and if I talk I'll crack the glass So I only think on how it...

( Hammill ) "Unreal, unreal" ghost helmsmen scream And fall in through the sky, Not breaking, through my seagull shrieks: No breaks until I die. The spectres s...

( Hammill ) "Unreal, unreal" ghost helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky, Not breaking, through my seagull shrieks: no breaks until I die The spectres sc...

( Jackson ) Oceans drifting sideways; I am pulled into the spell: I feel you around me - I know you well Stars slice horizons where the lines stand much too st...

( Hammill ) '"Alone, alone" the ghosts all call, pinpoint me in the light; the only life I feel at all is the presence of the night Would you cry if I died? W...

( Hammill ) Lighthouses might house the key But can I reach the door? I want to walk on the sea So that I may better find a shore But how can I ever keep my fe...

( Hammill - Band ) Where is the god that guides my hand? How can the hands of others reach me? When will I find what I grope for? Who is going to teach me? I ...

Oh, the heptagenarians got behind the decks while the skeleton crew went through the motions It was only the medication that was keeping them erect Yeh, the dev...

Just one breath, and it's instant death, It's the Aerosol Grey Machine! Just one breath, and it's instant death, It's the Aerosol Grey Machine! You're walking a...

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...

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...

Now we sit here in our special place, all wearing our happy faces gladly. Sunlight appears in our world

Now we sit here in our special place, all wearing our happy faces gladly Sunlight appears in our world; our joy has been turned from badness Now we've moved and...

(Hammill) Stub towers in the distance, riders cross the blasted moor against the horizon Fickle promises of treaty, fatal harbingers of war, futile orisons swi...

(Hammill) Horus, the son of Isis, lay in the marshes of Buto, Poisoned by Set She called out to the High God Ra To kill this evil, that her child may live yet ...

(Smith) I was walking in the evening,I was Looking for something good, clean, fine, Pure, straight, but instead I found The bunker wall and gate It was open: I...

(Hammill) "Well what's the harm? It's good clean fun why don't you just go on and have another one? When there's hanky-panky in the boardroom, wooly-bully on t...

(Hammill) Existence is a stage on which we pass, A sleepwalk trick for mind and heart: It's hopeless, I know, But onward I must go And try to make a start At s...

(Hammill) Day dawns dark, it now numbers infinity Life crawls from the past, watching in wonder I trace it's patterns in me Tomorrow's tomorrow is birth again ...

(Hammill) Day dawns dark, it now numbers infinity Life crawls from the past, watching in wonder I trace its patterns in me Tomorrow's tomorrow is birth again B...

(Hammill) He's a blind man, crouching by the pavement, only seeing with his third eye, and clutching at the astral shadow of every passer-by He's a wise man, ...

By this we are all sustained: a belief in human nature and in justice and parityall we have is the faith to carry on Imperceptible the change as our votes beco...

(Hammill) Time has come between us: in the passing months I've felt you slip away as your words and mine came like nursery rhymes till there was nothing left t...

Sunday night, twelve weeks before winter, the world is in a smoky haze Suddenly there appears a rider in the East, brandishing flame He rides on into the wintr...

(Vanblow) I wish that you would set me free forever But the rings on my arms are too deeply burned.....

There's a house with no door and I'm living there at nights it gets so cold and the days are hard to bear inside There's a house with no roof, so the rain creep...

The city's spread beneath my feet, but not the one that I was after while I've been pounding out this beat the length of the Kudamm Street legends on the touris...

I never thought it could come to this, as you sit there crying, hanging on with your fingertips to something that's already dead Now we're into a game and it's ...

So you live in the bottom of the sea, and you kill all that come near you but you are very lonely, because all the other fish fear you And you crave companionsh...

(Hammill) Lacking sleep and food and vision here I am again, encamped upon your floor, craving sanctuary and nourishment, encouragement and sanctity and more T...

(Hammill) Pretty keen - yes, my hobby keeps me busy and if I talk to myself, what's the crime? In the darkroom I am a dealer in space and time When all memory ...

I stood alone upon the highest cliff-top, looked down, around, and all that I could see were those that I would dearly love to share with crashing on quite blin...

( Hammill ) I stood alone upon the highest cliff-top, Looked down, around, and all that I could see Were those that I would dearly love to share with Crashing ...

(Hammill) Frozen moment, cold blood time: the Iguana lady is saying goodbye She's not quite ready, she wants to stay, she wants to be perfect, but not in the w...

i Dance in sand and sea So here we are, or rather, here I am, quite alone, I'm seeing things that were shared before, long ago my memory stretches and I am daze...

So here we are, or rather, here I am, quite alone, I'm seeing things that were shared before, long ago my memory stretches and I am dazed: you know I know how g...

I wore my moods like so many different sets of clothes but the right one was never around; and as you left I heard my body ring and my mind began to howl It was...

i Dance in sand and sea So here we are, or rather, here I am, quite alone, I'm seeing things that were shared before, long ago my memory stretches and I am daze...

The killer lives inside me: I can feel him move Sometimes he's lightly sleeping in the quiet of his room, but then his eyes will rise and stare through mine; he...

(Hammill) He's a man of the past and one of the present, a man who hides behind a mask behind a mask; a clown, a fool, believing it cool to be down or that the...

(Hammill) Tonight, before you lay down to the sweetness of your sleep do you question your surrender to the drop from Lover's Leap or does the anaesthetic dark...

(i) Eyewitness ( Hammill ) Still waiting for my saviour, storms tear me limb from lim my fingers feel like seaweed, I'm so far out I'm too far in On the tabl...

(Hammill) These days I mainly just talk to plants and dogs, All human contact seems painful, risky, odd, So I stay acting god in my own universe Where I trade ...

(Hammill) If I'm the mirror and you're the image then what's the secret between the two, these 'me's and 'you's, how many can there be? Oh, I don't mind all th...

If I'm the mirror and you're the image Then what's the secret between the two, 'Me's and 'you's, how many can there be? Oh, I don't mind all that around the pla...

Waiting for Wonderland) Searching for diamonds in the sulphur mine, leaning on props which are rotten, hoping for anything, looking for a sign that I am not fo...

(Hammill) Searching for diamonds in a sulphur mine, leaning on props that are rotten, hoping for anything, looking for a sign that I am not forgotten Lost in a...

(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 kn...

Yes I live in the black woods, where you dare not even speak my name If there is evil in your heart and you will come near to me you will lose your sane My form...

I want to paint you poems full of fire, you who I do not know Now my mind is tested with love which twists and wavers from side to side and which some day soon ...

If we had all the time in the world we might talk about how it used to be We could have thrown in our cards when the going got hard but evidently we went on int...

I want to paint you poems full of fire, you who I do not know Now my mind is tested with love which twists and wavers from side to side and which some day soon ...

I feel a calling for the sea, I want to walk on the sand dunes I hope you'll forgive me if I say I can't take you: at some times I've got to get away, if just t...

Can't stop for a second: we might see how silly we all are Can't get out, even for a moment: might be hit by a passing car Dreams shatter and fall into dust, as...

We sat by ourselves, still looking for company; there could have been peace, but that eluded me-- all I could think of was what was on your mind You tried to be...

(Hammill - Jackson) Sometimes you feel so far away, distanced from all the action of the play, unable to grasp significance, marking the plot with diffident di...

(Hammill) We left the earth in 1983, fingers groping for the galaxies, reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1000 stars to be exploited Somebody help me I'm f...

I thought I'd give it up for good, 'cause none of my actions are understood I thought I'd really leave, and my coming back's something you'd never perceive I th...

(Hammill) You got some shares in a speculative venture, you got some stock in a gilt-edged bond, you stretched out tight by the terms of debenture, the game is...

(Hammill - Jackson) Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast, he looks into the future and remembers what is past, wonders what he's doing on this battlef...

(Hammill) The captain's in a coma, the lieutenant's on a drunk; the owner's in his cabin with his special friend, the monk; the midget's on the bridge, dispens...

At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent, Is moved into action and their pace does not relent In step, with great precision, these dancers of the...

(Hammill) I remember what it felt like at Seventeen: I was a cat, a snake, a lizard, a mouse Still got an interest in the limousine And a spouse and a brat, Co...

(Hammill) Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now dumb: What have we become? What have we chosen to be? Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of ...

Just one breath, and it's instant death, it's the Aerosol Grey Machine! Just one breath, and it's instant death, it's the Aerosol Grey Machine! You're walking a...

(Hammill) Horus, the son of Isis, lay in the marshes of Buto, poisoned by Set She called out to the High God Ra to kill this evil, that her child may live yet ...

Just one breath, and it's instant death, it's the Aerosol Grey Machine! Just one breath, and it's instant death, it's the Aerosol Grey Machine! You're walking a...

i THE EMPEROR Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of night away from you You think that you can hold the searing, moulten gold between your fingers...

(i) The Emperor Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of night away from you You think that you can hold the searing, molten gold between your finge...

(ii) The Room Live by sword and you shall die so, All your power shall come to nought, every life you take is part of your own, death, not power, is what you'v...

Live by sword and you shall die so, All your power shall come to nought, every life you take is part of your own, death, not power, is what you've bought Cring...

(Hammill) Oh, the Sisters of Blindness from the Convent of the Broken Heart, they want to smother it with kindness, they want to tear it all apart And there's ...

Your father has just left your mother, gone off to live with his latest lover: she sits there, just staring You've got to get back to your own flat because the ...

(Hammill) Letters in pencil, some of them as heavy as lead, as dated as carbon, as black as coal, but burning as red Clues faintly stencilled: the message, tho...

(Hammill) At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent, is moved into action and their pace does not relent In step, with great precision, these dan...

(Hammill) I remember what it felt like at seventeen: I was a cat, a snake, a lizard, a mouse Still got an interest in the limousine and a spouse and a brat, co...

(Hammill) Here at the glass - all the usual problems, all the habitual farce You ask, in uncertain voice, what you should do as if there were a choice but to c...

(Hammill) The wave hits the beach, writing words on the sand; to the academic man, this could be the answer In fact, it's no more than a hunch Still we try to ...

(Hammill) Sometimes living for the moment sometimes going with the flow sometimes professing to be an exponent of the quiet life while night life surrounds me ...

I AM the suck of air you take that you've had many times before; I AM the blow of air you fake, but which still throws you out the door; I AM the air that fills...

(Hammill) Slow motion in the quiet of the room; so potent is the smell of her perfume that you think she's eternal, that you think she is everything but no-one...

In the year 1486 the Malleus first appeared, designed to kill all witchcraft and end the papal fears: prescribing tortures to kill the Black Arts and the Hammer...

(Banton - Hammill) I will arise: in the depths, I will open my eyes; as my breath almost fails me, survive Wait - there's something unclear, there's something...