Peter Hammill & The K Group Lyrics

01-The Future Now Here we are, static in the latter half Of the twentieth…
Again I stretch my hands Clutch vacant laughter In silence and swe…
Central Hotel I found myself lying on the balcony, Stripling terror, naked…
Film Noir He casts himself as an adventurer, all foot on floor and…
Flight Flying Blind I alway forget how crazy things are So sometime…
Happy Hour How was it that we first met? ...I forget, all I…
Labour Of Love You don't remember all the things I've done; You never catch…
My Experience It was nothing, it came from nowhere at all, it…
Paradox Drive The thought crossed my mind - how curious, Why should…
Porton Down Won't hear a sound at Porton Down, The clear liquids keep…
Sign Wrong drink to order. Suspicion grows, Wrong situation... Oh…
Sitting Targets We can talk about it in the car; We can talk…
Stranger Still Stranger still in another town, How normal to sit out the…



The Future Now Here we are, static in the latter half Of the twentieth…
The jargon king He prescribes the subject He proscribes outsiders His terms …
The Spirit Such distance to the tips of the fingers, The ganglion loom…

(No More) The Sub Mariner In my youth, I played at trains: now all steam…
(On Tuesdays She Used to Do) Yoga On Tuesday she used to do yoga, while I'd sit and…
A Better Time As surely as the countdown begins our time is not our…
A Better Time (a cappella) As surely as the countdown begins our time is not our…
A Louse Is Not a Home Sometimes it's very scary here; sometimes it's very sad; Som…
A perfect date A perfect date to hesitate, I hope it won't be too…
A Way Out Out of joint, out of true, out of love, out of…
Accidents This meeting is a coincidence which deserves a second look:…
After the Show He made a bit of money, that's something you might like…
Again I stretch my hands Clutch vacant laughter In silence and swe…
Airport I stand on the tallest building and stare down at the…
Alice When you told me that you loved me I had no…
All Greek Fried up the brain with rhetorical questions dictionary ga…
Always And A Day Always and a day we swore in common vow that tomorrow we…
Always Is Next Ill met, ill starred, the sweat, the scars, the back seat…
Amnesiac I can't think of anything I did or was doing, I…
Auto Here's a sensation I wouldn't trade – pinpoint in the onrus…
Autumn So here we are, alone - Our children have grown up…
Babel Words upon words stack the tower of Babel brick on brick o…
Bareknuckle Trade And when you feel you can't go on what kind…
Been Alone So Long Been alone so long that I've forgotten what it's like to fee…
Betrayed When I began I was full of altruistic dreams, believed in…
Birthday Special I've got something to say, and it ain't the usual sort…
Black Room I was thinking about thinking but it really didn't get…
Breakthrough The visitors find the children gone from school: Aged relati…
Bubble Let's begin at the top: there's no reason to think that…
Call That A Conversation? Oh, spit it out, there's no way we'll see eye…
Can Do When you're fingered by self-doubt, my dear, no-one is inno…
Candle Look at the candle, as it's life is bought, as the…
Careering I don't know, can't you see I'm just passing through, fast…
Careering - 2006 Digital Remaster I don't know, can't you see I'm just passing through, fast…
Celebrity Kissing Celebrity kissing, this has got to stop; yeah, they're swar…
Central Hotel I found myself lying on the balcony, Stripling terror, naked…
Child I don't know quite what's happening and my eyes don't see…
Come Clean There's no getting back to how it started and the next…
Comfortable She likes to keep God out of church, especially when she…
Comfortable? She likes to keep God out of church, especially when she…
Confidence Behind the smile of confidence somewhere you'll find the wa…
Crossed Wires "I don't know, somehow our wires got crossed: you've been…
Crying Wolf You turn out the lights and sit alone, Trying to pretend…
Curtains Well, Tommy woke that morning with a headfull of rocks and S…
Der Lärm Ich liebte Lärm, den Atem-Strom; Lärm hob die Leere auf, …
Dich zu finden Kaninchenstarre vor dem Schlangenblick, Scheinwerferschock …
Die Kälte Killt Den Kuß Er wünscht sich, du nennst ihn glücklich: der Original-Self…
Die Prominenz Küßt Sich Die Prominenz küßt sich, wie verbraucht das ist: eine Schme…
Die Tinte verlischt Folg den Instruktionen, Probleme ersten Grads. Ja, wir war…
Diminished Was it only my imagination or were we once agreed, in…
Don You don't have to say a thing, The silence is sweet, We've…
Don't Tell Me You don't have to say a thing, The silence is sweet, We've…
Driven "I know you haven't got the thread of the story…
Dropping the Torch We play games and every move is noted down as a…
Earthbound My heart flew in my mouth the moment that your eyes…
Easy To Slip Away My, friends, I never really thought you'd go, But, then, we…
Edge Of The Road The lady was in waiting for whatever story might unfold anti…
Empire Of Delight Memory extends its empire, Holds the frame but blurs the lin…
Empress She's here now, perfume coiled like a thuggie scarf - Such…
Energy Vampires Hunched in the corner of the dressing-room, trying to get b…
Enough To live, to be alive and to consider the plane that…
Everyone You Hold Everyone you hold takes a piece of you away; everyone you…
Evidently Goldfish Check the honesty of what's on offer, true detective or a…
Faculty X Hope by and by, hope by and by – motes in…
Faint Heart and the Sermon With my face drained of colour And my brain of blood Like…
Faint-Heart and the Sermon With my face drained of colour And my brain of blood Like…
Faith Each moment is precious those that I spend with you are…
Falling Open I see what isn't there and what might be: all the pages…
Far-flung Alone beneath a foreign sky I wonder could I be any…
Favorit Bleifuß drückt das GTi Cabriolet zu der Villa in der Sonne…
Fed To The Wolves And they said "They shall all be fed, all the weak…
Ferret and Featherbird Time has come between us: In the passing months I've felt…
Film Noir He casts himself as an adventurer, all foot on floor and…
Fireships There's a smokescreen on the horizon, fireships under sail …
Flight Flying Blind I alway forget how crazy things are So sometime…
Fogwalking Everything clumsy slow-motion, I look for the source. Buildi…
Forsaken Gardens Where are all the joys of yesterday? Where, now, is the…
Four Pails Four pails of water and a bag full of salts. That…
Friday Afternoon Why wait for life to happen, when right before our eyes blin…
From the Safe House This is not the final call, and this is not a…
Gaia Butterflies on the wheel of a world that turns unyieldingly…
German Overalls Manheim; rainy Saturday with no money nor friend, Only Tequi…
Ghosts Of Planes The air is thin, the air is thin, The Top of…
Given Time There's no time for dull regrets no-one underwrites your de…
Glue Halfway between the zoo And the temple of your Art... But …
Gog Some call me SATAN others have me GOD some name me…
Gog Magog In Bromine Chambers There can be no mercy, No bitter flagell…
Golden Promises Besieged in the battlements of Babylon, Still looking for t…
Golden Promises - 2006 Digital Remaster Besieged in the battlements of Babylon, Still looking for a …
Green Fingers He'll be young forever if he keeps this up... so the…
Happy How was it that we first met? ...I forget, all I…
Hemlock Here it comes up on the screen, the propaganda of the…
Here Come The Talkies Hair in the gate, let's take a minute to find out…
Hesitation This is no time to hesitate, The line slips into overload; T…
His Best Girl Foot down in the GTi Cabriolet to the villa in the…
I Dared Not Speak Usher Yes, I hear it! Yes, I have heard it long, lo…
I Once Wrote Some Poems I once wrote some poems of stillness and silence, standing b…
I Will Find You Trapped like a rabbit by the future glare, onrushing headlig…
If I Could Oh, you must be crazy to stay here And I'll be…
If Language Explodes And if language explodes in our faces like shrapnel all se…
If We Must Part Like This Already there's no case for special pleading, no points to …
Imperial Walls Strange to behold is the stone of this wall broken by fate…
Imperial Zeppelin Pack your bags, we're leaving earth, where hate is seething;…
In I just can't see why you can't see what I…
In Slow Time Dance the dance Till show time ... The show goes on Dance th…
In the End I promise you, I won't leave a clue: no tell-tale remark,…
Incomplete Surrender Sweetheart, I want to hold back nothing, sweetheart, I want …
Invisible Ink Follow the instructions, the envelope is sealed: we're wai…
Jargon King He prescribes the subject He proscribes outsiders His terms …
Jeunesse D'Orée The youth are voting with their feet - Such a shame…
Just A Child This is more than merely wrong, as sin on sin's…
Just Good Friends Drawing back the curtains, sluggish city daylight in the aft…
Kaufhaus Europa Kaufhaus Europa! Lob der Masse, Triumph der Kasse,…
Labour Of Love You don't remember all the things I've done; you never catc…
Losing Faith in Words I just can't see why you can't see what I…
Lost And Found (Even the wolf can learn, even the sheep can turn, even th…
Lunatic In Knots Unchain me from this lunatic before he drags me to my…
Man-Erg The killer lives inside me: yes, I can feel him…
Material Possession Every loss a legacy, Every gain ill-gotten, The golden apple…
Mirror Images If I'm the mirror and you're the image then what's the…
Modern Jericho's strange, throbbing with life at its heart - peopl…
My Experience It was nothing, it came from nowhere at all, it…
My Favourite In my time I've told a lie or two, I've been…
My Favourite - 2006 Digital Remaster In my time I've told a lie or two, I've been…
My Room Searching for diamonds in a sulphur mine, Leaning on props w…
Nadir's Big Chance I've been hanging around, waiting for my chance to tell you…
Nightman At the dead of night, I woke with the sense that…
No Moon in the Water So if it's just so then where is it now when I find…
Nobody's Business Look out through your dark hair, tell me the colour of…
Not for Keith In Germany, his days finally caught him; I won't insult his…
Not the Man There are so many questions, there are so many doubts – th…
Nothing Comes Consternation out of the box as the conversation runs onto …
Now Lover In the here and now... Between sensation at the nerve-ends …
Now More Than Ever Between coma and consciousness no hard and fast line, no ch…
Oase Im Weiher silbert das Wasser, gespeist aus dunklem Grund, d…
Oasis Beside the pool of clear water Fed by a secret spring,…
Offensichtlich Goldfisch Prüf die Ehrlichkeit der Angebote, Freund und Helfer oder B…
On the Surface On the surface phosphorus gleaming; deep down we carry on …
Once You Called Me I wish that I remembered better. You've grown so fast…
Open Your Eyes I was sitting in the dance-hall, but my mind was far…
Ophelia That token drag on your cigarette, That well-known face in t…
Other Old Clichés I might as well give you all there is, I might…
Our Eyes Give It Shape I'm getting the idea, I haven't got a clue. As my…
Our Oyster This one's authentic, son of a gun, a soundtrack from Chin…
Paradox Drive The thought crossed my mind - how curious, Why should…
Patient A system in the making, self-healing for the blind, sitting …
People You Were Going To Your father has just left your mother, Gone off to live…
Personality Not the same, we are changed and we are changing still; I'…
Phosphorescence Across the ocean of the night you turn and look into…
Planet Coventry You find you're standing alone – not so splendid, isolation.…
Pompeii The golden dream, the seat of all decorum, A satellite to…
Porton Down Won't hear a sound at Porton Down, The clear liquids keep…
Primo On The Parapet He crawled on hallowed ground without a map; he walks on…
Pushing Thirty Seems the fashion's for one-liners these days, the kind tha…
Pushing Thirty - 2006 Digital Remaster Seems the fashion's for one-liners these days, The kind that…
Ram Origami Here's the lost boy with the brittle smile, plastered panst…
Re-awakening If you catch me running along by the sea, with…
Red Shift Once, all the stars in the sky were bright, now…
Reprise We think we're fireproof, we never think that we'll get bur…
Re‐awakening If you catch me running along by the sea, with…
Rock and Role Watch for the silent moments, only waiting to be saved Wait…
Rubicon I lay down beside you : I am a unicorn,…
Schlaft Nun Schlaft nun – ein alter Tag sagt euch Kindern Adieu, doch…
Sci-Finance You got some shares in a speculative venture, you got some…
Seven Wonders Well, it must have been here somewhere, that which the cult…
She Wraps It Up You know that she's got something she wants to give; hard…
Shell Turn a card, turn a page, the action sure to start, second…
Shingle You can see in the 1st light that's graced as…
Sign Wrong drink to order. Suspicion grows, Wrong situation... Oh…
Silver You lay your plans, I take them as they come, I…
Since the Kids It was simple, we were man and wife; something happened to…
Sitting Targets We can talk about it in the car; We can talk…
Skin There's a shiver down the spine of the body map... how…
Skinny Nobody knows what she sees, no-one can get behind that…
Sleep Now Sleep now: another day in your young lives is done, go to…
Slender Threads I saw your picture in the Evening Standard: You were wearin…
Smile The jokes are everywhere, The secret deal's complete – Mon…
Solitude Silently I rest in the tall green grassand look steadily…
Still Life Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now dumb, What ha…
Stranger Still Stranger still in another town, How normal to sit out the…
Stumbled Wash your hands clean Don't let anybody see the dirty work K…
Stupid I'm (so stupid) Along this pilgrim's accidental progress…
Summer Song Summer song in the autumn, for you didn't catch the colour…
Sun City Night Life To the city beat on a treacherous curve, up upon the…
Sunshine Oh, suddenly things begin to come clear in my mind as…
Tapeworm When I was a child they made me read Word-daggers of…
Tenderness Nothing I can say, but this much I can do: if…
The American Girl She doesn't eat, she doesn't sleep for if she slept then…
The Birds Spring came far too early this year: May flowers blooming in…
The Comet The Course The Tail They say we are endowed with Free Will --at least that…
The Comet, The Course, The Tail They say we are endowed with Free Will - at least…
The Cut Everything out of order everything too well produced from …
The Future Now Here we are, static in the latter half Of the twentieth…
The Great Experiment "Is that all there is to it," he asks, "no more…
The Institute of Mental Health It was the first day of July, No wind breathed in…
The Jargon King He prescribes the subject He proscribes outsiders His terms …
The Lie Genuflection, erection in church. Sacristy cloth, moth-eaten…
The Light Continent All the fields that you've overflown are frozen, they flow …
The Meanings Changed From the first word that I said to the last some…
The Mercy (Hit the beat and take it to the verse now) Yeah,…
The Mousetrap After all is said and done, Not very much will have…
The Mousetrap (Caught in) After all is said and done, not very much will…
The Old School Tie Oh the bright young men in their tight-buttoned suits: Yeah,…
The Play's The Thing How could he know so much? How could he bear such…
The Second Hand See the old man acting like a fool, yeah, he's running…
The Second Hand - 2006 Digital Remaster See the old man acting like a fool, Yeah, he's running…
The Sleeper Roderick Usher The lady sleeps. oh, may her sleep w…
The Sphinx In The Face I remember what it felt like at seventeen: I was a…
The Spirit Such distance to the tips of the fingers, The ganglion loom…
The Sub Mariner In my youth, I played at trains: now all steam…
The Top of the World Club And the future spread before us like a feast, We saw…
The Unconscious Life I'm in command, I'm in control, I am the captain of my…
This Book Away from the past, this chance is the last, we are…
This Is The Fall All humans are siblings, this is a truth that I've…
This Side Of The Looking Glass The stars in the heavens still shine up above me: how…
Time for a Change Time for a change: I felt bad, things looked strange. Home…
Time Heals Thinking back, it seems that I Can lie beside you as…
Time to Burn Time to burn, we could talk all the problems through... Are…
Too Many Of My Yesterdays So many years ago, I thought you were the one…
Traintime Along the tracks the wires are humming in bursts of code…
Trappings He could have been so great, he could have had…
Two or Three Spectres spoken by Hugh Banton: "Oh, why didn't you say, more…
Under Cover Names No thanks for the memory, no thanks at all, no way…
Undone I mark the high days and the holidays red-letter on the…
Unrehearsed Time for the unrehearsed entrance, show a leg you can break…
Viking Looking out forward over the prow of our long ship, pulling…
Vision I have a vision of you, locked inside my head; it…
Vote Brand X Here's the modern political man, for sure he's nobody's fool…
We Are Written "It was always going to be like this, whatever you…
What I Did A pretty pass in the rear-view mirror, it's coming on the…
What's It Worth What's it worth to be safe? What's the way to be…
What's It Worth? What's it worth to be safe? What's the way to be…
When Language Corrodes And when language corrodes all our faculties falter and blu…
Where The Mouth Is Money where the mouth is, pennies on the eyes. Yeah, times…
White Dot Nothing is like anything else, everything's the same, our …
Wilhelmina Willie, what can I say to you to hold true…
You Hit Me Where I Live There was something in the conversation, ancient languages …
Your Face On The Street I'd see your face on the street often times as I…
Your Word Burnt the bridges, burnt the tread; the sodden syllables ar…