by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

Here we are, static in the latter half* Of the twentieth century But it might as well be the Middle Ages, There'll have to be some changes But how they'll come about foxes me. I want the future now, I

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

Here we are, static in the latter half of the twentieth century but it might as well be the Middle Ages, there'll have to be some changes but how they'll come about foxes me. I want the future now, I

by Peter Hammill on album Live In Berlin 1992

Here we are, static in the latter half of the twentieth century but it might as well be the Middle Ages, there'll have to be some changes but how they'll come about foxes me. I want the future now, I

by Peter Hammill on album Live at Rockpalast, Hamburg 1981

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

See the old man acting like a fool* Yeah, he's running from the ambulance. When he was a youngster he broke all the rules - Now he says that was just accident. Always had the feeling he was going to d

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

Everything out of order* Everything too well produced From the conjuror's hat - Let's turn on the juice To grind the cutting plane, the blade that gives an edge, To scale the mountain; to fail upon th

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

Everything out of order everything too well produced from the conjuror's hat – let's turn on the juice to grind the cutting plane, the blade that gives an edge, to scale the mountain; to fail upon t

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

See the old man acting like a fool, yeah, he's running from the ambulance. When he was a youngster he broke all the rules – now he says that was just accident. Always had the feeling he was going to

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

After all is said and done* Not very much will have been either way: I'm a chronicler of action, I'm an actor in the play. I know the lines I have to speak, I know that I won't ever quit, corpse, or d

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

After all is said and done* Not very much will have been either way: I'm a chronicler of action, I'm an actor in the play. I know the lines I have to speak, I know that I won't ever quit, corpse, or d

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

After all is said and done, not very much will have been either way: I'm a chronicler of action, I'm an actor in the play. I know the lines I have to speak, I know that I won't ever quit, corpse, or d

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

Oh, brighter than a thousand suns* The march towards the stars On the wheel, on the car, Off the plane, off the planet And on in the search. Yes, we pray in the dark in the Sciences' church. Upon the

by Peter Hammill on album The Future Now

Oh, brighter than a thousand suns, the march towards the stars on the wheel, on the car, off the plane, off the planet and on in the search. Yes, we pray in the dark in the Sciences' church. Upon the

by Peter Hammill on album Thin Air

And the future spread before us like a feast, we saw clearly to the curve of the horizon, felt like everything we’d wanted was in reach, all we so eagerly awaited And the perfume on the air, oh,

by Peter Hammill on album Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night

So: onto the familiar top steps! In cloud-scud moonlight glow The Tower reels. I, the blind man, Feeling for a path I know... Don't you know that I'm only feeling for how to feel? Rats run. Snakes co

by Peter Hammill on album Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night

I was thinking about thinking but it really didn't get me very far, so I thought I'd throw a Tarot, but I only got the Priestess and the Star. There's a shadow cast between the future and the past; th

by Peter Hammill on album The Calm (After The Storm)

Sleep now: another day in your young lives is done, go to sleep now. Tomorrow brave new worlds will surely come, and trouble deep; you're such a wonder, such a mystery to me. Somewhere your future fr

by Peter Hammill on album The Calm (After the Storm)

Sleep now: another day in your young lives is done, go to sleep now. Tomorrow brave new worlds will surely come, and trouble deep; you're such a wonder, such a mystery to me. Somewhere your future fr

by Peter Hammill on album Thin Air

And the future spread before us like a feast, we saw clearly to the curve of the horizon, felt like everything we'd wanted was in reach, all we so eagerly awaited. And the perfume on the air, oh, I co

by Peter Hammill on album Thin Air

I’d see your face on the street often times as I went on my day to day. We were never to meet but a nodding acquaintance had come our way. I never paid it much mind, always assumed I’d co