1.Afterwards
Lyricist：Peter Hammill
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 sleep
Something's unshared
But seeing the flower
That was there yesterday
A tear forms just behind
The soft peace of your shades
The world's too lonely
For a message to slip
But between the dying rails of peace
You trip
The petals that were blooming
Are just paper in your hand
Your eyes, which were clear in the night
Are opaque as you stand
It was too beautiful
For it to last
These visions shimmer and fade out of
The glass
The petals that were blooming
Are just paper in your hand
The petals that were blooming
Are just paper in your hand
The petals that were blooming
Are just paper in your hand
2.Aquarian
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 left alone
and it's easier that way.
We are riding on rainbows
and happy today.
Now we move to the sun in every direction;
we are cloaked in veils of mystic protection...
joking a lot, smoking or not,
floating our yacht off to freedom,
voting to be Aquarian!
I hold silver flashing metal in the palm
of my petal hand, watching it quiver：
to breathe too close is death -
ah, but wat is breath but a way to deliverance？
Soon we will all be joined
in a great silver tube,
wanting every one to come along,
that means you too!
Now we move to the sun in every direction;
we are cloaked in veils of mystic protection...
mapping the way, clapping to say
we're happy today, and assured of
the fact that we're all Aquarian!
Hardly any money... who needs bread anyway？
Well, I mean to say, it's just the read to freedom!
Everything's too funny; we just ride along so high,
watch the bad scenes floating by, who needs them？
Soon we will all be joined
in a great silver tube,
wanting every one to come along,
that means you too!
Now we move to the sun in every direction;
we are cloaked in veils of mystic protection...
Lighting the path, righting the past,
fighting the dark like centurions,
writing our names as Aquarians!
As Aquarians, but as Aquarians!
Writing our names as we move to the sun,
we're Aquarian!
3.Into A Game
Lyricist：Hammill Peter Joseph Andrew
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 all a bit strange
Once on a time, we were sincere
Now, we're acting charades
Hiding behind cracked images
From other people's stages
Now we're into a game
And it's all a bit strange
But familiar too
The rules never change
I know it, but do you？
Let's solve it now
I've seen it all before
And this play no longer moves me
But the closing of a door
Is never easy
Look at the cards in your hand
Kings turn to jokers
There are no prizes for laughing
Situation hopeless
Now we're into a game
And it's all a bit strange
But familiar too
The rules never change
I know it, but do you？
Let's solve it now
It's no good looking to me
For reassurance
It's hard and I need you to show me
Your bruised innocence
Into a game, into a game
Into a game, into a game
Into a game, into a game
Into a game, into a game
Into a game, into a game
Into a game, into a game
Into a game, into a game
Into a game, into a game
Into a game, into a game
4.Necromancer
Lyricist：Hammill Peter
Yes, I live in the black woods
Where you dare not even speak my name
If there is evil in your heart and you come near me
You will lose your sane
My form is mystic but my heart is pure
You'd better believe what I say
I am the Necromancer
(I am the Necromancer)
I cast deep spells and potent
I am a Seer of the Real
My forces work against evil
For I love all I feel
I know the secrets long forgotten
You'd better believe in me
I am the Necromancer
(I am the Necromancer)
Look into my eyes
I tell you, occults power lies in love
I fight against darkness
The power of the Black
Every day the power is greater
And soon the world will come to rights
Through the magic, through the power
Shaman shall die on the seventh night
And now remember magic is here
You'd better believe in the White
I am the Necromancer
(I am the Necromancer)
And I come to carry your heart away to good
5.Octopus
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 you may see...
I want you to cascade through ten thousand
rainbows with me and dredge mountains
from the sea：
you who I now begin to know.
But emotion is pent up inside,
too scared of dying again to live,
and meanwhile I must endure your
red-copper hair screaming like a
water-baby black eyes stare
from my ceiling：
you who I now truly know...
Now I cannot see too clearly
and already my trellis stands bare...
How can I break free of these overclinging
arms which entwine and enfold me？... And reach
to the clear blue sea？
I want you to know, but how can I
tell you？ I want you to see
but my own eyes are blind...
The Octopus now enfolds me,
I know you too well...
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6.Running Back
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 thought I'd make it;
Yes, I really thought I'd make it,
but then you smiled, you didn't rile me,
now I'm running back
running, running back.
I saw a vision of a love long deceased
and a chilly wind coming from East.
I know I can say I did my best,
but there were no more warm winds from the West.
Still I thought I'd make it;
Yes, I really thought I'd make it,
but then you smiled, you didn't rile me,
now I'm running back
running, running back.
I thought you'd never be missed,
and I really believed we'd never share another kiss.
And I thought for the last time I'd touched your hand,
but your love draws me back like quicksand.
Still I thought I'd make it;
Yes, I really thought I'd make it,
but then you smiled, you didn't rile me,
now I'm running back
running, running back.
And now I'm coming yes home.
I'm coming home.
7.The Aerosol Grey Machine
Lyricist：Hammill Peter Joseph Andrew
1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4
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
Well, you're walking along the road one day
Up comes a man dressed all in grey
He blows a little aerosol in your face
And you find your mind's all over the place
Just one breath, and it's instant death
It's the aerosol grey machine
Buy an aerosol grey machine
For your own home today
Shan't, shan't, I'm not going to
8.Black Smoke Yen
9.Orthenthian St., Pts. 1 ＆ 2
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 to get a break from the play
that we're all involved in.
All the love I'm living now could have ended yesterday
if the snow had fallen too hard up there on the Motorway...
If it happens, don't feel sorry, I won't feel alone：
it's just another travelling zone
that you can't come on.
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 long as we're travelling I suppose they must.
But, while we're on the road, our days'll be glowing;
and when we part, as you know we must,
we'll leave, just going
ever so slowly,
ever so slowly.
Motorway signs flash past like flies,
it's getting late and we're going home.
We all travel in parallel lines,
heading into the twilight zone.
All I really want now is you by my side;
yes, it's a sweet ride
while we're still together.
Yes, it's a sunny day, and we're off on our sea trip;
The water may be cold in the bay,
but we're safe on our sailing ship,
and, if ice forms, you can walk home to land
and still cling to my hand
if you still want to...
10.People You Were Going To
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 atmosphere in there is
so bad you can't bear it.
And the people you were going to America with
just left on the dawn 'plane
without you.
The people in the downstairs flat
are no longer there now, because they
left the gas tap on： they're all dead.
So you've no-one left to talk to,
you just lie there, in melancholy,
half-naked on your unmade bed.
And the people you were going to Africa with
just left on the Southern Star
without you.
Now the haze that's been forming
round your window-panes
is protracted and poisoned,
and you cannot feel a portion
of the world outside.
Can you imagine the way you'd feel
if all these things had happened to you
and the doctor says you're dying？
That is the way that I feel now
on finding that your love belongs
to someone else, and not I...
My chance of heaven has just blown away
upon a passing cloud, and there is nothing
that I can do without you.
11.Firebrand
Sunday night, twelve weeks before winter,
the world is in a smoky haze.
Suddenly there appears a rider in the East,
brandishing flame.
'I ride an icy stallion, fire at each end
and poison at the centre;
you won't hear my words as I scream into the darkness：
his plans are like a firebrand,
his plans are like a firebrand.'
His steed strains as he reaches out over the reins
and hurls his flame at the West.
The mountains dissolve in fire
and he races through them, screaming：
'I ride an icy stallion, fire at each end
and poison at the centre;
you won't hear my words as I scream into the darkness：
his plans are like a firebrand,
his plans are like a firebrand.'
He rides on into the further darkness
brandishing his flame like a spear
and below him there races his ghost steed
draping the night in fear
'I ride an icy stallion, fire at each end
and poison at the centre;
you won't hear my words as I scream into the darkness：
his plans are like a firebrand,
his plans are like a firebrand.'
Njal, beware and heed the words
which emanate from Hildiglum.
12.Giant Squid
I wish that you would set me free forever
but the rings on my arms are too deeply burned
13.Ferret And Featherbird
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 to say.
Distance came between us long ago,
as our memories faded away...
over the miles I ceased to smile
because nothing felt the same.
That's how it seemed a week ago,
far off in time and space.
Time and distance are between us now,
they form a bond to make things sure.
Nothing ever shatters,
you know what happens：
time and distance make a love secure.
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