~ L Y R I C S ~
this is gonna fill the hecko up pretty soon, and I'm gonna have to make a list up here with them quick links that take you down the page probably.
Or simply encourage ctrl+F, but where's the elegance in that, eh?
Might even split the list of quick links into smaller lists, sorted by albums, and then those lists sorted into chronological order of release.
...Jeez, I see why Peter Hammill has different lyric pages per album now. Maybe that'd be better.
Maybe we could have one page that's all of it, and also offer an album(/etc.) list. Best of both worlds. Or, well... literally just both worlds.
~ 67 Anchovies ~
on 67 Anchovies, 2023
67 anchovies
havin' a real good time
67 anchovies
mysterious paradigm
~ I Don't Want To Be Special ~
currently a Patreon exclusive
i don't want to be special
i just want to be friends
i don't want to be a storybook
or a letter you can send
i just want to connect with you
without a character in the way
could you tear up the script for me please
and don't be led by old clichés
it's been so exhausting
three decades all the same
i'm so sick of you all just
trying to be cool
or playing the fool
whatever role might win the game
'cos i don't want to impress you
i just want to be nice
i won't pretend to be a restaurant
because i've only got instant rice
and i don't need you to thrill me
just tell me how you feel
and we might laugh at each other's jokes
but there's more that makes it real
aren't you sick of the artifice
the rigmarole, the mechanics of this
you just pick a clown and off you go
a cartoon face, lying to the world
aren't you tired of trying so hard
to excite the fickle fashionable farce
who'll leave you stranded if you don't perform
or, on a whim, won't let you in at all
why does it matter
i'll never understand
'cos i don't want to be special.
~ The Day I Die ~
on The Day I Die, 2024
the day i die, will i see you for the first time
carrying a smile that i've failed to imagine
and ghost arms, and ghost lips, and ghost eyes, and ghost grip
never let me go, we're together now
i can't call to life the will that i had once before
no more breath in the spirit
i don't want the end but i feel like i'm already there
just lying here trying again
just wasting away
with someone to live for, who, heavens above,
i know i'll never kiss
so when i die, please could you carry me off beside you
wherever you wish
the one thing i want in this flea-bitten world is just
not to be so alone anymore
~ The View From Beneath ~
currently a Patreon exclusive
i've been kinda down lately
snakes and leeches screwing around
y'know there's always someone who
decides they've gotta be king of town
but you've got this special way of
releasing the tension that plagues my heart
you've got this sexy power
that just destroys the world
you're a work of art, girl
you're a work of art
you're a work of art, oh
mm
and the view from beneath collapses time and space
yeah the view from beneath your human perfect face
half the world is burning down, while the other half protect their crowns
but the view from beneath you, babe, it's a reason to live
you've been kinda down lately
taken for granted by the corporate world
chewed up and spat into a
river that you never would have ever chosen
i wanna be your medicine
though at best i'd only treat the symptoms
but nonetheless, some counterweight
might put your heart at ease
'cos the view from beneath collapses time and space
yeah the view from beneath your human perfect face
half the world is burning down, while the other half protect their crowns
but the view from beneath you, babe, it's a reason to live
could i help you out, girl
like you help me out
could i help you out, oh
mm
half the world is burning down, while the other half protect their crowns
but the view from beneath you, it's a reason to live
