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.
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.
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.
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, dispensing platitudes and junk.
You're so young, you're so here, so gone,. So old, so near, so wrong,. Such a drag, so queer, so strong, so.... To be told.. Such a drag to be told.
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 battlefield,. Shrugs to his shadow, impatient, too proud yet to kneel..
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..
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 on....
Sometimes you feel so far away,. Distanced from all the action of the play,. Unable to grasp significance,. Marking the plot with diffident dismay,. .
North was somewhere years ago and cold:. Ice locked the people's hearts and made them old.. South was birth to pleasant lands, but dry:. I walked the waters' depths and played my mind..
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,.
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 my mind.. You tried to be kind,.
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,.
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. .
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.
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 labyrinth of future mystery,.
(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,.
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 that around the place.
(i) Eyewitness. . ( Hammill ). . 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..
(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.