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Artist: Peter Hammill
Canonical path: /peter-hammill/again
Related lyric paths: 6
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Again
Read Again lyrics by Peter Hammill on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Again
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I stretch my hands, clutch vacant laughter
In silence and sweet, sweet pain
Without demand, but with a longing
For what will never come again
I smell your perfume on the sheets in the morning
It lingers like the patterns on the window after rain
A past that lives, if only for the present
But which is gone and will never come again
To your sad eyes, turned away, mine say
Do you? Did you? How?
As the darkness slides away the day
Shows what was and makes what is now
I see your picture as though it were a mirror
But there's no part of you outside the frame
Except the change that you gave to me
This will never come again
I am me, I was so before you
But afterwards I am not the same
You are gone and I am with you
This will never come again
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Peter Hammill performs "Again", and this lyric page sits inside the Peter Hammill catalog on LyroVerse.
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Yes. The related section below points to The Institute Of Mental Health, Burning and A Headlong Stretch: iii. The Twelve with a short reason for opening each page next.
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