Built From Scratch Lyrics & Chords By Peter Hammill & Gary Lucas

I got no sense of danger, when I met her at first, though with hindsight's cold certainty I was always a target. From the very start she'd been training her sights on me. ...read more

(Hammill) 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...read more

It's not that complicated, no more than a clench of fist – she want to paint her heart out, she want to tell it as she sees it is. Authority condemns her, they say to...read more

Disconnect, this circuit's broken, the juice is drained, the body weak and the head is bowed. I suspect what stays unspoken will prove to be a truer word than any we shout...read more

I mark the high days and the holidays red-letter on the page; fast-forward into memory, prepare to be upstaged. The envelopes I push against so rapidly become a wrap to...read more