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Nightman
19
Rock
Nightman was released on January 1, 1998 by Cherry Red Records as a part of the album This
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AlbumThis
Release DateJanuary 1, 1998
LabelCherry Red Records
Melodicness
Acousticness
Valence
Danceability
Energy
BPM99

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Vocals
David Jackson
David Jackson
Saxophone
Stuart Gordon
Stuart Gordon
Violin
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Peter Hammill
Peter Hammill
Composer

Lyrics

At the dead of night, I woke
With the sense that my dreams were escaping
All uncannily unspoken
Like words at the tip of a foreign tongue....
As for language, I have none
To express quite what strangeness overwhelms me:
Something's changed and something tells me
To be still in the roar of the distant stars
The night's full of fire, ice and water;
By day I'll have clay in my hands
The book is open at a well-thumbed mark
The odds are stacked that I'm facing
Eyes grown accustomed to light and dark
Can't catch the shadows they're chasing
Open, my heart, to the vital spark –
A disordered rhythm is racing
It's a danse macabre I'm tracing
As the fire feeds the flame
As the tongue finds expression in its flickering
Does each breath inform a name
To be dispersed just as soon as it's exhaled?
Was it to myself I came
Or to some other strange and parallel existence?
Oh, will I ever see tomorrow
To wake and begin it again?
Open, the book at a well-read page
Hope triumphs over expectation;
Open, the secrets of seer and sage
In awe-inspired anticipation....
Open, my mind in the body's cage
Unchained in consecration;
Open, my eyes, to the wider stage
The firestorm of liberation –
The night in conflagration
The night in conflagration
With a shiver down my spine
I come back to the place where I started;
The sea of consciousness has parted
But stranded is all that I feel for sure
As nightsight declines into darkness
By day there'll be clay in my hands
I may feel the clay in my hands
Written by: Peter Hammill
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