Time Heals
Peter Hammill

Thinking back, it seems that I
Can lie beside you as I never truly did,
In afterglow
No afterwards at all.
Only writing love songs when it's gone and dead;
Only paying words out: strings of half-forgotten sentiments...
I mean...
I meant...
I never really quite could say the way it was.
The first time that we met I said 'I bet that she's the one',
But I was talking to myself then, as always.
As time went by our steps entwined, unwritten lines drew taut
And I tried to find a way to make it all safe...
Into the play, what a production!
Into the days and ever more suction:
You hold me close, but hold me farther
Away from yourself, I make me a martyr,
For pain and love go hand in hand...
And hand in hand go you and my friend,
You are his and I am yours and just cannot evade you
My days a dream, my nights unseemly,
Stolen moments all I live for,
But theft is no way to persuade you
To come with me, leave him behind you
My hurtful eyes try to remind you
It's all I can do to keep from screaming
'I love you, I love you!' I wish I was dreaming,
But the steps we take all leave footprints...

Sooner or later the whole thing will be blown
You will leave him or I'll be left here, alone
Either way someone loses someone
But I won't mind that, I just would quite like to know
Who we love the most, well, I guess that's ourselves

The days are strange, at night we're strangers,
Lie in bed and lie inside our heads,
We come no closer than as dancers
Your eyes are change, your presence danger,
Won't look me in the face and yet you
Kiss and make up the answer
To all the questions that fly unanswered, unreasoned
Death in the sky, death in the season
If you leave me now, it might nearly kill me....
Remember me?
Remember we three?

It all seemed so important at the time,
We came so close to wrecking all our lives,
And now it's all just song lines
Time heals,
Time heals
Oh, but I still bear the weals

Thinking back, it seems that I
Can lie beside you as I never truly did,
In afterglow
No afterwards at all
Only writing love songs when it's gone and dead,
Only paying words out: streams of half-forgotten sentiments...
I mean...
I meant...
I never really quite could say
The way it was


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  (In The) Black Room   (No More) The Sub Mariner   (On Tuesdays She Used To Do) Yoga   A Louse Is Not A Home   A Way Out   Accidents   Act Five   Act One   Act Six   Again   Again   Airport   Autumn   Autumn [*]   Been Alone So Long   Been Alone So Long   Betrayed   Birds   Birthday Special   Breakthrough   Candle   Central Hotel   Child   Crying Wolf   Curtains   Description   Dont Tell Me   Down in the Sewer   Dropping The Torch   Easy to Slip Away   Empress's Clothes   Faculty X   Faint-Heart and the Sermon   Ferret and Featherbird   Flight   Fogwalking   Forsaken Gardens   Four Pails   Future Now   Gaia   German Overalls   Glue   Golden Promises   Green Fingers   Handicap And Equality   Happy   Happy [#][*]   Happy Hour   Hesitation   His Best Girl   I Once Wrote Some Poems   I Will Find You   I Will Find You   Imperial Walls   Imperial Zeppelin   Imperial Zeppelin (chris Judge Smith)   In Slow Time   In The End   Institute of Mental Health, Burning   Jargon King   Just Good Friends   Labour Of Love   Losing Faith in Words   Lost And Found   Man-Erg   Modern   My Experience   My Favourite   No Moon In The Water   Nobody's Business   Not For Keith   Not The Man   Oasis   Ophelia   Ophelia   Paradox Drive   Patient   People You Were Going To   Pompeii   Porton Down   Re-Awakening   Re-Awakening [#][*]   Red Shift   Red Shift [BBC Radio One John Peel Session][*]   Rubicon   Rubicon [BBC Radio One John Peel Session][*]   Seven Wonders (Bonus Track)   She Wraps It Up   Shingle Song   Sign   Sitting Targets   Slender Threads   Solitude   Something About Ysabel's Dance   Spirit   Still Life   Stranger Still   Summer Song (In the Autumn)   Sunshine   Sunshine [#][*]   Tapeworm   The Birds   The Birds [#][*]   The Comet, The Course, The Tail   The Future Now   The Institute of Mental Health, Burning   The Jargon King   The Lie (bernini's St Theresa)   The Old School Tie   The Spirit   The Unconscious Life   This Side Of The Looking Glass   Time For A Change (chris Judge Smith)   Time to Burn [Instrumental]   Traintime   Two Or Three Spectres   Viking   Vision   What I Did   What's It Worth   Wilhelmina

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