Refugees Lyrics

(Hammill) 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... You chase the...Read Full Lyrics

(Hammill - Jackson) 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 ...Read Full Lyrics

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. I thought I'd make it;...Read Full Lyrics

At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent, Is moved into action and their pace does not relent. In step, with great precision, these dancers of the night Advance agai...Read Full Lyrics

Live by sword and you shall die so, All your power shall come to nought, Every life you take is part of your own, Death, not power, is what you've bought. Cringing in your room as...Read Full Lyrics

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 Your fingers... But it slips th...Read Full Lyrics

(Hammill) Oh, the Sisters of Blindness From the Convent of the Broken Heart, They want to smother it with kindness, They want to tear it all apart. And there's a rock of sterile v...Read Full Lyrics

(Hammill) Letters in pencil, some of them as heavy as lead, As dated as carbon, as black as coal, but burning as red. Clues faintly stencilled: the message, though leeched, is unb...Read Full Lyrics

Here at the glass All the usual problems, All the habitual farce. You ask, In uncertain voice, What you should do As if there were a choice But to carry on Miming the song And hope...Read Full Lyrics

(Hammill) The wave hits the beach, writing words on the sand; To the academic man, this could be the answer.... In fact, it's no more than a hunch. Still we try to eat it - I thin...Read Full Lyrics