Peter Hammill - "The Lie" - brilliant live and solo version (1978)

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I'd embrace you if I only knew your name ...
Peter Hammill (audio only) plays the song "The Lie (Bernini's St Theresa)", from the unofficial live and solo album "Skeletons of Songs", accompanied by my own video compilation. Recorded live at the All Souls Unitarian Church in Kansas City (USA) in February 1978. Live and solo is by far my favourite way of listening to Peter Hammill, and this album is amongst my top ten all-time favourite albums without question. I have uploaded some of my other favourite tracks from this album.
I compiled the video myself utilising footage mostly downloaded from KZbin, with some of my own added effects and filters.
Please check out my other videos.
Comments are most welcome.
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The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
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Genuflection, erection in church.
Sacristy cloth, moth-eaten shroud.
Secret silence, sacred secrets
accumulate dust, aggravate the eye.
Incautious laughter after confession.
Benediction, fictional fear.
Hidden faces...Grace is a name,
like Chastity, like Lucifer, like mine.
You took me through the window-stain,
drowned in image, incense,
choir-refrain and slow ecstasy.
I'd embrace you if I only knew your name.
The silent corner haunts my shadow prayers.
ice-cold statue, rapture divine,
unconscious eyes, the open mouth,
the wound of love,
the Lie.
You took me, gave me reasons for
saints and missals, vigils,
all the more holy martyrs.
I'd embrace you and walk through
the one-way door.
I'd embrace you, but it would be
just another lie.
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@kipptumor 15 жыл бұрын

Nothing tops the way he sings the line "after confession" on the original version from the silent corner - I always thought of this album as my own secret discovery. It is so odd to log onto youtube and see so many people who were just as taken by Hammill's work. i discovered him in 82 I think, and I remember listening to this song often in my dorm room at the Kansas City Art Institute in 83-84. I couldn't believe that Van der Graff had a reunion tour in 2005 - I would have gone. Amazing!