Tuesday, 1 March 2011

"More For Me"

Passing

And all the things that we own are never ours alone,
no, they just pass through our hands in succession.
— Peter Hammill 'Material Possession'

Leading The Follower

Look. You've got it all wrong.
You don't need to follow me.
You don't need to follow anybody!
You've got to think for yourselves.
 — Monty Python 'The Life Of Brian'

Monday, 28 February 2011

Discovery

Princesses

You make life a fairy tale …
Grimm!
 — John Cooper Clarke 'Twat'

Monday, 21 February 2011

Place To Be

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.
 — Joseph Campbell

Friday, 18 February 2011

The Unremunerated

Take a look you may see me on the ground
For I am the parasite of this town
 — Nick Drake 'Parasite'

Thursday, 17 February 2011

For Nothing

So the great affair is over
but whoever would have guessed
it would leave us all so vacant
and so deeply unimpressed
It's like our visit to the moon
or to that other star
I guess you go for nothing
if you really want to go that far.
 — Leonard Cohen 'Death Of A Ladies' Man'

Like A Stray Dog In The Night, I'll Shuffle Off Alone

We all make our futures
but I have lost mine; 
I'm hoping for a miracle 
but finding no sign....
— Peter Hammill 'This Side Of The Looking-Glass'

Adrift

Adrift without a course,
it's very lonely here, 
our only conjecture 
what lies behind the dark.
 — Peter Hammill 'Childlike Faith in Childhood's End'