Peter Hammill Again lyrics

I stretch my hands, clutch vacant laughter
In silence and sweet, sweet pain
Without demand, with a longing
For what will never come again

I smell your perfume on the sheets in the morning
Linger like the patterns on the window after rain
A past that lives, if only for the present
Which is gone and will never come again

To your sad eyes, turned away, mine say
Do you? Did you? How?
As the darkness slides away the day
Shows what was and makes what is now


I see your picture just as though that was a mirror
But there's no part of you outside your frame
Except the change that you gave to me
When this is gone, it will never come again

I am me, I was so before you
But afterwards, I am not the same
You are gone and I am with you
This will never come again

This will never come again
This will never come again