Peter Hammill - I Once Wrote Some Poems lyrics

I once wrote a poem of stillness and silence Standing by rivers of reflected light My thoughts were on being loved and yet unloved, too I surrendered to the warmth of the night Now I feel like dying And if the water were here It would hold me close I once wrote a poem while walking on gravestones As cobbles, rain and tear lashed down my face I then felt my whole world was fading As memories jostled and fell into place And now I feel like dying And the pain of old fires still burns I never wrote poems when I bit my knuckles And d**h started slipping into my mouth But that was really a long time ago And I'm not writing poems now And I don't feel quite like dying There is something deep inside me Softly crying And I don't feel quite like dying There is something deep inside me softly