Now Lover - Peter Hammill

In the here and now…

Between sensation at the nerve-ends

And arrival of information at the cortex

Time elapses

So, you see, each time we touch

We did so in the past

Now, lover

Slicing through time in a perfect curve

Due for a moment of energy;

Somehow we’ll get what we most deserve

In the here and now

In the here and now

Although completely different people

In the moments before and after having sex

We are time-locked

Cracked, forgotten statues, we are strangled in the undergrowth

Lost in ancient magic, we are motion, we are wonderful flow

We are time-locked

Unknowing of the code

But addicted to the pulse

Now, lover

Melt in the crucible, flesh and blood

Bodies consumed by the catalyst

Somehow we’ll raise our sights from the mud

We are always now

We are Always Now!

If we were always here and now

Instead of slightly, now and then…

So immaterial, so lost, embracing all the grace

That comes before the fall

If we were always here and now

Electric shiver in the spine

How could we turn away, see life as grey and drab?

How come we don’t see what we have?

If we were always here and now

Soul to soul and skin to skin…

Is it some kind of make-believe

Is it some kind of dream we’re in

With a mint copy of original sin?

In the here and now

Between sensation at the nerve-ends

And the arrival of information at the cortex

Time elapses

Cracked, forgotten statues, we are strangled in the undergrowth;

Lying on the mattress of the magic and the wonderful

Nothing really matters as we’re sucked in by the undertow…

We are Motion, we are Feeling, we are Now!

Although completely different people

In the moments before and after having sex

We are time-locked, we are time-locked…

Though we know each time we touch

We did so in the past

Now come on, come on, lover

Slicing through time in a perfect curve

Due for a moment of energy…

Somehow we’ll get what we most deserve

In the here and now

Melt in the crucible, flesh and blood

Bodies consumed by the catalyst

Surrender to nothing, welcome the flood

Of the here and now

Slicing through time in a perfect curve

Due for a moment of energy

Somehow we’ll get what we most deserve;

Melt in the crucible, flesh and blood

Bodies, consumed by the catalyst

Surrender to nothing

Nip the thought in the bud

We are always now

We are Always Now!

If we were always here and now…