A Place To Survive Van Der Graaf Generator

It's easy to say, when you're so down, that everything's pointless; your eyes burn, your ears howl, your limbs are disjointed.

Childlike Faith In Childhood's End Van Der Graaf Generator

Existence is a stage on which we pass, a sleep-walk trick for mind and heart: it's hopeless, I know, but onward I must go and try to make a start at seeing something more than day-to-day survival chased

Wondering Van Der Graaf Generator

I will arise; in the depths, I will open my eyes; as my breath almost fails me, survive. Wait-there's something unclear, there's something I fear now drawing close. Could it b you?

In Babelsberg Van Der Graaf Generator

Tale another step, another move, another pace, what isn't written in the manuscript is a note to play with grace and if I exit from this story in a way I might retrace it will have fallen through the cracks

Mirror Images (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

Oh, I don't mind all that around the place, as long as you keep it well away from me. I've begun to regret that we ever met between the dimensions.

My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) Van Der Graaf Generator

Searching for diamonds in the sulphur mine, leaning on props which are rotten, hoping for anything, looking for a sign that I am not forgotten.

Pioneers Over c Van Der Graaf Generator

We are the lost ones; we are the pioneers; we are the lost ones We are the ones they are going to build a statue for ten centuries ago or were going to fifteen forward ...

Pioneers Over C (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

We are the lost ones; we are the pioneers; we are the lost ones We are the ones they are going to build a statue for ten centuries ago or were going to fifteen forward ...

Masks Van Der Graaf Generator

He's a man of the past and one of the present, a man who hides behind a mask behind a mask. A clown, a fool, believing it cool to be down or that the game is all about who laughs the last.

The Sphinx In The Face Van Der Graaf Generator

I remember what it felt like at seventeen: I was a cat, a snake, a lizard, a mouse. Still got an interest in the limousine and a spouse and a brat, country house, London flat.

The Habit Of The Broken Heart Van Der Graaf Generator

And there's a rock of sterile virtu' in the centre of the bay.... I'm so sorry he hurt you, but don't throw yourself away.

Nutter Alert Van Der Graaf Generator

It might come in a letter, darkness falls in a telephone call; I await the unexpected with one ear to the party wall.

Last Frame (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

Pretty keen - yes, my hobby keeps me busy and if I talk to myself, what's the crime? In the darkroom I am a dealer in space and time....

Last Frame Van Der Graaf Generator

Pretty keen - yes, my hobby keeps me busy and if I talk to myself, what's the crime? In the darkroom I am a dealer in space and time....

Ship Of Fools Van Der Graaf Generator

The captain's in a coma, the lieutenant's on a drunk; the owner's in his cabin with his special friend, the monk; the midget's on the bridge, dispensing platitudes and junk - those wild and special places

Ship Of Fools (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

The captain's in a coma, the lieutenant's on a drunk; the owner's in his cabin with his special friend, the monk; the midget's on the bridge, dispensing platitudes and junk - those wild and special places

House With No Door Van Der Graaf Generator

There's a house with no door and I'm living there at nights it gets so cold and the days are hard to bear inside.

Chemical World Van Der Graaf Generator

It's quite allright - I mean to say, tomorrow's just another day... Oh, but in the morning, Oh, but in the morning haze will you still feel as fine, will you still need to trade day for night?

Pilgrims Van Der Graaf Generator

for a lost page: unsure of the dream.

Lizard Play Van Der Graaf Generator

She's not quite ready, she wants to stay, she wants to be perfect, but not in the way. He tries to be cautious, one more cigarette, he wants to be open, but the time is not yet.

The Wave Van Der Graaf Generator

The wave hits the beach, writing words on the sand; to the academic man, this could be the answer.... In fact, it's no more than a hunch.

Scorched Earth Van Der Graaf Generator

In his wake he leaves scorched earth and work in vain; smoke drifts up behind him - he is free again, free to run before the onslaught of a deadly foe, leaving nothing fit for pillage, hardly leaving home

Door (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

He's a blind man, crouching by the pavement, only seeing with his third eye, and clutching at the astral shadow of every passer-by.

Every Bloody Emperor Van Der Graaf Generator

By this we are all sustained: a belief in human nature and in justice and parity...all we have is the faith to carry on.

When She Comes Van Der Graaf Generator

Repentance for all you should have said- her entrance seems to raise you from the dead and you think she's really with you and you think she'll always stay. always ready to forgive you, always ready to

Afterwards Van Der Graaf Generator

You stare out in yellow eyes larger than my mind; in viscous pools of joy, relaxing, we glide... it's all too beautiful for my mind to bear. and, as we shimmer into sleep, something's unshared.

The Undercover Man Van Der Graaf Generator

You ask, in uncertain voice, what you should do as if there were a choice but to carry on miming the song and hope that it all works out right.

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers Van Der Graaf Generator

So I only think on how it might have been, locked in silent monologue, in silent scream Anyway, I'm much too tired to speak and, as the waves crash on the bleak stones of the tower, I start to freak...

Still Life Van Der Graaf Generator

Citadel rever berates to a thousand voices, now dumb; What have we become? What have we chosen to be?

Still Life (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

What have we chosen to be? Now all history is reduced to the syllables or our name - nothing can ever be the same: now the Immortals are here.

Door Van Der Graaf Generator

He's a blind man, crouching by the pavement only seeing with his third eye and clutching at the astral shadow of every passer-by He's a wise man, trumping all the answers she's a wild girl, trying to keep

Arrow Van Der Graaf Generator

cracks a voice, half-strangled by the shock of its rejection. Shot the bolt in the wall, rusted the key; now the echoes of all frightful memory intrude in the silence.

Killer Van Der Graaf Generator

And you crave companionship and someone to call your own; because for the whole of your life you've been living alone.

On The Beach Van Der Graaf Generator

If we had all the time in the world we might talk about how it used to be. We could have thrown in our cards when the going got hard but evidently we went on interminably.

La Rossa Van Der Graaf Generator

Like a monkey I dance to a strange tune when all of those years I've longed to lie with you but have bogged myself down in the web of talk, quack philosophy and sophistry - at physically I've always baulked

Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

Eyes undulled by moon, their arms and legs akimbo, they walk and live, hoping soon to surface from this limbo.

The Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

Eyes un-dulled by moon, their arms and legs akimbo, They walk and live, hoping soon to surface from this limbo.

Out Of My Book Van Der Graaf Generator

You tried to be kind, but I blocked your feelings. Now, senses still reeling, you sit in your quiet room and cry. You tried to make me one, but I always hide when there's a glimpse of sun.

Necromancer Van Der Graaf Generator

If there is evil in your heart and you will come near to me you will lose your sane. My form is mystic, but my heart is pure, you'd better believe what I say: I am the Necromancer.

Refugees Van Der Graaf Generator

S. was birth to pleasant lands, but dry: I walked the waters' depths and played my mind.

The Siren Song Van Der Graaf Generator

as red Clues faintly stenciled the message,though bleached,is on red as secret as marble as young as old as living as dead And always that laugh that comes as though it's from pain, though i'm lashed to

Man-Erg Van Der Graaf Generator

They watch me as I go to fall, well, I know I shall be caught, For the angels live. How can I be free? How can I get help? Am I really me? Am I someone else?

Man Erg Van Der Graaf Generator

Their presence strokes and soothes the tempest in my mind; And their love can heal the wounds that I have wrought, They watch me as I go to fall - well, I know I shall be caught While the angels live

After The Flood Van Der Graaf Generator

Continuing the story, humanity stumbles gone is the glory, there's a far distant rumble. The clouds have gathered and exploded now: axes shattered, there is no North or South!

Lost Van Der Graaf Generator

Times have changed, now you're far away, I can't complain: I had all my chances but they slipped right through my hands - like so much sand; I know I'll never dance like I used to I'll just wait till day

Lemmings (Including Cog) Van Der Graaf Generator

I stood alone upon the highest cliff-top, looked down, around, and all that I could see were those that I would dearly love to share with crashing on quite blindly to the sea: I tried to ask what game

White Hammer Van Der Graaf Generator

In the year 1486 the Malleus first appeared, designed to kill all witchcraft and end the papal fears: prescribing tortures to kill the Black Arts... ...and the Hammer struck hard.

The Boat Of Millions Of Years Van Der Graaf Generator

She called out to the High God Ra to kill this evil, that her child may live yet. Casting aside her present fears she called out on the Boat of Millions of years...

Whatever Would Robert Have Said? Van Der Graaf Generator

blow of air you fake, but which still throws you out the door; I AM the air that fills your lungs, but leaves you emptier than below; I AM the void that you can't explain, but which is where you want to

w Van Der Graaf Generator

You wake up, go to the window and see smoke billowing across the lawn. You pick your feet up, drag yourself downstairs and you're gone.