The Habit Of The Broken Heart Van Der Graaf Generator

Oh, the Sisters of Blindness from the Convent of the Broken Heart, they want to smother it with kindness, they want to tear it all apart.

My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) Van Der Graaf Generator

Lost in a labyrinth of future mystery, tracing my steps, all mistaken, trusting to everything, praying it can be that I am not forsaken.

Necromancer Van Der Graaf Generator

Yes I live in the black woods, where you dare not even speak my name. If there is evil in your heart and you will come near to me you will lose your sane.

In Babelsberg Van Der Graaf Generator

The city's spread beneath my feet, but not the one that I was after while I've been pounding out this beat the length of the Kudamm.

Childlike Faith In Childhood's End Van Der Graaf Generator

Though the towers of the city are denied to we men of clay still we know we shall scale the heights some day.

Lost Van Der Graaf Generator

land and the sea. hoping that I can catch all of the memories, then I must crawl off upon my way, all of me listening hard for the final words.

The Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast.

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.

The Boat Of Millions Of Years Van Der Graaf Generator

Horus, the son of Isis, lay in the marshes of Buto, poisoned by Set. She called out to the High God Ra to kill this evil, that her child may live yet.

The Sphinx In The Face Van Der Graaf Generator

I'm gonna head for the island when the summer's out, I'm gonna do all the stuff that I can, drink like a fish in a waterspout - I'm a fan of the flow it began long ago I'm a man who should know it doesn't

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

Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast.

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!

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.

Pilgrims Van Der Graaf Generator

Sometimes you feel so far away, distanced from all the action of the play, unable to grasp significance, marking the plot with diffident dismay, stranded at centre stage, scrabbling through your diary

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

Whatever Would Robert Have Said? Van Der Graaf Generator

I AM the suck of air you take that you've had many times before; I AM the 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

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.

The Siren Song Van Der Graaf Generator

Letters in pencil some of them as heavy as lead as dated as carbon as black as coal but burning as red Clues faintly stenciled the message,though bleached,is on red as secret as marble as young as old

La Rossa Van Der Graaf Generator

In the harsh light of freedom I know that I cannot deny that I have wasted time, have frittered it away in idle boasts of my freedom and idelity, when simpler words would have profited the most... ...

The Undercover Man Van Der Graaf Generator

Here at the glass - all the usual problems all the habitual farce.

Still Life (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

At the time it seemed a reasonable course to harness all the force of life without the threat of death, but soon we found that boredom and inertia are not negative, but all the law we know, and dead are

Still Life Van Der Graaf Generator

At the time it seemed a reasonable course to harness all the force of life without the threat of death, but soon we found that boredom and inertia are not negative, but all the law we know, and dead are

Arrow Van Der Graaf Generator

Stub towers in the distance, riders cross the blasted moor against the horizon Fickle promises of treaty, fatal harbingers of war, futile orisons swirl as one in this flight, this mad chase, this

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.

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers Van Der Graaf Generator

I've been the witness, and the seal of death lingers in the molten wax that is my head.

Chemical World Van Der Graaf Generator

Well what's the harm? It's good clean fun... why don't you just go on and have another one? When there's hanky-panky in the boardroom, wooly-bully on the farm, what's the harm?

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.

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

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

Every Bloody Emperor Van Der Graaf Generator

Imperceptible the change as our votes become mere gestures and our lords and masters determine to cast us in the roles of serfs and slaves in the new empire's name.

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.

Man-Erg Van Der Graaf Generator

The killer lives inside me: I can feel him move.

Man Erg Van Der Graaf Generator

The killer lives inside me: yes, I can feel him move.

A Place To Survive Van Der Graaf Generator

Barren fields, the barren earth, never more will it flower- rub your face and your hands in the dirt: now is the hour.

Mirror Images (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

If I'm the mirror and you're the image then what's the secret between the two, these 'me's and 'you's, how many can there be?

Killer Van Der Graaf Generator

So you live in the bottom of the sea, and you kill all that come near you .... but you are very lonely, because all the other fish fear you .....

Pioneers Over c Van Der Graaf Generator

It is so dark around, no life, no hope, no sound no chance of seeing home again ... The universe is on fire, exploding without flame.

Pioneers Over C (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

It is so dark around, no life, no hope, no sound no chance of seeing home again ... The universe is on fire, exploding without flame.

When She Comes Van Der Graaf Generator

Slow motion in the quiet of your room: so potent is the smell of her perfume that you think she's eternal that you think she's everything -but no-one knows what she is....

Darkness (11/11) Van Der Graaf Generator

Life crawls from the past, watching in wonder I trace its patterns in me. Tomorrow's tomorrow is birth again. Boats burn the bridge in the fens; the time of the past returns to my life and uses it.

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.

Out Of My Book Van Der Graaf Generator

We sat by ourselves, still looking for company; there could have been peace, but that eluded me all I could think of was what was on your mind. You tried to be kind, but I blocked your feelings.

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.

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....

w Van Der Graaf Generator

Life is an endless succession of waves, you're happy and you're sad and you don't appreciate the good times until you'e in the bad....

Lizard Play Van Der Graaf Generator

Frozen moment, cold blood time: the Iguana lady is saying goodbye. She's not quite ready, she wants to stay, she wants to be perfect, but not in the way.

Refugees Van Der Graaf Generator

N. was somewhere years ago and cold: ice locked the people's hearts and made them old. S. was birth to pleasant lands, but dry: I walked the waters' depths and played my mind.

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