The Siren Song Van Der Graaf Generator

as living as dead And always that laugh that comes as though it's from pain, though i'm lashed to the mast still it hammers round my brain laughter in the backbone, laughter impossibly wise,that same laughter

The Sphinx In The Face Van Der Graaf Generator

Still got an interest in the limousine and a spouse and a brat, country house, London flat.

The Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast.

The Undercover Man Van Der Graaf Generator

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

Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

roots the matter of both Beauty and the Beast.

Childlike Faith In Childhood's End Van Der Graaf Generator

In the beginning there was order and destiny but now that path has reached the border and on our knees is no way to face the future, whatever it be.

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.

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.

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!

Arrow Van Der Graaf Generator

surge across the marshy mud landscape until the meaning is forgotten.

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.

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 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.

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

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?

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.

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.

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....

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.

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

La Rossa Van Der Graaf Generator

, like the man in the chair who believes it's beyond him to walk.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

Pioneers Over c Van Der Graaf Generator

The universe is on fire, exploding without flame.

Pioneers Over C (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

The universe is on fire, exploding without flame.

Still Life (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

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

Still Life Van Der Graaf Generator

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

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.

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 .....

Afterwards Van Der Graaf Generator

But, seeing the flower that was there yesterday, a tear forms just behind the soft peace of your shades... The world's too lonely for a message to slip but between the dying rails of peace you trip.

Scorched Earth Van Der Graaf Generator

Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast, he looks into the future and remembers what it past, wonders what he's doing on this battlefield, shrugs to his shadow, impatient, too proud yet to kneel.

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.

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....

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.

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.

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.

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

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....

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?