A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers Van Der Graaf Generator

Pictures/Lighthouse (Eddies/rocks/ships/collision/remorse.) iii. Eyewitness No time now for contrition: the time for that's long past. The walls are thin as tissue and if I talk I'll crack the glass.

Ship Of Fools Van Der Graaf Generator

, those strange and dangerous places, those sad, sweet faces, it's a Ship of Fools.

Ship Of Fools (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

, those strange and dangerous places, those sad, sweet faces, it's a Ship of Fools.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

A Place To Survive Van Der Graaf Generator

While the holocaust rages around you, be the eye of the storm; though the extent of disaster astounds you, forearmed is forewarned.

Pilgrims Van Der Graaf Generator

for a lost page: unsure of the dream.

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.

Mirror Images (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

It gets such a strain to pretend that the change is anything but cheap... with your infant pique and your angst pretensions sometimes you act like a creep.

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.

Chemical World Van Der Graaf Generator

In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king; in the country of the sheep, they call him Cyclops.

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?

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.

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

Man-Erg Van Der Graaf Generator

Sometimes he's lightly sleeping in the quiet of his room, But then his eyes will rise and stare through mine, He'll speak my words and slice my mind inside. The killer lives.

Man Erg Van Der Graaf Generator

But stalking in my cloisters hang the acolytes of gloom and Death's Head throws his cloak into the corner of my room and I am doomed But laughing in my courtyard play the pranksters of my youth and

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.

Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

And every range of feeling is there in the dream and every logic's reeling in the force of the scream the senses sting.

The Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

And every range of feeling is there in the dream And every logic's reeling in the force of the scream The senses sting.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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....

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!

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 .....

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 Wave Van Der Graaf Generator

In fact, it's no more than a hunch. Still we try to eat it - I think we're all pretty out to lunch. The wave is out of reach, trailing words from the hand only air can understand.

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.

Last Frame (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

In the darkroom I am a dealer in space and time.... When all memory is mellowed, when the photograph is yellowed, still it never lies.

Last Frame Van Der Graaf Generator

In the darkroom I am a dealer in space and time.... When all memory is mellowed, when the photograph is yellowed, still it never lies.

Necromancer Van Der Graaf Generator

I cast deep spells and potent: I am a Seer of the Real. My forces work against evil, for I love all I feel. I know the secrets long forgotten, you'd better believe in me: I am the Necromancer.

Lost Van Der Graaf Generator

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 breaks upon the land and the sea. hoping that I can catch all of

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.

Lizard Play Van Der Graaf Generator

They talk about poetry, life-stories too; he wants to know if she keeps a pet or two.

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

White Hammer Van Der Graaf Generator

Though Hexenhammer was intended to slay only evil, fear and anger against magick overspilled: they also killed those of the White.

Refugees Van Der Graaf Generator

There we shall spend the final days of our lives... tell the same old stories: well, at least we tried. So into the West, smiles on our faces, we'll go; oh!

Darkness (11/11) Van Der Graaf Generator

Boats burn the bridge in the fens; the time of the past returns to my life and uses it.

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....

On The Beach Van Der Graaf Generator

All joking apart let's play it from the heart because at last even the Silver Surfer agrees: the wave you brave rides on a deeper complexity. Ah, come on: surf's up! Even the Silver Surfer agrees.

Wondering Van Der Graaf Generator

Is it now time to make a choice? Ah-that irrational pain! This ridiculous brain now bursts with joy. Could it be me? Could it be now? Should i begin to take my vows?