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....

The Siren Song Van Der Graaf Generator

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 as living as dead And always that laugh that comes

Childlike Faith In Childhood's End Van Der Graaf Generator

There was a time when more was felt than known, but now, entrenched inside my sett, in light more mundane, thought rattles round my brain; we live, we die... and 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

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.

Killer Van Der Graaf Generator

'Cos you can't have two killers living in the same pad and when your mother knew that her time had come she was really rather glad.

Nutter Alert Van Der Graaf Generator

Oh, but here comes that special nonsense all the words out in a spurt, the unhinging of the trolley as the mouth begins to blurt... it's the nutter alert I can see we're in trouble from that glint in the

The Undercover Man Van Der Graaf Generator

When the madness comes, let it flood on down and over me sweetly, let it drown the parts of me weak and blessed and damned, let it slake my life, let it take my soul and living completely, let it be who

Whatever Would Robert Have Said? Van Der Graaf Generator

I AM the joy you really pay for, but which comes completely free; I AM YOUR GOD ON THE FINAL DAY -

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...

Arrow Van Der Graaf Generator

What a crawl against the slope - dark loom the gallows One touch to the chapel door, how swiftly comes the arrow.

Out Of My Book Van Der Graaf Generator

You tried to make me one, but I always hide when there's a glimpse of sun.

In Babelsberg Van Der Graaf Generator

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 when

My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) Van Der Graaf Generator

I wait by the door, wondering when you will come and keep me warm.

After The Flood Van Der Graaf Generator

And when the water falls again, all is dead and nobody lives.

Last Frame (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

When all memory is mellowed, when the photograph is yellowed, still it never lies.

Last Frame Van Der Graaf Generator

When all memory is mellowed, when the photograph is yellowed, still it never lies.

On The Beach Van Der Graaf Generator

We could have thrown in our cards when the going got hard but evidently we went on interminably. Right now I want to walk towards the sea, hoping you're still in step with me.

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

Semaphore on the shoreline, waiting for distance to recede, unhappily imperfect when we should be happy just to breathe.

Masks Van Der Graaf Generator

Sometimes when he wakes he feels he's walked into a dream but all it takes to remind him things are what they seem is the belief that the man behind the mask can really dance.

Ship Of Fools (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

Fun, baby, fun, when the sands have run to the limit turn, baby, turn, there's a ring of fire and you're in it.

Ship Of Fools Van Der Graaf Generator

Fun, baby, fun, when the sands have run to the limit turn, baby, turn, there's a ring of fire and you're in it.

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.

House With No Door Van Der Graaf Generator

I've learned my lines, I know them so well, I am ready to tell whoever will finally come in Of the line in my mind that's cold in the night, it doesn't seem right when there's that little dark figure running

Chemical World Van Der Graaf Generator

When there's hanky-panky in the boardroom, wooly-bully on the farm, what's the harm? It's quite allright - I mean to say, tomorrow's just another day...

Scorched Earth Van Der Graaf Generator

Scorched earth, that's all that's left when he's done; holding nothing but beholden to no-one, claiming nothing, out of no false pride, he survived.

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers Van Der Graaf Generator

When you see the skeletons of sailing-ship spars sinking low You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancient myths are solemnly directed straight at you... ii.

Still Life (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

What have we become?What have we chosen to be?Now all history is reduced to the syllablesor our name -nothing can ever be the same:now the Immortals are here.At the time it seemed a reasonable cour...

Mirror Images (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

If I'm the mirror and you're the imagethen what's the secret between the two,these 'me's and 'you's, how many can there be?Oh, I don't mind all that around the place,as long as you keep itwell away...

Pioneers Over C (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

fingers groping for the galaxies,reddened eyes stared up into the void,1000 stars to be exploitedSomebody help me I'm falling, somebody help me, I'm falling downInto sky, into earth, into sky, into...

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 shadowof every passer-by.He's a wise man, trumping all the answers;she's a wild girl, trying t...

The Habit Of The Broken Heart Van Der Graaf Generator

Oh, the Sisters of Blindnessfrom the Convent of the Broken Heart,they want to smother it with kindness,they want to tear it all apart.And there's a rock of sterile virtu'in the centre of the bay......

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? Whose is that voice?I...

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 f...

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?Now all history is reduced to the syllablesor our name -nothing can ever be the same:now the Immort...

Pioneers Over c Van Der Graaf Generator

fingers groping for the galaxies,reddened eyes stared up into the void,1000 stars to be exploitedSomebody help me I'm falling, somebody help me, I'm falling downInto sky, into earth, into sky, into...

Darkness (11/11) Van Der Graaf Generator

Day dawns dark, it now numbers infinity.Life crawls from the past, watching in wonderI trace its patterns in me.Tomorrow's tomorrow is birth again.Boats burn the bridge in the fens;the time of the ...

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.E. was dawn, coming alive...

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.Malleus Maleficarum s...

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 beautifulfor my mind to bear.and, as we shimmer into sleep, something's unshared.But, see...

Necromancer Van Der Graaf Generator

Yes I live in the black woods, where you dare not evenspeak my name.If there is evil in your heart and you will come near to me you willlose your sane.My form is mystic, but my heart is pure,you'd ...

Lemmings (Including Cog) Van Der Graaf Generator

I stood alone upon the highest cliff-top,looked down, around, and all that I could seewere those that I would dearly love to share withcrashing 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 sadand you don't appreciate the good timesuntil you'e in the bad....You wake up one morning - w -and you're twice as unhappy as you've...

Man-Erg Van Der Graaf Generator

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

Man Erg Van Der Graaf Generator

The killer lives inside me: yes, I can feel him move.Sometimes he's lightly sleeping in the quiet of his roombut then his eyeswill rise and stare through mine;he'll speak my words and slice my mind...

Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent,is moved into action and their pace does not relent.In step, with great precision, these dancers of the nightadvance against the darkness - h...

Door Van Der Graaf Generator

He's a blind man, crouching by the pavementonly seeing with his third eyeand clutching at the astral shadowof every passer-byHe's a wise man, trumping all the answersshe's a wild girl, trying to ke...

Lost Van Der Graaf Generator

Dance in Sand and SeaSo here we are, or rather, here I am, quite alone,I'm seeing things that were shared before, long ago ...my memory stretches and I am dazed: you know I knowhow good the time wa...

Every Bloody Emperor Van Der Graaf Generator

By this we are all sustained: a belief in human natureand in justice and parity...all we have is the faith to carry on.Imperceptible the change as our votes become mere gesturesand our lords and ma...