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.

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

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... Yes the killer lives.

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

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 for

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

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....

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.

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers Van Der Graaf Generator

Eyewitness Still waiting for my saviour, storms tear me limb from limb; my fingers feel like seaweed... I'm so far out I'm too far in.

Ship Of Fools (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

The nurse in black seamed stockings, she's already on patrol for fake fur starlets panicked by the watering-hole; everybody's waiting for the drama to unfold in those cold and treasured places, those old

Ship Of Fools Van Der Graaf Generator

The nurse in black seamed stockings, she's already on patrol for fake fur starlets panicked by the watering-hole; everybody's waiting for the drama to unfold in those cold and treasured places, those old

Chemical World Van Der Graaf Generator

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?

Door Van Der Graaf Generator

They're a blind man, crouching by the pavement, only seeing with his third eye and clutching at the astral shadow of the door of a room called 'I'

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....

A Place To Survive Van Der Graaf Generator

Don't wait; while you're waiting, you're dying. Be strong-it's your place to survive.

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.

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.

The Undercover Man Van Der Graaf Generator

Tonight it all seems so strange - my spirit feels rigid, me body deranged; still that's only from one point of view and we can't have illusion between me and you, my constant friend, ever close at hand

Childlike Faith In Childhood's End Van Der Graaf Generator

If I believed this the sum of the life to which we've come I wouldn't waste my breath. Somehow, there must be more.

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

And now I'm standing in the corner, looking at the room and the furniture in cheap imitation of alienation and grief.

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.

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.

La Rossa Van Der Graaf Generator

The streets seemed very crowded, I put on my bravest guide - I know you know that I am acting, I can see it in your eyes.

Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day, shall never know what's waiting mere insight away - too far, too soon.

The Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

Their minds, anticipating the dawn of the day, Shall never know what's waiting mere insight away. Too far, too soon.

Pioneers Over C (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

fingers groping for the galaxies, reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1000 stars to be exploited Somebody help me I'm falling, somebody help me, I'm falling down Into sky, into earth, into sky, into

Pioneers Over c Van Der Graaf Generator

fingers groping for the galaxies, reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1000 stars to be exploited Somebody help me I'm falling, somebody help me, I'm falling down Into sky, into earth, into sky, into

Lizard Play Van Der Graaf Generator

I tried to reach you, I tried to score, I shot the bolt on the open door... the secret reaction, base metal to gold, and all I felt was my blood froze...

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

Still Life (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

What is this dulles and bluntest of pains, such that my eyes never close without feeling it there? What abject despair demands an end to all things of infinity?

Still Life Van Der Graaf Generator

What is this dulles and bluntest of pains, such that my eyes never close without feeling it there? What abject despair demands an end to all things of infinity?

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?

White Hammer Van Der Graaf Generator

So for two centuries and more they tried to slay both the Black and the White arts but spirit over-rides pain. For every one the torture took, two were hid secure, and so the craft endured.

Whatever Would Robert Have Said? Van Der Graaf Generator

explain, but which is where you want to go; I AM the love you try to hide, but which all can understand; I AM the hate you still deny, though the blood is on your hands; I AM the peace you're searching for

The Siren Song Van Der Graaf Generator

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 the mast still it hammers round my

House With No Door Van Der Graaf Generator

There's a house with no roof, so the rain creeps in, falling through my head as I try to think out time. I don't know you, you say you know me, that may be so, there's so much that I am unsure of ...

Every Bloody Emperor Van Der Graaf Generator

With what impotence we grieve for the democratic process as our glorious leaders conspire to feed us the last dregs of imperious disdain in the new empire's name.

Nutter Alert Van Der Graaf Generator

Though this face is familiar something in it has bred contempt; I never asked for your opinion or your back-handed compliments.

Masks Van Der Graaf Generator

Pierrot for awhile before aborting to find relief in the shelter of the dark, most telling mask.

After The Flood Van Der Graaf Generator

The water rushes over all, cities crash in the mighty wave; the final man is very small, plunging in for his final bathe.

Arrow Van Der Graaf Generator

I'd like to help you somehow, but I'm in the self-same spot: my condition exempts me. We are all on the run on our knees; the sundial draws a line upon eternity across every number.

The Habit Of The Broken Heart Van Der Graaf Generator

You only wanted to find someone or something more than pleasure; penitence for the Chosen One you can indulge at leisure - by the light of the sinking sun, don't turn your back on the treasure.

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

Refugees Van Der Graaf Generator

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

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 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 Rato kill this evil, that her child may live yet.Casting aside her present fearsshe called out on t...

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...