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.

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.

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.

Refugees Van Der Graaf Generator

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

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... ...

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.

Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing in deadly but delicate fashion.

The Sleepwalkers Van Der Graaf Generator

Both cut through the air with the pendulum's swing In deadly but delicate fashion.

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

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

Masks Van Der Graaf Generator

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

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.

Pilgrims Van Der Graaf Generator

I climb through the evening, alive and believing in time we shall all know our goals and so, finally, home; for now, all is secret - though how could I speak it, allow me the dream in my eye!

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....

Still Life (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

the threat of death, but soon we found that boredom and inertia are not negative, but all the law we know, and dead are will and words like survival Arrival at immunity from all age, all fear and all end

Still Life Van Der Graaf Generator

the threat of death, but soon we found that boredom and inertia are not negative, but all the law we know, and dead are will and words like survival Arrival at immunity from all age, all fear and all end

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.

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.

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

In Babelsberg Van Der Graaf Generator

Street legends on the tourist map, a fading script in Gothic, out in the studio they're rehearsing in drag for a lark. Come on, let's get lost in the dark.

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.

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...

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.

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

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.

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.

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....

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

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.

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

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 .....

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.

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 ...

Pioneers Over C (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

One Last brief whisper in our loved ones' ears to reassure them and to pierce the fear standing at controls then still unknown we told the world we were about to go Somebody help me I'm missing, somebody

Pioneers Over c Van Der Graaf Generator

One Last brief whisper in our loved ones' ears to reassure them and to pierce the fear standing at controls then still unknown we told the world we were about to go Somebody help me I'm missing, somebody

Out Of My Book Van Der Graaf Generator

Now, senses still reeling, you sit in your quiet room and cry. You tried to make me one, but I always hide when there's a glimpse of sun.

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.

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

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.

Lost Van Der Graaf Generator

Dance in Sand and Sea So 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 know how good the time was

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?

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.

Door Van Der Graaf Generator

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 his feet on the floor in

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.

Door (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

He's a wise man, trumping all the answers; she's a wild girl, trying to keep his feet on the floor in whispered physical litanies:

Whatever Would Robert Have Said? Van Der Graaf Generator

can understand; I AM the hate you still deny, though the blood is on your hands; I AM the peace you're searching for, but you know you'll never find; I AM the pain you can't endure, but which tingles in

The Habit Of The Broken Heart Van Der Graaf Generator

And there's a rock of sterile virtu' in the centre of the bay.... I'm so sorry he hurt you, but don't throw yourself away.