Last Frame Van Der Graaf Generator

Fixing memory chemically, holding time on the stop-clock, hanging back from that last frame just in case it didn't show you in the way I used to know you... I thought you'd always stay the same.

Last Frame (Live) Van Der Graaf Generator

Fixing memory chemically, holding time on the stop-clock, hanging back from that last frame just in case it didn't show you in the way I used to know you... I thought you'd always stay the same.

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

Lost Van Der Graaf Generator

If I could just frame the words that would make your fire burn all this water now around me could be the love that should surround me.

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.

Afterwards Van Der Graaf Generator

It was too beautiful for it to last... These visions shimmer and fade out of the glass

Childlike Faith In Childhood's End Van Der Graaf Generator

Though the forces which hold us in place last through eons in unruffled grace we, too, wear the face of creation As anti-matter sucks and pulses periodically the bud unfolds, the bloom is dead, all space

Masks Van Der Graaf Generator

A clown, a fool, believing it cool to be down or that the game is all about who laughs the last. So he tells all his problems to his friends and relations, exposes his neuroses to their view.

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.

Lizard Play Van Der Graaf Generator

And they shed their skins and at last begin to find colours for the day. Will you dance with me?

Chemical World Van Der Graaf Generator

It's just the drug...it doesn't last...."

Pilgrims Van Der Graaf Generator

I've been waiting for such a long time just to see it at last, all of the hands tightly clasped, all of us pilgrims.

La Rossa Van Der Graaf Generator

Ls Rossa, you know me, you read me as though I am glass; though I know it there's no way in which I can pass - though it means that you'll finish my story at last I'd trade all the clever talk, the joking

A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers Van Der Graaf Generator

(Custard's) Last Stand Lighthouses might house the key but can I reach the door? I want to walk on the sea so that I may better find ashore... but how can I ever keep my feet dry?

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 s...

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 pl...

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...

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......

The Siren Song Van Der Graaf Generator

Letters in pencilsome of them as heavy as leadas dated as carbonas black as coalbut burning as redClues faintly stenciledthe message,though bleached,is on redas secret as marbleas youngas oldas liv...

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.Still we try to eat it -I think we're all pretty out to lunch....

The Sphinx In The Face Van Der Graaf Generator

I remember what it felt like atseventeen:I was a cat, a snake, a lizard, a mouse.Still got an interest in the limousineand a spouse and a brat,country house, London flat.I'm gonna head for the isla...

When She Comes Van Der Graaf Generator

Slow motion in the quiet of your room:so potent is the smell of her perfumethat you think she's eternalthat you think she's everything-but no-one knows what she is....Repentance for all you should ...

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.Barren fields, the barren earth, never more will it flower-rub your face a...

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...

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...

My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) Van Der Graaf Generator

Searching for diamonds in the sulphurmine, leaning on props which are rotten,hoping for anything, looking for a signthat I am not forgotten.Lost in a labyrinth of future mystery,tracing my steps, a...

The Undercover Man Van Der Graaf Generator

Here at the glass - all the usual problemsall the habitual farce.You ask, in uncertain voice, what you should doas if there were a choicebut to carry on miming the songand hope that it all works ou...

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...

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 fishfear you .....And you crave companionship and someone to call your ow...

House With No Door Van Der Graaf Generator

There's a house with no door and I'm living thereat nights it gets so cold and the days are hard to bear inside.There's a house with no roof, so the rain creeps in,falling through my head as I try ...

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...

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 tha...

Out Of My Book Van Der Graaf Generator

We sat by ourselves, still looking for company;there could have been peace, but that eluded meall I could think of was what was on your mind.You tried to be kind,but I blocked your feelings.Now, se...

After The Flood Van Der Graaf Generator

Continuing the story, humanity stumblesgone is the glory, there's a far distant rumble.The clouds have gathered and exploded now:axes shattered, there is no North or South!Far off, the ice is found...

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 ...

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...

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 pl...

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...

Nutter Alert Van Der Graaf Generator

It might come in a letter,darkness falls in a telephone call;I await the unexpectedwith one ear to the party wall.Is it the pricking of the conscience,is it the itching of hair shirt,is it the dict...

The 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. Ho...