Тексты песен «Van Der Graaf Generator»

i. THE EMPEROR Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of night away from you You think that you can hold the searing, moulten gold between...

Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of night away from you You think that you can hold the searing, molten gold between your fingers ... But it slips through, tearing tendons as it goes, exposing the white...

Live by sword and you shall die so, All your power shall come to nought, every life you take is part of your own, death, not power, is what you've bought. Cringing in your room as the outriders of doom step on your...

Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of night away from you You think that you can hold the searing, molten gold between your fingers ... But it slips through, tearing tendons as it goes, exposing the white...

Live by sword and you shall die so, All your power shall come to nought, every life you take is part of your own, death, not power, is what you've bought. Cringing in your room as the outriders of doom step on your...

(Hammill) 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. And there's a rock of sterile virtu' in the centre of the bay.... I'm...

Your father has just left your mother, gone off to live with his latest lover: she sits there, just staring. You've got to get back to your own flat because the atmosphere in there is so bad you can't bear it. And the...

Left the earth in 1983, fingers groping for the galaxies, reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1,000 stars to be exploited Somebody help me I'm falling, somebody help me, I'm falling down Into sky, into earth, into...

(Hammill) Letters in pencil, some of them as heavy as lead, as dated as carbon, as black as coal, but burning as red. Clues faintly stencilled: the message, though leeched, is unbled, as secret as marble - as young, as...

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 night Advance against the darkness. How implacable their...

(Hammill) 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. I'm gonna head for the island...

(Hammill) ... You're so young, you're so here, so gone, so old, so near, so wrong, such a drag so queer, so strong, so... to be told. Such a drag to be...

Here at the glass All the usual problems, All the habitual farce. 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...

(Hammill) 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...

(Hammill) Sometimes living for the moment sometimes going with the flow sometimes professing to be an exponent of the quiet life while night life surrounds me I sit and go crazy alone too many people and too little...

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 below; I AM the...

(Hammill) Slow motion in the quiet of the room; so potent is the smell of her perfume that you think she's eternal, that you think she is everything... but no-one knows what she is. Repentance for all you should have...

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 slaughtered and...

(Banton - Hammill) 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 be you? Whose is that...