| 41. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Boat Of Millions Of Years |
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(Hammill) 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...
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| 42. Van Der Graaf Generator - Running Back |
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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...
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| 43. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Sphinx In The Face |
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(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...
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| 44. Van Der Graaf Generator - Door |
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(Hammill) He's a blind man, crouching by the pavement, only seeing with his third eye, and clutching at the astral shadow of every passer-by....
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| 45. Van Der Graaf Generator - Man Erg |
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I. 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...
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| 46. Van Der Graaf Generator - Octopus |
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(Hammill) I want to paint you long poems full of fire, you who I do not know. Now my mind is tested with love which twists and wavers from...
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| 47. Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees |
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(Hammill) North was somewhere years ago and cold: Ice locked the people's hearts and made them old. South was birth to pleasant lands, but...
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| 48. Van Der Graaf Generator - When She Comes |
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(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...
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| 49. Van Der Graaf Generator - In Babelsberg |
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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. Street legends...
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| 50. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Pioneers Over C |
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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...
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| 51. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Habit Of The Broken Heart |
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(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...
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| 52. Van Der Graaf Generator - Lost |
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I stood alone upon the highest cliff-top, looked down, around, and all that I could see were those that I would dearly love to share with crashing...
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| 53. Van Der Graaf Generator - Orthenthian Street |
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I want to paint you poems full of fire, you who I do not know. Now my mind is tested with love which twists and wavers from side to side and which...
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| 54. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Siren Song |
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(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:...
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| 55. Van Der Graaf Generator - Yellow Fever (running) |
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(Smith) I was walking in the evening,I was looking for something good, clean, fine, pure, straight, but instead I found the bunker wall and...
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| 56. Van Der Graaf Generator - 11) |
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(Hammill) Day dawns dark, it now numbers infinity. Life crawls from the past, watching in wonder I trace its patterns in me. Tomorrow's...
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| 57. Van Der Graaf Generator - Abandon Ship! |
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Oh, the heptagenarians got behind the decks While the skeleton crew went through the motions. It was only the medication that was keeping them erect....
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| 58. Van Der Graaf Generator - Last Frame |
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(Hammill) 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...
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| 59. Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life |
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(Hammill) Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now dumb: What have we become? What have we chosen to be? Now, all history is reduced...
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| 60. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pioneers Over C |
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(Hammill) We left the earth in 1983, fingers groping for the galaxies, reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1000 stars to be exploited ...
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