| 1. Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings (incorporating Cog) |
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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 on...
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| 2. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Wave |
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(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...
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| 3. Van Der Graaf Generator - Nutter Alert |
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It might come in a letter, Darkness falls in a telephone call; I await the unexpected With one ear to the party wall. Is it the pricking of the...
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| 4. Van Der Graaf Generator - Sci-finance |
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(Hammill) You got some shares in a speculative venture, you got some stock in a gilt-edged bond, you stretched out tight by the terms of...
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| 5. Van Der Graaf Generator - Chemical World |
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(Hammill) "Well what's the harm? It's good clean fun.... why don't you just go on and have another one? When there's hanky-panky in the ...
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| 6. Van Der Graaf Generator - A Place To Survive |
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(Hammill) It's easy to say, when you're so down, that everything's pointless; your eyes burn, your ears howl, your limbs are disjointed. ...
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| 7. Van Der Graaf Generator - Firebrand |
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Sunday night, twelve weeks before winter, the world is in a smoky haze. Suddenly there appears a rider in the East, brandishing flame. He rides on...
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| 8. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Emperor In His War-room |
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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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| 9. Van Der Graaf Generator - Aquarian |
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(Hammill) Now we sit here in our special place, all wearing our happy faces gladly. Sunlight appears in our world; our joy has been turned...
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| 10. Van Der Graaf Generator - On The Beach |
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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...
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| 11. Van Der Graaf Generator - Childlike Faith In Childhood's End |
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(Hammill) Existence is a stage on which we pass, a sleepwalk trick for mind and heart: it's hopeless, I know, but onward I must go and try...
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| 12. Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings |
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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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| 13. Van Der Graaf Generator - After The Flood |
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I. 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. I am...
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| 14. Van Der Graaf Generator - The People You Were Going To |
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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...
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| 15. Van Der Graaf Generator - Scorched Earth |
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(Hammill - Jackson) Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast, he looks into the future and remembers what is past, wonders what he's...
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| 16. Van Der Graaf Generator - Meurglys Iii, The Songwriter's Guild |
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(Hammill) These days I mainly just talk to plants and dogs, all human contact seems painful, risky, odd, so I stay acting god in my own universe...
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| 17. Van Der Graaf Generator - Wondering |
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(Banton - Hammill) I will arise: in the depths, I will open my eyes; as my breath almost fails me, survive. Wait - there's something...
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| 18. Van Der Graaf Generator - Nadir's Big Chance |
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(Hammill) I've been hanging around, waiting for my chance to tell you what I think about the music that's gone down to which you madly danced...
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| 19. Van Der Graaf Generator - Urban |
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(Hammill) Sometimes living for the moment sometimes going with the flow sometimes professing to be an exponent of the quiet life while night...
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| 20. Van Der Graaf Generator - My Room (waiting For Wonderland) |
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(Hammill) Searching for diamonds in a sulphur mine, leaning on props that are rotten, hoping for anything, looking for a sign that I am not...
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