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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Pilgrims
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Childlike Faith In Childhood's End
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Afterwards
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Van Der Graaf Generator - After The Flood
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Man-Erg
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Wondering
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Place to Survive
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Emperor In His War Room
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Van Der Graaf Generator - La Rossa
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Lizard Play
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Lost - I. Dance In Sand And Sea & Pt2. The Dance in the Frost
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Scorched Earth
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man
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Van Der Graaf Generator - White Hammer
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Cat's Eye / Yellow Fever (Running)
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Van Der Graaf Generator - House With No Door
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Last Frame
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Lemmings
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Masks
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Van Der Graaf Generator - My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Necromancer
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Orthenthian Street (part I)
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Orthenthian Street (part II)
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Out Of My Book
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Habit Of The Broken Heart
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Siren Song
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Sleepwalkers
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Wave
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Whatever Would Robert Have Said?
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Aerosol Grey Machine
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Van Der Graaf Generator - (Oh No I Must Have Said) Yes
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Van Der Graaf Generator - (We Are) Not Here
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Van Der Graaf Generator - 5533
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Louse Is Not a Home
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Eyewitness
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Land's End (Sineline) / We Go Now
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Presence Of The Night / Kosmos Tours
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: S.H.M.
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: The Clot Thickens
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Abandon Ship!
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Alfa Berlina
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Van Der Graaf Generator - All Over The Place
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Van Der Graaf Generator - All That Before
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Almost The Words
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Aloft
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Aquarian
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Arrow
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Brought to Book
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Bunsho
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Chemical World
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Door
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Drop Dead
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Embarrassing Kid
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Every Bloody Emperor
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Ferret and Featherbird
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Firebrand
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Forever Falling
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Forsaken Garden
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Giant Squid
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Go
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Highly Strung
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Van Der Graaf Generator - In Babelsberg
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Interference Patterns
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Into a Game
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Lifetime
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Lost - II. Dance In Frost
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Mathematics
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Medusa
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Mirror Images
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Mr. Sands
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Nadir's Big Chance
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Nutter Alert
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Octopus
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Van Der Graaf Generator - On The Beach
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Only In A Whisper
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Over The Hill
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Peter Hammill
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Room 1210
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Running Back
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Sci-Finance
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Shikata Ga Nai
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Ship Of Fools
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Smoke
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Snake Oil
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Boat Of Millions Of years
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Final Reel
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The People You Were Going To
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Pioneers Over C
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Sphinx In The Face
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Urban
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Van Der Graaf Generator - When She Comes
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Your Time Starts Now
La Rossa
Van Der Graaf Generator
Here I am again, encamped upon your floor
Craving sanctuary and nourishment
Encouragement and sanctity and more
The streets seemed very crowded
I put on my bravest guise -
I know you know that I am acting
I can see it in your eyes
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 fidelity
When simpler words would have profited me most
It isn't enough in the end
When I'm looking for hope
Though the organ monkey screams
As the pipes begin to spit
Still he'll go through the dance routines
Just as long as he thinks they'll fit
Just as long as he knows that it's dance
Smile - or quit
Like the monkey I dance to a strange tune
When all of these years I've longed to lie with you
I've bogged myself down in the web of talk
Quack philosophy and sophistry -
At physciality I've always baulked
Like the man in the chair who believes it's
Beyond him to walk
I've been hiding behind words
Fearing a deeper flame exists
Faintly aware of the passage
Of opportunities I have missed
But the nearness and the smell of you
La rossa from head to toe
I don't know what I'm telling you
But I think you ought to know
Soon the dam wall will break
Soon the water will flow
Though the organ-monkey groans
As the organ-grinder plays
He's hoping, at the most
For an end to his dancing days
Still he hops up and down on his perch
In the usual jerky way
Though this might mean an end to all friendship
There's something I'm working up to say
Think of me what you will
I know that you think you feel my pain -
No matter if that's just the surface
If we made love now would that change all that ahs gone before?
Of course it would, there's no way
It could ever be the same
One more line crossed
One more mystery explained
Now I need more than just words
Though the options are plain
That lead from all momentary action
If we make love now it will change all
That is yet to be
Never could we agree in the same way again
One more world lost, one more heaven gained
La rossa, you kow 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, the smoking and the quips, all the midnight conversations, all the friendship
All the words and all the trips
For the warmth of your body
The more vivid touch of your lips
All bridges burning behind me
All safety beyond reach
The monkey feels his chains out blindly
Only to find himself released
Take me, take me now and hold me deep
Inside your ocean body
Wash me as some flotsam to the shore
There leave me lying evermore!
Drown me, drown me now and hold me down
Before your naked hunger
Burn me at the altar of the night--
Give me life!
