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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
Scorched Earth
Van Der Graaf Generator
He looks into the future and remembers
What is past
Wonders what he's doing on this battlefield
Shrugs to his shadow, impatient
Too proud yet to kneel
In his wake he leaves scorched earth
And work in vain
Smoke drifts up behind him - he is free again
Free to run before the onslaught of a deadly foe
Leaving nothing fit for pillage
Hardly leaving home
It's far too late to turn, unless it's to stone
Charging madly forward, tracks across the snow
Wind screams madness to him, ever on he goes
Leaving spoor to mark his passage
Trace his weary climb
Cross the moor and make the headland
Stumbling, wayward, blind
In the end his footprints extend as one single line
This latest exponent of heresy is goaded
Into an attack
Persuaded to charge at his enemy
Too late, he knows it is, too late now
To turn back
Too soon by far to falter
The past sits uneasily at his rear
He's walking right into the trap
Surrounded, but striving through will and fear
Ahead of him he knows there waits an ambuscade
But the dice slip through his fingers
And he's living from day to day
Carrying his world around upon his back
Leaving nothing behind but the tell-tale
Of his track
He will not be hostage, he will not be slave
No snare of past can trap him
Though the future may
Still he runs and burns behind him
In advanced retreat
Still his life remains unfettered
He denies defeat
It's far too late to turn, unless it's to stone
Leave the past to burn - at least
That's been his own
Scorched earth, that's all that's
Left when he's done
Holding nothing but beholden to no-one
Claiming nothing, out of no false pride
He survives
Snow tracks are all that's left to be seen
Of a man who entered the course of a dream
Claiming nothing but the life he's known
This, at least, has been his own
