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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
Still Life
Van Der Graaf Generator
What have we become? What have we chosen to be?
Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of our name
Nothing can ever be the same
Now the immortals are here
At the time, it seemed a reasonable course
To harness all the force of life
Without the threat of death
But soon we found that boredom and inertia
Are not negative, but all the law we know
And dead are will and words like survival
Arrival at immunity from all age, all fear and all end
Why do I pretend?
Our essence is distilled
And all familiar taste is now drained
And though purity is maintained
It leaves us sterile
Living through the millions of years
A laugh as close as any tear
Living, if you claim that all
That entails is
Breathing, eating, defecating
Screwing, drinking
Spewing, sleeping, sinking ever down and down
And ultimately passing away time
Which no longer has any meaning.
Take away the threat of death and all you're
Left with is a round of make-believe
Marshal every sullen breath and though you're
Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy
That's still the ring by which you hope to be engaged
To marry the girl who will give you forever
That's crazy, and plainly
That simply is not enough
What is the dullest and bluntest of pains
Such that my eyes never close without feeling it there?
What abject despair demands an end
To all things of infinity?
If we have gained, how do we now meet the cost?
What have we bargained, and what have we lost?
What have we relinquished, never even knowing
It was there?
What chance now of holding fast the line
Defying death and time
Everything we had is gone?
Everything we laboured for and favoured more
Than earthly things reveals the hollow ring
Of false hope and of false deliverance
But now the nuptial bed is made
The dowry has been paid
The toothless, haggard features of eternity
Now welcome me between the sheets
To couple with her withered body, my wife
Hers forever
Hers forever
Hers forever
In still life
