by Van Der Graaf Generator on album A Grounding In Numbers

Welcome to the coils, they're here to set you free from anguish and dull toil. And she says "What you see is what you get from me." You're welcome in her world, it's clear y

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Miscellaneous

We left the earth in 1983, fingers groping for the galaxies Reddened eyes stared up into the void, 1000 stars to be exploited Somebody help me, I'm falling, somebody help me, I'm falling down Into sky

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Trisector

I don't know if I'm cracking up or just getting careless, is this room quite airless? Just a minute, listen, did you hear that knock on the door? I'm going to have to write things down

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Trisector

Jack and Gillian, facing their decline Take to the dance floor for one final time Who'd deny them this last shot? Taking a twirl, are they in the final reel or not? Jack and Gillian, walking han

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

I am the suck of air you take That you've had many times before I am the blow you try to fake But which still throws you out the door I am the air that fills your lungs But leaves you emptier below I

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Trisector

Dive in to the Motion of the Avatar, sign up to the Army of the Phantom. No-one's really who they say they are, they're all imposters on the stand in witness. Welcome to the Power of Self-d

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

We sat by ourselves, still looking for company There could have been peace but that eluded me All I could think of was what was on your mind You tried to be kind but I blocked your feelings Now, sense

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album A Grounding In Numbers

You can make a matrix pattern out of almost anything Tracing causal imperfections in the information flow, Counting out the footfall of professional identity. And the number is... Five-five-three-thre

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Aerosol Grey Machine

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 because the atmosphere in there is so bad you

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album A Grounding In Numbers

Embarrassing kid looks into the mirror and grins like an idiot at his own face. For as long he lives he will not be delivered from the stuff that he did, from his teenage mistakes. I can barely belie

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Aerosol Grey Machine

I wish that you would set me free forever but the rings on my arms are too deeply burned…

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Aerosol Grey Machine

I feel a calling for the sea, I want to walk on the sand dunes... I hope you'll forgive me if I say I can't take you: at some times I've got to get away, if just to get a break from the play that

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Trisector

A charmed circle on the dance floor, a spell-binding display It's rather more than he bargained for, Snow White or Morgan le Fay "Drop dead, drop dead" she said Hey, big man, let testo

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other

Horus the Good lived in the North In lands of fertility and beauty But Set stayed in the hard desert To him belonged all drought and perversity And he sheds his tears Beneath the Boat of Millio

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Aerosol Grey Machine

Sunday night, twelve weeks before winter, the world is in a smoky haze. Suddenly there appears a rider in the East, brandishing flame. "I ride an icy stallion, fire at each end and poison at th

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album A Grounding In Numbers

The beat, the beat at my temples; my pulse, my pulse in a rush. I'm feeling increasingly mental, legs shaking , my face flushed. The lights so bright in a dazzle, the pumping that thumps at my c

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album A Grounding In Numbers

Just one breath, and it's instant death, it's the Aerosol Grey Machine! Just one breath, and it's instant death, it's the Aerosol Grey Machine! You're walking along the road o

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Aerosol Grey Machine

Time has come between us: in the passing months I've felt you slip away as your words and mine came like nursery rhymes till there was nothing left to say. Distance came between us long ago, as

by Van Der Graaf Generator on album Trisector

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by Van Der Graaf Generator on album A Grounding In Numbers

Best be careful, maintain a tight grip, Yes, be careful and keep the mouth zipped. Best be careful, there's no smoke without fire. Clearly you don't know where you're going But the bea