Van der Graaf Generator, sometimes known by the shorter Van der Graaf, are an English progressive rock band. They were the first act signed to Charisma Records. The band achieved considerable success in Italy during the 1970s. In 2005 they embarked on a reunion, which continues to the present day.
The signature Van der Graaf Generator sound in the 1970s was a combination of Peter Hammill's distinctive and dynamic voice and David Jackson... [read more] - La Rossa
Lacking sleep and food and visionhere 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...
- My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)
Searching for diamonds in a sulphur mine,leaning on props that are rotten,hoping for anything, looking for a signthat I am not forgotten.Lost in a labyrinth of future mystery,tracing my steps, all mistaken,trusting to...
- Childhood Faith In Childhood's End
Existence is a stage on which we pass,a sleepwalk trick for mind and heart:it's hopeless, I know,but onward I must goand try to make a startat seeing something more than day-to-daysurvival chased by final death.If I...
- Still Life
Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, nowdumb:What have we become?What have we chosen to be?Now, all history is reduced to the syllables ofour name-nothing can ever be the same:now the Immortals are here.At the...
- Pilgrims
Sometimes you feel so far away,distanced from all the action of the play,unable to grasp significance,marking the plot with diffident dismay,stranded at centre stage,scrabbling through your diary for a lost...
- Scorched Earth
Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast,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...
- Arrow
Stub towers in the distance, riders the blasted mooragainst the horizonFickle promises of treaty, fatal harbingers of war,futile horisonsswirl as one in this flight, this mad chase,this surge across the marshy mud...
- The Sleepwalkers
At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent,is moved into action and their pace does not relent.In step, with great precision, these dancers of the nightadvance against the darkness - how implacable their...
- The Undercover Man
Here at the glass - all the usual problems,all the habitual farce.You ask, in uncertain voice, what you should doas if there were a choicebut to carry on miming the songand hope that it all works out right.Tonight it...
- Killer
So you live in the bottom of the sea,and you kill all that come near you ....but you are very lonely, because all the other fishfear you .....And you crave companionship and someone to call your own;because for the...
- Pioneers Over C
Left the earth in 1983,fingers groping for the galaxies,reddened eyes stared up into the void,1000 stars to be exploitedSomebody help me I'm falling, somebody help me, I'm falling downInto sky, into earth, into sky,...
- Lost
Dance in Sand and SeaSo here we are, or rather, here I am, quite alone,I'm seeing things that were shared before, long ago ...my memory stretches and I am dazed: you know I knowhow good the time was and how I laughed...
- House With No Door
There's a house with no door and I'm living thereat nights it gets so coldand the days are hard to bear inside.There's a house with no roof, so the rain creeps in,falling through my head as I try to think out time.I...
- The Emperor In His War-Room
The EmperorStanding in the space that holds the silent laceof night away from youYou think that you can hold the searing, molten goldbetween your fingers ...But it slips through, tearing tendons as it goes,exposing...
- Necromancer
Yes I live in the black woods, where you dare not evenspeak my name.If there is evil in your heart and you will come near to me you willlose your sane.My form is mystic, but my heart is pure,you'd better believe what...
- Orthenthian Street (Part II)
Can't stop for a second:we might see how silly we all are.Can't get out, even for a moment:might be hit by a passing car.Dreams shatter and fall into dust,as long as we're travelling I suppose they must.But, while...
- Orthenthian Street (Part I)
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 playthat we're all involved in.All...
- Aquarian
Now we sit here in our special place,all wearing our happy faces gladly.Sunlight appears in our world; our joyhas been turned from badness.Now we've moved and left aloneand it's easier that way.We are riding on...
- Octopus
I want to paint you poems full of fire,you who I do not know.Now my mind is tested with love whichtwists and wavers from side to side and whichsome day soon you may see...I want you to cascade through ten...
- Into A Game
I never thought it could come to this,as you sit there crying,hanging on with your fingertipsto something that's already dead.Now we're into a gameand it's all a bit strange.Once on a time we were sincere;now, we're...
- Afterwards
You stare out in yellow eyes larger than my mind;in viscous pools of joy, relaxing, we glide...it's all too beautifulfor my mind to bear.and, as we shimmer into sleep, something's unshared.But, seeing the flower that...
- Running Back
I thought I'd give it up for good,'cause none of my actions are understood.I thought I'd really leave,and my coming back's something you'd never perceive.I thought I'd make it;Yes, I really thought I'd make it,but...
- Aerosol Grey Machine
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 one day,up comes a man dressed all in grey;he...
- Darkness (11/11)
Day dawns dark, it now numbers infinity.Life crawls from the past, watching in wonderI trace its patterns in me.Tomorrow's tomorrow is birth again.Boats burn the bridge in the fens;the time of the past returns to my...
- Out Of My Book
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 my mind.You tried to be kind,but I blocked your feelings.Now, senses still reeling,...
- After The Flood
Continuing the story, humanity stumbles -gone is the glory, there's a far distant rumble.The clouds have gathered and exploded now:axes shattered, there is no North or South.Far off, the ice is foundering slowly,the...
- Refugees
North was somewhere years ago and cold:Ice locked the people's hearts and made them old.South was birth to pleasant lands, but dry:I walked the waters' depths and played my mind.East was dawn, coming alive in the...
- White Hammer
In the year 1486 the Malleus first appeared,designed to kill all witchcraft and end the papal fears:prescribing tortures to kill the Black Arts;and the Hammer struck hard.Malleus Maleficarum slaughtered and...
- Whatever Would Robert Have Said?
I am the suck of air you takethat 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 am the void that...
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