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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
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Van Der Graaf Generator - House With No Door
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Man-Erg
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Refugees
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Wondering
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Killer
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Medusa
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Sleepwalkers
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Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Eyewitness
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Shikata Ga Nai
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man
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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 Place to Survive
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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 - After The Flood
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Afterwards
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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 - Cat's Eye / Yellow Fever (Running)
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Chemical World
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Childlike Faith In Childhood's End
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Darkness
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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 - Emperor In His War Room
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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 - La Rossa
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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 - Lifetime
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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 - Lost - II. Dance In Frost
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Masks
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Mathematics
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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 - My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Nadir's Big Chance
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Necromancer
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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 - 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 - Over The Hill
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Peter Hammill
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Pilgrims
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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 - Scorched Earth
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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 Habit Of The Broken Heart
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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 Siren Song
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Sphinx In The Face
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Van Der Graaf Generator - The Wave
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Urban
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Whatever Would Robert Have Said?
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Van Der Graaf Generator - When She Comes
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Van Der Graaf Generator - White Hammer
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Van Der Graaf Generator - Your Time Starts Now
The Undercover Man
Van Der Graaf Generator
All the habitual farce.
You ask, in uncertain voice, what you should do
As if there were a choice
But to carry on miming the song
And hope that it all works out right.
Tonight it all seems so strange -
My spirit feels rigid,
My body deranged;
Still that's only from one point of view
And we can't have illusion between me and you,
My constant friend, ever close at hand -
You and the undercover man.
I reflect: 'it's very strange to be going
Through this change
With no idea of what it's all been about
Except in the context of time...'
Oh, but i shirk it, i've half a mind
Not to work it all out.
Is this madness just the recurring wave
Of total emotion,
Or a hide for the undercover man,
Or a litany - all the signs are there
Of fervent devotion -
Or the cracking of the dam?
It's cracked; smashed and bursting over you,
There was no reason to expect such disaster.
Now, panicking, you burst for air,
Drowning, you know you care
For nothing and no-one but yourself
And would deny even this hand which stretches out
Towards you to help.
But would i leave you in this moment
Of your trial?
Is it my fault that i'm here to see you crying?
These fantom figures all around
You should have told you,
You should have found out by now,
If you hadn't gone and tried to do it all by yourself.
Even now we are not lost: if you look out
At the night
You'll see the colours and the lights seem to say
People are not far away, at least in distance,
And it's only our own dumb resistance
That's making us stay.
When the madness comes, let it flood on down
And over me sweetly,
Let it drown the parts of me weak and blessed
And damned,
Let it slake my life, let it take my soul
And living completely,
Let it be who i am.
There may not be time for us all to run
In tandem together -
The horizon calls with its parallel lines.
It may not be right for you to have and hold
In one way forever
And yet you still have time,
You still have time