Van Der Graaf Generator Lyrics

Van Der Graaf Generator Chord and Tabs

Afterwards (Hammill) You stare out in yellow eyes larger than my mind; in viscous pools of joy, relaxing, we g...

Aquarian (Hammill) Now we sit here in our special place, all wearing our happy faces gladly. Sunlight appear...

Black Smoke Yen (Ellis / Evans / Banton) (instrumental) ...

Ferret And Featherbird (Hammill) Time has come between us: in the passing months I've felt you slip away as your words and...

Giant Squid (Vanblow) I wish that you would set me free forever but the rings on my arms are too deeply burned....

Into A Game (Hammill, Part II : Vanblow) I never thought it could come to this, as you sit there crying, hangin...

Necromancer (Hammill) Yes I live in the black woods, where you dare not even speak my name. If there is evil in...

Octopus (Hammill) I want to paint you long poems full of fire, you who I do not know. Now my mind is teste...

Orthenthian Street (Part I) (Hammill) I feel a calling for the sea, I want to walk on the sand dunes... I hope you'll forgive m...

Orthenthian Street (Part II) (Hammill) Can't stop for a second: we might see how silly we all are. Can't get out, even for a mom...

Running Back (Hammill) I thought I'd give it up for good, 'cause none of my actions are understood. I thought I'...

The Aerosol Grey Machine (Hammill) Just one breath, and it's instant death, it's the Aerosol Grey Machine! Just one breath, ...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers: (x) We Go Now ( Jackson - Banton ) ...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(i) Eyewitness ( Hammill ) Still waiting for my saviour, storms tear me limb from limb my fingers feel like seawee...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(ii) Pictures / Lighthouse ( Banton - Jackson ) ...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(iii) Eyewitness ( Hammill ) No time now for contrition; the time for that's long past The walls are thin as tissue ...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(iv) S.H.M. ( Hammill ) "Unreal, unreal" ghost helmsmen scream and fall in through the sky, Not break...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(ix) Land's End (Sineline) ( Jackson ) Oceans drifting sideways; I am pulled into the spell: I feel you around me - I know you...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(v) Presence Of The Night ( Hammill ) '"Alone, alone" the ghosts all call, pinpoint me in the light; the only life ...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(vi) Kosmos Tours ( Evans ) The maelstrom of my memory is a vampire and it feeds on me now staggering madly, over the...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(vii) (Custard's) Last Stand ( Hammill ) Lighthouses might house the key but can I reach the door? I want to walk on the sea so ...

A Plague Of Lighthouse-Keepers:(viii) The Clot Thickens ( Hammill - Band ) Where is the god that guides my hand? How can the hands of others reach me? When...

Lemmings (Including COG) ( Hammill ) I stood alone upon the highest cliff-top, looked down, around, and all that I could see...

Man-Erg ( Hammill ) The killer lives inside me: yes, I can feel him move. Sometimes he's lightly sleeping i...

House With No Door (Hammill - Jackson) There's a house with no door and I'm living there at nights it gets so cold and...

Killer (Hammill - Banton - Smith) So you live in the bottom of the sea, and you kill all that come near yo...
Killer Chords and Tabs

Lost (i) Dance In Sand And Sea So here we are, or rather, here I am, quite alone, I'm seeing things that were shared before, long a...

Lost (ii) Dance In Frost I wore my moods like so many different sets of clothes but the right one was never around; and as yo...

Pioneers Over c. (Hammill - Jackson - Band) Left the earth in 1983, fingers groping for the galaxies, reddened eyes ...

The Emperor In His War-Room (i) The Emperor (i) The Emperor Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of night away from you You think...

The Emperor In His War-Room (ii) The Room (ii) The Room Live by sword and you shall die so, All your power shall come to nought, every life...

Childlike Faith In Childhood's End (Hammill) Existence is a stage on which we pass, a sleepwalk trick for mind and heart: it's hopeles...

La Rossa (Hammill) Lacking sleep and food and vision here I am again, encamped upon your floor, craving sanc...

My Room (Waiting For Wonderland) Searching for diamonds in a sulphur mine, leaning on props which are rotten, hoping for anything, lo...

Pilgrims (Hammill - Jackson) Sometimes you feel so far away, distanced from all the action of the play, unab...

Still Life (Hammill) Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now dumb: What have we become? What have we ch...

After The Flood (Hammill) Continuing the story, humanity stumbles - gone is the glory, there's a far distant rumble...

Darkness (11/11) (Hammill) Day dawns dark, it now numbers infinity. Life crawls from the past, watching in wonder I ...

Out Of My Book (Hammill - Jackson) We sat by ourselves, still looking for company; there could have been peace, bu...

Refugees (Hammill) North was somewhere years ago and cold: Ice locked the people's hearts and made them old....
Refugees Chords and Tabs

Whatever Would Robert Have Said ? (Hammill) I am the suck of air you take that you've had many times before; I am the blow you try to...

White Hammer (Hammill) In the year 1486 the Malleus first appeared, designed to kill all witchcraft and end the ...

Cat's Eye / Yellow Fever (Running) (Smith) I was walking in the evening,I was looking for something good, clean, fine, pure, straight,...

Last Frame (Hammill) Pretty keen - yes, my hobby keeps me busy and if I talk to myself, what's the crime? In t...

Lizard Play (Hammill) Frozen moment, cold blood time: the Iguana lady is saying goodbye. She's not quite ready,...

The Habit Of The Broken Heart (Hammill) Oh, the Sisters of Blindness from the Convent of the Broken Heart, they want to smother i...

The Siren Song (Hammill) Letters in pencil, some of them as heavy as lead, as dated as carbon, as black as coal, b...

The Sphinx In The Face (Hammill) I remember what it felt like at seventeen: I was a cat, a snake, a lizard, a mouse. Stil...

The Wave (Hammill) The wave hits the beach, writing words on the sand; to the academic man, this could be th...

A Place To Survive (Hammill) It's easy to say, when you're so down, that everything's pointless; your eyes burn, your ...

Masks (Hammill) He's a man of the past and one of the present, a man who hides behind a mask behind a mas...

Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild (Hammill) These days I mainly just talk to plants and dogs, all human contact seems painful, risky,...

When She Comes (Hammill) Slow motion in the quiet of the room; so potent is the smell of her perfume that you thin...

Wondering (Banton - Hammill) I will arise: in the depths, I will open my eyes; as my breath almost fails me, ...

The Boat Of Millions Of years (Hammill) Horus, the son of Isis, lay in the marshes of Buto, poisoned by Set. She called out to th...

Arrow (Hammill) Stub towers in the distance, riders cross the blasted moor against the horizon Fickle p...

Scorched Earth (Hammill - Jackson) Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast, he looks into the future and re...

The Sleepwalkers (Hammill) At night, this mindless army, ranks unbroken by dissent, is moved into action and their ...

The Undercover Man (Hammill) Here at the glass - all the usual problems, all the habitual farce. You ask, in uncerta...

Door (Hammill) He's a blind man, crouching by the pavement, only seeing with his third eye, and clutchin...

Medley, parts of: (ii) The Sleepwalkers (Hammill) Tonight, before you lay down to the sweetness of your sleep do you question your surrend...

Medley, parts of:(i) A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers (i) Eyewitness ( Hammill ) Still waiting for my saviour, storms tear me limb from limb my fingers ...

Mirror Images (Hammill) If I'm the mirror and you're the image then what's the secret between the two, these 'me'...

Nadir's Big Chance (Hammill) I've been hanging around, waiting for my chance to tell you what I think about the music ...

Pioneers Over C (Hammill) We left the earth in 1983, fingers groping for the galaxies, reddened eyes stared up into...

Sci-Finance (Hammill) You got some shares in a speculative venture, you got some stock in a gilt-edged bond, yo...

Ship Of Fools (Hammill) The captain's in a coma, the lieutenant's on a drunk; the owner's in his cabin with his s...

Urban (Hammill) Sometimes living for the moment sometimes going with the flow sometimes professing to be ...

Chemical World (Hammill) "Well what's the harm? It's good clean fun.... why don't you just go on and have an...

The Sphinx Returns (Hammill) ... You're so young, you're so here, so gone, so old, so near, so wrong, such a drag so q...