Van Der Graaf Generator - A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers lyrics

Eyewitness
Still waiting for my saviour,
storms tear me limb from limb;
my fingers feel like seaweed...
I am so far out I am too far in.
I´m a lonely man, my solitude is true
my eyes have borne stark witness
and now my nights are numbered, too.
I have seen the smiles on dead hands,
the stars shine, but they are not for me.

I prophesy disaster & then I count the cost...
I shine but, shining, dying,
I know that I´m almost lost.
On the table lies blank paper
and my tower is built on stone
I only have blunt scissors,
I only have the bluntest home...
I have been the witness, & the seal of death
lingers in the molten wax that´s my head.

When you see the skeletons
of sailing-ship spars sinking low
You will begin to wonder if the points
of all the ancients myths
are solemnly directed straight at you...

Pictures/Lighthouse
(Eddies, rocks, ships, collision, remorse)

Eyewitness
No time now for contrition:
the time for that is long past.
The walls are thin as tissue and
if I talk I will crack the glass.
So I only think on how it might´ve been,
locked in silent monologue, in silent scream.

I am much too tired to speak
and, as the waves crash on the bleak
stones of the tower, I start to freak
and find that I´m overcome...

S.H.M.
´Unreal, unreal´ ghost helmsmen scream
and fall in through the sky,
not breaking through my seagull shrieks...
no breaks till I die:
the spectres scratch on window-slits -
hollowed faces & mindless grins
only intent on destroying what they´ve lost.

I crawl the wall until steepness ends
in the vertical fall;
my pain has sailed into the sea:
no joking hopes at dawn.
White bone shine in the iron-jaw mask
lost mastheads pierce the freezing dark
and parallel my isolated tower...
no paraffin for the flame
no harbour left to gain.

Presence of the Night / Kosmos Tours
´Alone, alone´ the ghosts all call,
pinpoint me in the light.
The only life I feel at all
is the presence of the night.

Would you cry if I died?
Would you catch the final words of mine?
Would you catch my words?
I know that theres no time
I know that theres no rhyme...
false signs find me
I do not wanna hate,
I just wanna grow;
why can´t I let me
live & be free?
but I die very slowly alone.
I know more ways,
I´m so afraid,
myself won´t let me
just be myself
and so I´m completely alone...

The maelstrom of my memory
is a vampire & it feeds on me
now, staggering madly, over the brink I fall.

(Custard´s) Last Stand
Lighthouses might house the key
but can I reach the door?

I wanna walk on the sea
so that I may better find a shore...
but how can I ever keep my feet dry?
I scan the horizon
I must keep my eyes on all parts of me.

Looking back on the yeahrs
it seems that I´ve lost my way:
Like a dog in the night, I´ve run to a manger
now I´m the stranger I stay in.
All of the grief I´ve seen
leaves me chasing solitary peace;
But I hold experience in my head...
I am too close to the light
I do not think I see right, for I blind me...

The Clot Thickens
Where´s the God that guides my hand?
How can the hands of others reach me?
When will I find what I grope for?
Who is gonna teach me?
I´m me / me are we / we can not see
any way out of here.
Crashing sea - a trophied history:
Chance has lost my Guinevere...

I do not wanna be one wave in the water
But sea will drag me deep
One more haggard drowned man...

I can see the lemmings coming,
but I know I am just a man;
Do I join or do I founder?
Which can is the best I may?

Land´s End (Sineline) / We Go Now
Oceans drifting sideways,
I´m pulled into the spell;
I feel you around me... I know you well.
Stars slice horizons where the lines stand
much too stark;
I feel I´m drowning... hands stretch in the dark.

Camps of panoply & majesty,
what is Freedom of Choice?
Where do I stand in the pageantry...
whose is my voice?
It doesn´t feel so very bad now:
I think the end is the start.
Begin to feel very glad now:
All things are a part
All things are apart
All things are a part.


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