Emperor In His War-Room: The Emperor/The Room (Early Take)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[ti:Emperor In His War-Room: The Emperor/The Room (Early Take)] [ar:Van Der Graaf Generator] [al:H To He Who Am The Only One] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.12]Emperor In His War-Room: The Emperor/The Room (Early Take) - Van Der Graaf Generator [00:03.54]Written by：Peter Hammill [00:04.69] [00:19.49]Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of night [00:29.07] [00:30.44]Away from you [00:32.02] [00:35.48]You think that you can hold the searing molten gold between [00:46.73]Your fingers [00:48.70] [00:54.60]But it slips through tearing tendons as it goes [01:00.54] [01:03.94]Exposing the white of a knuckle [01:06.79] [01:07.87]Flesh and metal forming letters in the mould [01:14.85] [01:23.81]Cradling you gun after choosing the ones you think should die [01:35.64] [01:39.04]Lying on the hill crawling over the windowsill into your [01:49.98] [01:50.76]Living room [01:51.89] [01:57.33]They stare out glass eyed aimless heads [02:03.56] [02:05.26]Bodies torn by vultures [02:09.25] [02:10.12]You are the man whose hands are rank with the smell of death [02:15.87] [02:25.85]Saviour of the fallen protector of the weak [02:31.70] [02:33.12]Friend of the tall ones keeper of the peace [02:39.38] [02:40.76]Ah but it is the only way you know [02:51.14] [02:55.46]Looking out to sea [02:57.94] [03:00.92]A flattened plane of weeds which bear no living [03:08.29] [03:11.13]You crush life in your fist as your heart is kissed by the lips [03:22.16]Of death [03:24.18] [03:30.04]Ghosts betray you ghosts betray you in the night they steal your eye [03:37.14] [03:37.76]From it's socket [03:40.66] [03:42.83]And the ball hangs fallen on your cheek [03:50.28] [03:59.33]Complaining tongues are stilled a thousand mouths are filled [04:08.69] [04:09.31]With rusting metal [04:12.13] [04:14.85]Your face a shade of green somehow you try to speak through all the [04:26.61]Garbage in your mouth [04:29.96] [04:33.58]But it won't come out and you cannot frame the words [04:40.49] [04:41.74]As your stepson [04:44.84] [04:46.74]Throws your fame into the flames and you are burned [04:52.65] [05:02.80]Saviour of the fallen protector of the weak [05:08.63] [05:10.12]Friend of the tall ones keeper of the peace [05:16.43] [05:17.75]Ah but it is the only way you know [05:28.50] [06:00.16]Live by sword and you shall die so [06:03.76]All your power shall come to nought [06:07.48]Every life you take is part of your own [06:11.31]Death not power is what you've bought [06:14.95] [07:02.44]Cringing in your room as the outriders of doom step [07:14.04]On your threshold [07:17.06] [07:20.52]Begging for your life as the impartial knife sinks in your [07:32.26] [07:33.43]Screaming flesh [07:35.97] [07:40.64]Without malice merely taking murder's toll [07:47.36] [07:48.41]You must pay the price of hate and that price is [07:56.64]Your soul [08:01.24] [08:13.05]Live in peace or die forever in your war room