La Rossa (2000 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[ti:La Rossa] [ar:Van Der Graaf Generator] [al:I Prophesy Disaster] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.56]La Rossa (2000 Digital Remaster) - Van Der Graaf Generator [00:01.65]Written by：Peter Hammi [00:02.50] [00:20.97]Lacking sleep and food and vision [00:23.84]Here I am again encamped upon your floor [00:28.10] [00:30.85]Craving sanctuary and nourishment [00:34.14]Encouragement and sanctity and more [00:37.89] [00:40.67]The streets seemed very crowded [00:42.40] [00:43.22]I put on my bravest guise [00:45.70]I know you know that I am acting [00:48.68]I can see it in your eyes [01:00.09]In the harsh light of freedom I know [01:01.94]That I cannot deny that I have wasted time [01:05.70]Have frittered it away in idle boasts [01:09.81] [01:11.17]Of my freedom and fidelity [01:13.78]When simpler words would have profited me [01:17.09]Most [01:17.55] [01:19.58]It isn't enough in the end when I'm looking [01:22.10]For hope [01:22.45] [01:26.29]Though the organ monkey screams [01:31.67]As the pipes begin to spit [01:33.59] [01:37.00]Still he'll go through the dance routines [01:40.27] [01:42.61]Just as long as he thinks they'll fit [01:46.03] [01:47.36]Just as long as he knows that it's dance smile [01:49.53]Or quit [01:49.99] [01:54.68]Like the monkey I dance to a strange tune [01:56.87]When all of these years I've longed to lie with you [01:59.95]I've bogged myself down in the web of talk [02:03.79] [02:05.70]Quack philosophy and sophistry [02:07.99] [02:08.60]At physicality I've always balked [02:12.08] [02:13.92]Like the man in the chair who believes it's [02:16.01]Beyond him to walk [02:17.37] [02:22.16]I've been hiding behind words [02:24.58]Fearing a deeper flame exists [02:26.73] [02:27.26]Faintly aware of the passage [02:30.05]Of opportunities I have missed [02:37.05]But the nearness and the smell of you [02:40.48] [02:42.70]La Rosa from head to toe [02:45.19] [02:48.24]I don't know what I'm telling you [02:51.96] [02:53.58]But I think you ought to know [02:57.36] [02:58.26]Soon the dam wall will break soon the water [03:00.28]Will flow [03:01.02] [03:04.28]Though the organ monkey groans [03:08.46] [03:09.52]As the organ grinder plays [03:13.45] [03:15.00]He's hoping at the most [03:16.99] [03:20.31]For an end to his dancing days [03:25.01] [03:25.64]Still he hops up and down on his perch [03:31.23]In the usual jerky way [03:34.34] [03:36.51]Though it might mean an end to all friendship [03:39.23] [03:41.38]There's something I'm working up to say [03:48.81]Think of me what you will [03:54.50] [03:55.18]I know that you think you feel my pain [03:59.01] [04:01.39]No matter if that's just the surface [04:09.33] [04:18.43]If we made love now would that change all [04:25.09]That ahs gone before [04:31.22]Of course it would there's no way it could ever [04:34.36]Be the same [04:36.01] [04:39.47]One more line crossed [04:41.22] [04:45.70]One more mystery explained [04:47.73] [04:54.46]Now I need more than just words though [05:00.97]The options are plain that lead from all [05:07.00]Momentary action [05:09.97] [05:22.18]If we make love now it will change all [05:29.17]That is yet to be [05:34.99]Never could we agree in the same way again [05:39.51] [05:43.29]One more world lost [05:44.53] [05:49.54]One more heaven gained [05:55.22] [05:56.87]One more heaven gained [06:11.96] [06:42.58]La Rosa you know me you read me as though [06:45.27]I am glass [06:46.15]Though I know it there's no no way in which I can [06:48.66]Pass [06:48.86]Though it means that you'll finish my story [06:50.77]At last I'd trade all the clever talk [06:52.87] [06:53.47]The joking the smoking and the quips [06:56.65] [06:58.74]All the midnight conversations [07:01.76]All the friendship [07:02.59]All the words and all the trips [07:04.98] [07:06.94]For the warmth of your body [07:08.20]The more vivid touch of your lips [07:09.88] [07:13.43]All bridges burning behind me [07:17.38] [07:18.79]All safety beyond reach [07:20.62] [07:23.62]The monkey feels his chains out blindly [07:27.72] [07:29.14]Only to find himself released [07:32.03] [07:36.36]Take me take me now and hold me deep [07:39.30]Inside your ocean body [07:41.05] [07:41.67]Wash me as some flotsam to the shore [07:44.75]There leave me lying evermore [07:50.79] [07:52.39]Drown me drown me now and hold me down [07:55.14]Before your naked hunger [07:57.24] [07:57.75]Burn me at the altar of the nights [08:01.19] [08:02.28]Give me life