The Sphinx In The Face (2000 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[ti:The Sphinx In The Face (2005 Digital Remaster)] [ar:Van Der Graaf Generator] [al:The Quiet Zone/The Pleasure Dome] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sphinx In The Face (2005 Digital Remaster) - Van Der Graaf Generator [00:13.99]Written by：Peter Hammi [00:27.98]I remember what it felt like at [00:30.06]Seventeen [00:31.60]I was a cat a snake a lizard a mouse [00:34.27] [00:35.46]Still got an interest in the limousine [00:38.29]And a spouse [00:39.60] [00:42.21]And a brat [00:43.00] [00:45.48]Country house london flat [00:47.06] [00:49.53]I'm gonna head for the island when [00:51.61]The summer's out [00:52.85]I'm gonna do all the stuff that I can [00:55.88] [00:56.67]Drink like a fish in a waterspout [00:59.80]I'm a fan [01:01.01] [01:03.08]Of the flow [01:04.37] [01:06.74]It began long ago [01:08.40]I'm a man who should know [01:10.15] [01:12.14]It doesn't stop [01:12.98] [01:59.79]There's so much to remember [02:01.77] [02:02.79]So much to forget [02:05.37] [02:06.08]We're all in the possession of the [02:07.74]Future tense but don't know it yet [02:10.37] [02:12.63]The flesh comes through the spirit [02:14.88] [02:15.72]The spirit through the flesh [02:18.27] [02:19.07]We look the sphinx in the face [02:21.58]For answers and of course we're [02:24.78] [02:25.53]Really not impressed [02:26.80]We're caught between age and beauty [02:29.72]Experience and youth [02:32.03]So we feel the need acutely [02:34.57]For any kind of truth [02:36.63] [02:38.21]Oh but we get copped some days [02:41.34]Caught between options we've failed [02:43.96]To play such wasted chance [02:47.09] [02:49.18]So I join the wastrel's dance [02:52.64] [02:54.59]It has slow as well as fast movement [02:59.20]And any change must be an [03:01.26]Improvement on simply fossilising [03:06.09]Standing still [03:13.20] [03:34.79]I got a steady vocation for [03:37.04]The quiet zone [03:38.35]I just can't wait for the song to be sung [03:41.12] [03:41.77]I'm still possessed by the promise [03:43.90]Of the pleasure dome [03:45.51]You're so young [03:46.56] [03:49.08]So oldd [03:50.47] [03:52.57]So here so gone [03:54.37]Such a drag [03:55.23] [03:57.79]To be told [03:59.36] [04:01.37]So near so wrong [04:02.91]You're so wrong [04:04.12] [04:06.52]Such a drag [04:08.52] [04:10.33]So queer so strong [04:11.67]Such a drag [04:12.92] [04:15.08]To be told [04:16.79] [04:18.52]You're so here so gone [04:20.33]You're so gone [04:21.64] [04:23.74]So wrong [04:25.04] [04:27.11]So near so wrong [04:28.98]Such a drag [04:30.26] [04:32.21]To be told [04:33.71] [04:35.61]You're so queer so strong [04:37.22]So hear [04:38.42] [04:40.73]So gone [04:42.15] [04:44.26]So hear so gone [04:45.86]Such a drag [04:47.11] [04:49.25]To be told [04:50.40] [04:52.68]You're so hear so gone [04:54.48]You're so young [04:55.28] [04:58.02]So oldd [04:58.71] [05:01.43]So queer so strong [05:02.87]Such a drag [05:03.96] [05:06.26]To be told [05:07.18] [05:09.82]You're so here so gone [05:11.51]You're so young [05:12.34] [05:14.66]So oldd [05:15.59] [05:18.09]So near so wrong [05:19.67]Such a drag [05:20.53] [05:23.01]To be told [05:24.37] [05:26.45]You're so here so gone [05:28.06]You're so young [05:28.95] [05:31.66]So oldd [05:32.67] [05:34.91]So near so wrong [05:36.49]Such a drag [05:37.60] [05:39.84]To be told [05:40.69] [05:43.32]You're so here so gone [05:44.85]You're so young [05:45.85] [05:47.90]So oldd [05:49.04] [05:51.71]So near so wrong [05:53.11]Such a drag [05:54.04] [05:56.43]To be told