Scorched Earth (2005 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[ti:Scorched Earth ] [ar:Van Der Graaf Generator] [al:Godbluff] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Scorched Earth (2005 Digital Remaster) - Van Der Graaf Generator [00:47.60]Just one crazy moment while the dice are cast [00:51.15]He looks into the future [00:52.87]And remembers what is past [00:55.46]Wonders what he's doing on this battlefield [00:58.97]Shrugs to his shadow [01:00.74]Important too proud yet to kneel [01:11.44]In his wake he leaves scorched earth [01:13.95]And work in vain; [01:15.34]Smoke drifts up behind him - he is free again [01:19.45]Free to run before the onslaught of a deadly foe [01:22.76] [01:24.92]Leaving nothing fit for pillage hardly leaving home [01:30.36]It's far too late to turn unless it's to stone [01:41.09]Charging madly forward tracks across the snow; [01:45.19]Wind screams madness to him ever on he goes [01:48.89]Leaving spoor to mark his passage [01:51.86]Trace his weary climb [01:54.32]Cross the moor and make the headland - [01:56.85]Stumbling wayward blind [01:59.84]In the end his footprints extend as one single line [02:25.82]This latest exponent of heresy is [02:30.11]Goaded into an attack [02:35.12]Persuaded to charge at his enemy [02:39.36]Too late he knows it is [02:43.10]Too late now to turn back [02:46.30]Too soon by far to falter [02:51.25]The past sits uneasily at his rear [02:55.57]He's walking right into the trap [03:00.70]Surrounded but striving through will and fear [03:05.58]Ahead of him he knows there waits an ambuscade [03:10.01]But the dice slip through his fingers [03:11.88]And he's living from day to day [03:13.86]Carrying his world around upon his back [03:17.18]Leaving nothing behind but the tell-tale of his track [03:20.89] [05:13.49]He will not be hostage he will not be slave [05:17.14]No snare of past can trap him though the future may [05:20.71]Still he runs and burns behind him in advanced retreat; [05:26.84]Still his life remains unfettered - he denies defeat [05:44.38]It's far too late to turn unless it's to stone [05:54.26]Leave the past to burn - at least that's been his own [06:00.44]Scorched earth that's all that's left when he's done; [06:05.78]Holding nothing but beholden to no-one [06:11.41]Claiming nothing out of no false pride he survives [06:18.56]Snow tracks are all that's left to be seen [06:24.14]Of a man who entered the course of a dream [06:27.74] [06:30.12]Claiming nothing but the life he's known [06:35.24]This at least has been his own