The Sleepwalkers (2005 Digital Remaster)-Van Der Graaf Generator

[ti:The Sleepwalkers] [ar:Van Der Graaf Generator] [al:Godbluff] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Sleepwalkers (2005 Digital Remaster) - Van Der Graaf Generator [00:16.98]At night this mindless army [00:21.15]Ranks unbroken by dissent [00:25.42]Is moved into action and [00:30.24]Their pace does not relent [00:35.47]In step with great precision [00:39.68]These dancers of the night [00:43.82]Advance against the darkness [00:48.46]How implacable their might [00:51.98]Eyes undulled by moon [00:53.66]Their arms and legs akimbo [00:57.75]They walk and live [00:59.52]Hoping soon to surface from this limbo [01:09.69]Their minds [01:10.28]Anticipating the dawn of the day [01:13.78]Shall never know what's waiting [01:15.37]Mere insight away [01:16.28] [01:17.51]- too far too soon [01:26.51]Senses dimmed in semi-sentience [01:28.67] [01:30.97]Only wheeling through this plane [01:35.21]Only seeing fragmented images [01:39.96]Prematurely curtailed by the brain [01:45.71]But breathing living [01:47.27]Knowing in some measure at least [01:54.24]The soul which roots the matter of [01:58.80]Both Beauty and the Beast [02:00.91]From what tooth or claw does murder spring [02:03.95]From what flesh and blood does passion [02:08.03]Both cut through the air with [02:09.72]The pendulum's swing [02:11.25]In deadly but delicate fashion [02:20.00]And every range of feeling is there in the dream [02:23.92]And every logic's reeling in the force of the scream; [02:27.89]The senses sting [02:31.87]And though I may be dreaming and reality stalls [02:35.47]I only know the meaning of sight and that's all [02:39.75]And that's nothing [02:44.61]The columns of the night advance [02:47.55]Infectiously their cryptic dance [02:50.11]Gathers converts to the fold - [02:52.67]In time the whole raw world will [02:55.24]Pace these same steps [02:57.91]On into the same bitter end [03:47.94]Somnolent muster - now the dancing dead [03:51.26]Forsake the shelter of their secure beds [03:54.87]Awaken to a slumber whose depths they dread [03:58.46]As if the ground they tread would give way [04:02.71]Beneath the solemn weight of their conception [04:09.14]I'd search the hidden corners of all this world [04:12.42] [04:14.75]Make reason of the sensory whorl [04:19.84]If I only had time [04:28.52]But soon the dream is ended [05:12.01] [06:54.26]Tonight before you lay down to [07:07.32]The sweetness of your sleep [07:14.08]Do you question your surrender to [07:20.80]The drop from Lover's Leap [07:26.13]Or does the anaesthetic darkness [07:33.23]Take hold on its very own [07:39.35]Does your body rise in service with not [07:46.98]One dissenting groan [07:49.55]These waking dreams of life and death [07:51.46]In the mirror are twisted and buckled; [07:55.11]Lashes flicker a catch of breath [07:58.49]Skin whitening at the knuckles [08:07.77]The army of sleepwalkers shake their limbs and are loose [08:13.15]And though I am a talker [08:14.19]I can phrase no excuse [08:15.25]Not to rise again [08:20.27]In the chorus of the night-time I belong [08:24.09]And I like you must dance to [08:26.66]That moonlight song [08:28.01]And in the end I too must pay the cost of this life [08:32.66]If all is lost none is known [08:35.60]And how could we lose what we've never owned [08:41.28]Oh I'd search out every knowledge that I could find [08:48.01]Unravel all the mysteries of mind [08:53.06]If I only had time [08:57.34]If I only had time [09:01.76]But soon my time is ended