Favourite VdGG Lyric

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   So many lines from one of the most inventive artists I know - 
I could choose many, but, this :  
‘Shower curtain imperative, in the presence of acid, now feeling placid, is death’
One of numerous examples.
Oh, it’s VDGG, not Hammill himself......
VDGG - dunno, perhaps
 ‘Greasy machinery sliding on rails, young minds and bodies on steel spokes impaled !’
‘What choices are left but to die’..........

Edited by Tom Ozric - July 29 2018 at 04:47

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Tom Ozric Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: September 03 2005 Location: Olympus Mons Status: Offline Points: 15926	Post Options Post Reply Quote Tom Ozric Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: July 29 2018 at 04:42
	So many lines from one of the most inventive artists I know - I could choose many, but, this : ‘Shower curtain imperative, in the presence of acid, now feeling placid, is death’ One of numerous examples. Oh, it’s VDGG, not Hammill himself...... VDGG - dunno, perhaps ‘Greasy machinery sliding on rails, young minds and bodies on steel spokes impaled !’ ‘What choices are left but to die’.......... Edited by Tom Ozric - July 29 2018 at 04:47

I prophesy disaster Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 31 2017 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 4922	Post Options Post Reply Quote I prophesy disaster Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: July 29 2018 at 04:12
	Generally speaking, I focus on the music rather than the lyrics. However, in the case of Van der Graaf Generator, the lyrics are an extra dimension to the music that I enjoy, and there are particular lyrics that I especially like. My favourite VdGG lyric is my signature ("I was thinking about thinking but it really didn't get me very far."), which is the opening lyric of Blackroom (from Time Vaults - and hence a VdGG lyric and not just a Peter Hammill lyric). Other favourite lyrics include: "I run because I don't know where the prison lies." "You'll begin to wonder if the points of all the ancients myths are solemnly directed straight at you." "Ghosts betray you, ghosts betray you, in the night they steal your eye from its socket and the ball hangs fallen on your cheek." "It's far too late to turn, unless it's to stone." "Alone, he opens to the world... but it's much too late. He's been left, in the end, without a face." "She's into lizards, she's into snakes, he's into trauma - still got the shakes from a lady who only talked dogs and cats making love in the alley - she thought like that." "Living, if you claim that all that entails is breathing, eating, defecating, screwing, drinking, spewing, sleeping, sinking ever down and down and ultimately passing away time which no longer has any meaning." What are your favourite VdGG lyrics?
	No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.