Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator

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The People You Were Going To

Your father has just left your mother,
gone off to live with his latest lover:
she sits there, just staring.
You've got to get back to your own flat
because the atmosphere in there is
so bad you can't bear it.
And the people you were going to America with
just left on the dawn 'plane
without you.

The people in the downstairs flat
are no longer there now, because they
left the gas tap on: they're all dead.
So you've no-one left to talk to,
you just lie there, in melancholy,
half-naked on your unmade bed.
And the people you were going to Africa with
just left on the Southern Star
without you.

Now the haze that's been forming
round your window-panes
is protracted and poisoned,
and you cannot feel a portion
of the world outside.

Can you imagine the way you'd feel
if all these things had happened to you
and the doctor says you're dying?
That is the way that I feel now
on finding that your love belongs
to someone else, and not I...
My chance of heaven has just blown away
upon a passing cloud, and there is nothing
that I can do without you.

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2. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers
3. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: (Custard’s) Last Stand
4. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Eyewitness
5. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Land’s End (Sineline) / We Go Now
6. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Presence Of The Night / Kosmos Tours
7. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: S.H.M.
8. A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: The Clot Thickens
9. Aerosol Grey Machine
10. After The Flood
11. Afterwards
12. Aguarian
13. Arrow
14. Cat’s Eye / Yellow Fever (Running)
15. Chemical World
16. Childlike Faith In Childhood’s End
17. Darkness (11/11)
18. Door
19. Firebrand
20. House With No Door
21. Into A Game
22. Killer
23. La Rossa
24. Last Frame
25. Lemmings (Including COG)
26. Lizard Play
27. Lost I. Dance In Sand And Sea
28. Lost II. Dance In Frost
29. Man-Erg
30. Masks
31. Meurglys III, The Songwriter’s Guild
32. Mirror Images
33. My Room (Waiting For Wonderland)
34. Necromancer
35. Octopus
36. Orthenthian Street Part I
37. Orthenthian Street Part II
38. Out Of My Book
39. Pilgrims
40. Pioneers Over C.
41. Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: Eyewitness
42. Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers: The Clot Thickens
43. Refugees
44. Running Back
45. Scorched Earth
46. Ship Of Fools
47. Still Life
48. The Emperor On His War-Room I. The Emperor
49. The Emperor On His War-Room II. The Room
50. The Habit Of The Broken Heart
51. The People You Were Going To
52. The Siren Song
53. The Sleepwalkers
54. The Sphinx In The Face
55. The Undercover Man
56. The Wave
57. Urban
58. Whatever Would Robert Have Said
59. When She Comes
60. White Hammer
61. Wondering