Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator

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Man-Erg

The killer lives inside me: yes, I can feel him move.
Sometimes he's lightly sleeping
in the quiet of his room,
but then his eyes will rise and stare through mine;
he'll speak my words and slice my mind inside.
Yes the killer lives.

Angels live inside me: I can feel them smile...
Their presence strokes
and soothes the tempest in my mind
and their love can heal the wounds
that I have wrought.
They watch me as I go to fall
- well, I know I shall be caught,
while the angels live.

How can I be free?
How can I get help?
Am I really me?
Am I someone else?

But stalking in my cloisters hang the acolytes
of gloom
and Death's Head throws his cloak into
the corner of my room
and I am doomed...
But laughing in my courtyard play the pranksters
of my youth
and solemn, waiting Old Man
in the gables of the roof:
he tells me truth...

And I too, live inside me and very often
don't know who I am:
I know I'm not a hero, well,
I hope that I'm not damned.
I'm just a man, and killers, angels,
all are these:
Dictators, saviours, refugees in war and peace
as long as Man lives...

I'm just a man, and killers, angels,
all are these:
Dictators, saviours, refugees...

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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
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