Music: Van Der Graaf Generator - The Emperor In His War Room

Van Der Graaf Generator

United Kingdom

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I. THE EMPEROR

Standing in the space that holds the silent lace of night
away from you
You think that you can hold the searing, moulten gold between
your fingers ...
But it slips through, tearing tendons as it goes,
exposing the white of a knuckle ...
flesh-and-metal forming letters in the mould.
Cradling you gun, after choosing the ones you think should die-
Lying on the hill ... crawling over the windowsill into your
living-room
They stare out, glass-eyed aimless heads,
bodies torn by vultures ..
you are the man whose hands are rank with the smell of death.
Saviour of the Fallen, Protector of the Weak,
Friend of the Tall Ones, Keeper of the Peace ...
Ah, but it is the only way you know .....
Looking out to sea, a flattened plane of weeds which bear no living
You crush life in your fist as your heart is kissed by the lips
of death
Ghosts betray you, ghosts betray you, in the night they steal your eye
from its socket ...
and the ball hangs fallen on your cheek.
Complaining tongues are stilled; a thousand mouths are filled
with rusting metal.
Your face a shade of green; somehow you try to speak through all the
garbage in your mouth
But it won't come out, and you cannot frame the words
as your stepson
throws your fame into the flames and you are burned.
Saviour of the Fallen, Protector of the Weak,
Friend of the Tall Ones, Keeper of the Peace.
Ah, but it is the only way you know ..........

II. THE ROOM

Live by sword and you shall die so,
All your power shall come to nought,
every life you take is part of your own,
death, not power, is what you've bought.
Cringing in your room as the outriders of doom step
on your threshold;
Begging for your life as the impartial knife sinks in your
screaming flesh ...
without malice, merely taking murder's toll,
you must pay the price of hate, and that price is
your soul ....
Live in peace or die forever in your war-room.

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Van der Graaf Generator (clic here Wiki in your language) fue uno de los grupos más importantes del rock progresivo inglés de los años 1970. Fueron los primeros artistas que firmaron para la compañía Charisma Records. La banda alcanzó un considerable éxito en Italia.

Las principales características de Van der Graaf Generator (VdGG) eran la combinación de la voz dinámica de Peter Hammill y los saxofones tratados electrónicamente de David Jackson, generalmente sobre pistas de diversas clases de teclados (como el órgano de Hammond o el clavinet de Hohner). Los discos de VdGG tendieron a ser de una atmósfera más oscura que otros grupos de música progresiva (un título que compartieron con King Crimson, cuyo guitarrista, Robert Fripp, aparece en dos de sus álbumes), aunque los solos de guitarra son una excepción en vez de una regla.

Hammill era el principal letrista del grupo y, a menudo, la línea entre la música escrita para su carrera de solista y para su banda era difusa.

El nombre del grupo está basado en un equipo eléctrico diseñado para producir electricidad estática, el Generador de Van de Graaff. El nombre fue sugerido por uno de los primeros miembros del grupo, Chris Judge Smith. El error ortográfico fue accidental.