Van Der Graaf Generator - La Rossa
A song written by Peter Hammill and David Jackson Song: La Rossa Artist: Van Der Graaf Generator Album: Still Life Year: 1976 Genre: Progressive Rock Lyrics: Lacking sleep and food and vision, here I am again, encamped upon your floor, craving sanctuary and nourishment, encouragement and sanctity and more. The streets seemed very crowded, I put on my bravest guise - I know you know that I am acting, I can see it in your eyes. In the harsh light of freedom I know that I cannot deny that I have wasted time, have frittered it away in idle boasts of my freedom and fidelity when simpler words would have profited me most... ...it isn't enough in the end, when I'm looking for hope. Though the organ monkey screams as the pipes begin to spit still he'll go through the dance routines just as long as he thinks they'll fit, just as long as he knows that it's dance, smile - or quit. Like the monkey I dance to a strange tune: when all of these years I've longed to lie with you, I've bogged myself down in the web of talk, quack philosophy and sophistry - at physciality I've always baulked, like the man in the chair who believes it's beyond him to walk. I've been hiding behind words, fearing a deeper flame exists, faintly aware of the passage of opportunities I have missed. But the nearness and the smell of you, La Rossa from head to toe.... I don't know what I'm telling you, but I think you ought to know: soon the dam wall will break, soon the water will flow. Though the organ-monkey <b>...</b>
Van Der Graaf Generator La Rossa Still Life 1976 Peter Hammill David Jackson Progreesive Rock panosc
