Van Der Graaf Generator - La Rossa Lyrics
Lacking sleep and food and visionhere I am again, encamped upon youfloor, craving sanctuary andnourishment, encouragement andsanctity and more.The streets seemed very crowded,I put on my bravest guide -I know you know that I am acting,I can see it in your eyes.In the harsh light of freedom I knowthat I cannot deny that I have wastedtime, have frittered it away in idle boastsof my freedom and idelity, when simplerwords would have profited the most... ... it isn't enough in the end, when I'mlooking for hope.Through the organ-monkey screams as thepipes begin to spitstill he'll go through the dance routinesjust as long as he thinks they'll fit,just as long as he knows that it's dance,smile - or quit.Like a monkey I dance to a strange tunewhen all of those years I've longed to liewith you but have bogged myself down inthe web of talk, quack philosophyand sophistry -at physically I've always baulked, like theman in the chair who believes it's beyondhim to walk.I've been hiding behind words,fearing a deeper flame exists,faintly aware of the passageof opportunities I have missed,Vut 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 knowsoon the dam wall will break, soon thewater will flow.Though the organ-monkey groansas the organ-grinder playshe's hoping, at the most,for an end to the dancing days;still, he hops up and down on his perchin th usual jerky way.Though it might mean an end to allfriendship there's somethingI'm working up to say.Think of me what you will;I know that you think you feel my pain-no matter if that's just the surface.If we made love now would that changeall that has gone before?Of course it would, there's no way it couldever be the same...one more line crossed,one more mystery excplained.Now I need more than just words, thoughthe options are plain that lead from allmomentary action.I we make love now it will change all thatis yeat to be...never could we agree in the sameway again.One more world lost,one more heaven gained.Ls Rossa, you know me, you read me asthough I am glass;though I know it there's no way in which I can pass -though it means that you'll finish my storyat last I'd trade all the clever talk,the joking, the smoking and the quips,all the midnight conversation, all thefriendship, all the words and all the tripsfor the warmth of your body,the more vivid touch of your lips.All bridges burning behind me,all safety beyond reach,the monkey feels his chains out blindly,only to find himself released.Take me, take me now and hold me deepinside your ocean bodymwash me as some flotsam to the shore,there leave me lying evermore!Drown me, drown me now and hold medown before your ***** hunger,burn me at the altar of the night -give me life
