Van Der Graaf Generator - Sphinx In The Face Lyrics
(Hammill)I remember what it felt like atseventeen:I was a cat, a snake, a lizard, a mouse.Still got an interest in the limousineand a spouse and a brat,country house, London flat.I'm gonna head for the island whenthe summer's out,I'm gonna do all the stuff that I can,drink like a fish in a waterspout -I'm a fan of the flowit began long agoI'm a man who should knowit doesn't stop.There's so much to remember,so much to forget:we're all in the possession of thefuture tense, but don't know it yet.The flesh comes through the spirit,the spirit through the flesh...we look the Sphinx in the facefor answers and of course we'rereally not impressed.We're caught between age and beauty,experience and youthso we feel the need acutelyfor any kind of Truth.Oh but we get copped some days,caught between options we've failedto play, such wasted chance.So I join the wastrel's dance:it has slow as well as fast movementand any change must be animprovement on simply fossilising,standing still.I got a steady vocation forthe Quiet Zone,I just can't wait for the song to be sung,I'm still possessed by the promiseof the Pleasure DomeYou're so young,so oldd,such a dragto be told. You're so here, so gone,so near, so wrong,so queer, so strongSuch a drag to be told....
