Van Der Graaf Generator - When She Comes Lyrics
----------Slow motion in the quiet of your room:so potent is the smell of her perfume that you think she's eternal that you think she's everything-but no-one knows what she is....Repentance for all you should have said-her entrance seems to raise you from the dead and you think she's really with you and you think she'll always stay. always ready to forgive you, always ready to grant you her mercy -but in her own way.When she comes she'll be a stranger;struck dumb you'll try to protestas the drum beats out the danger,too late-you should have noticedthat the lady with her skin so whitelike something out of Blake or Burne-Jonesalways blocked out the light and shadowed all you owned.Still you think she's forever,yesterday and tomorrow-but no-one knows where she is.Still you swear that you can win herand your prayer is that she'll want you;aware, once a saint, now you're a sinnerand your sins are going to haunt youwhen the lady with her skin so whitelike something out of Edgar Allen Poeholds your hand so tight and you hope that she'll never let go.Easy targets, easy cross-words, easy life:these key margins leave you balanced on the knife,bleeding darkly. In the end it all comes downto sleazy bargains.That hidden key-you tried so hard to find it:all you can concieve is the effort to be worthy.Even now you need to be remindedthat La Belle Dame is without mercy.The lady with her skin so white-you never did quite catch her name-now she holds you in the night and she'll never let go again she'll never let go again
