Текст (слова) песни: Van Der Graaf Generator - The Sphinx In The Face
(Hammill)
I remember what it felt like at seventeen: I was a cat, a snake, a lizard, a mouse. Still got an interest in the limousine and a spouse and a brat, country house, London flat.
I`m gonna head for the island when the 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 flow it began long ago I`m a man who should know it doesn`t stop.
There`s so much to remember, so much to forget: we`re all in the possession of the future tense, but don`t know it yet. The flesh comes through the spirit, the spirit through the flesh... we look the Sphinx in the face for answers and of course we`re really not impressed. We`re caught between age and beauty, experience and youth so we feel the need acutely for any kind of Truth.
Oh but we get copped some days, caught between options we`ve failed to play, such wasted chance. So I join the wastrel`s dance: it has slow as well as fast movement and any change must be an improvement on simply fossilising, standing still.
I got a steady vocation for the Quiet Zone, I just can`t wait for the song to be sung, I`m still possessed by the promise of the Pleasure Dome
You`re so young, so oldd, such a drag to be told.
You`re so here, so gone, so near, so wrong, so queer, so strong Such a drag to be told....
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