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The Undercover Man (Remastered 2021) - Van Der Graaf Generator

Here at the glass

All the usual problems

All the habitual farce

You ask

In uncertain voice

What you should do

As if there were a choice

But to carry on

Miming the song

And hope that it all works out right

Tonight

It all seems so strange

My spirit feels rigid

My body deranged;

Still that＇s

Only from one point of view

And we can＇t have illusion

Between me and you

My constant friend

Ever close at hand

You and the undercover man

I reflect Its very strange

To be going through this change

With no idea of what it＇s all been about

Except in the context of time ＇

Oh but I shirk it

I＇ve half a mind not to work it all out

Is this madness just the recurring

Wave of total emotion

Or a hide for the undercover man

Or a litany all the signs are

There of fervent devotion

Or the cracking of the dam

It＇s cracked

Smashed and bursting over you

There was no reason to expect such disaster

Now panicking you burst for air

Drowning you know you care

For nothing and no-one but yourself

And would deny

Even this hand which stretches

Out towards you to help

But would I leave you

In this moment of your trial

Is it my fault that I＇m here to see you crying

These phantom figures all around you

Should have told you

You should have found out by now

If you hadn＇t gone and tried

To do it all by yourself

Even now

We are not lost:

If you look out at the night

You＇ll see the colours and

The lights seem to say

People are not far away

At least in distance

And it＇s only our own dumb resistance

That＇s making us stay

When the madness comes

Let it flood on down and over me sweetly

Let it drown the parts of me weak

And blessed and damned

Let it slake my life let it take my soul

And living completely

Let it be who I am

There may not be time for us all to

Run in tandem together

The horizon calls with it＇s parallel lines

It may not be right for you to have

And hold in one way forever

And yet you still have time

You still have time