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La Rossa (New Stereo Mix 2021) - Van Der Graaf Generator

Written by：Peter Hammi

Lacking sleep and food and vision

Here I am again encamped upon your floor

Craving sanctuary and nourishment

Encouragement and sanctity and more

The streets seemed very crowded

I put on my bravest guise

I know you know that I am acting

I can see it in your eyes

In the harsh light of freedom I know

That I cannot deny that I have wasted time

Have frittered it away in idle boasts

Of my freedom and fidelity

When simpler words would have profited me

Most

It isn't enough in the end when I'm looking

For hope

Though the organ monkey screams

As the pipes begin to spit

Still he'll go through the dance routines

Just as long as he thinks they'll fit

Just as long as he knows that it's dance smile

Or quit

Like the monkey I dance to a strange tune

When all of these years I've longed to lie with you

I've bogged myself down in the web of talk

Quack philosophy and sophistry

At physicality I've always balked

Like the man in the chair who believes it's

Beyond him to walk

I've been hiding behind words

Fearing a deeper flame exists

Faintly aware of the passage

Of opportunities I have missed

But the nearness and the smell of you

La Rosa from head to toe

I don't know what I'm telling you

But I think you ought to know

Soon the dam wall will break soon the water

Will flow

Though the organ monkey groans

As the organ grinder plays

He's hoping at the most

For an end to his dancing days

Still he hops up and down on his perch

In the usual jerky way

Though it might mean an end to all friendship

There's something I'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 change all

That ahs gone before

Of course it would there's no way it could ever

Be the same

One more line crossed

One more mystery explained

Now I need more than just words though

The options are plain that lead from all

Momentary action

If we make love now it will change all

That is yet to be

Never could we agree in the same way again

One more world lost

One more heaven gained

One more heaven gained

La Rosa you know me you read me as though

I am glass

Though I know it there's no no way in which I can

Pass

Though it means that you'll finish my story

At last I'd trade all the clever talk

The joking the smoking and the quips

All the midnight conversations

All the friendship

All the words and all the trips

For 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 deep

Inside your ocean body

Wash me as some flotsam to the shore

There leave me lying evermore

Drown me drown me now and hold me down

Before your naked hunger

Burn me at the altar of the nights

Give me life